Prostaglandin E1, E2, and cholera toxin increase transcription of the brain creatine kinase gene in human U87 glioblastoma cells.

abstract：:The effect of cholinergic agonists and antagonists on the intracellular free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) of leech neuropile glial cells was investigated by use of iontophoretically injected fura-2. In neuropile glial cells, cholinergic agonists induced a marked increase in [Ca2+]i that was inhibited by d-tubocurarine...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Hochstrate P,Schlue WR

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-erbB receptor/neuregulin signalling plays a significant role in Schwann cell function. In vivo, Schwann cells up-regulate expression of c-erbB receptors in the first month after injury, but receptor expression is down-regulated with time to levels that are not detectable immunohistochemically. The inability of chron...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Li H,Wigley C,Hall SM

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When central nervous system (CNS) homeostasis is altered, microglial cells become rapidly activated, proliferate and release a broad range of molecules. Among the plethora of molecules involved in the regulation of microglial activation, cytokines are considered crucial. Although production of interleukin-10 (IL-10) h...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Recasens M,Shrivastava K,Almolda B,González B,Castellano B

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These studies have enabled the first characterization of the properties of ion channels in adult oligodendrocytes. Cell-attached recordings from cultured adult bovine cells showed channel activity with 140 mM KCl in the patch pipette; the amplitude of the currents was increased with increasing membrane hyperpolarizati...

journal_title：Glia

authors： McLarnon JG,Kim SU

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During action potential conduction, the axonal specializations at the node, together with the adjacent paranodal terminations of the myelin sheath, interact with glial processes that invest the nodal gap. The nature of the mutual signals between axons and myelinating glia, however, are not well understood. Here we hav...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Toews JC,Schram V,Weerth SH,Mignery GA,Russell JT

更新日期：2007-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-linked mutation rumpshaker (rsh), which is probably an allele of jimpy (jp), causes hypomyelination in the CNS of mice. This study examines the developmental expression of the morphology, glial cells, and immunostaining of myelin proteins in the optic nerve and spinal cord. The optic nerve contains varying numbe...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Fanarraga ML,Griffiths IR,McCulloch MC,Barrie JA,Kennedy PG,Brophy PJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron donors glutathione and thioredoxin play many vital roles in the mechanisms of cells to cope with oxidative stress. Critical to such antioxidant functions are the ability to synthesize glutathione and keep it reduced via glutathione reductase and the ability to reduce oxidized-thioredoxin via thioredoxin r...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Eftekharpour E,Holmgren A,Juurlink BH

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteric glial cells were first described at the end of the 19th century, but they attracted more interest from researchers only in the last decades of the 20th. Although, they have a different embryological origin, the enteric GLIA share many characteristics with astrocytes, the main glial cell type of the central ner...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Coelho-Aguiar Jde M,Bon-Frauches AC,Gomes AL,Veríssimo CP,Aguiar DP,Matias D,Thomasi BB,Gomes AS,Brito GA,Moura-Neto V

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prospects of achieving regeneration in the central nervous system (CNS) have changed, as most recent findings indicate that several species, including humans, can produce neurons in adulthood. Studies targeting this property may be considered as potential therapeutic strategies to respond to injury or the effects ...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Gómez RM,Sánchez MY,Portela-Lomba M,Ghotme K,Barreto GE,Sierra J,Moreno-Flores MT

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The red nucleus (RN) has been widely used to study the formation and remodeling of synaptic connections during development and in post-lesion plasticity. Since glial cells are thought to contribute to synaptic plasticity, and information on functional properties of brain stem glia is missing, we analyzed voltage-gated...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Akopian G,Kuprijanova E,Kressin K,Steinhüser C

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms involved in oligodendroglial cell death in human demyelinating diseases are only partly understood. Here, we demonstrate that the BH3 only protein Puma, but not Noxa, is essential for oligodendroglial cell death in toxic demyelination induced by the copper chelator cuprizone. Primary oligodendrocytes de...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Hagemeier K,Lürbke A,Hucke S,Albrecht S,Preisner A,Klassen E,Hoffmann E,Cui QL,Antel J J,Brück W,Klotz L,Kuhlmann T

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis of dentate granular cells in the hippocampal formation during bacterial meningitis may be mediated by glutamate toxicity. For this reason, we studied the relationship between glutamine synthetase activity and regional neuronal apoptosis in rabbits with experimental pneumococcal meningitis. The duration of me...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Tumani H,Smirnov A,Barchfeld S,Olgemöller U,Maier K,Lange P,Brück W,Nau R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacological and biochemical data suggest that noradrenaline (NA)-containing fibers not only regulate the activity of cortical neurons but also influence the functional state of non-neuronal elements. In the present study, immunocytochemistry with an antiserum against NA, followed by silver-gold intensification of ...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Paspalas CD,Papadopoulos GC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water balance between cells and extracellular compartments is essential for proper functioning of the central nervous system, as demonstrated by its perturbations in pathological conditions. Aquaporin 4 (AQP4) is the predominant water channel in brain and spinal cord, where it is present mainly on astrocytic endfeet c...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Vitellaro-Zuccarello L,Mazzetti S,Bosisio P,Monti C,De Biasi S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwann cells (SCs) and olfactory ensheathing glia (OEG) have shown promise for spinal cord injury repair. We sought their in vivo identification following transplantation into the contused adult rat spinal cord at 1 week post-injury by: (i) DNA in situ hybridization (ISH) with a Y-chromosome specific probe to identif...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Pearse DD,Sanchez AR,Pereira FC,Andrade CM,Puzis R,Pressman Y,Golden K,Kitay BM,Blits B,Wood PM,Bunge MB

