abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease and is characterized by dopaminergic neuron loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). Although both iron accumulation and a defective autophagy-lysosome pathway contribute to the pathological development of PD, the connection between...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Chen LL,Huang YJ,Cui JT,Song N,Xie J

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroinflammatory processes promote a constellation of neurochemical and hormonal changes resulting in profound effects on motivational states (anhedonia), mood (depression and anxiety disorders), and cognitive function (decrements in learning and memory). The enhancement of immunoregulatory processes, such as increas...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Frank MG,Fonken LK,Watkins LR,Maier SF,Lowry CA

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau is the hallmark of several tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although the mechanism underlying tau-associated neuronal damage remains unclear, it is believed that tau hyperphosphorylation is one of the key features in disease progression. A recent study demonstrate...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Tripathi T,Prakash J,Shav-Tal Y

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibrillogenesis of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) is considered a crucial factor in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Hence, inhibiting Aβ fibrillogenesis is regarded as the primary therapeutic strategy for the prevention and treatment of AD. However, the development of effective inhibitors against Aβ fibrillo...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Liu F,Wang W,Sang J,Jia L,Lu F

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptor 55 (GPR55) is highly expressed in brain and peripheral nervous system. Originally deorphanized as a cannabinoid receptor, recently GPR55 has been described as a lysophospholipid-responsive receptor, specifically toward lysophosphatidylinositol and lysophosphatidyl-β-d-glucoside (LysoPtdGlc)....

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Guy AT,Kano K,Ohyama J,Kamiguchi H,Hirabayashi Y,Ito Y,Matsuo I,Greimel P

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of protein aggregation is of both fundamental and clinical importance as amyloid aggregates are linked to a number of neurodegenerative disorders. Such protein aggregates include macroscopic insoluble fibrils as well as small soluble oligomeric species. Time-dependent resolution of these specie...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Kjaergaard M,Dear AJ,Kundel F,Qamar S,Meisl G,Knowles TPJ,Klenerman D

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Temozolomide (TMZ) is the current first-line chemotherapy for treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). However, similar to other brain therapeutic compounds, access of TMZ to brain tumors is impaired by the blood-brain barrier (BBB) leading to poor response for GBM patients. To overcome this major hurdle, we have s...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Arcella A,Palchetti S,Digiacomo L,Pozzi D,Capriotti AL,Frati L,Oliva MA,Tsaouli G,Rota R,Screpanti I,Mahmoudi M,Caracciolo G

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme, a type of deadly brain cancer, originates most commonly from astrocytes found in the brain. Current multimodal treatments for glioblastoma minimally increase life expectancy, but significant advancements in prognosis have not been made in the past few decades. Here we investigate cellular repr...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Lee C,Robinson M,Willerth SM

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work in our laboratories has identified a series of peptidomimetic 2-pyridone molecules as modulators of alpha-synuclein (α-syn) fibrillization in vitro. As a first step toward developing molecules from this scaffold as positron emission tomography imaging agents, we were interested in evaluating their blood-...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Cairns AG,Vazquez-Romero A,Mahdi Moein M,Ådén J,Elmore CS,Takano A,Arakawa R,Varrone A,Almqvist F,Schou M

更新日期：2018-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin system regulates an array of diverse physiological functions including pigmentation, feeding behavior, energy homeostasis, cardiovascular regulation, sexual function, and steroidogenesis. Endogenous melanocortin agonist ligands all possess the minimal messaging tetrapeptide sequence His-Phe-Arg-Trp. B...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Todorovic A,Lensing CJ,Holder JR,Scott JW,Sorensen NB,Haskell-Luevano C

更新日期：2018-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminorex (5-phenyl-4,5-dihydro-1,3-oxazol-2-amine) and 4-methylaminorex (4-methyl-5-phenyl-4,5-dihydro-1,3-oxazol-2-amine) are psychostimulants that have long been listed in Schedules IV and I of the UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971. However, a range of psychoactive analogues exist that are not interna...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Maier J,Mayer FP,Brandt SD,Sitte HH

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:As the major psychoactive agent in opium and direct precursor for heroin, morphine is a historically critical molecule in chemical neuroscience. A structurally complex phenanthrene alkaloid produced by Papaver somniferum, morphine has fascinated chemists seeking to disentangle pharmacologically beneficial analgesic ef...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Devereaux AL,Mercer SL,Cunningham CW

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Opium is the latex from the opium poppy Papaver somniferum L., which humankind has utilized since ancient Mesopotamia all the way to modern times. Opium used to be surrounded in divine mystery or magic-like abilities and was given to cure a wide variety of diseases until its analgesic, antitussive, and antidiarrheal p...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Presley CC,Lindsley CW

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-cell mass spectrometry has become an established technique to study specific molecular properties such as the neuropeptide complement of identified neurons. Here, we describe a strategy to characterize, by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, neurochemical composition of neurons that were identified by their electrophy...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Neupert S,Fusca D,Kloppenburg P,Predel R

