Cannabinoid CB(1) receptor activation stimulates neurite outgrowth and inhibits capsaicin-induced Ca(2+) influx in an in vitro model of diabetic neuropathy.

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine whether 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1 alpha,25-(OH)(2)D(3)], an active metabolite of vitamin D, protects dopaminergic neurons against the neurotoxic effects of glutamate and dopaminergic toxins using rat mesecephalic culture. Brief glutamate exposure elicited cytotoxicity in ...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Ibi M,Sawada H,Nakanishi M,Kume T,Katsuki H,Kaneko S,Shimohama S,Akaike A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although sigma 1 (σ(1)) receptors and mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are known modulators of neuroprotection, a role for MAPK signaling pathways in σ receptor-mediated neuroprotection has not been investigated in detail.The present study aims to investigate the possible link between σ(1) receptors and MAPKs...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Tan F,Guio-Aguilar PL,Downes C,Zhang M,O'Donovan L,Callaway JK,Crack PJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus (VMH) plays an important role in feeding and energy homeostasis. Electroconvulsive seizure (ECS) therapy is highly effective in the treatment of several psychiatric diseases, including depression, but may also have beneficial effects in other neurological diseases. Although...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Segi-Nishida E,Sukeno M,Imoto Y,Kira T,Sakaida M,Tsuchiya S,Sugimoto Y,Okuno Y

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the inhibition of aminopeptidase and enkephalinase A on the pain threshold of mice and rats was investigated, using bestatin and thiorphan as selective peptidase inhibitors. The results indicate that both enzymes are relevant to the catabolism of enkephalins in vivo; however, their simultaneous activatio...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Carenzi A,Frigeni V,Reggiani A,Della Bella D

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LY354740 is a potent and selective mGlu2/3 receptor agonist with activity in models of psychiatric disorders (anxiety, psychosis), and early clinical studies in anxiety patients. However, the specific receptor subtypes and brain regions which mediate mGlu2/3 receptor agonist pharmacology/efficacy are not well understo...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Linden AM,Baez M,Bergeron M,Schoepp DD

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term memory formation is known to be critically dependent upon de novo gene expression in the brain. As a consequence, pharmacological enhancement of the transcriptional processes mediating long-term memory formation provides a potential therapeutic strategy for cognitive disorders involving aberrant neuroplastic...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Fass DM,Reis SA,Ghosh B,Hennig KM,Joseph NF,Zhao WN,Nieland TJ,Guan JS,Kuhnle CE,Tang W,Barker DD,Mazitschek R,Schreiber SL,Tsai LH,Haggarty SJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Few animal models exist that focus on the metabolic contributions to dementia onset and progression. Thus, there is strong scientific rationale to explore the effects of streptozotocin (STZ), a diabetogenic compound, ...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Murtishaw AS,Heaney CF,Bolton MM,Belmonte KCD,Langhardt MA,Kinney JW

更新日期：2018-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of pre-clinical studies have shown that brain-generated acetaldehyde, the first metabolite of ethanol, exerts reinforcing effects that promote the acquisition of ethanol intake, while chronic intake maintenance appears to be mediated by alcohol-induced brain neuroinflammation/oxidative stress. Recently, it wa...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Rivera-Meza M,Vásquez D,Quintanilla ME,Lagos D,Rojas B,Herrera-Marschitz M,Israel Y

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) were examined on the monosynaptic reflex and on the activity of motoneurons in the spinal cord of the neonatal rat to elucidate the mechanism of action of TRH and its ability to reverse the spinal depression caused by phencyclidine and ketamine. Phencyclidine (2-32 mi...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Ohno Y,Warnick JE

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compound IG20 is a newly synthesised sulphated glycolipid that promotes neuritic outgrowth and myelinisation, at the time it causes the inhibition of glial proliferation and facilitates exocytosis in chromaffin cells. Here we have shown that IG20 at 0.3-10 μM afforded neuroprotection in rat hippocampal slices stressed...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Punzón E,García-Alvarado F,Maroto M,Fernández-Mendívil C,Michalska P,García-Álvarez I,Arranz-Tagarro JA,Buendia I,López MG,León R,Gandía L,Fernández-Mayoralas A,García AG

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists have therapeutic potential in numerous CNS disorders ranging from acute neurodegeneration (e.g. stroke and trauma), chronic neurodegeneration (e.g. Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, ALS) to symptomatic treatment (e.g. epilepsy, Parkinson's ...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Parsons CG,Danysz W,Quack G

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(+)-2-Methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine (LY367385), a potent and selective antagonist of mGlu1a metabotropic glutamate receptors, was neuroprotective in the following in vitro and in vivo models of excitotoxic death: (i) mixed cultures of murine cortical cells transiently exposed to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA); (ii) rats ...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Bruno V,Battaglia G,Kingston A,O'Neill MJ,Catania MV,Di Grezia R,Nicoletti F

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a polygenic and highly complex psychiatric disorder that is currently a major burden on society. Depression is highly heterogeneous in presentation and frequently exhibits high comorbidity with other psychiatric and somatic disorders. Commonly used treatments, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibit...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Samuels BA,Leonardo ED,Gadient R,Williams A,Zhou J,David DJ,Gardier AM,Wong EH,Hen R

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Midazolam, which induces anaesthesia in humans at intravenous doses of 0.3 mg/kg, did not anaesthetize cats at doses of 20 mg/kg. Nevertheless, intravenous doses as small as 0.3 mg/kg enhanced spinal primary afferent depolarization and presynaptic inhibition of spinal monosynaptic reflexes, and both intravenous and mi...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Leah JD,Malik R,Curtis DR

