Effect of nitric oxide synthase inhibitor on age-related changes in second messenger systems and calcium channels in rats.

abstract：:We examined how serum cholesterol, an established risk factor for cerebrovascular disease (CVD), relates to cognitive function in healthy middle-older aged individuals with no neurologic or CVD history. A complete lipid panel was obtained from a cohort of one hundred twenty individuals, ages 43-85, who also underwent ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Leritz EC,McGlinchey RE,Salat DH,Milberg WP

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impaired insulin signaling has been recognized as a common pathogenetic mechanism between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the progression of AD, brain is characterized by defective insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) and increased oxidative stress. Thymol, a monoterpene phenol isolated from medicinal he...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： FangFang,Li H,Qin T,Li M,Ma S

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with severe liver disease. Although the mechanisms responsible for HE remain elusive, ammonia is generally considered to be involved in its pathogenesis, and astrocytes are thought to be the principal target of ammonia neurotoxici...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Rama Rao KV,Jayakumar AR,Norenberg DM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic liver disease manifest a high incidence (> 75%) of pallidal signal hyperintensity on T1-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), the intensity of which correlates with blood manganese levels and the presence of extrapyramidal symptoms. A major cause of pallidal hyperintensity on T1-weighted MRI...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Butterworth RF,Spahr L,Fontaine S,Layrargues GP

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to Wilson's disease (WD) and its clinical manifestations are thought to be affected by genetic factors, including polymorphisms. The role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases is now widely discussed. The aim of the present study was to evaluate th...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Mirowska-Guzel D,Litwin T,Gromadzka G,Czlonkowski A,Czlonkowska A

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:The heterogeneity of monoamine oxidase (MAO; EC 1.4.3.4) activities was studied in two fractions of synaptic mitochondria (SM & SM2) and one fraction of non-synaptic ("free") mitochondria (M) isolated from three rat brain regions (cerebral cortex, striatum, and pons & medulla) by the Lai and Clark (1979, 1989) method ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Lai JC,Leung TK,Lim L

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:Brain glucose uptake is usually reduced in type 2 diabetes owing to downregulation of brain glucose transporters. The ability of Vernonia amygdalina to stimulate glucose uptake as well as ameliorate glucose-induced oxidative stress and proinflammation were investigated in rat brain. Hot infusion of V. amygdalina leave...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Erukainure OL,Oyebode OA,Ibeji CU,Koorbanally NA,Islam MS

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments were conducted to investigate the direct effects of ethanol on the energy metabolism of astrocytes and C6-glioma cells. Primary astrocytes were prepared from cerebral cortices of neonatal rats, and C6-glioma cells were purchased from American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). These cells were exp...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Haghighat N,McCandless DW,Geraminejad P

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to explore the neuroprotective effects of active compounds from Schisandra chinensis (Trucz.) Baill. (Magnoliaceae) against the D-galactose (D-gal)-induced neurotoxicity in rat. The Wistar rats were subcutaneously injected with D-gal (150 mg/(kg day)) for six weeks and orally administered wit...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Yan T,Shang L,Wang M,Zhang C,Zhao X,Bi K,Jia Y

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:To investigate the pattern of brain volume changes in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and correlation with clinical and neuropsychological (NP) tests. Fifty seven ESRD patients with no anatomical abnormalities in conventional magnetic resonance imaging [24 patients with...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Zhang LJ,Wen J,Ni L,Zhong J,Liang X,Zheng G,Lu GM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult-onset type II citrullinemia (CTLN2), characterized by a liver-specific deficiency of urea cycle enzyme, argininosuccinate synthetase, is caused by mutations in SLC25A13 that encodes a calcium binding mitochondrial solute carrier protein, citrin. Citrin deficiency causes not only CTLN2 but also neonatal intrahepa...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Saheki T,Kobayashi K,Iijima M,Nishi I,Yasuda T,Yamaguchi N,Gao HZ,Jalil MA,Begum L,Li MX

