Impact of depressive symptoms and hepatic encephalopathy on health-related quality of life in cirrhotic hepatitis C patients.

abstract：:We report reversible abnormalities in magnetic resonance spectra acquired from a patient with AIDS undergoing antibiotic and corticosteroid therapy for disseminated nocardiosis, a rare opportunistic infection of immunosuppressed patients which can cause cerebral abscess formation. There was no clinical, CT or MRI evid...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Marcus CD,Taylor-Robinson SD,Cox IJ,Sargentoni J,Shaunak S

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) is the earliest form of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and affects up to 80 % of patients with liver cirrhosis. By definition, MHE is characterized by psychomotor slowing and subtle cognitive deficits,  but obvious clinical manifestations are lacking. Given its covert nature, MHE is o...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Nardone R,De Blasi P,Höller Y,Brigo F,Golaszewski S,Frey VN,Orioli A,Trinka E

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP is part of an endogenous mechanism that downregulates inflammatory response, and its intracellular concentration is regulated chiefly by cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases type 4. The goal of the present study was to determine whether phosphodiesterases 4 are involved in the inflammatory response of astro...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Borysiewicz E,Fil D,Dlaboga D,O'Donnell JM,Konat GW

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep disturbances are prevalent among patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and often precede the onset and progression of dementia. However, there are no reliable animal models for investigating sleep disturbances in patients with sporadic AD (sAD), which accounts for more than 90% of all AD cases. In the present s...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Song JZ,Cui SY,Cui XY,Hu X,Ma YN,Ding H,Ye H,Zhang YH

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Applying different technologies to monitor disease activity and treatment efficacy are essential in a complex disease such as multiple sclerosis. Combining current assays with flow cytometry could create a powerful tool for such analyses. The cell surface expression level of CD74, the MHC class II invariant chain, is ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Benedek G,Meza-Romero R,Bourdette D,Vandenbark AA

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate neurotoxicity was studied in primary neuronal cultures prepared from rat cerebral cortex and hippocampal CA1 sector. Neurons were cultivated with 5% native horse serum and then exposed to 0.1 or 1.0 mM glutamate for 5 min. Subsequently, neurons were allowed to recover for 24 hours either in the presence or i...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Uto A,Dux E,Hossmann KA

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of sertraline, haloperidol or olanzapine administration on ketamine-induced behaviours in mice were examined. The aim was to ascertain the degree of reversal of such behaviours by sertraline, and compare its effectiveness to haloperidol and olanzapine. Ten-week old mice (N = 120) were equally divided into main...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Onaolapo OJ,Paul TB,Onaolapo AY

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic exposure to stress amplifies locomotor deficits and exacerbates dopamine neuron loss in an animal model for Parkinson's disease. The release of neurotrophic factors such as glial cell-line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) following neuronal injury attenuates exacerbated degeneration...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Ngema PN,Mabandla MV

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The permeability of the blood-brain barrier to glutamate was measured by quantitative autoradiography in brains of 7-day-old rats (average plasma glutamate 114 microM) and rats injected subcutaneously with glutamate (average plasma glutamate 2,670 microM). Measurements of glutamate permeability were initiated by the i...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Viña JR,DeJoseph MR,Hawkins PA,Hawkins RA

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:High plasma levels of methionine (Met) and its metabolites such as methionine sulfoxide (MetO) may occur in several genetic abnormalities. Patients with hypermethioninemia can present neurological dysfunction; however, the neurotoxicity mechanisms induced by these amino acids remain unknown. The aim of the present wor...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Soares MSP,Viau CM,Saffi J,Costa MZ,da Silva TM,Oliveira PS,Azambuja JH,Barschak AG,Braganhol E,S Wyse AT,Spanevello RM,Stefanello FM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we evaluated the effects of Psidium cattleianum (Red Type) (PcRT) fruit extract on metabolic, behavioral, and neurochemical parameters in rats fed with a highly palatable diet (HPD) consisted of sucrose (65% carbohydrates being 34% from condensed milk, 8% from sucrose and 23% from starch, 25% protein and...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Oliveira PS,Chaves VC,Soares MSP,Bona NP,Mendonça LT,Carvalho FB,Gutierres JM,Vasconcellos FA,Vizzotto M,Vieira A,Spanevello RM,Reginatto FH,Lencina CL,Stefanello FM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated Methylmalonic acidemia/aciduria (MMA) is a group of inborn errors of metabolism disease which is caused by defect in methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MCM) enzyme. The enzyme has a key function in the catabolism of branched chain amino acids (BCAA, isoleucine, and valine), methionine, and threonine. MCM is encoded by...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Shafaat M,Alaee MR,Rahmanifar A,Setoodeh A,Razzaghy-Azar M,Bagherian H,Bagheri SD,Zafarghandi Motlagh F,Hashemi M,Abiri M,Zeinali S

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As studies of brain metabolism grow in complexity, investigators turn increasingly to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy combined with 13C isotopic labeling. The unique ability to detect labeling non-destructively in specific carbon positions of individual compounds has opened the way to investigate brain metabol...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Mason GF,Behar KL,Lai JC

