Effect of propentofylline on the biochemical lesion of the rat brain in aluminium-induced neurotoxicity.

abstract：:The free radical scavenging abilities of the structurally related steroids beta-sitosterol, beta-sitosterol glucoside (plant sterols and sterolins), cholesterol, and dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS) were compared with melatonin (an efficient free radical scavenger) in an in vitro system which measures lipid per...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： van Rensburg SJ,Daniels WM,van Zyl JM,Taljaard JJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central nervous system is one of the most vulnerable organs affected by mercury toxicity. Both acute and chronic exposure to mercury is also known to cause a variety of neurological or psychiatric disorders. Here, the neuroprotective effect of berberine (BN; 100 mg/kg bwt) on mercuric chloride (HgCl2; 0.4 mg/kg bw...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Abdel Moneim AE

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiological spectrum of neuromyelitis optica has become broader since the detection of aquaporin4 antibodies. We report a case of neuromyelitis optica patient with pseudotumoral encephalic lesion. A 66 year-old woman presented with sudden left lateral homonymous hemianopsia. A brain MRI showed an isolated and ext...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Fargeot G,Aboab J,Savatovsky J,Marignier R,Lecler A,Gout O

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial glutathione (mGSH) is a critical factor in the cell defense against oxidative and nitrosative stress (ONS), and ONS is a key pathogenic event in hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Acute HE in the thioacetamide (TAA) model caused a 54 % decrease of mGSH content in the rat prefrontal cortex (pfc), but not in the...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Ruszkiewicz J,Fręśko I,Hilgier W,Albrecht J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaric aciduria type I (GA-I) is an inborn error of lysine and tryptophan metabolism. Clinical manifestations of GA-I include dystonic or dyskinetic cerebral palsy, but when the symptoms occur, treatment is not effective. In Taiwan, newborn screening for GA-I started in 2001; we wish to evaluate the outcomes of pati...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Lee CS,Chien YH,Peng SF,Cheng PW,Chang LM,Huang AC,Hwu WL,Lee NC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Some subjects with multiple sclerosis (MS) present with low blood iron parameters. Anecdotal reports and a single patient study suggest that iron supplementation may be beneficial in these subjects. Myelin is regenerated continually, but prerequisites for this process are iron and a functional folate-vitamin...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： van Rensburg SJ,Kotze MJ,Hon D,Haug P,Kuyler J,Hendricks M,Botha J,Potocnik FC,Matsha T,Erasmus RT

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone insufficiency during neurodevelopment can result into significant structural and functional changes within the developing central nervous system (CNS), and is associated with the establishment of serious cognitive impairment and neuropsychiatric symptomatology. The aim of the present study was to shed ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Koromilas C,Tsakiris S,Kalafatakis K,Zarros A,Stolakis V,Kimpizi D,Bimpis A,Tsagianni A,Liapi C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaric aciduria type 1 is a neurometabolic disorder, caused by riboflavin-dependent glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. As its consequence, accumulation of the putatively neurotoxic metabolites (glutaric and 3-hydroxyglutaric acids) in body tissues, but especially within the brain, is observed. Estimated incidenc...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Pokora P,Jezela-Stanek A,Różdżyńska-Świątkowska A,Jurkiewicz E,Bogdańska A,Szymańska E,Rokicki D,Ciara E,Rydzanicz M,Stawiński P,Płoski R,Tylki-Szymańska A

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original article contains mistake. The authors want to add Wenhui Pei as first co-author and Fang Fang as co-corresponding author. ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Sun Y,Pei W,Zhang N,Qu Y,Cao Y,Li J,Yang Y,Yang T,Fang F,Sun Y

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of streptozotocin (STZ) is a well established procedure to induce neuroinflammation leading to dementia in experimental animals. However, the optimal dose of STZ has not been determined. In the present study, rats were ICV injected with 1.5, 3 and 6 mg of STZ per kg of body weig...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Ghosh R,Sil S,Gupta P,Ghosh T

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Undernourished suckling rats were administered, by gastric intubation, either soy oil (which is rich in both linoleic and linolenic acids) or safflower oil (which is rich in linoleic acid but deficient in linolenic acid) to determine (1) if dietary supplementation would offset the hypomyelination characteristic of the...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Divakaran P,Pavlina T,Johnson RC,Cotter R,Madsen D,Wiggins R

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of factors released from N2A neuroblastoma cells on the expression of myelin protein genes in glioma C6 cells, i.e., proteolipid protein (PLP) and myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), was studied. Both cells lines were propagated in serum-free DMEM-F10 (1:1) medium. The addition of 50% N2A conditioned medi...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Kanoh M,Wiggins RC,Konat G

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-glycerate 2 kinase (DGK) is an enzyme that mediates the conversion of D-glycerate, an intermediate metabolite of serine and fructose metabolism, to 2-phosphoglycerate. Deficiency of DGK leads to accumulation of D-glycerate in various tissues and its massive excretion in urine. D-glyceric aciduria (DGA) is an autosom...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Zehavi Y,Mandel H,Eran A,Ravid S,Abu Rashid M,Jansen EEW,Wamelink MMC,Saada A,Shaag A,Elpeleg O,Spiegel R

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention alterations are reported in cirrhotics. Aiming at clarifying attention functioning in cirrhotics, an inquiry on the functioning of the anterior (AAS) and the posterior (PAS) attention system was performed. Thirty-six cirrhotics without overt hepatic encephalopathy (24 with EEG or TMT-A alterations) and 16 ma...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Amodio P,Schiff S,Del Piccolo F,Mapelli D,Gatta A,Umiltà C

