abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). Rupture of lysosome is a major cellular stress condition leading to cell death in PD. We have previously shown that environmenta...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Dong H,Qin Y,Huang Y,Ji D,Wu F

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventral pallidum (VP) is a critical component of the basal ganglia neurocircuitry regulating learning and decision making; however, its precise role in controlling associative learning of environmental stimuli conditioned to appetitive or aversive outcomes is still unclear. Here, we investigated the expression of ...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Macpherson T,Mizoguchi H,Yamanaka A,Hikida T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anticonvulsant vigabatrin (VGB; SabrilR) irreversibly inhibits GABA transaminase to increase neural GABA, yet its mechanism of retinal toxicity remains unclear. VGB is suggested to alter several amino acids, including homocarnosine, β-alanine, ornithine, glycine, taurine, and 2-aminoadipic acid (AADA), the latter ...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Walters DC,Arning E,Bottiglieri T,Jansen EEW,Salomons GS,Brown MN,Schmidt MA,Ainslie GR,Roullet JB,Gibson KM

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:25INBOMe ("25-I", "N-Bomb"), one of new psychoactive substances (NPSs), is being abused for recreational purpose. However, the liability for abuse or dependence has not been systematically studied yet. The objective of the present study was to evaluate rewarding and reinforcing effects of 25INBOMe using conditioned pl...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Jeon SY,Kim YH,Kim SJ,Suh SK,Cha HJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurones are dependent on their mitochondria to produce the necessary amounts of ATP for survival. Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) have a particularly large number of mitochondria which-unlike neurones in the brain-are exposed to visual light of 400-850 nm. Here we demonstrate that short wavelength visual blue light neg...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Núñez-Álvarez C,Osborne NN

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin2C receptor (5-HT2C) agonists are promising drugs for the treatment of neuropsychiatric diseases. However, their effect is not completely understood in part because they possibly affect several neurobiological networks simultaneously. We studied the effect of the 5-HT2C receptor agonist WAY-163909 (0.3 and 3 ...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Chagraoui A,Whitestone S,Baassiri L,Manem J,Di Giovanni G,De Deurwaerdère P

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we demonstrated that p53 mediates dopaminergic neurotoxicity via inducing mitochondrial burdens and proapoptotsis. However, little is known about the role of p53 in the excitotoxicity induced by psychostimulant, such as cocaine. Cocaine-induced kindling (convulsive) behaviors significantly increased p53 exp...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Mai HN,Sharma N,Jeong JH,Shin EJ,Pham DT,Trinh QD,Lee YJ,Jang CG,Nah SY,Bing G,Kim HC

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol addiction is a worldwide concern as its detrimental effects go far beyond the addicted individual and can affect the entire family as well as the community. Considerable effort is being expended in understanding the neurobiological basis of such addiction in hope of developing effective prevention and/or inter...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Reglodi D,Toth D,Vicena V,Manavalan S,Brown D,Getachew B,Tizabi Y

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methamphetamine is a widely abused psychostimulant. It reverses transport through the dopamine transporter, thereby increasing the extracellular level of dopamine in the brain, which is associated with the rewarding effect. Repeated intake of methamphetamine leads to drug addiction, a chronically relapsing disorder ch...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Mizoguchi H,Yamada K

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is a major pathological protein of ubiquitinated inclusions in motor neurons of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). TDP-43 is ubiquitously expressed and the majority of TDP-43 is normally localized to the nucleus. In motor neurons of patients with ALS, TDP-43 is not locali...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Hishizawa M,Yamashita H,Akizuki M,Urushitani M,Takahashi R

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study are to identify the mechanism of mitochondrial dysfunction during cerebral ischemic/reperfusion (I/R) injury and the therapeutic potential of tetrahydrocurcumin (THC) to mitigate mitochondrial dysfunction in experimental stroke model. In our study, 8-10 weeks old male C57BL/6 wild-type mic...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Mondal NK,Behera J,Kelly KE,George AK,Tyagi PK,Tyagi N

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione (GSH) is an essential component of intracellular antioxidant systems that plays a primordial role in the protection of cells against oxidative stress, maintaining redox homeostasis and xenobiotic detoxification. GSH synthesis in the brain is limited by the availability of cysteine and glutamate. Cystine, t...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Garza-Lombó C,Petrosyan P,Tapia-Rodríguez M,Valdovinos-Flores C,Gonsebatt ME

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common age-related neurodegenerative disorder and is characterized by pathological aggregates of amyloid β-protein (Aβ) and tau protein. On the basis of genetic evidence, biochemical data, and animal models, Aβ has been suggested to be responsible for the pathogenesis of AD (the am...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Ono K

