abstract：:The effect of ageing and the relationships between the catalytic properties of enzymes linked to Krebs' cycle, electron transfer chain, glutamate and aminoacid metabolism of cerebral cortex, a functional area very sensitive to both age and ischemia, were studied on mitochondria of adult and aged rats, after complete i...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Villa RF,Gorini A,Hoyer S

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the impact of axonopathy-inducing agents 1,2-diacetylbenzene (1,2-DAB) and 2,5-hexanedione (2,5-HD) on membrane-bound protein disulfide isomerase (mPDI) versus soluble PDI (sPDI), or PDI-family member thioredoxin (THX), and asked whether changes in PDI/THX were associated with production of oxidative/nitro...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Tshala-Katumbay D,Desjardins P,Sabri M,Butterworth R,Spencer P

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary auditory cortex is subject to the modulation of numerous neurotransmitters including norepinephrine (NE), which has been shown to decrease cellular excitability by yet unclear mechanisms. We investigated the possibility that NE directly affects excitatory glutamatergic synapses. We found that bath applicat...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Dinh L,Nguyen T,Salgado H,Atzori M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consumption of flavonoid-rich foods, in particular fruits and vegetables, has been epidemiologically associated with a reduced risk of heart disease, neurodegenerative disease, cancer and other chronic diseases. Flavonoid glycosides, the main class of flavonoids, have been shown to exert CNS-mediated activities, p...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Fernandez SP,Nguyen M,Yow TT,Chu C,Johnston GA,Hanrahan JR,Chebib M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that antioxidants containing sulfhydryl (-SH) groups are protective against the toxic effects of mercury. The current study was designed to elucidate the mechanism(s) of the cytoprotective effects of glutathione (GSH) and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) against the toxicity of inorganic mercury (HgCl(2)) in ne...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Becker A,Soliman KF

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal regeneration across the site of spinal cord lesion is often aborted in adult mammalian species. The use of DNA vaccine to nullify the inhibitory molecules has been shown to be effective in promoting axonal regeneration in injured spinal cord. The possible molecular mechanisms, however, remain to be elucidated. ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Zhang Y,Hao CG,Hu LQ,Dong J,Wei P,Xu D,Xiao ZC,Wang TH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10) is not only a protein, but also a lipid phosphatase that can negatively regulate the serine/threonine kinase Akt. It has been reported that PTEN can be regulated by means of phosphorylation. However, whether PTEN can be regulated by an...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Pei DS,Sun YF,Song YJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S100beta is a soluble protein released by glial cells mainly under the activation of the 5-HT1A receptor. It has been reported as a neuro-trophic and -tropic factor that promotes neurite maturation and outgrowth during development. This protein also plays a role in axonal stability and the plasticity underlying long-t...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nogueira MI,Abbas SY,Campos LG,Allemandi W,Lawson P,Takada SH,Azmitia EC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study was undertaken to investigate the status of platelet monoamine oxidase-B (MAO-B) activity in Indian cases of idiopathic Parkinson's disease. A significant increase in the activity of platelet MAO-B was observed in Parkinson's cases (n = 26) as compared to controls (n = 26). No significant change i...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Husain M,Shukla R,Dikshit M,Maheshwari PK,Nag D,Srimal RC,Seth PK,Khanna VK

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three essential amino acids, valine, leucine and isoleucine, constitute the group of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs). BCAAs are rapidly taken up into the brain parenchyma, where they serve several distinct functions including that as fuel material in brain energy metabolism. As one function of astrocytes is con...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Murín R,Mohammadi G,Leibfritz D,Hamprecht B

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Nitropropionic acid (3-NP)-induced neurotoxicity can be used as a model for the genetic neurodegenerative disorder Huntington's disease (HD). A metabolic profiling strategy was adopted to explore the biochemical consequences of 3-NP administered to rats in specific brain regions. (1)H NMR spectroscopy was used to ch...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Tsang TM,Haselden JN,Holmes E

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of sepsis associated encephalopathy (SAE) is not yet clear: the blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption has been indicated among the possible causative mechanisms. S100B, a calcium binding protein, originates in the central nervous system but it can be also produced by extra-cerebral sources; it is passi...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Piazza O,Cotena S,De Robertis E,Caranci F,Tufano R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome (RS) is an X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder mostly involving mutations in the gene for methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2). Ganglioside abnormalities were previously found in cerebrum and cerebellum in RS patients. We evaluated total lipid distribution in cerebrum/brainstem, hippocampus, and cerebel...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Seyfried TN,Heinecke KA,Mantis JG,Denny CA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (cdk5) is a proline-directed serine/threonine kinase that is activated mostly by association with its activators, p35 and p39. Initially projected as a neuron-specific kinase, cdk5 is expressed ubiquitously and its kinase activity solely depends on the presence of its activators, which are al...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Kanungo J,Zheng YL,Mishra B,Pant HC

