abstract：:Acetate is a two carbon intermediate in metabolism. It is an accepted marker of astrocytic metabolism, and a substrate for production of metabolites such as glutamine, glutamate and GABA. However, anomalies exist in the current explanations of compartmentation and metabolism of acetate. Here, we investigated these ano...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Rae C,Fekete AD,Kashem MA,Nasrallah FA,Bröer S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control and maintenance of the intracellular redox state is an essential task for cells and organisms. NAD(+) and NADH constitute a redox pair crucially involved in cellular metabolism as a cofactor for many dehydrogenases. In addition, NAD(+) is used as a substrate independent of its redox-carrier function by enz...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Wilhelm F,Hirrlinger J

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory impairment is a major problem afflicting mankind. The association between memory functions and neurotransmitter functions is of great interest for understanding brain function. Serotonergic pathways play an important role in the modulation of memory functions but the importance of its receptor types and subtype...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Haider S,Khaliq S,Tabassum S,Haleem DJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is pathologically characterized by presence of senile plaques in the hippocampus, which are composed mainly of extracellular deposition of a polypeptide known as the beta amyloid, the Aβ. It has been demonstrated on numerous occasions that it was the deposition and aggregation of this Aβ pepti...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yang HQ,Li X,Yang WM,Feng SM,Ma JJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of repulsive guidance molecule A (RGMa) in cerebral ischemia remains unclear. In the study, we examined the expression of RGMa in ischemic brain tissues following focal cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (IR) in rats. An established middle cerebral artery suture occlusion model was employed. A dipolar electrode wa...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Jiang F,Yin H,Qin X

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Folic acid plays an important role in neuroplasticity and acts as a neuroprotective agent, as observed in experimental brain ischemia studies. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of folic acid on locomotor activity, aversive memory and Na(+),K(+)-ATPase activity in the frontal cortex and striatum in a...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Carletti JV,Deniz BF,Miguel PM,Rojas JJ,Kolling J,Scherer EB,de Souza Wyse AT,Netto CA,Pereira LO

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Depressive disorder is a multifactorial diseases, that one of the typical feature are cognitive impairments. The aim of this study was to determine the total antioxidant status (TAS) in patients with recurrent depressive disorder (rDD) and to define relationship between plasma levels of TAS and the cognitive...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Talarowska M,Gałecki P,Maes M,Bobińska K,Kowalczyk E

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gangliosides, the acidic glycosphingolipids (GSLs) containing N-acetylgalactosamine and sialic acid are ubiquitous in the central nervous system. At least six DSL-glycosyltransferase activities (GLTs Gangliosides, the acidic glycosphingolipids (GSLs) containing N-acetylgalactosamine and sialic acid (or NAc-Neuraminic ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Basu S,Ma R,Moskal JR,Basu M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several previous studies utilizing selective pharmacological antagonists have demonstrated that type 5 metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR5) are potential therapeutic targets for the treatment of numerous disorders of the central nervous system, but the role of mGluR5 activation in traumatic brain injury (TBI) is ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Chen T,Cao L,Dong W,Luo P,Liu W,Qu Y,Fei Z

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidinemia is an inherited metabolic disorder biochemically characterized by high concentrations of histidine in biological fluids. Usually affected patients are asymptomatic although some individuals have mental retardation and speech disorders. Considering the high prevalence of histidinemia and the scarce informa...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Rojas DB,Gemelli T,de Andrade RB,Campos AG,Dutra-Filho CS,Wannmacher CM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain noradrenergic system has been implicated in early-life stress effects on adult physiology and behavior; however, the mechanisms for this relationship are not clear. Here we tested the hypothesis that stress hormones, glucocorticoids, may affect noradrenergic system activity by modulating gene expression and func...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Kalinina TS,Shishkina GT,Dygalo NN

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiological mechanism(s) underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) still remain unclear, and no disease-modifying or prophylactic therapies are currently available. Unraveling the fundamental neuropathogenesis of AD is an important challenge. Several studies on AD have suggested lesions in a number of CNS areas i...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Daulatzai MA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies showed that the up-regulation of glial glutamate transporter-1 (GLT-1) participates in the acquisition of brain ischemic tolerance induced by cerebral ischemic preconditioning or ceftriaxone pretreatment in rats. To explore whether GLT-1 plays a role in the acquisition of brain ischemic tolerance induc...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Gong SJ,Chen LY,Zhang M,Gong JX,Ma YX,Zhang JM,Wang YJ,Hu YY,Sun XC,Li WB,Zhang Y

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of caspase-3 is considered to be a reliable marker for apoptotic cell death, and a 120-kDa fragment of αII-spectrin is generated by caspase-3 mediated cleavage of this structural protein. In the present study, we compared cleaved αII-spectrin (120-kDa) and cleaved caspase-3-immunoreactive cells and thei...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Hwang IK,Ahn JH,Yoo DY,Lee CH,Yoo KY,Choi JH,Moon SM,Shin HC,Won MH