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with severe liver disease. Although the molecular basis for the neurological disorder in HE remains elusive, elevated ammonia and its chief metabolite glutamine are believed to be important factors responsible for altered cerebral...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Rao KV,Norenberg MD

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic ethanol ingestion results in an "up-regulation" of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) subtype of glutamate receptor in mouse brain. This increase in receptors is associated with ethanol withdrawal seizures, which can be attenuated by NMDA receptor antagonists. Chronic exposure to ethanol (3 days) of rat cerebella...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Hoffman PL

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to examine the neuroprotective effects of Nigella sativa (N. sativa) in the hippocampus of propylthiouracil (PTU)-induced hypothyroid rats during neonatal and juvenile growth. Twenty- five pregnant rats from early gestation (GD 0) were divided into five groups: (1) control (received drinking water), (...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Asiaei F,Fazel A,Rajabzadeh AA,Hosseini M,Beheshti F,Seghatoleslam M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss the case of a rare and often unrecognized neurologic syndrome, called Acquired Hepatocerebral Degeneration (AHD), observed in patients with advanced liver disease and portosystemic shunts. The clinical manifestations can be very heterogeneous and in our case included a combination of cerebellar and extrapyr...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Pigoni A,Iuculano F,Saetti C,Airaghi L,Burdick L,Spreafico S,Curioni M,Lombardi R,Valenti L,Fracanzani AL,Fargion S

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the present time alcoholism is recognized as a metabolic disease exhibiting the clinical features of craving for alcohol, loss of control over drinking, tolerance and physical dependence on alcohol, while both epidemiological and experimental studies have demonstrated that genetic factors may be important in determ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Gianoulakis C,de Waele JP

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is an increasingly prevalent clinical condition and second leading cause of death globally. The present study evaluated the therapeutic potential of Indian Ginseng, also known as Withania somnifera (WS), supplementation on middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) induced mitochondrial dysfunctions in experimenta...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Sood A,Mehrotra A,Dhawan DK,Sandhir R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral, symmetrical hyperintensity of the globus pallidus is observed in T1-weighted cerebral magnetic resonance images in from 52 to 100% of patients with chronic liver disease. No significant relationship exists between the presence of these cerebral changes in image signal intensity and the patients' neuropsychi...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Morgan MY

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease whose hallmark pathological features include a selective loss of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain. Ciclooxygenase-2 activity induction and oxidative stress have been implicated in the aetiology of Parkinson's disease and in the 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydro...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Ortiz GG,Pacheco-Moisés FP,Gómez-Rodríguez VM,González-Renovato ED,Torres-Sánchez ED,Ramírez-Anguiano AC

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 35 years, the outlook for a patient presenting with acute liver failure (ALF) has changed beyond all recognition. A patient presenting in 1984 had an 80 % likelihood of succumbing to intracranial hypertension. Today due to dramatic improvements in intensive care in dedicated liver transplant units, this ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Ryan JM,Tranah T,Mitry RR,Wendon JA,Shawcross DL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the key contributors of altering neurological function in hepatic encephalopathy are relatively well known, the electrophysiological mechanism of CA1 damage, a key vulnerable area during hyperammonemia, have not yet been defined. Therefore, here we focus on the electrophysiological mechanisms of cognitive imp...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Tahamtan M,Aghaei I,Pooladvand V,Sheibani V,Khaksari M,Shabani M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) results in severe neurological impairments without effective treatments. Inflammation appears to be an important contributor to key pathogenic events such as secondary brain injury following TBI and therefore serves as a promising target for novel therapies. We have recently demonstrated t...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Yang L,Liu Z,Ren H,Zhang L,Gao S,Ren L,Chai Z,Meza-Romero R,Benedek G,Vandenbark AA,Offner H,Li M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structured analytic approach was developed to evaluate enzyme kinetic parameters using non-linear least-squares fitting. The approach was implemented in a software package called KinSim and designed to run on Windows 95, 98, and NT platforms. The software and the theoretical approach were tested using kinetic data o...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Mason GF,Lai JC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial sweeteners are mainly used as substitutes for sucrose derivates. In this study, we analyzed if the chronic consumption of aspartame or acesulfame potassium at an early age, produces histological alterations, astrogliosis and decreased neuronal viability, in hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, amygdala and hypot...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Solis-Medina A,Martínez-Magaña JJ,Quintanar-Jurado V,Gallegos-Silva I,Juárez-Rojop IE,Tovilla-Zárate CA,Díaz-Zagoya JC,Hernández-Díaz Y,González-Castro TB,López-Narváez ML,Genis-Mendoza AD,Nicolini H

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic liver disease (CLD) leads to a spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders named hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Even though brain energy metabolism is believed to be altered in chronic HE, few studies have explored energy metabolism in CLD-induced HE, and their findings were inconsistent. The aim of this study was to...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Rackayova V,Braissant O,McLin VA,Berset C,Lanz B,Cudalbu C

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of an animal model is crucial in studying the pathophysiological mechanisms of disease and to test possible therapies. Now, there are several models for the study of liver diseases, but there still remains a lack of a satisfactory animal model of chronic liver disease with hepatic encephalopathy (HE) ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Jover R,Madaria E,Felipo V,Rodrigo R,Candela A,Compañ A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Galactose (D-gal) chronic administration via intraperitoneal and subcutaneous routes has been used as a model of aging and Alzheimer disease in rodents. Intraperitoneal and subcutaneous administration of D-gal causes memory impairments, a reduction in the neurogenesis of adult mice, an increase in the levels of the ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Budni J,Garcez ML,Mina F,Bellettini-Santos T,da Silva S,Luz APD,Schiavo GL,Batista-Silva H,Scaini G,Streck EL,Quevedo J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00