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Aspartame exposure and in vitro hippocampal slice excitability and plasticity.

Aspartame (APM) is a low-calorie sweetener recently approved and released for widespread use in the United States. However, concerns still exist that APM consumption may be responsible for adverse neurological and psychological effects in some…

Tags: 1988, Animals, Aspartame/*toxicity, Dipeptides/*toxicity, Electric Stimulation, Electrophysiology, Female, Fountain S B, Fundamental and applied toxicology : official journal of the Society of Toxicology, Hennes S K, Hippocampus/*drug effects/physiopathology, Neuronal Plasticity/*drug effects, Neurons/drug effects, Rats, Teyler T J, Time Factors

Assessment of alkoxylphenacyl-based polycarbonates as a potential platform for controlled delivery of a model anti-glaucoma drug.

Treatment strategies for glaucoma will benefit from injectable and/or implantable delivery systems that can achieve sustained delivery of neuroprotective agents (to the posterior segment) and/or intraocular pressure lowering drugs (to the anterior…

Attenuation of drinking sweetened water following calcium channel blockade.

Recent reports cite results that both cocaine-induced conditioned place preference and activity stimulation are attenuated by pretreatment with the calcium channel blocker isradipine (ISR) in rats. By blocking voltage-dependent

Attenuation of postexertional hypotension by cardiac afferent blockade.

Naloxone eliminates postexertional hypotension (PEH) in human and animal models. The effect of naloxone on sympathetic activity during hemorrhage and generation of arterial baroreflex function curves can be stimulated by blockade of cardiac afferent…

Tags: *Heart Arrest, *Physical Exertion, 1993, Afferent Pathways/physiology, Animals, Blood Pressure/drug effects, Collins H L, DiCarlo S E, Efferent Pathways/physiology, Heart Rate/drug effects, Hypotension/*physiopathology, Inbred SHR, Induced, Pressoreceptors/drug effects, Procainamide/pharmacology, Rats, Reference Values, The American journal of physiology

Baclofen-induced disinhibition in area CA1 of rat hippocampus is resistant to extracellular Ba2+.

The mechanism of disinhibition produced by (+/-)-baclofen was studied using intracellular recording in area CA1 of rat hippocampal slices. Baclofen reversibly depressed monosynaptic IPSPs evoked by direct activation of interneurons in the presence of…

Tags: 1991, 2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate/pharmacology, Animals, Baclofen/antagonists & inhibitors/*pharmacology, Barium/*pharmacology, Brain research, Drug Resistance/physiology, Evoked Potentials/drug effects, GABA-A/*drug effects, Harrison N L, Hippocampus/*drug effects, In Vitro Techniques, Interneurons/drug effects, Lambert N A, Neural Inhibition/drug effects, Quinoxalines/pharmacology, Rats, Receptors, Teyler T J

Basic transcription element binding protein (BTEB) transactivates the cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase gene (CYP7A).

Cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step in the conversion of cholesterol to bile acids in the liver. Previously, we have identified two bile acid response elements located in nt -74 to -54 (BARE-I) and -148 to -118…

Bcl-2 positively regulates Sox9-dependent chondrocyte gene expression by suppressing the MEK-ERK1/2 signaling pathway.

Bcl-2 is an anti-apoptotic protein that has recently been shown to regulate other cellular functions. We previously reported that Bcl-2 regulates chondrocyte matrix gene expression, independent of its anti-apoptotic function. Here, we further…

Tags: *Gene Expression Regulation, 2005, Adenoviridae/genetics, Animals, Apoptosis, beta-Galactosidase/metabolism, Blotting, Butadienes/pharmacology, Caspase Inhibitors, Cell Differentiation, Cell Line, Chondrocytes/*metabolism, Collagen Type II/metabolism, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Down-Regulation, Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology, Fibroblasts/metabolism, Fluorescence, Genetic, High Mobility Group Proteins/*metabolism, Horton Walter E Jr, Lac Operon, Luciferases/metabolism, MAP Kinase Kinase Kinases/*metabolism, McBurney Denise, Messenger/metabolism, Microscopy, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1/*metabolism, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3/*metabolism, NEOMED College of Medicine, NF-kappa B/metabolism, Nitriles/pharmacology, Phenotype, Phosphorylation, Promoter Regions, Protein Kinase C-alpha, Protein Kinase C/antagonists & inhibitors, Proteoglycans/metabolism, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2/*metabolism, Rats, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, RNA, Signal Transduction, Small Interfering/metabolism, SOX9 Transcription Factor, Sprague-Dawley, The Journal of biological chemistry, Time Factors, Transcription, Transcription Factors/*metabolism, Transfection, Western, Yagi Rieko

BCNU-induced gR2 defect mediates S-glutathionylation of Complex I and respiratory uncoupling in myocardium.