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homocystinuria is an inborn error of sulfur amino acid metabolism characterized predominantly by vascular and nervous system dysfunction. In this study we determined the in vitro effects of homocysteine and methionine, metabolites which accumulate in homocystinuria, on Na+, K+-ATPase, and Mg2+-ATPase activities in syn...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Streck EL,Zugno AI,Tagliari B,Wannmacher C,Wajner M,Wyse AT

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wilson disease (WD) is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder of copper metabolism, resulting in pathological accumulation of copper in many organs and tissues. The hallmarks of the disease are the presence of liver disease, neurologic symptoms, and Kayser-Fleischer corneal rings. The leading neurologic symptoms in...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Kitzberger R,Madl C,Ferenci P

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Depression is a complex progressive disorder accompanied by activation of inflammatory and Th-1 driven pathways, oxidative and nitrosative stress (O&NS), lowered antioxidant levels, mitochondrial dysfunctions, neuroprogression and increased bacterial translocation. In depression, activation of immuno-inflammatory path...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Maes M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental model of central pontine myelinolysis--chronic (4-day) hyponatremia induced by daily injections of hypotonic dextrose solutions and vasopressin followed by rapid correction with saline--was used in young fasted and thirsted mice. In normal controls chronic fasting and thirsting lowered plasma and brai...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Thurston JH,Hauhart RE,Nelson JS

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol dependence (AD) has a large heritable component. Genetic variation in genes involved in the absorption and elimination of ethanol have been associated with AD. However, some of these polymorphisms are not present in an African population. Previous studies have reported that a type of AD which is characterized ...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Crawford A,Dalvie S,Lewis S,King A,Liberzon I,Fein G,Koenen K,Ramesar R,Stein DJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood-brain barrier and the intestinal barrier show signs of disruption in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and animal models of nigrostriatal degeneration, and likewise in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) models. A substantial body of evidence shows that defects in epithelial membrane barriers...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Fang X

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to analyze the mutational spectrum of the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene in phenylketonuria (PKU) patients in Northwest China, to identify mutational hot spots, and to determine the correlation between variants and clinical phenotypes of PKU. A large cohort of 475 PKU families in Northwe...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Yan Y,Zhang C,Jin X,Zhang Q,Zheng L,Feng X,Hao S,Gao H,Ma X

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:The present work was carried out to study the influence of ammonia and factors from sera and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients with different degrees of chronic liver diseases on [3H]D-aspartate (Asp) and [3H]L-glutamate (Glu) high-affinity uptake into the rat hippocampal formation. For comparison, high-affinity...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Schmidt W,Wolf G,Grüngreiff K,Meier M,Reum T

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:Microglia--the macrophage equivalent of the CNS--safeguards and supports neuronal functions. Threats to the CNS homeostasis can trigger a rapid transformation of these cells from a normally "resting" into alerted and "activated" states. Microglia primarily serves the tissue defence and protection when participating in...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： van Rossum D,Hanisch UK

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence to suggest that, in acute liver failure (ALF), brain ammonia and proinflammatory cytokines may act synergistically to cause brain edema and its complications (intracranial hypertension, brain herniation). However, the molecular mechanisms involved remain to be established. In order to address this is...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Chastre A,Jiang W,Desjardins P,Butterworth RF

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menkes disease is a very rare X-linked copper metabolism disorder that results from an ATP7A gene mutation. With the advent of subcutaneous copper-histidine therapy, the early diagnosis of Menkes disease becomes of utmost importance for patients' prognosis. In the present study, the clinical characteristics of 12 Kore...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Kim JH,Lee BH,Kim YM,Choi JH,Kim GH,Cheon CK,Yoo HW

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calotropis procera (CP; Apocynaceae) is reported to have several neuroprotective activities however it's anti-depressant activity yet to be established. Therefore, the present study was proposed to evaluate the anti-depressant activity of the standardized ethanolic extract of CP (ECP) in chronic unpredictable mild str...

journal_title：Metabolic brain disease

authors： Garabadu D,Srivastava N,Murti Y

更新日期：2019-12-01 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