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) plays a key role in cellular events including proliferation, survival and differentiation. Our previous study showed the effect of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), a PKC activator, inducing a decrease in retinal cells proliferation. This effect was mediated by muscarinic type 1 receptors (...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： dos Santos AA,Medina SV,de Araújo Martins L,de Araujo EG

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbance in cholesterol homeostasis appears to be an important factor in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders. The aim of the present study was to investigate sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP) levels in the nuclear extracts of human neuroblastoma cells and the possible interaction of beta...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Kelicen P,Cincioğlu M,Hizli F,Nordberg A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteasome inhibition has been observed in many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Here, the effect of proteasome inhibition on the morphology of cultured rat cortical astrocytes was investigated. Increasing evidence suggests that the function of astrocytes is related close...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ren QG,Yu Y,Pan DJ,Luo X,Wang XZ,Wang W

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The features of neuronal damage induced by the mitochondrial toxin NaN(3) were investigated in rat primary cortical neuron cultures. Cell viability (MTT colorimetric determination) and transmembrane mitochondrial potential (J-C1 fluorescence) were concentration-dependently reduced 24 h after NaN(3); neither nuclear fr...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Selvatici R,Previati M,Marino S,Marani L,Falzarano S,Lanzoni I,Siniscalchi A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylguanidine (MG) is known as not only a nephrotoxin but also as a neurotoxine. We have previously showed that MG itself generates hydroxyl radicals (*OH) in an in vitro study. In this study, we examined the inhibitory effects of ascorbate, EPC-K(1) (alpha-tocopheryl-L-ascorbate-2-O-phosphate diester), Trolox (wate...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Noda Y,Mankura M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SAM strains, a group of related inbred strains consisting of senescence-prone inbred strains (SAMP) and senescence-resistant inbred strains (SAMR), have been successfully developed by selective inbreeding of the AKR/J strain of mice donated by the Jackson laboratory in 1968. The characteristic feature of aging com...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Takeda T

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention and amelioration of Mibyou (sub-healthy condition) is the critical target for disease prevention including age-related diseases and cancer although the Mibyou condition is not yet pathologically defined. Since the oxidative stress is an underlying basic etiology associated with many diseases and aging, the ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Konishi T

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial enzyme, pyruvate carboxylase (PC; EC 6.4.1.1) is considered to play a significant role in the intermediary metabolism of neural tissue. PC-catalyzed carboxylation of pyruvate to oxaloacetate is a major anaplerotic reaction in brain. Anaplerosis is essential for homeostasis of the members of the trica...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Murin R,Cesar M,Kowtharapu BS,Verleysdonk S,Hamprecht B

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preventive effect of dietary taurine supplementation on glial alterations in retina of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats was examined in this study. Blood glucose content, content of taurine, glutamate and -amino butyric acid (GABA) and expression of glial fibrillary acid protein (GFAP), vascular endothe...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Zeng K,Xu H,Mi M,Zhang Q,Zhang Y,Chen K,Chen F,Zhu J,Yu X

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoleucine, together with leucine and valine, constitutes the group of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs). BCAAs are transported from the blood into the brain parenchyma, where they can serve several distinct functions. Since brain tissue is known to oxidatively metabolize BCAAs to CO(2), they are considered as fuel m...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Murín R,Mohammadi G,Leibfritz D,Hamprecht B

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most prevalent age-related neurodegenerative disease with physiological manifestations including tremors, bradykinesia, abnormal postural reflexes, rigidity and akinesia and pathological landmarks showing losses of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. Although the etiolo...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Miller RL,James-Kracke M,Sun GY,Sun AY

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) and exerts its actions via a number of ionotropic glutamate receptors/channels and metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptors. In addition to being expressed in neurons, glutamate receptors are expressed in different types of...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： D'Antoni S,Berretta A,Bonaccorso CM,Bruno V,Aronica E,Nicoletti F,Catania MV

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study mitochondrial respiratory function of fibroblasts from a patient affected by early-onset parkinsonism carrying the homozygous W437X nonsense mutation in the PINK1 gene has been thoroughly characterized. When compared with normal fibroblasts, the patient's fibroblast mitochondria exhibited a lower ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Piccoli C,Sardanelli A,Scrima R,Ripoli M,Quarato G,D'Aprile A,Bellomo F,Scacco S,De Michele G,Filla A,Iuso A,Boffoli D,Capitanio N,Papa S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calpains, cathepsins and caspases play crucial role in mediating cell death. In the present study we observed a cascade of events involving the three proteases during middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAo) in Wistar rats. The rats were MCA occluded and reperfused at various time points. We observed a maximal increase...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Chaitanya GV,Babu PP