A deficiency of mitochondrial glutathione reductase (or GR2) is capable of adversely affecting the reduction of GSSG and increasing mitochondrial oxidative stress. BCNU [1,3-bis (2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea] is an anticancer agent and known…

Tags: 2014, Alkylating/*adverse effects/pharmacology, Animals, Antineoplastic Agents, Biochemical pharmacology, Cardiotoxins/adverse effects/pharmacology, Carmustine/*adverse effects/pharmacology, Cattle, Cell Line, Chen Chwen-Lih, Chen Yeong-Renn, Complex I, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Electron Transport Complex I/chemistry/*metabolism, Fatty Acids, Glutathione reductase, Glutathione Reductase/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism, Glutathione/*metabolism, Guarini Giacinta, Heart Ventricles/drug effects/metabolism/physiopathology, Heart/*drug effects/metabolism, Ion Channels/metabolism, Kang Patrick T, Left/*chemically induced/metabolism/physiopathology, Male, Mice, Mitochondria, Mitochondrial Proteins/metabolism, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nonesterified/metabolism, Oxidative Stress, Oxidative Stress/drug effects, Post-Translational/drug effects, Protein Processing, Rats, Ren Pei, S-Glutathionylation, Sprague-Dawley, Superoxide Dismutase/genetics/metabolism, Systolic dysfunction, Transgenic, Uncoupling Protein 3, Ventricular Dysfunction

Behavioral effects of N-ethyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDE; "EVE").

Eight male rats were trained to discriminate 2.0 mg/kg

Tags: 1987, 3, 4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, 4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine/analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Amphetamines/*pharmacology, Animals, Boja J W, Discrimination (Psychology), Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Inbred Strains, Legislation, Male, N-Methyl-3, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Time Factors, United States

Beta-adrenoceptor stimulation of alveolar fluid clearance is increased in rats with heart failure.

The alveolar epithelium plays a critical role in resolving pulmonary edema. We thus hypothesized that its function might be upregulated in rats with heart failure, a condition that severely challenges the lung's ability to maintain fluid balance.…

Beyond thermoregulation: metabolic function of cetacean blubber in migrating bowhead and beluga whales.

The processes of lipid deposition and utilization, via the gene leptin (Lep), are poorly understood in taxa with varying degrees of adipose storage. This study examines how these systems may have adapted in marine aquatic environments inhabited by…

Bile acid signaling in lipid metabolism: metabolomic and lipidomic analysis of lipid and bile acid markers linked to anti-obesity and anti-diabetes in mice.

Bile acid synthesis is the major pathway for catabolism of cholesterol. Cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase (CYP7A1) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the bile acid biosynthetic pathway in the liver and plays an important role in regulating lipid, glucose…

Tags: 2015, Animals, Bile acid metabolism, Bile Acids and Salts/genetics/*metabolism, Biochimica et biophysica acta, Cheng Jie, Chiang John Y L, Cholesterol 7-alpha-Hydroxylase/genetics/metabolism, CYP7A1, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Diabetes Mellitus/genetics/*metabolism, Diet, farnesoid X receptor (FXR), Female, Ferrell Jessica M, Glucose/genetics/metabolism, Gonzalez Frank J, High-Fat/methods, Homeostasis, Inbred C57BL, Insulin Resistance, Intestinal Mucosa/metabolism, Jiang Changtao, Krausz Kristopher W, Li Tiangang, Lipid Metabolism/*physiology, lipidomics, Liver/metabolism, Male, Metabolome/*genetics, Metabolomics/methods, Mice, NEOMED College of Medicine, Obesity/genetics/*metabolism, Qi Yunpeng, Rats, Signal Transduction, tauro-beta-muricholic acid, Taurocholic Acid/analogs & derivatives/genetics/metabolism, Transgenic

Binding of sequence-specific proteins to the 3'-untranslated region of vasoactive intestinal peptide mRNA.

