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Neuroprotective effects of estrogen upon the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system.

In this mini-review are first presented data which highlight the capacity and characteristics for estrogen to act as a neuroprotectant of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system. Estrogen administration significantly attenuates the degree of striatal…

Tags: 2000, Animals, Corpus Striatum/metabolism, Dluzen D E, Dopamine/*physiology, Estrogens/*metabolism, Humans, Journal of neurocytology, Neurons/*metabolism, Neuroprotective Agents/*metabolism, Substantia Nigra/*metabolism

Development of GPCR modulation of GABAergic transmission in chicken nucleus laminaris neurons.

Neurons in the nucleus laminaris (NL) of birds act as coincidence detectors and encode interaural time difference to localize the sound source in the azimuth plane. GABAergic transmission in a number of CNS nuclei including the NL is subject to a…

Tags: *Synaptic Transmission, 2012, Animals, Brain/*cytology, Chickens/*metabolism, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, G-Protein-Coupled/*metabolism, GABA-A/metabolism, GABA-B/metabolism, gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/*metabolism, Lu Yong, Metabotropic Glutamate/metabolism, NEOMED College of Medicine, Neurons/*metabolism, Patch-Clamp Techniques, PloS one, Receptors, Synapses/metabolism, Tang Zheng-Quan

Surface clustering of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 induced by long Homer proteins.

BACKGROUND: Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) regulate neuronal excitability and synaptic strength. The group I mGluRs, mGluR1 and 5, are widespread in the brain and localize to post-synaptic sites. The Homer protein family regulates group I…

Two GABAA responses with distinct kinetics in a sound localization circuit.

The temporal characteristics and functional diversity of GABAergic inhibition are determined by the spatiotemporal neurotransmitter profile, intrinsic properties of GABAA receptors, and other factors. Here, we report two distinct GABAA responses and…

Tags: *Sound, 2012, Animals, Chick Embryo, Chickens, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Female, GABA-A/*physiology, gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/metabolism, Lu Yong, Male, NEOMED College of Medicine, Neurons/*metabolism, Pitch Discrimination, Receptors, Sound Localization/*physiology, Synapses/physiology, Tang Zheng-Quan, The Journal of physiology

Distribution of cholinergic cells in guinea pig brainstem.

We used an antibody to choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) to label cholinergic cells in guinea pig brainstem. ChAT-immunoreactive (IR) cells comprise several prominent groups, including the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus, laterodorsal tegmental…

Tags: 2008, Animals, Brain Mapping, Brain Stem/anatomy & histology/*cytology, Choline O-Acetyltransferase/*metabolism, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Guinea Pigs, Motts S D, NEOMED College of Medicine, Neurons/*metabolism, Neuroscience, Schofield B R, Slusarczyk A S, Sowick C S

Synaptic activity-induced Ca(2+) signaling in avian cochlear nucleus magnocellularis neurons.

Neurons of the avian cochlear nucleus magnocellularis (NM) receive glutamatergic inputs from the spiral ganglion cells via the auditory nerve and feedback GABAergic inputs primarily from the superior olivary nucleus. We investigated regulation of…

APeg3, a novel paternally expressed gene 3 antisense RNA transcript specifically expressed in vasopressinergic magnocellular neurons in the rat supraoptic nucleus.

Vasopressin (VP) and oxytocin (OT) play critical roles in the regulation of salt and water balance, lactation, and various behaviors and are expressed at very high levels in specific magnocellular neurons (MCNs) in the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial…

Tags: 2005, 3' Untranslated Regions/genetics, Amino Acid, Animals, Antisense/*genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism, Brain research. Molecular brain research, Conserved Sequence/genetics, DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/*metabolism, Gainer Harold, Gene Expression Regulation/*genetics, Genetic/genetics, Genomic Imprinting/genetics, Glasgow Eric, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System/cytology/metabolism, Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors, Male, Messenger/genetics/metabolism, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutsuga Noriko, Neurons/*metabolism, Nucleic Acid, Protein Kinases/genetics/*metabolism, Rats, RNA, Ryu Seung-Lim, Sequence Homology, Sprague-Dawley, Supraoptic Nucleus/cytology/*metabolism, Transcription, Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism, Vasopressins/*metabolism, Water-Electrolyte Balance/genetics, Yamashita Mitsuo, Zhang Bing-Jun

Projections from auditory cortex to cholinergic cells in the midbrain tegmentum of guinea pigs.

Anterograde and retrograde tracing techniques were used to characterize projections from the auditory cortex to the pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei (PPT and LDT, respectively) in the midbrain tegmentum in guinea pigs. For…

3-D-QSAR and docking studies on the neuronal choline transporter.

The high affinity neuronal choline transporter (CHT1) is responsible for the uptake of choline into the pre-synaptic terminal of cholinergic neurons. Considering our past experience with modeling the blood-brain barrier choline transporter (BBBCHT)…

Tags: 2010, Allen David D, Binding Sites, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, Blood-Brain Barrier/metabolism, Computer Simulation, Geldenhuys Werner J, Lockman Paul R, Membrane Transport Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism, Models, Molecular, Neurons/*metabolism, Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship, Quaternary Ammonium Compounds/chemistry

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