abstract：:Stimulation of the nicotinic alpha7 acetylcholine receptor (nAChRalpha7) by nicotine or acetylcholine initiates the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway, a mechanism for neural inhibition of inflammation. The action of this pathway was initially discovered in animal models of endotoxemia and septic shock, and later d...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Nicolussi EM,Huck S,Lassmann H,Bradl M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel SCN1A are responsible for a number of seizure disorders including Generalized Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus (GEFS+) and Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI). To determine the effects of SCN1A mutations on channel function in vivo, we generated a bacterial arti...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Tang B,Dutt K,Papale L,Rusconi R,Shankar A,Hunter J,Tufik S,Yu FH,Catterall WA,Mantegazza M,Goldin AL,Escayg A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autophagy-lysosomal degradation pathway plays a role in the onset and progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Clinical and genetic studies indicate that mutations of beta-glucocerebrosidase represent genetic risk factors for synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DL...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Parnetti L,Balducci C,Pierguidi L,De Carlo C,Peducci M,D'Amore C,Padiglioni C,Mastrocola S,Persichetti E,Paciotti S,Bellomo G,Tambasco N,Rossi A,Beccari T,Calabresi P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAP (NAPVSIPQ) provides broad neuroprotection through microtubule interaction. Here, NAP was investigated for neuroprotection in an in vivo tauopathy model. Transgenic mice (2-month-old) that express the human double mutant tau protein [P301S;K257T] fused to the tau promoter, were subjected to daily intranasal drug tr...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Shiryaev N,Jouroukhin Y,Giladi E,Polyzoidou E,Grigoriadis NC,Rosenmann H,Gozes I

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral ischemia activates endogenous neurogenesis in the subventricular zone (SVZ) and the dentate gyrus. Consecutively, SVZ-derived neural precursors migrate towards ischemic lesions. However, functional relevance of activated neurogenesis is limited by poor survival of new-born precursors. We therefore employed th...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Doeppner TR,Dietz GP,El Aanbouri M,Gerber J,Witte OW,Bähr M,Weise J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identify an essential role for the RGD (Arg-Gly-Asp tripeptide) moiety in vivo during adult peripheral neuron regenerative growth. Beyond a peripheral nerve transection there were rises in the fibronectin extracellular matrix, and striking rises in the mRNA and protein expression of integrin subunits sensitive to R...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Liu WQ,Martinez JA,Durand J,Wildering W,Zochodne DW

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice expressing mutant human amyloid precursor protein (APP) develop an age-dependent amyloid pathology and memory deficits, but no overt neuronal loss. Here, in mice overexpressing wild-type human APP (hAPP(wt)) we found an early memory impairment, particularly in the water maze and to a lesser extent in t...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Simón AM,Schiapparelli L,Salazar-Colocho P,Cuadrado-Tejedor M,Escribano L,López de Maturana R,Del Río J,Pérez-Mediavilla A,Frechilla D

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dysregulation of glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) has been implicated in Alzheimer disease (AD) pathogenesis and in Abeta-induced neurotoxicity, leading us to investigate it as a therapeutic target in an intracerebroventricular Abeta infusion model. Infusion of a specific GSK3 inhibitor SB216763 (SB) reduced a do...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Hu S,Begum AN,Jones MR,Oh MS,Beech WK,Beech BH,Yang F,Chen P,Ubeda OJ,Kim PC,Davies P,Ma Q,Cole GM,Frautschy SA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence has linked inflammatory processes to neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease (PD). Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) is a key inflammatory cytokine and several studies linked increased TNF-alpha to dopaminergic cell death in PD. The TNF-alpha promoter sequen...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Pieper HC,Evert BO,Kaut O,Riederer PF,Waha A,Wüllner U