Multimeric AUUUA elements in an AU-rich 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR) have been shown to confer message instability to numerous ephemeral transcripts through the formation of RNA-protein complexes. We show here that the 3'-UTR of VIP mRNA, which…

Biocompatibility and in vivo tolerability of a new class of photoresponsive alkoxylphenacyl-based polycarbonates.

Potential toxicities of chromophoric or polymeric units of most photoresponsive delivery systems have impacted clinical relevance. Herein, we evaluated the biocompatibility and tolerability of alkoxylphenacyl-based polycarbonates (APPs) as a new…

Biocompatibility, efficacy and biodistribution of Gelucire-stabilized nanoparticles engineered for docetaxel delivery.

Docetaxel is a potent anticancer agent that will benefit greatly from alternative delivery systems that can overcome several reported adverse effects due to the drug itself and/or the solvent system in the current clinical formulation. In this…

Tags: *Biocompatible Materials, *Nanoparticles, 2012, Animals, Antineoplastic Agents/*administration & dosage/pharmacokinetics/pharmacology, Bi Lipeng, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Docetaxel, Geldenhuys Werner J, Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology, Macrophage Activation/drug effects, NEOMED College of Pharmacy, Oyewumi Moses O, Platelet Aggregation/drug effects, Rats, Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism, Taxoids/*administration & dosage/pharmacokinetics/pharmacology, Tissue Distribution, Wehrung Daniel

Biphasic effects of ethanol tested with drug discrimination in HAD and LAD rats.

Seventh-generation selectively bred high-alcohol-drinking (HAD) and low-alcohol-drinking (LAD) rats were trained to make differential responses for ethanol (0.75 g/kg, IP) and saline vehicle, following postadministration intervals (PI) of 2 min…

Tags: 1992, Alcohol Drinking/genetics/*psychology, Animals, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Discrimination Learning/drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Krimmer E C, Male, Pentobarbital/pharmacology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Serotonin Antagonists/pharmacology, Sleep/drug effects, Time Factors, Tropanes/pharmacology

Black currant anthocyanins abrogate oxidative stress through Nrf2- mediated antioxidant mechanisms in a rat model of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), considered to be one of the most lethal cancers with almost \textgreater 1 million deaths reported annually worldwide, remains a devastating disease with no known effective cure. Hence, chemopreventive strategies come…

Tags: *Phytotherapy, 2012, Alkylating Agents/toxicity, Animals, Anthocyanins/*therapeutic use, Antioxidants/therapeutic use, Barnes Kendra F, Bhatia Deepak, Bishayee Anupam, Blotting, Carcinoma, Current cancer drug targets, Darvesh Altaf S, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Diet, Diethylnitrosamine/toxicity, Experimental/chemically induced/metabolism/*prevention & control, Glutathione Transferase, Haznagy-Radnai Erzsebet, Hepatocellular/chemically induced/metabolism/*prevention & control, Hohmann Judit, Immunoenzyme Techniques, Lipid Peroxidation/drug effects, Liver Neoplasms, Male, Messenger/genetics, NEOMED College of Pharmacy, NF-E2-Related Factor 2/genetics/*metabolism, Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II/genetics/metabolism, Oxidative Stress/*drug effects, Rats, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Ribes/*chemistry, RNA, Signal Transduction, Sprague-Dawley, Thoppil Roslin J, Tyrosine/analogs & derivatives/metabolism, Western

Blockade of the late IPSP in rat CA1 hippocampal neurons by 2-hydroxy-saclofen.

The effects of the GABAB receptor antagonist 2-hydroxy-saclofen were studied using intracellular recording of synaptic potential from CA1 hippocampal neurons.

Tags: 1989, Action Potentials/drug effects, Animals, Baclofen/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacology, GABA-A Receptor Antagonists, GABA-A/*physiology, Harrison N L, Hippocampus/drug effects/*physiology, In Vitro Techniques, Kerr D I, Lambert N A, Neural Inhibition/*drug effects, Neuroscience letters, Ong J, Prager R H, Rats, Receptors, Teyler T J

Brain reactive antibodies and the blood-brain barrier: observations in aging rodents and the effects of peripheral kainic acid.