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SN1, a system N amino acid transporter specific for astrocytes, is mainly responsible for export of newly synthesized L-glutamine from the cells. Astrocytic retention of L-glutamine which plays a critical role in ammonia-induced astrocytic swelling resulting in brain edema, could be tentatively attributed to the impai...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Dąbrowska K,Albrecht J,Zielińska M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GABAA receptors mediate most of the fast inhibitory transmissions in the central nervous system. These receptors are pentameric complexes that exhibit high structural and pharmacological heterogeneity, as they can be constructed from 19 distinct subunits. GABAA receptors are the targets of numerous clinically relevant...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Gravielle MC

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidences have indicated a high degree of comorbidity of alcoholism and depression. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has shown its clinical efficiency in the treatment of several psychiatric disorders and is identified as a multi-target acting drug. The ability of NAC to prevent alcohol abstinence-induced depression-like effect...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Yawalkar R,Changotra H,Gupta GL

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 12/15-lipoxygenase (12/15-LOX) enzymes react with polyunsaturated fatty acids producing active lipid metabolites that are involved in plethora of human diseases including neurological disorders. A great many of elegant studies over the last decades have contributed to unraveling the mechanism how 12/15-lipoxygenas...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Li QQ,Li Q,Jia JN,Liu ZQ,Zhou HH,Mao XY

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which pathogenic T cells play an important role, and an experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is used as an animal model of MS. Galectins are β-galactoside-binding lectins and involved in various physiological and pathological events. Among fifteen members ...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Itabashi T,Arima Y,Kamimura D,Higuchi K,Bando Y,Takahashi-Iwanaga H,Murakami M,Watanabe M,Iwanaga T,Nio-Kobayashi J

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes our present view on the molecular pathogenesis of human (h) E3-deficiency caused by a variety of genetic alterations with a special emphasis on the moonlighting biochemical phenomena related to the affected (dihydro)lipoamide dehydrogenase (LADH, E3, gene: dld), in particular the generation of r...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Ambrus A,Adam-Vizi V

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial respiratory chain (RC) disease is a heterogeneous and highly morbid group of energy deficiency disorders for which no proven effective therapies exist. Robust vertebrate animal models of primary RC dysfunction are needed to explore the effects of variation in RC disease subtypes, tissue-specific manifest...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Byrnes J,Ganetzky R,Lightfoot R,Tzeng M,Nakamaru-Ogiso E,Seiler C,Falk MJ

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to inhibitors of cholinesterase (RIC) -3 promotes the maturation (folding and assembly) of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) as a molecular chaperone. The modulation effects of RIC-3 on homomeric α7 nAChRs are always positive, but its effects on heteromeric subtypes are inconsistent among ...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Bao H,Xu X,Liu W,Yu N,Liu Z

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine is an excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system of insects and the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) is a target for neonicotinoid insecticides. Functional insect nAChRs are difficult to express in host cells, and hence difficult to study. In mammals, acetylcholine and nicotine evo...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Pyakurel P,Shin M,Venton BJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the major cause of morbidity and mortality and it affects more than 1.7 million Americans each year. Depending on its location and severity, TBI leads to structural and functional damage in several parts of the brain such as cranial nerves, optic nerve tract or other circuitry in...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Sen N

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that various classes of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) including microRNAs (miRNAs), PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in normal state as well as the diseases of the CNS. Interestingly, ncRNAs have been shown to interact with messenger RNA,...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Chandran R,Mehta SL,Vemuganti R

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GABA is catabolized in the mitochondrial matrix through the GABA shunt, encompassing transamination to succinic semialdehyde followed by oxidation to succinate by the concerted actions of GABA transaminase (GABA-T) and succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH), respectively. Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) is a neurotra...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Ravasz D,Kacso G,Fodor V,Horvath K,Adam-Vizi V,Chinopoulos C

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain uses long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) to a negligible extent as fuel for the mitochondrial energy generation, in contrast to other tissues that also demand high energy. Besides this generally accepted view, some studies using cultured neural cells or whole brain indicate a moderately active mitochondrial β-oxi...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Schönfeld P,Reiser G

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal cell death is often triggered by events that involve intracellular increases in Ca2+. Under resting conditions, the intracellular Ca2+ concentration is tightly controlled by a number of extrusion and sequestering mechanisms involving the plasma membrane, mitochondria, and ER. These mechanisms act to prevent a...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： D'Orsi B,Mateyka J,Prehn JHM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been limited success with blood-based biomarkers of neurodegeneration. One perceived reason is that blood has no direct contact to the brain. Recently developed blood-based biomarkers of tau-degradation have shown promise as potential tools for peripheral assessment of neurodegeneration; however, factors con...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Neergaard JS,Dragsbæk K,Christiansen C,Nielsen HB,Workman CT,Brix S,Henriksen K,Karsdal MA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of infant mortality worldwide, is characterised by the homozygous loss of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. The consequent degeneration of spinal motor neurons and progressive atrophy of voluntary muscle groups results in paralysis and eventually prematur...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Farrelly-Rosch A,Lau CL,Patil N,Turner BJ,Shabanpoor F