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuroprotective effect of L-kynurenine sulfate (KYN), a precursor of kynurenic acid (KYNA, a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist), was studied. KYN (300 mg/kg i.p., applied daily for 5 days) appreciably decreased the number of injured pyramidal cells from 1850+/-100/mm(2) to 1000+/-300/mm(2) (p<0.00...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Sas K,Robotka H,Rózsa E,Agoston M,Szénási G,Gigler G,Marosi M,Kis Z,Farkas T,Vécsei L,Toldi J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycosides force read through of premature stop codon mutations and introduce new mutation-specific gene-corrective strategies in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A chronic treatment with gentamicin (32 mg/kg/daily i.p., 8-12 weeks) was performed in exercised mdx mice with the dual aim to clarify the dependence on dy...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： De Luca A,Nico B,Rolland JF,Cozzoli A,Burdi R,Mangieri D,Giannuzzi V,Liantonio A,Cippone V,De Bellis M,Nicchia GP,Camerino GM,Frigeri A,Svelto M,Camerino DC

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature stop codons in CACNA1A, which encodes the alpha(1A) subunit of neuronal P/Q-type (Ca(V)2.1) Ca(2+) channels, cause episodic ataxia type 2 (EA2). CACNA1A undergoes extensive alternative splicing, which contributes to the pharmacological and kinetic heterogeneity of Ca(V)2.1-mediated Ca(2+) currents. We identi...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Graves TD,Imbrici P,Kors EE,Terwindt GM,Eunson LH,Frants RR,Haan J,Ferrari MD,Goadsby PJ,Hanna MG,van den Maagdenberg AM,Kullmann DM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural transplantation has been investigated experimentally and clinically for the purpose of developing new treatment options for intractable epilepsy. In the present study we assessed the anticonvulsant efficacy and safety of bilateral allotransplantation of genetically engineered striatal GABAergic rat cell lines i...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Nolte MW,Löscher W,Herden C,Freed WJ,Gernert M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult-onset hypothyroidism is associated with neurological changes such as cognitive dysfunction and impaired learning, which may be related to alterations of synaptic plasticity. We investigate the consequence of adult-onset hypothyroidism on thyroid-mediated transcription events in striatal synaptic plasticity, and ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Vallortigara J,Alfos S,Micheau J,Higueret P,Enderlin V

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteopontin (OPN) is a key immunoregulator in the autoimmune-mediated demyelinating disease multiple sclerosis. OPN may also play a role in the remyelination since it is 1) a ligand for alpha V integrins, several of which regulate the properties of the oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) primarily responsible for r...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Zhao C,Fancy SP,ffrench-Constant C,Franklin RJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental stimulation throughout development adjusts the neurobehavioral systems involved in learning, memory and defensive responses. Environment-mediated phenotypic plasticity can be considered from two different, yet complementary, viewpoints. On one hand, the possibility that environmental interventions protec...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Laviola G,Hannan AJ,Macrì S,Solinas M,Jaber M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we prepared a SCA3 animal model by generating transgenic mice expressing polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-3-Q79. Ataxin-3-Q79 was expressed in brain areas implicated in SCA3 neurodegeneration, including cerebellum, pontine nucleus and substantia nigra. Ataxin-3-Q79 transgenic mice displayed motor dy...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Chou AH,Yeh TH,Ouyang P,Chen YL,Chen SY,Wang HL

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a comprehensive proteomics study aiming at the identification of proteins associated with amyloid-beta (Abeta)-mediated toxicity in cultured cortical neurons, we have identified Thimet oligopeptidase (THOP1). Functional modulation of THOP1 levels in primary cortical neurons demonstrated that its overexpression was ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Pollio G,Hoozemans JJ,Andersen CA,Roncarati R,Rosi MC,van Haastert ES,Seredenina T,Diamanti D,Gotta S,Fiorentini A,Magnoni L,Raggiaschi R,Rozemuller AJ,Casamenti F,Caricasole A,Terstappen GC

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noradrenergic nucleus Locus Coeruleus (LC) densely innervates limbic structures. In rats, the damage to LC by the neurotoxin DSP-4, converts episodic limbic seizures induced by bicuculline infusion in the anterior piriform cortex (APC) into self-sustaining status epilepticus (SE). SE induced by this approach is si...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Giorgi FS,Blandini F,Cantafora E,Biagioni F,Armentero MT,Pasquali L,Orzi F,Murri L,Paparelli A,Fornai F