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:When individual neurons in a circuit contain multiple neuropeptides, these peptides can target different sets of follower neurons. This endows the circuit with a certain degree of flexibility. Here we identified a novel family of peptides, the Aplysia SPTR-Gene Family-Derived peptides (apSPTR-GF-DPs). We demonstrated ...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Zhang G,Yuan WD,Vilim FS,Romanova EV,Yu K,Yin SY,Le ZW,Xue YY,Chen TT,Chen GK,Chen SA,Cropper EC,Sweedler JV,Weiss KR,Jing J

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1) and lipid membranes might be directly involved in the toxicity and intercellular propagation of aggregated SOD1 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but the chemical details of lipid-SOD1 interactions and their effects on SOD1 aggregation remain unclear. This paper...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Rasouli S,Abdolvahabi A,Croom CM,Plewman DL,Shi Y,Shaw BF

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligomers of amyloid-β (AβO) are deemed key in synaptotoxicity and amyloid seeding of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of AβO and inadequate markers for AβO subtypes have stymied effective AβO identification and therapeutic targeting in vivo. We identified an AβO-subclass epitope...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Silverman JM,Gibbs E,Peng X,Martens KM,Balducci C,Wang J,Yousefi M,Cowan CM,Lamour G,Louadi S,Ban Y,Robert J,Stukas S,Forloni G,Hsiung GR,Plotkin SS,Wellington CL,Cashman NR

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Baicalein, a flavonoid derived from the roots of Scutellariae baicalensis Georgi, has shown health benefits for an array of human diseases including dementia. The senescence-accelerated mouse prone 8 (SAMP8) strain is extensively used as a senile dementia model. To further investigate the effects of baicalein in SAMP8...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Gao L,Li J,Zhou Y,Huang X,Qin X,Du G

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the drug-repositioning and redeveloping strategy, first-generation dual-target inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) have been recently reported as a potentially novel therapeutic method for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and the lead compound 2 has proven...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Ni W,Wang H,Li X,Zheng X,Wang M,Zhang J,Gong Q,Ling D,Mao F,Zhang H,Li J

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Several chemotherapeutic agents used for cancer treatment induce dose-limiting peripheral neuropathy that compromises patients' quality of life and limits cancer treatment. Recently, mitochondrial dysfunction has been shown to be involved in the mechanism of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. SS-20 is a mitoc...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Toyama S,Shimoyama N,Szeto HH,Schiller PW,Shimoyama M

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta (Aβ) aggregation is the key trait responsible for the pathological devastation caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD). Among the various pathways of multifaceted toxicity exhibited by Aβ aggregates in neuronal cells, generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by Aβ-CuII complex and mitochondrial damage are p...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Rajasekhar K,Mehta K,Govindaraju T

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that mainly affects the elderly. Soluble β-amyloid oligomer, which can induce neurotoxicity, is generally regarded as the main neurotoxin in Alzheimer's disease. Here we report that eckmaxol, a phlorotannin extracted from the brown alga Ecklonia maxima, c...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Wang J,Zheng J,Huang C,Zhao J,Lin J,Zhou X,Naman CB,Wang N,Gerwick WH,Wang Q,Yan X,Cui W,He S

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid formation and neuroinflammation are major features of Alzheimer's disease pathology. Proinflammatory mediator S100A9 was shown to act as a link between the amyloid and neuroinflammatory cascades in Alzheimer's disease, leading together with Aβ to plaque formation, neuronal loss and memory impairment. In order ...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Iashchishyn IA,Gruden MA,Moskalenko RA,Davydova TV,Wang C,Sewell RDE,Morozova-Roche LA

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Many physiological pathways are involved in appetite, food intake, and the maintenance of energy homeostasis. In particular, neuropeptides within the central nervous system have been demonstrated to be critical signaling molecules for modulating appetite. Both anorexigenic (appetite-decreasing) and orexigenic (appetit...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Ericson MD,Haskell-Luevano C

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Early diagnosis in Alzheimer's disease (AD), prior to the appearance of marked clinical symptoms, is critical to prevent irreversible neuronal damage and neural malfunction that lead to dementia and death. Therefore, there is an urgent need to generate new contrast agents which reveal by a noninvasive method the prese...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Fernández T,Martínez-Serrano A,Cussó L,Desco M,Ramos-Gómez M

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyramidal cells and astrocytes have differential susceptibility to oxygen-glucose deprivation and reperfusion (OGD-RP). It is known that excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) in mitochondria initiates cell death, while glutathione (GSH) is one of the major defenses against ROS. Although it is known that astrocytes c...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Yin B,Barrionuevo G,Weber SG

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) is multifactorial event. Combination therapies might be more effective in controlling the disease. Thus, the studies reported were designed to test the hypothesis that gastrodin (GAS)-induced de novo synthesis of nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) and isorhynchophyll...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Li Q,Niu C,Zhang X,Dong M

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Humanin (HN), a 24-amino acid bioactive peptide, has been shown to increase cell survival of neurons after exposure to Aβ and NMDA-induced toxicity and thus could be beneficial in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The neuroprotection by HN is reported to be primarily through its agonist binding properties to ...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Alam MP,Bilousova T,Spilman P,Vadivel K,Bai D,Elias CJ,Evseenko D,John V