This study was initiated to confirm the existence of brain-reactive autoantibodies and to determine if such antibodies have higher affinity for brain regions especially affected in Alzheimer's disease. Serum collected from 90, 300, and 600 day old…

Tags: 1987, Aging/*immunology/physiology, Albrecht J W, Animals, Autoantibodies/blood/*physiology, Blood-Brain Barrier/*drug effects, Boja J W, Brain/*immunology/physiology, Experimental aging research, Hippocampus/immunology/physiology, Hutton J T, Inbred C57BL, Inbred Strains, Kainic Acid/*pharmacology, Kulmala H K, Male, Mice, Rats

Brain-targeted delivery of doxorubicin using glutathione-coated nanoparticles for brain cancers.

OBJECTIVES: To prepare and characterize in vitro a novel brain-targeted delivery of doxorubicin using glutathione-coated nanoparticles (NPs) for the treatment of brain cancer. METHODS: Doxorubicin-loaded NPs were prepared by the nanoprecipitation…

Brain-targeted delivery of paclitaxel using glutathione-coated nanoparticles for brain cancers.

Paclitaxel is not effective for treatment of brain cancers because it cannot cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) due to efflux by P-glycoprotein (P-gp). In this work, glutathione-coated poly-(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) nanoparticles (NPs) of…

Tags: *Drug Delivery Systems, 2011, Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism, Animals, Antineoplastic Agents, ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Blood-Brain Barrier/metabolism, Brain Neoplasms/drug therapy, Bui Thong, Cell Death/drug effects, Cell Line, Coumarins/administration & dosage/pharmacokinetics, Delayed-Action Preparations, Geldenhuys Werner, Glioma/drug therapy/pathology, Glutathione/*chemistry, Harrison Kimberly, Humans, Inbred C57BL, Journal of drug targeting, Male, Mbimba Thomas, Member 1/metabolism, Mice, Microtubules/metabolism, Nanoparticles, Paclitaxel/administration & dosage/*pharmacokinetics/pharmacology, Particle Size, Permeability, Phytogenic/administration & dosage/*pharmacokinetics/pharmacology, Rats, Subfamily B, Sutariya Vijaykumar, Thiazoles/administration & dosage/pharmacokinetics, Tubulin/metabolism, Tumor

Brain-targeted delivery of Tempol-loaded nanoparticles for neurological disorders.

Brain-targeted Tempol-loaded poly-(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) nanoparticles (NPs) conjugated with a transferrin antibody (OX 26) were developed using the nanoprecipitation method. These NPs may have utility in treating neurodegenerative diseases…

Calcitonin gene-related peptide-receptor component protein expression in the uterine cervix, lumbosacral spinal cord, and dorsal root ganglia.

The neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) may play a role in neurogenic inflammation, tissue remodeling of the uterine cervix, promoting vasodilation, parturition, and processing of sensory information in the spinal cord.…

Tags: 2002, Animals, Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide/*biosynthesis/immunology/metabolism, Cervix Uteri/*metabolism, Dickerson I M, Female, Ganglia, Lumbosacral Region, Papka R E, Peptides, Pokabla M J, Rats, Receptors, Spinal Cord/*metabolism, Spinal/*metabolism, Sprague-Dawley, Uterus/metabolism

Calcium channel blockade attenuates angiotensin II-induced drinking in rats.

Lateral ventricular administration of angiotensin II (ANG II) produces potent dipsogenic effects in water-sated rats. ANG II seems to require functional voltage-gated calcium channels on neurons throughout circumventricular brain sites to exert its…

Tags: 1993, Amino Acid Sequence, Angiotensin II/*antagonists & inhibitors/pharmacology, Animals, Brain research bulletin, Calcagnetti D J, Calcium Channel Blockers/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Dimethyl Sulfoxide/pharmacology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drinking Behavior/*drug effects, Drug, Injections, Intraventricular, Isradipine/pharmacology, Male, Molecular Sequence Data, Rats, Schechter M D, Sprague-Dawley

Calretinin-immunoreactive nerves in the uterus, pelvic autonomic ganglia, lumbosacral dorsal root ganglia and lumbosacral spinal cord.

Nerves containing the calcium-binding protein calretinin have been reported in several organs but not in female reproductive organs and associated ganglia. This study was undertaken to determine if nerves associated with the uterus contain calretinin…

Candyflipping': synergistic discriminative effect of LSD and MDMA.