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by overproduction of A beta derived from APP cleavage via beta- and gamma-secretase pathway. Recent evidence has linked altered cholesterol metabolism to AD pathogenesis. In this study, we show that AD brain had significant cholesterol retention and high beta- and gamma-secret...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Xiong H,Callaghan D,Jones A,Walker DG,Lue LF,Beach TG,Sue LI,Woulfe J,Xu H,Stanimirovic DB,Zhang W

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments reported here were motivated by studies in both human epilepsy and animal models in which stunted dendritic arbors are observed. Our goal was to determine if chronic network hyperexcitability alters dendritic growth. Experiments were conducted in hippocampal slice cultures obtained from infant mice that ex...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Nishimura M,Owens J,Swann JW

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol-induced damage in the developing hippocampus may result in cognitive deficits such as those observed in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Cognitive deficits in FASD are partially mediated by alterations in glutamatergic synaptic transmission. Recently, we reported that synaptic transmission mediated by a...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Wijayawardhane N,Shonesy BC,Vaithianathan T,Pandiella N,Vaglenova J,Breese CR,Dityatev A,Suppiramaniam V

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid-beta (Abeta) accumulation in senile plaques is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Immunotherapy is a leading approach for amyloid clearance, despite the early termination of the Elan clinical trial with active immunization due to a few cases of meningoencephalitis. The mechanisms of immunotherapy-mediated...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Garcia-Alloza M,Ferrara BJ,Dodwell SA,Hickey GA,Hyman BT,Bacskai BJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of Abeta deposition upon cholinergic intrinsic cortical and striatal, as well as basal forebrain long projection neuronal systems was qualitatively and quantitatively evaluated in young (2-6 months) and middle-aged (10-16 months) APPswe/PS1DeltaE9 transgenic (tg) mice. Cholinergic neuritic swellings occurre...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Perez SE,Dar S,Ikonomovic MD,DeKosky ST,Mufson EJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL) is a severe neurodegenerative disorder of children, characterized by selective death of neocortical neurons. To understand early disease mechanisms in INCL, we have studied Ppt1(Deltaex4) knock-out mouse neurons in culture and acute brain slices. Global transcript profil...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Ahtiainen L,Kolikova J,Mutka AL,Luiro K,Gentile M,Ikonen E,Khiroug L,Jalanko A,Kopra O

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amyloid precursor protein (APP) is a type I transmembrane protein translocated to neuronal terminals, whose function is still unknown. The C-terminus of APP mediates its interaction with cellular adaptor and signaling proteins, some of which signal to the stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK) pathway. Here we sho...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Galvan V,Banwait S,Spilman P,Gorostiza OF,Peel A,Ataie M,Crippen D,Huang W,Sidhu G,Ichijo H,Bredesen DE

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene for DJ-1 have been associated with early-onset autosomal recessive parkinsonism. Previous studies of null DJ-1 mice have shown alterations in striatal dopamine (DA) transmission with no DAergic cell loss. Here we characterize a new line of DJ-1-deficient mice. A subtle locomotor deficit was prese...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Manning-Boğ AB,Caudle WM,Perez XA,Reaney SH,Paletzki R,Isla MZ,Chou VP,McCormack AL,Miller GW,Langston JW,Gerfen CR,Dimonte DA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) locus has long been associated with sporadic neurodegenerative disease, notably progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration, and more recently with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. However, the functional biological mechanisms behind the geneti...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Caffrey TM,Wade-Martins R

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington disease (HD) is an adult onset, neurodegenerative disorder that results from CAG expansion in the HD gene. Recent work has demonstrated testicular degeneration in mouse models of HD and alterations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis in HD patients. Here, we show that HD patients have specific ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Van Raamsdonk JM,Murphy Z,Selva DM,Hamidizadeh R,Pearson J,Petersén A,Björkqvist M,Muir C,Mackenzie IR,Hammond GL,Vogl AW,Hayden MR,Leavitt BR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered expression and distribution of neurotransmitter receptors, including metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs), constitute key aspects in epileptogenesis, impaired hippocampal excitability and neuronal degeneration. mGluR1 mediates predominantly excitatory effects, whereas mGluR4 acts as inhibitory presynaptic...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Pitsch J,Schoch S,Gueler N,Flor PJ,van der Putten H,Becker AJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we tested whether over-expressing the GABA(B) receptor R1a subtype in transgenic mouse forebrain neurons would be sufficient to induce spontaneous absence seizures. As hypothesized, these transgenic mice develop spontaneous, recurrent, bilaterally synchronous, 3-6 Hz slow spike and wave discharges betwe...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Wu Y,Chan KF,Eubanks JH,Guin Ting Wong C,Cortez MA,Shen L,Che Liu C,Perez Velazquez J,Tian Wang Y,Jia Z,Carter Snead O 3rd

