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The neuropsychological effect of hyperammonemia is variable. This study tests the hypothesis that the effect of ammonia on the neuropsychological function in patients with cirrhosis is determined by the ability of the brain to buffer ammonia-induced increase in glutamine within the astrocyte by
The absence of the inositol trisphosphate receptor is associated with a gradual retinal degeneration in Drosophila melanogaster. To characterize the time-course profile of this process, mosaic flies expressing a null allele of the itp gene in the eye were studied by electroretinograms and electronic
We have investigated inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) metabolism in cerebellar membranes of normal humans and patients with dominant ataxia ('C' kindred), and also in cerebellar microsomes of Lurcher mutant mouse (a suggested model for cerebellar ataxia). Various [3H]InsP3 metabolites formed
We examined protein kinase C (PKC) activity and inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) binding in frontal cortex (FC) and cerebellar cortex (CC) of normal humans, patients with dominant ataxia ("C" kindred) and in Lurcher mutant mouse brain (LMB), a suggested animal model for olivopontocerebellar
We examined the behaviour of [3H]inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) binding in autopsied cerebellar and cerebral cortex of 10 neurologically normal controls and 8 patients with end-stage olivopontocerebellar atrophy (OPCA), a cerebellar ataxia disorder characterized histologically by severe
Biochemical abnormalities in the retinal pigment epithelium of experimentally diabetic animals include increased sorbitol and decreased myo-inositol. Diabetes also causes a progressive reduction in the amplitude of the c-wave of the electroretinogram of the pigmented rat. The c-wave is generated by
We measured the alcohol sugars in sural nerves from 11 controls, 21 conventionally treated patients with diabetes and neuropathy, and 4 diabetics without neuropathy. The results were related to metabolic control and to clinical, neuropathological, and morphometric abnormalities in the nerves. The
OBJECTIVE
To determine the effectiveness of the polyanionic, metal binding agent D-myo-inositol-1,2,6-triphosphate (alpha trinositol, AT), and its hexanoyl ester (HAT), in tissue wasting in cancer cachexia.
METHODS
The anti-cachexic effect was evaluated in the MAC16 tumour model.
RESULTS
Both AT and
We have studied the influence of class I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) on excitotoxic neuronal degeneration in cultured murine cortical neurons grown on a monolayer of astrocytes. These cultures expressed high levels of mGluR5 mRNA, which were comparable to those found in RNA extracts
Human prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders with a genetic, sporadic or infectiously acquired aetiology. Neuropathologically, human prion diseases are characterized by deposition of misfolded prion protein and neuronal loss. In post-mortem brain tissue from patients with other
This paper is addressed to investigate whether proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) may provide the means to investigate changes associated to alterations of neural activity and sensory experience in the blind. We examined the relationships between different brain metabolite levels in
BACKGROUND
Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) is characterized by hippocampal atrophy, decreased N-acetyl-aspartate, and a low N-acetyl-aspartate/total creatine ratio, often attributed to neuron loss and gliosis. Qualitative studies reported that N-acetyl-aspartate content was significantly lower
The enzyme inositol oxygenase (myo-inositol : oxygen oxidoreductase; E.C. 1.13.99.1) is a monooxygenase that converts inositol into glucuronic acid in the presence of molecular oxygen. This enzyme is integrated into a pathway leading to either degradation and energy production or the biosynthesis of