The co-administration of D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD; 'Acid') and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA; 'Ecstasy'; 'XTC'), has reached a prevalence that has allowed for the street terminology 'candyflipping' to describe the combination.…

Tags: 1998, 4-methylenedioxyamphetamine/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Animal/*drug effects, Animals, Behavior, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Drug Synergism, European journal of pharmacology, Hallucinogens/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Male, N-Methyl-3, Rats, Schechter M D, Serotonin Agents/administration & dosage/*pharmacology

Cardiac afferents attenuate the muscle metaboreflex in the rat.

The influence of cardiac afferents on the muscle metaboreflex was examined in 16 rats instrumented with a Silastic-tipped catheter in the pericardial space and right atrium, Doppler ultrasonic flow probe and a pneumatic vascular occluder around the…

Cardiac myofibroblast differentiation is attenuated by alpha(3) integrin blockade: potential role in post-MI remodeling.

Cardiac fibroblasts and myofibroblasts are responsible for post-MI remodeling which occurs via regulation of extracellular matrix (ECM). Accelerated post-MI remodeling leads to excessive ECM deposition and fibrosis, contributing to impaired…

Castration differentially alters [3H]nisoxetine binding to norepinephrine uptake sites in olfactory bulb and frontal cortex of male rats.

In the present study, [3H]nisoxetine binding to norepinephrine (NE) uptake sites and [3H]norepinephrine uptake were investigated within olfactory bulb (OB) and frontal cortex homogenates from intact and castrated male rats. Statistically significant…

Tags: *Orchiectomy, 1999, Adrenergic/drug effects/*metabolism, Animals, Boja J W, Dluzen D E, Fluoxetine/*analogs & derivatives/metabolism, Frontal Lobe/drug effects/*metabolism, Kinetics, Male, Norepinephrine/metabolism, Olfactory Bulb/drug effects/*metabolism, Rats, Receptors, Shang Y, Sprague-Dawley, Synapse (New York, N.Y.), Synaptosomes/drug effects/metabolism, Testosterone/pharmacology

Castration increases nisoxetine-evoked norepinephrine levels in vivo within the olfactory bulb of male rats.

In the present experiment we compared differences in extracellular norepinephrine levels in vivo within the olfactory bulb of intact and castrated male rats following infusion of the norepinephrine transport inhibitors, nisoxetine and tomoxetine.…

Castration reduces olfactory bulb norepinephrine transporter function as indicated by responses to noradrenergic uptake blockers.

It has been demonstrated that castration alters the functioning of the olfactory bulb (OB)-norepinephrine (NE) system. In the present experiment, we examined one of the mechanisms by which castration modulates the OB-NE system by comparing NE uptake…

Castration reduces potassium-stimulated norepinephrine release from superfused olfactory bulbs of male rats.

In order to investigate the possible relationship among the olfactory bulb (OB), norepinephrine (NE) and gonadal steroids, we measured NE release from superfused anterior and posterior OB in intact and castrated male rats (Expt. I) as well as in…

Tags: *Orchiectomy, 1991, Animals, Brain research, Dluzen D, Guan X B, Inbred Strains, Kinetics, Male, Norepinephrine/*metabolism, Olfactory Bulb/drug effects/*physiology, Potassium/*pharmacology, Rats, Reference Values, Testosterone/*pharmacology

CGS 10746B is able to attenuate the effects of amphetamine: further evidence for dopaminergic mediation.

Previous results indicate that agents which either decreases synthesis or block postsynaptic dopamine receptors will attenuate the discriminative stimulus produced by d-amphetamine. CGS 10746B has been reported to decrease dopamine release without…

Tags: 1988, Alkaloids/pharmacology, Animals, Antipsychotic Agents/*pharmacology, Apomorphine/pharmacology, Boja J W, Cocaine/pharmacology, Conditioning, Dextroamphetamine/antagonists & inhibitors/*pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Dopamine/*physiology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Male, Operant/drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Thiazepines/*pharmacology

Characterization of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the uterine cervix over pregnancy: effects of denervation and implications for cervical ripening.