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission in the central nervous system can be modulated by neurosteroids. We previously found that in rat hippocampal slices allopregnanolone (3α-hydroxy-5α-pregnan-20-one), a positive GABA(A) receptor modulator, suppresses the epileptic discharges induced by 4-aminopyridine (4-AP), ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Salazar P,Tapia R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria are intracellular organelles and their interactions are directly involved in different processes such as Ca(2+) signaling in cell survival and death mechanisms. Bcl-2 is an anti-apoptotic protein intrinsically related to ER and mitochondria, modulating Ca(2+) content in thes...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Hirata H,Lopes GS,Jurkiewicz A,Garcez-do-Carmo L,Smaili SS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parecoxib is a recently described novel COX-2 inhibitor whose functional significance and neuroprotective mechanisms remain elusive. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to investigate whether delayed administration of parecoxib inhibited mitochondria-mediated neuronal apoptosis induced by ischemic reperfusion injury vi...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ye Z,Wang N,Xia P,Wang E,Yuan Y,Guo Q

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) is a key site for regulating neuroendocrine functions in the magnocellular part and autonomic activities in the parvocellular part. Its anatomical proximity to the third ventricle could be a good target for intrathecal injection of baclofen. We investigated the correlatio...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Czell D,Efe T,Preuss M,Schofer MD,Becker R

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in presenilin 1 (PS-1) are associated with most early-onset familiar Alzheimer's disease (AD). Previous studies have demonstrated that PS-1 mutations enhance the production of beta-amyloid (Aβ). In this study, we further examined the in vivo effects of PS-1 mutation on tau and synapse protein markers. The da...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yang X,Yang Y,Liu J,Li G,Yang E

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of cerebral oedema (CE) in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) remains enigmatic. We investigated the role of the idiogenic osmol taurine and aquaporin channels in an in vitro model, the SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cell line, by sequentially mimicking DKA-like hyperglycemia/hypertonicity and hypotonic fluid ther...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Koves IH,Russo VC,Higgins S,Mishra A,Pitt J,Cameron FJ,Werther GA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propofol and ketamine may provide certain degree of neuroprotection, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear to date. The cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) was proposed that its phosphorylation at Ser133 (P-CREB) constituted a convergence point involved in neuroprotection. The purpose of this study was...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Shu L,Li T,Han S,Ji F,Pan C,Zhang B,Li J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously showed that peptide neurotensin inhibits neuronal Na(+), K(+)-ATPase activity, an effect which involves high affinity neurotensin receptor. Nitric oxide (NO) acts as a neurotransmitter or as a neuromodulator when it is synthesized by neuronal nitric oxide synthase. Neurotensin effect on Na(+), K(+)-...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： López Ordieres MG,Álvarez-Juliá A,Kemmling A,Rodríguez de Lores Arnaiz G

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelsolin is an actin regulatory protein that generally distributed in a wide variety of body tissues, especially the brain tissues and cerebrospinal fluid. In this study we found that lumbar CSF-gelsolin concentrations markedly decreased in epileptic patients by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. In order to help judg...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Peng X,Zhang X,Wang L,Zhu Q,Luo J,Wang W,Wang X

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical warfare nerve agent (CWNA) soman irreversibly inhibits acetylcholinesterase (AChE) causing seizure, neuropathology and neurobehavioral deficits. Pyridostigmine bromide (PB), the currently approved pretreatment for soman, is a reversible AChE inhibitor that does not cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to p...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Wang Y,Wei Y,Oguntayo S,Jensen N,Doctor BP,Nambiar MP

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unrelated cells such as dental follicle precursor cells (DFPCs) and retinal Müller cells (MCs) make spheres after cultivation in serum-replacement medium (SRM). Until today, the relation and molecular processes of sphere formation from different cell types remain undescribed. Thus in this study we compared proteomes o...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Beck HC,Petersen J,Felthaus O,Schmalz G,Morsczeck C

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a promising biological marker and prognostic indicator in many neurological diseases. Although VEGF concentrations in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are increasingly reported, CSF-VEGF stability pre- and during-assay procedures is seldom evaluated. In the current stud...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yang J,Dombrowski SM,Deshpande A,Krajcir N,El-Khoury S,Krishnan C,Luciano MG

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation evaluates the anti-stress activity of risperidone (RIS) in the cold restraint stress (CRS) model and related stress pathways. Rats were pretreated with RIS (0.1 and 1.0 mg/kg) for 21 days before subjecting to CRS. Ultra low dose of RIS (ULD; 0.1 mg/kg) in contrast to higher dose (1.0 mg/kg) s...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Krishnamurthy S,Garabadu D,Reddy NR,Joy KP