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the anti-inflammatory effects of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEI) at the cellular and molecular levels. AChEI suppressed lymphocyte proliferation and pro-inflammatory cytokine production, as well as extracellular esterase activity. Anti-inflammatory activity was mediated by the alpha7 nicotinic ...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Nizri E,Hamra-Amitay Y,Sicsic C,Lavon I,Brenner T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been undertaken to identify the category of receptors mediating the inhibitory effects of adenosine on evoked activity in slices of olfactory cortex in the rat. The approach has been to measure the relative potencies of adenosine and a range of structural analogues [2-chloroadenosine, 2' deoxyadenosine, cy...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Collins GG,Anson J

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palatability driven feeding and voluntary physical activity are mediated by and influence similar neural mechanisms, notably through the actions of opioids within the nucleus accumbens. Recent studies suggest that access to a voluntary running wheel results in sex dependent behavioral and physiological adaptations rel...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Lee JR,Tapia MA,Weise VN,Bathe EL,Vieira-Potter VJ,Booth FW,Will MJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binge alcohol (ethanol) drinking is associated with profound adverse effects on our health and society. Rimonabant (SR141716A), a CB1 receptor inverse agonist, was previously shown to be effective for nicotine cessation and obesity. However, studies using rimonabant were discontinued as it was associated with an incre...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Balla A,Dong B,Shilpa BM,Vemuri K,Makriyannis A,Pandey SC,Sershen H,Suckow RF,Vinod KY

更新日期：2018-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Group III metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR4,7,8) are widely distributed in the basal ganglia. Injection of group III mGluR agonists into the striatopallidal complex alleviates parkinsonian symptoms in 6-hydroxydopamine-treated rats. In vitro rodent studies have suggested that this may be partly due to modulatio...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Bogenpohl J,Galvan A,Hu X,Wichmann T,Smith Y

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of 0.13% lead acetate solution as drinking fluid to breeding mice was without significant effect on the numbers of live or dead births or on weight of pups at 1 day. The appearance of fur was delayed and the body weights at 21 days and 31-38 weeks were smaller than in controls. On weaning, the treated o...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Donald JM,Cutler MG,Moore MR,Bradley M

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the claim that lithium (Li+) reduces morphine self-administration in dependent rats, the effects of acute and chronic Li+ treatments on naloxone-precipitated withdrawal syndrome and physical dependence development to morphine in mice chronically treated with morphine, were evaluated. Morphine dependency was ind...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Dehpour AR,Farsam H,Azizabadi-Farahani M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological and behavioral methods were used to evaluate and compare the effects of the competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor blocker, NPC 12626, with the non-competitive NMDA antagonist, phencyclidine (PCP), on the activity of mesolimbic dopamine neurons. NPC 12626 (50 mg/kg, i.p.) produced a degr...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： French ED,Ferkany J,Abreu M,Levenson S

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin-14 (SRIF) is a potent anticonvulsant in rodent models of limbic seizures in which the hippocampus is its major site of action. However, the distribution of hippocampal sst receptors and their role in the anticonvulsant effects of SRIF remain controversial. Moreover, striking differences have been describe...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Aourz N,De Bundel D,Stragier B,Clinckers R,Portelli J,Michotte Y,Smolders I

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agonists and positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are currently being considered as novel therapeutic approaches for managing cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Though α7 agonists were recently found to possess antinociceptive and anti-inflamm...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Freitas K,Ghosh S,Ivy Carroll F,Lichtman AH,Imad Damaj M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-AP4 is an agonist at the presynaptic metabotropic receptor subtypes mGluR4, mGluR6 and mGluR7. In vitro, L-AP4 has been shown to reduce glutamate release and thereby suppress hippocampal excitatory transmission. Little data is available with regard to the actions of this compound in vivo. This study examined the eff...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Manahan-Vaughan D,Reymann KG

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomyosin (Tm) in non-muscle cells is involved in stabilisation of the actin cytoskeleton. Some of the 40 isoforms described are found in the brain and exhibit spatial and developmental regulation. Non-muscle isoforms from the gamma Tm gene can be subdivided into three subsets of isoforms differing at the C-terminus...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Vrhovski B,Lemckert F,Gunning P

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R(-)11-Hydroxy-N-n-propylnoraporphine (11-OH-NPa) induced stereotyped behavior in the rat as potently (ED50 = 0.80 mg/kg, i.p.) as R(-)apomorphine (APO) and this effect was blocked by haloperidol; the 11-methoxy congener, R(-)11-MeO-NPa, had a weak effect (ED50 greater than 10 mg/kg) and the S(+) isomers had none. The...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Campbell A,Baldessarini RJ,Gao Y,Zong R,Neumeyer JL

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of 5-HT2C receptors in limbic structures such as the amygdala and hippocampus increases anxiety. Indirect evidence obtained with non-selective 5-HT2C-interacting drugs suggests that the same may occur in the dPAG, a brainstem region consistently implicated in the genesis/regulation of panic attacks. In this...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Yamashita PS,de Bortoli VC,Zangrossi H Jr

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In general, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists inhibit learning and long term potentiation (LTP). However, it has been suggested that direct tonic, i.e. non-temporal, activation of NMDA receptors, in contrast to learning, may lead to an increase in synaptic "noise" and, in turn, to a loss of association ...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Zajaczkowski W,Frankiewicz T,Parsons CG,Danysz W

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adinazolam (ADI) is a new benzodiazepine with anxiolytic and antidepressant properties. To assess its effects on the acute stress response, rats were given a single intraperitoneal injection of 2.5 or 5.0 mg/kg of ADI and stressed for 1 hr by restraint. Neither dose of ADI had any effect on heart rate, blood pressure ...

journal_title：Neuropharmacology

authors： Krieman MJ,Hershock DM,Greenberg IJ,Vogel WH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00