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence that brain glutamatergic activity is pathologically elevated in bipolar disorder suggests that mood stabilizers are therapeutic in the disease in part by downregulating glutamatergic activity. Such activity can involve the second messenger, arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4n - 6). We tested this hypothesis with rega...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Basselin M,Chang L,Chen M,Bell JM,Rapoport SI

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During evolution, living organisms develop a specialized apparatus called nociceptors to sense their environment and avoid hazardous situations. Intense stimulation of high threshold C- and Adelta-fibers of nociceptive primary sensory neurons will elicit pain, which is acute and protective under normal conditions. A f...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Cheng JK,Ji RR

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that vanilloid receptor type 1 (VR1, or TRPV1) was up-regulated in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and the spinal dorsal horn after chronic inflammatory pain produced by complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) injection into the plantar of rat hind paw. In the present study, we found that subcutaneous or in...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Luo H,Xu IS,Chen Y,Yang F,Yu L,Li GX,Liu FY,Xing GG,Shi YS,Li T,Han JS,Wan Y

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Curcumin (diferuloyl), from the Indian spice turmeric, reduces oxidative damage and induces apoptosis. Utilizing DNA microarrays, we have demonstrated that a low (5 microM) dose of curcumin added to a mixture of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes (C6 rat glioma cells) in culture for 24 and 48 h significantly modulates ge...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Panchal HD,Vranizan K,Lee CY,Ho J,Ngai J,Timiras PS

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase A (PKA) plays a crucial role in tau hyperphosphorylation, an early event of Alzheimer disease (AD), and 17beta-estradiol replacement in aging women forestalls the onset of AD. However, the role of estradiol in PKA-induced tau hyperphosphorylation is not known. Here, we investigated the effect of 17beta-...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Liu XA,Zhu LQ,Zhang Q,Shi HR,Wang SH,Wang Q,Wang JZ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined changes in neuropeptide Y (NPY) Y2 receptor binding in the brains of C57BL/6 mice in response to different levels of high-fat diets via three dietary intervention methods: high-fat diet, switching from high- to low-fat diet and finally, energy restricted high-fat diet. Forty-five C57Bl/6 male mice ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Huang XF,Yu Y,Li Y,Tim S,Deng C,Wang Q

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine is the principal psychoactive ingredient in cigarette smoke, and has been associated with health problems in humans. However, the pure form of nicotine may prove to be a valuable pharmaceutical agent for the treatment of AD. However, the beneficial effects of nicotine remain a matter of much controversy. In o...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Shim SB,Lee SH,Chae KR,Kim CK,Hwang DY,Kim BG,Jee SW,Lee SH,Sin JS,Bae CJ,Lee BC,Lee HH,Kim YK

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age related changes in brain cortex NO metabolism were investigated in mitochondria and cytosolic extracts from youth to adulthood. Decreases of 19%, 40% and 71% in NO production were observed in mitochondrial fractions from 3, 7, and 14 months old rats, respectively, as compared with 1-month-old rats. Decreased nNOS ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bustamante J,Czerniczyniec A,Cymeryng C,Lores-Arnaiz S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive changes in serotonergic 5HT1 receptor signalling are believed to underlie the therapeutic effectiveness of antidepressant drugs. Since cells are continuously exposed to neurotransmitters/neuromodulators, spatially and temporally integrated, the responsiveness of a receptor system is dependent upon the physio-...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Trincavelli ML,Cuboni S,Montali M,Santaguida S,Lucacchini A,Martini C

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes have been considered to be transformed from radial glial cells that appear at early stage of development and play a scaffold-role for neuronal cell migration. Recent studies indicate that neuroepithelial cells in the spinal cord also give rise to astrocytes. However, the mode of astroglial generation and mi...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Seo JH,Chang JH,Song SH,Lee HN,Jeon GS,Kim DW,Chung CK,Cho SS

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is one of the major common components of vascular risk factors for pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. This study investigated the possible relationship between hypoxia and alternative splicing of the excitatory amino acid transporter 2 (EAAT2) in a transgenic model for Alzheimer's disease. We used an APP23 m...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Münch C,Zhu BG,Mink A,Seefried U,Riepe MW,Ludolph AC,Meyer T

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to directly measure in vivo superoxide radical (O*2) a direct indicator of oxidative stress, in the brain of rats with experimentally induced obstructive jaundice by employing a new quantitative ultrasensitive fluorescent assay requiring minimum sample. O*2 anion is specific for dihydroethidine (DHE) a...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Konstantinou D,Mavrakis A,Grintzalis K,Papapostolou I,Assimakopoulos SF,Chroni E,Georgiou C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00