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of engrafted human adult olfactory neuroepithelial neurosphere forming cells (NSFCs) on regeneration and reinnervation of rubrospinal tract (RST) axons and locomotor recovery following partial cervical hemisection that completely ablated the RST. Weekly behavioral testing showed greater fun...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Xiao M,Klueber KM,Guo Z,Lu C,Wang H,Roisen FJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal mechanical cortical trauma triggers diffuse apoptotic neurodegeneration in the developing rat brain which is associated with invasion of brain tissue with inflammatory mediators. We hypothesized that caspase-1 and the two caspase-1-processed cytokines, interleukin (IL)-1beta and IL-18, are involved in trauma-ind...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Sifringer M,Stefovska V,Endesfelder S,Stahel PF,Genz K,Dzietko M,Ikonomidou C,Felderhoff-Mueser U

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amyloid precursor protein (APP) metabolism is central to pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Parenchymal amyloid deposits, a neuropathological hallmark of AD, are composed of amyloid-beta peptides (Abeta). Abeta derives from the amyloid precursor protein (APP) by sequential cleavages by beta- and gamma-secre...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Vingtdeux V,Hamdane M,Bégard S,Loyens A,Delacourte A,Beauvillain JC,Buée L,Marambaud P,Sergeant N

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have approached the role of cellular stress in neurodegenerative diseases caused by polyglutamine expansion (polyQ) in the context of Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) that includes retinal degeneration. Using the R7E mouse, in which polyQ-ataxin-7 is specifically over-expressed in rod photoreceptors, we previou...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Merienne K,Friedman J,Akimoto M,Abou-Sleymane G,Weber C,Swaroop A,Trottier Y

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress and protein aggregation are biochemical hallmarks of Parkinson's disease (PD), a frequent sporadic late-onset degenerative disorder particularly of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, resulting in impaired spontaneous movement. PARK6 is a rare autosomal-recessively inherited disorder, mimick...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Hoepken HH,Gispert S,Morales B,Wingerter O,Del Turco D,Mülsch A,Nussbaum RL,Müller K,Dröse S,Brandt U,Deller T,Wirth B,Kudin AP,Kunz WS,Auburger G

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on in vitro studies, it is hypothesized that neurotrophic factor deprivation following deafferentation elicits an oxidative state change in the deafferented neuron and the formation of free radicals that then signal cell death pathways. This pathway to cell death was tested in vivo by assessing the efficacy of a...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Maruyama J,Yamagata T,Ulfendahl M,Bredberg G,Altschuler RA,Miller JM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroprotective functions of erythropoietin (Epo) are thought to involve a heteroreceptor composed of both Epo receptor (Epo-R) and common beta chain (betac). Here, we measured the response of hippocampal Epo system components (Epo, Epo-R and betac) during neurodegenerative processes following pilocarpine-induced stat...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Nadam J,Navarro F,Sanchez P,Moulin C,Georges B,Laglaine A,Pequignot JM,Morales A,Ryvlin P,Bezin L

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined whether tetrahydrobiopterin(BH4), an endogenous cofactor for dopamine(DA) synthesis, causes preferential damage to DArgic neurons among primary cultured rat mesencephalic neurons and whether the death mechanism has relevance to Parkinson's disease (PD). DArgic neurons were more vulnerable to BH4 than non...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Lee SY,Moon Y,Hee Choi D,Jin Choi H,Hwang O

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by hyperactivity, inattention, and impulsivity. The coloboma mouse model of ADHD exhibits profound hyperactivity. To determine whether coloboma mice exhibit other signs of ADHD, we assessed latent inhibition as a test of attention, and impulsivity in a d...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Bruno KJ,Freet CS,Twining RC,Egami K,Grigson PS,Hess EJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00