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:No selective drugs exist, and we have been designing, synthesizing, and evaluating multitarget-directed ligands since the beginning of modern medicinal chemistry, without knowing it, most possibly. The challenge to discover the efficient Multi-Target Small Molecules (MTSMs) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) therapy implies...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Oset-Gasque MJ,Marco-Contelles J

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are ionotropic glutamate receptors that mediate excitatory synaptic transmission and have been implicated in numerous neurological disorders. NMDARs typically comprise two GluN1 and two GluN2 subunits. The four GluN2 subtypes (GluN2A-GluN2D) have distinct functional properties a...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Swanger SA,Vance KM,Acker TM,Zimmerman SS,DiRaddo JO,Myers SJ,Bundgaard C,Mosley CA,Summer SL,Menaldino DS,Jensen HS,Liotta DC,Traynelis SF

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We review here recent discoveries in the exciting new field of neuromicrobiology. This field encompasses the interactions between the microbiome and the central nervous system. The microbiome has a tremendous impact on human health. In particular, the gut microbiota may play a key role in many essential processes in h...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： de la Fuente-Nunez C,Meneguetti BT,Franco OL,Lu TK

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma (GBM) is characterized by a poor response to conventional chemotherapeutic agents, attributed to the insurgence of drug resistance mechanisms and to the presence of a subpopulation of glioma stem cells (GSCs). GBM cells and GSCs present, among others, an overexpression of antiapoptotic proteins and an inh...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Daniele S,Pietrobono D,Costa B,Giustiniano M,La Pietra V,Giacomelli C,La Regina G,Silvestri R,Taliani S,Trincavelli ML,Da Settimo F,Novellino E,Martini C,Marinelli L

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycans are intimately involved in several facets of neuronal development and neuropathology. However, the metabolic labeling of surface glycans in primary neurons is a difficult task because of the neurotoxicity of unnatural monosaccharides that are used as a metabolic precursor, hindering the progress of metabolic e...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Choi JY,Park M,Cho H,Kim MH,Kang K,Choi IS

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-eating amoebae (Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris, and Naegleria fowleri) can cause opportunistic infections involving the central nervous system. It is troubling that the mortality rate is more than 90% despite advances in antimicrobial chemotherapy over the last few decades. Here, we describe urgent k...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Khan NA,Anwar A,Siddiqui R

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal-ion misregulation and oxidative stress continue to be components of the continually evolving hypothesis describing the molecular origins of Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, these features are viable targets for synthetic chemists to explore through hybridizations of metal-binding ligands and antioxidant units. To...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Gonzalez P,Pota K,Turan LS,da Costa VCP,Akkaraju G,Green KN

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The lower efficacy of opioids in neuropathic pain may be due to the increased activity of pronociceptive systems such as substance P. We present evidence to support this hypothesis in this work from the spinal cord in a neuropathic pain model in mice. Biochemical analysis confirmed the elevated mRNA and protein level ...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Starnowska J,Costante R,Guillemyn K,Popiolek-Barczyk K,Chung NN,Lemieux C,Keresztes A,Van Duppen J,Mollica A,Streicher J,Vanden Broeck J,Schiller PW,Tourwé D,Mika J,Ballet S,Przewlocka B

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, with a 10% genetic linkage, of which 20% of these cases may be attributed to mutations in superoxide dismutase (SOD1). Specific mutations in SOD1 have been associated with disease duration, which can be highly variable ranging from a life...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Abu-Hamad S,Kahn J,Leyton-Jaimes MF,Rosenblatt J,Israelson A

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau aggregation in neuronal cells has recently received significant attention as a robust predictor of the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) because of its proven correlation with the degree of cognitive impairment in AD patients. Accordingly, noninvasive imaging of tau aggregates has been highlighted as a promi...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Park KS,Kim MK,Seo Y,Ha T,Yoo K,Hyeon SJ,Hwang YJ,Lee J,Ryu H,Choo H,Chong Y

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The abnormal aggregation of α-synuclein (α-Syn) is closely associated with Parkinson's disease. Different post-translational modifications of α-Syn have been identified and contribute distinctly in α-Syn aggregation and cytotoxicity. Recently, α-Syn was reported to be N-terminally acetylated in cells, yet the function...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Bu B,Tong X,Li D,Hu Y,He W,Zhao C,Hu R,Li X,Shao Y,Liu C,Zhao Q,Ji B,Diao J

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Several antidepressants increase adult hippocampal neurogenesis (ahNG) in rodents, primates, and, potentially, humans. This effect may at least partially account for their therapeutic activity. The availability of antidepressants whose mechanism of action involves different neurotransmitter receptors represents an opp...

journal_title：ACS chemical neuroscience

authors： Bortolotto V,Mancini F,Mangano G,Salem R,Xia E,Del Grosso E,Bianchi M,Canonico PL,Polenzani L,Grilli M

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00