Indian Ginseng (Withania somnifera) supplementation ameliorates oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunctions in experimental model of stroke.

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：:Increasing evidence indicates that fetal metabolic stress may result in a variety of post-natal perturbations during brain development. The goal of the study was to determine the duration of hypoxia/ischemia that would elicit a demonstrable regional depression of metabolism in the fetal brain and further to examine se...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

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

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current era, plants are frequently tested for its antidepressant potential. Therefore young coconut water, a commonly used plant based beverage, was selected to explore its antidepressant potential. Rodents were selected for this study and forced swim test was conducted to explore antidepressant activity. Analy...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Rao SS,Najam R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is accompanied with enhanced matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) activity and elevated levels of plasma fibrinogen (Fg), which is a known inflammatory agent. Activation of MMP-9 and increase in blood content of Fg (i.e. hyperfibrinogenemia, HFg) both contribute to cerebrovascular disorders ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Muradashvili N,Benton RL,Saatman KE,Tyagi SC,Lominadze D

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:To investigate the short-term brain activity changes in cirrhotic patients with Liver transplantation (LT) using resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) with regional homogeneity (ReHo) method. Twenty-six cirrhotic patients as transplant candidates and 26 healthy controls were included in this study. The assessment was re...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Cheng Y,Huang L,Zhang X,Zhong J,Ji Q,Xie S,Chen L,Zuo P,Zhang LJ,Shen W

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Nitropropionic acid (3-NPA) is a toxin sometimes produced on moldy crops (sugarcane, peanuts, etc.) in amounts sufficient to cause severe neurological disorders when consumed by humans. In vitro, 3-NPA irreversibly inactivates SDH, a Complex II respiratory enzyme required for mitochondrial energy production. A singl...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Nony PA,Scallet AC,Rountree RL,Ye X,Binienda Z

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are two progressive disorders with high prevalence worldwide. Polymorphisms in tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) and apolipoprotein E (ApoE) genes might be associated with both T2D and AD, representing possible genetic markers for the development of the AD in subjec...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Mustapic M,Popovic Hadzija M,Pavlovic M,Pavkovic P,Presecki P,Mrazovac D,Mimica N,Korolija M,Pivac N,Muck-Seler D

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress-induced activation of the expression of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-resident chaperon and member of the protein disulfide isomerase family erp72 was studied after transient cerebral ischemia in vivo using the four-vessel occlusion method and experimental depletion of ER calcium stores in primary neuronal cel...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Paschen W,Gissel C,Linden T,Doutheil J

更新日期：1998-03-01 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：:Near infrared radiation (NIR) is known to penetrate and affect biological systems in multiple ways. Recently, a series of experimental studies suggested that low intensity NIR may protect neuronal cells against a wide range of insults that mimic diseases such as stroke, brain trauma and neurodegeneration. However, the...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Yu Z,Liu N,Zhao J,Li Y,McCarthy TJ,Tedford CE,Lo EH,Wang X

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with hepatic encephalopathy (HE) the blood concentration of ammonia is usually highly elevated. Ammonia readily enters brain cells from the blood, and toxic effects of ammonia on brain metabolism and neurotransmission are believed to play a key role in the pathogenesis of HE. It has, however, been a matter...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Sørensen M,Munk OL,Keiding S

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a neuropsychiatric syndrome which develops in patients with severe liver diseases and/or portal-systemic shunting. Minimal HE, the earliest manifestation of HE, has drawn increasing attention in the last decade. Minimal HE is associated with a series of brain functional changes, such as ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Zhang LJ,Wu S,Ren J,Lu GM

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：: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：:Thiamine triphosphate (ThTP) was discovered over 60 years ago and it was long thought to be a specifically neuroactive compound. Its presence in most cell types, from bacteria to mammals, would suggest a more general role but this remains undefined. In contrast to thiamine diphosphate (ThDP), ThTP is not a coenzyme. I...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Bettendorff L,Lakaye B,Kohn G,Wins P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in NADH dehydrogenase (ND) subunits of complex I lead to mitochondrial encephalomyopathies associated with various phenotypes. This report aims to present the patient's clinical symptomatology in the context of a very rare 13042G>A de novo mutation and with an emphasis on changing phenotypic expression and p...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Schinwelski M,Kierdaszuk B,Dulski J,Tońska K,Kodroń A,Sitek EJ,Bartnik E,Kamińska A,Kwieciński H,Sławek J

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：:Prenatal stress has been associated with increased vulnerability to psychiatric disturbances including schizophrenia, depression, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism. Elevated maternal circulating stress hormones alter development of neural circuits in the fetal brain and cause long-term changes in beh...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Mabandla MV,Kellaway LA,Daniels WM,Russell VA

更新日期：2009-12-01 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

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

abstract：:Despite the existence of many preclinical studies, scientific evidence is lacking on the clinical use of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) for central nervous system disorders. Therefore, we aimed at revising the literature concerning the use of ALA for the treatment of psychiatric and neurological conditions and to point out w...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： de Sousa CNS,da Silva Leite CMG,da Silva Medeiros I,Vasconcelos LC,Cabral LM,Patrocínio CFV,Patrocínio MLV,Mouaffak F,Kebir O,Macedo D,Patrocínio MCA,Vasconcelos SMM

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:While alcohol-induced psychotic disorder (AIPD) is well recognised, relatively little is known about the condition. We undertook a review of the literature to identify studies on the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, underlying neurobiology and treatment of AIPD. Few prospective studies have been conducted on AIP...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Jordaan GP,Emsley R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to investigate the role of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the neuroprotective effect of Crocus sativus (saffron) against cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury (I/R) in rats. Four groups of a total forty I/R rats with 60-min occlusion followed by 48 h reperfusion or sham surgery wer...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Abdel-Rahman RF,El Awdan SA,Hegazy RR,Mansour DF,Ogaly HA,Abdelbaset M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize an Egyptian patient with glutaric acidemia type I (GA I) and to identify the causative mutation(s) that may be responsible for the disease phenotype. MRI was performed on the patient using the 1.5 T magnet, biochemical analysis was carried out using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry on the patient's...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Moseilhy A,Hassan MM,El Abd HS,Mohammad SA,El Bekay R,Abdel-Motal UM,Ouhtit A,Zaki OK,Zayed H

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00