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases are conformational diseases, many factors are involved in altering the conformation of prion, such as RNA, DNA, pH, and copper etc. However the neurotoxic mechanism of prion diseases is not clear yet. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the nucleoprotein complex of RNA and recombinant ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Liu ML,Wen JJ,Xu XF,Zhao DM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system. MS is the most common neurological disorder in young adults with a greater incidence among females. Male gonadal hormones have a protective effect on neural system development and myelin maturation. In this study, we investigat...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Sherafat MA,Javan M,Mozafari S,Mirnajafi-Zadeh J,Motamedi F

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic Liver X receptor (LXR) activator T0901317 has been reported to exert neuroprotective effect in Alzheimer's disease, but the relationship between LXR activation and beta-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE-1) remains uncertain. This study investigated the effect of T0901317 on membrane ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Cui W,Sun Y,Wang Z,Xu C,Xu L,Wang F,Chen Z,Peng Y,Li R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant peripheral nerve sheath (MPNST) cell lines derived from patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF!) were found to have basal cAMP levels which are two-fold higher than cAMP levels in normal human adult Schwann cells (nHSC). PCR analysis also revealed that normal adult human Schwann cells express mRNA for ty...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Dang I,De Vries GH

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian MTH1 protein, a MutT-related protein, catalyzes the hydrolysis of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanosine triphosphate (8-oxoGTP) to monophosphate, thereby preventing incorporation of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoguanine) into RNA. In this study, we applied immunohistochemistry to follow the expression of MTH1 and the ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Song XN,Zhang LQ,Liu DG,Lin J,Zheng JD,Dai DP,Hei AL,Hayakawa H,Sekiguchi M,Cai JP

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebellar cortical circuit of mammals develops via a series of magnificent cellular events in the postnatal stage of development to accomplish the formation of functional circuit architectures. The contribution of genetic factors is thought to be crucial to cerebellar development. Therefore, it is essential to an...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Furuichi T,Shiraishi-Yamaguchi Y,Sato A,Sadakata T,Huang J,Shinoda Y,Hayashi K,Mishima Y,Tomomura M,Nishibe H,Yoshikawa F

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) plays a pivotal role in neuronal migration and differentiation, and in axonal elongation. Although many studies have been conducted to analyze neuronal functions of Cdk5, its kinase activity has also been reported during oligodendrocyte differentiation, which suggests Cdk5 may play an ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： He X,Takahashi S,Suzuki H,Hashikawa T,Kulkarni AB,Mikoshiba K,Ohshima T

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than a decade has passed since Zic family zinc finger proteins were discovered to be transcription factors controlling neuroectodermal differentiation (neural induction) in Xenopus laevis embryos. Although BMP-signal blocking has been shown to be a major upregulator of Zic genes in neuroectodermal differentiation...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Aruga J,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretion of fluid and electrolytes by salivary gland acinar cells requires the coordinated regulation of multiple ion channel and transporter proteins, signaling components, and water transport. Importantly, neurotransmitter stimulated increase in the cytosolic free [Ca(2+)] ([Ca(2+)](i)) is critical for the regu...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ambudkar IS

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding and deposition in the brain are implicated in the etiology of numerous neurodegenerative disorders. Here, organic solutes characteristic of microorganisms adapted to hot environments, were tested on experimental cell models of Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases. Diglycerol phosphate, di-myo-inosi...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Jorge CD,Ventura R,Maycock C,Outeiro TF,Santos H,Costa J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of selected neuroregulatory proteins that inhibit or promote apoptotic cell death were measured in the striatum of piglets subjected to precisely controlled 1 h hypoxic insult followed by 0, 2 and 4 h recovery and compared to sham operated animals. The anti-apoptotic proteins: there were increases in Surviv...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Mammen A,Kubin J,Greeley WJ,Schears GJ,Pastuszko P,F Wilson D,Pastuszko A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 12/15-lipoxygenase(s) (LOX), poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP-1) activity and mitochondrial apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) protein in the amyloid β (Aβ) toxicity were investigated in PC12 cells that express either wild-type (APPwt) or double Swedish mutation (APPsw) forms of human Aβ precursor protein. Different...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Strosznajder JB,Cieslik M,Cakala M,Jesko H,Eckert A,Strosznajder RP

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a highly complex form of cell death that can be triggered by alterations in Ca(2+) homeostasis. Members of the Bcl-2 family may regulate apoptosis and modulate Ca(2+) distribution within intracellular compartments. Bax, a proapoptotic member of the family, is constitutively expressed and soluble in the cy...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Morales AP,Carvalho AC,Monteforte PT,Hirata H,Han SW,Hsu YT,Smaili SS

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00