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence indicates that excessive drug consumption is sufficient for the transition from recreational and controlled drug use to uncontrolled use and addiction. However, the underlying mechanisms are debated. Some neurobehavioral and neuroimaging evidence indicates that dorsolateral striatum (dlStr)-depende...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Shi JJ,Cao DN,Liu HF,Wang ZY,Lu GY,Wu N,Zhou WH,Li J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the biochemical alterations of the striatum of mice subjected to seven experimental schedules with 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine hydrochloride (MPTP) treatment. The mice were treated intraperitoneally (i.p.) with MPTP (20 mg/kg in saline) four times a day at 2-hr intervals showed severe ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Kuroiwa H,Yokoyama H,Kimoto H,Kato H,Araki T

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pipecolic acid (PA) levels are increased in severe metabolic disorders of the central nervous system such as Zellweger syndrome, infantile Refsum disease, neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy and hyperlysinemia. The affected individuals present progressive neurological dysfunction, hypotonia and growth retardation. The mecha...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Dalazen GR,Terra M,Jacques CE,Coelho JG,Freitas R,Mazzola PN,Dutra-Filho CS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sevoflurane, one of the most commonly used volatile anesthetics in clinical treatment, has been shown to induce a widespread increase in brain apoptosis. However, the underlying mechanism is still unknown. Sestrin 2 has been recently shown to regulate intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels and play a cruci...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Yi W,Zhang Y,Guo Y,Li D,Li X

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic neuroinflammation is strongly associated with AD and altered peripheral and central levels of chemokines and cytokines have been frequently described in those with AD. Given the increasing evidence of ethnicity-related differences in AD, it was of interest to determine if those altered chemokine and cytokine l...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Ferguson SA,Varma V,Sloper D,Panos JJ,Sarkar S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overwhelming evidence suggests that microglia play an important role in ischemic injury and they polarize into two different phenotypes with distinct functions after ischemic stroke. We performed the present study to investigate whether L-3-n butylphthalide (NBP) has an effect on microglial polarization. Mice were sub...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Li F,Ma Q,Zhao H,Wang R,Tao Z,Fan Z,Zhang S,Li G,Luo Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-galactose (GAL) causes aging-related changes and oxidative stress in the organism. We investigated the effect of whole fresh blueberry (BB) (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) treatment on oxidative stress in age-related brain damage model. Rats received GAL (300 mg/kg; s.c.; 5 days per week) alone or together with 5 % (BB1) ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Çoban J,Doğan-Ekici I,Aydın AF,Betül-Kalaz E,Doğru-Abbasoğlu S,Uysal M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-asarone (ASR) is a major bioactive compound isolated from the rhizome of Acorus tatarinowii Schott and it has extensive biological effects. Clinically, anxiety disorder is a common comorbidity of chronic pain. However, limited information is available regarding the effects of ASR on chronic pain-related anxiety. Thi...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Tian J,Tian Z,Qin SL,Zhao PY,Jiang X,Tian Z

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium is a toxic environmental and industrial pollutant. Cadmium toxicity has been reported to produce biochemical and behavioral dysfunction that may cause adverse effects on several organs including the central nervous system. The present study was designed to investigate the neurotoxic effects of Cadmium Chloride...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Haider S,Anis L,Batool Z,Sajid I,Naqvi F,Khaliq S,Ahmed S

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：: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：:The regional energy status and the availability of metabolic substrates during brain development are important, since a variety of fetal metabolic insults have been increasingly implicated in the evolution of neonatal brain disorders. The response of the brain to a metabolic insult is determined, in large part, by the...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Lust WD,Pundik S,Zechel J,Zhou Y,Buczek M,Selman WR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study evaluating zinc supplementation in patients with Alzheimer's disease yielded variable zinc plasma levels in spite of positive cognitive and physiological results. In an attempt to raise and sustain plasma zinc levels, a single patient was given 15 mg zinc/day with various combinations of vitamins. A sustained ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Potocnik FC,van Rensburg SJ,Hon D,Emsley RA,Moodie IM,Erasmus RT

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the importance of cholesterol metabolism in the physiopathogenesis of dementia, and knowing the function of ATP-binding cassette A1 transporter (ABCA1) as a cholesterol flow pump at the cellular and cerebral level, it has been noted that the ABCA1 gene may be a good candidate for disease study. In order to ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Teresa JC,Fernado C,Nancy MR,Gilberto VA,Alberto CR,Roberto RR

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of stroke. Strategies using antioxidants to improve neurological functions after stroke have, thus, gained significant attention. Ocimum basilicum L. is used traditionally to treat CNS disorders. Its antioxidant capacity is well established. Our laboratory ha...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Singh V,Krishan P,Shri R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the normal adult brain, glucose provides 90% of the energy requirements as well as substrate for nucleic acid and lipid synthesis. In the present study, effects of ethanol on glucose transporters (GLUT) and glucose utilization were examined in rat brain. Male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 250-300 gms were given eith...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Handa RK,DeJoseph MR,Singh LD,Hawkins RA,Singh SP

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00