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal-glial interactions are important for normal brain function and contribute to the maintenance of the brain's extracellular environment. Damage to glial cells following traumatic brain injury (TBI) could therefore be an important contributing factor to brain dysfunction and neuronal injury. We examined the earl...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Zhao X,Ahram A,Berman RF,Muizelaar JP,Lyeth BG

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prominin-1 (CD133) is a cholesterol-interacting pentaspan membrane glycoprotein specifically associated with plasma membrane protrusions. Prominin-1 is expressed by various stem and progenitor cells, notably neuroepithelial progenitors found in the developing embryonic brain. Here, we further investigated its expressi...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Corbeil D,Joester A,Fargeas CA,Jászai J,Garwood J,Hellwig A,Werner HB,Huttner WB

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutase (SOD) is considered to be a major factor in protection of nervous tissue against excitotoxic and ischemic/hypoxic lesion. Controversial reports about the localization of SOD after such an insult prompted us to re-investigate immunocytochemically the localization of the enzyme in the brain and spin...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Lindenau J,Noack H,Possel H,Asayama K,Wolf G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes support neurons not only physically but also chemically by secreting neurotrophic factors and energy substrates. Moreover, astrocytes establish a glial network and communicate through gap junctions in the brain. Connexin 43 (Cx43) is one of major component proteins in astrocytic gap junctions. Heterozygote ...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Nakase T,Yoshida Y,Nagata K

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia have diverse actions, ranging from synapse pruning in development to cytotoxic effects in disease. Brain energy metabolism and substrate availability vary under normal and disease states, but how these variations influence microglial function is relatively unknown. Microglia, like most other cell types, expr...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Ghosh S,Castillo E,Frias ES,Swanson RA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes release a variety of transmitter molecules, which mediate communication between glial cells in the brain and modulate synaptic transmission. ATP is a major glia-derived transmitter, but the mechanisms and kinetics of ATP release from astrocytes remain largely unknown. Here, we combined epifluorescence and t...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Pryazhnikov E,Khiroug L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible consequences of activating bradykinin (Bk) receptors on identified astrocyte subtypes derived from rat cortex have been investigated in terms of: 1) mobilization of intracellular Ca2+; and 2) electrophysiological response. Bk induced a rapid, transient rise in intracellular Ca2+ in 63% of cortical type-1-...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Stephens GJ,Cholewinski AJ,Wilkin GP,Djamgoz MB

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous in vitro studies using cell cultures or brain slices have demonstrated that phospholipase D (PLD) in the nervous system is involved in the signaling mechanism in response to a variety of agonists. However, little is known about the pathophysiological role of PLD-mediated signaling in the adult brain. We exami...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Lee MY,Kim SY,Min DS,Choi YS,Shin SL,Chun MH,Lee SB,Kim MS,Jo YH

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mannose receptor is a pattern-recognition receptor involved in innate and adaptive immunity. The receptor is mainly expressed by macrophages and, within the brain, by astrocytes and microglia. This study reports for the first time the effects of two classical proinflammatory (interferon-gamma, IFNgamma) and anti-i...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Zimmer H,Riese S,Régnier-Vigouroux A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) is a potent and broadly acting neurotrophic factor that protects neurons in various types of cultured neurons against glutamate excitotoxicity and induced-apoptosis. Some of the effects of PEDF reflect specific changes in gene expression, mediated via activation of the transcri...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Yabe T,Sanagi T,Schwartz JP,Yamada H

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between migrating glioma cells and myelinated fiber tracts are poorly understood. We identified that C6 glioma cells can migrate along myelinated chicken retinal axons in a novel coculture, thereby expressing small GTPases of the Rho family and serine/threonine Rho-associated kinases (ROCKs). We found...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Oellers P,Schröer U,Senner V,Paulus W,Thanos S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed in detail the properties of oligodendrocyte-type-2 astrocyte (O-2A) progenitor cells derived from the spinal cords of adult rats to gain further insights into the mechanisms that control the generation of oligodendrocytes in the healthy and demyelinated adult central nervous systems (CNS). When O-2A p...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Engel U,Wolswijk G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of the extracellular matrix (ECM) has been tightly linked to compact myelin formation in the peripheral nervous system. We recently demonstrated that myelination of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) axons by Schwann cells may occur in the absence of basal lamina. We have now determined whether laminin deposition occ...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Podratz JL,Rodriguez E,Windebank AJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes are the gatekeepers of neuronal energy supply. In neurodegenerative diseases, bioenergetics demand increases and becomes reliant upon fatty acid oxidation as a source of energy. Defective fatty acid oxidation and mitochondrial dysfunctions correlate with hippocampal neurodegeneration and memory deficits in ...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Konttinen H,Gureviciene I,Oksanen M,Grubman A,Loppi S,Huuskonen MT,Korhonen P,Lampinen R,Keuters M,Belaya I,Tanila H,Kanninen KM,Goldsteins G,Landreth G,Koistinaho J,Malm T

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes are the most abundant cell type of the central nervous system and cover a broad range of functionalities. We report here the generation of a novel monoclonal antibody, anti-astrocyte cell surface antigen-2 (Anti-ACSA-2). Flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry and immunocytochemistry revealed that Anti-ACSA-2 ...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Kantzer CG,Boutin C,Herzig ID,Wittwer C,Reiß S,Tiveron MC,Drewes J,Rockel TD,Ohlig S,Ninkovic J,Cremer H,Pennartz S,Jungblut M,Bosio A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00