Bilateral neurectomy of the pelvic nerve (BLPN) that carries uterine cervix-related sensory nerves induces dystocia, and administration of its vasoactive neuropeptides induces changes in the cervical microvasculature, resembling those that occur in…

Tags: 2004, Animal/*metabolism, Animals, Cervical Ripening/*metabolism, Cervix Uteri/blood supply/innervation/*metabolism, Denervation, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Down-Regulation, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Female, Hattori Y, Immunohistochemistry, Jesmin S, Microcirculation, Mowa C N, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III, Nitric Oxide Synthase/biosynthesis, Papka R, Phosphorylation, Pregnancy, Protein Isoforms/biosynthesis/metabolism, Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/biosynthesis, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt, Proto-Oncogene Proteins/biosynthesis, Rats, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sakuma I, The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society, Togashi H, Usip S, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/biosynthesis/*metabolism, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2/biosynthesis, Wistar, Yoshioka M

Chemopreventive doses of resveratrol do not produce cardiotoxicity in a rodent model of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), one of the most lethal cancers, results in more than one million fatalities worldwide every year. In view of the limited therapeutic alternatives and poor prognosis of liver cancer, preventive control approaches,…

Tags: *Chemoprevention, 2011, Analysis of Variance, Animal, Animal Studies, Animal/drug effects, Animals, Antioxidants, Behavior, Bishayee Anupam, Blotting, Booth Tristan D, Carcinoma, Cardiotoxicity, Cardiotoxins/*toxicity, Chemoprevention, Data Analysis Software, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Descriptive Statistics, Disease Models, Doppler, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Echocardiography, Feeding Behavior/drug effects, Female, Fisher's Exact Test, Funding Source, Heart – Drug Effects, Heart/drug effects/physiopathology, Hepatocellular – Prevention and Control, Hepatocellular/*drug therapy/pathology/physiopathology, Hepatocytes/drug effects/pathology, Hodnichak Cheryl M, Humans, Investigational new drugs, Liver Neoplasms/*drug therapy/pathology/physiopathology, Liver/drug effects/pathology/physiopathology, Luther Daniel J, Meszaros J Gary, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ohanyan Vahagn, Polyphenols – Therapeutic Use, Rats, Resveratrol, Shamhart Patricia E, Sisakian Hamayak, Sprague-Dawley, Stilbenes/*therapeutic use, Systole/drug effects, Western

Cholinergic cells of the pontomesencephalic tegmentum: connections with auditory structures from cochlear nucleus to cortex.

Acetylcholine (ACh) is a neuromodulator that is likely to play a role in plasticity as well as other phenomena at many sites in the auditory system. The auditory cortex receives cholinergic innervation from the basal forebrain, whereas the cochlea…

Cholinergic disinhibition in area CA1 of the rat hippocampus is not mediated by receptors located on inhibitory neurons.

We studied the effects of carbamylcholine (carbachol; CCh) on monosynaptic inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) evoked in the presence of the excitatory amino acid receptor antagonists 6,7-dinitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (DNQX) and…

Cholinergic neurons of the pelvic autonomic ganglia and uterus of the female rat: distribution of axons and presence of muscarinic receptors.

Acetylcholine (ACh) stimulates contraction of the uterus and dilates the uterine arterial supply. Uterine cholinergic nerves arise from the paracervical ganglia and were, in the past, characterized based on acetylcholinesterase (AChE) histochemistry.…

Cloning and 5'-flanking sequence of a rat cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase gene.

A cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase gene containing 8 kb of the 5'-flanking region and 5 kb of the transcription region which covers exons 1 to 5 was isolated from a rat genomic library. The 2015 bp nucleotide sequence 5'-upstream from the start codon…

Tags: *Promoter Regions, 1992, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Base Sequence, Biochimica et biophysica acta, Chiang J Y, Cholesterol 7-alpha-Hydroxylase/*genetics, Cloning, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, DNA, Genetic, Molecular, Molecular Sequence Data, NEOMED College of Medicine, Rats, Restriction Mapping, Wang D P, Yang T P

Cloning and characterization of two major 3-methylcholanthrene inducible hamster liver cytochrome P450s.

We have studied the immunochemical properties of two major 3-methylcholanthrene inducible hamster liver cytochrome P450 isozymes, P450 MC1 and P450 MC4. Immunoblots using specific antibodies against P450 MC1 and P450 MC4 demonstrated that these two…

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