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurofilament light chain (NFL) protein in the classification of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitively healthy control individuals (HCs) and patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) as comparisons. Particularly, we tested the performa...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Lista S,Toschi N,Baldacci F,Zetterberg H,Blennow K,Kilimann I,Teipel SJ,Cavedo E,Dos Santos AM,Epelbaum S,Lamari F,Dubois B,Floris R,Garaci F,Hampel H,Alzheimer Precision Medicine Initiative (APMI).

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies demonstrated that chronic social defeat (CSD) up-regulated expression of the serotonin transporter (SERT) and norepinephrine transporter (NET) in the brain, which was mediated by corticosteroid receptors. In the present study we first analyzed the alterations of corticosteroid receptors in differe...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Zhang J,Fan Y,Raza MU,Zhan Y,Du XD,Patel PD,Zhu MY

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive and debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that affects over one million people in the United States. Previous studies, carried out in young adult rats, have shown that calcitriol, the active metabolite of vitamin D, can be neuroprotective in 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) models...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Cass WA,Peters LE

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:INAD (infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy, OMIM#256600), an autosomal recessive inherited degenerative disease, is associated with PLA2G6 mutations. PLA2G6 encodes Ca2+-independent phospholipase A2 (VIA iPLA2). However, it is unclear how the PLA2G6-mutations lead to disease. Non-canonical functions, which were suggested f...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Strokin M,Reiser G

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic neuronal injury is associated with several life- and vision-threatening diseases. Neuroprotection is essential in the treatment of these diseases. Here, we identified and characterized a novel peptide, FK18, from basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). We further assessed the neuroprotective effects of this pe...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Xiong S,Xu Y,Ma M,Wang H,Wei F,Gu Q,Xu X

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic neuropathic pain (DNP) plays a major role in decreased life quality of diabetes patients, however, the neural mechanisms underlying DNP remain unclear. Endomorphins are the endogenous ligands for mu-opioid receptor. There is increasing evidence implicating the involvement of spinal endomorphin-2 (EM2) in neur...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Niu L,Dai GH,He GL,Yang M,Hu HM,Liu ZK,Qian NS,Chen YL

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of extracellular amyloid beta (Abeta42) both in brain and in cerebral vessels characterizes Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Recently, the possibility to functionalize nanoparticles (NPs) surface with Abeta42 binding molecules, making them suitable tools for reducing Abeta42 burden has been show...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Conti E,Gregori M,Radice I,Da Re F,Grana D,Re F,Salvati E,Masserini M,Ferrarese C,Zoia CP,Tremolizzo L

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND METHODS:Glycine receptor (GlyR) consists of two α (1-4) and three β subunits. Considerable evidence indicates that the adult retina expresses the four types of α subunits; however, the proportion of these subunits in adult and immature retina is almost unknown. In this report we have studied mRNA and the...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Sánchez-Chávez G,Velázquez-Flores MÁ,Ruiz Esparza-Garrido R,Salceda R

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The major hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the formation of amyloid aggregates, which are formed due to improper folding of proteins leading to the aggregation of amyloid beta (Aβ) 42 peptide. Inhibition of Aβ 42 aggregation using a drug such as carbenoxolone (Cbx), which has already been stated as ne...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Sharma S,Nehru B,Saini A

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is a type of chronic pain caused by nervous system damage and dysfunction. The pathogenesis of chronic pain is complicated, and there are no effective therapies for neuropathic pain. Studies show that the P2X4 receptor expressed in the satellite glial cells (SGCs) of dorsal root ganglia (DRG) is relat...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Ying M,Liu H,Zhang T,Jiang C,Gong Y,Wu B,Zou L,Yi Z,Rao S,Li G,Zhang C,Jia T,Zhao S,Yuan H,Shi L,Li L,Liang S,Liu S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese (Mn) is a widely distributed trace element that is essential for normal brain function and development. However, chronic exposure to excessive Mn has been known to lead to neuronal loss and manganism, a disease with debilitating motor and cognitive deficits, whose clinical syndrome resembling idiopathic Park...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Liu X,Yang J,Lu C,Jiang S,Nie X,Han J,Yin L,Jiang J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00