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Chronic restraint stress induces an isoform-specific regulation on the neural cell adhesion molecule in the hippocampus
Existing evidence indicates that 21-days exposure of rats to restraint stress induces dendritic atrophy in pyramidal cells of the hippocampus. This phenomenon has been related to altered performance in hippocampal-dependent learning tasks. Prior studies ha ...
2002Opposite effects on NCAM expression in the rat frontal cortex induced by acute vs. chronic corticosterone treatments
The temporal pattern of exposure to glucocorticoids has been reported to be a critical factor in determining the outcome of glucocorticoid actions at the brain. In this work, the effects of different regimes of subcutaneous corticosterone administration (a ...
1999Photodetection of early human bladder cancer based on the fluorescence of 5-aminolaevulinic acid hexylester-induced protoporphyrin IX: a pilot study
Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Pavel Kucera
Exogenous administration of 5-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA) is becoming widely used to enhance the endogenous synthesis of protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) in photodynamic therapy (PDT) and fluorescence photodetection (PD). Recently, results have shown that the chemi ...
1999Comparative characterization of a wild type and transmembrane domain-deleted fatty acid amide hydrolase: identification of the transmembrane domain as a site for oligomerization
Fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) is an integral membrane protein responsible for the hydrolysis of a number of primary and secondary fatty acid amides, including the neuromodulatory compounds anandamide and oleamide. Analysis of FAAH's primary sequence re ...
American Chemical Society1998All-or-none potentiation at CA3-CA1 synapses
The molecular mechanisms underlying long-term potentiation in the hippocampus have received much attention because of the likely functional importance of synaptic plasticity for information storage and the development of neuronal connectivity. Surprisingly ...
1998Effects of NMDA and AMPA receptor antagonists on corticosterone facilitation of long-term memory in the chick
Long-term memory formation for a weak passive avoidance task in day-old chicks is facilitated by corticosterone administration. Since (i) glutamatergic systems, through different receptor types, play a key role in learning and memory processes, and (ii) gl ...
1997Training-dependent biphasic effects of corticosterone in memory formation for a passive avoidance task in chicks
This study investigates the functional role of corticosterone in memory formation for a passive avoidance task in the day-old chick. Whereas training chicks with a strong aversant results in an enduring memory, memory for a weak aversant which is only reta ...
1997The corticosteroid synthesis inhibitors metyrapone and aminoglutethimide impair long-term memory for a passive avoidance task in day-old chicks
Long-term memory for a passive avoidance task in day-old chicks has proved to depend upon an action of the adrenal steroid corticosterone through specific receptors in a brain region, the intermediate medial hyperstriatum ventrale (IMHV), involved in learn ...
1997Regional and temporal modulation of brain glycoprotein synthesis by corticosterone
Corticosterone has a biphasic effect on memory formation, short-term effects being facilitating and long-term effects resulting in cognitive impairments. The effects of different patterns of temporal exposure to corticosterone-previously shown to biphasica ...
1996Capacitative calcium entry is colocalised with calcium release in Xenopus oocytes: evidence against a highly diffusible calcium influx factor
Depletion of intracellular calcium stores activates the plasma membrane capacitative calcium entry pathway in many cell types. The nature of the signal that couples the depletion of the intracellular calcium stores to the activation of the plasma membrane ...
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