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5-HIAA and HVA in the Coma Cerebri, Hydrocephalus and Tumor Cerebri
The concentration of metabolites of neurohormones in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is an index of turnover of substances in brain. 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) – serotonine metabolite and homovanillic acid ...
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Brain catalase in the streptozotocin-rat model of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease treated with the iron chelator–monoamine oxidase inhibitor, M30
Low intracerebroventricular (icv) doses of streptozotocin (STZ) produce regionally specific brain neurochemical changes in rats that are similar to those found in the brain of patients with sporadic Alzheimer’...
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Antioxidant capacity in rat brain after ICV treatment with streptozotocin and alloxan — a preliminary study
Intracerebroventricular (icv) administration of betacytotoxic drug streptozotocin (STZ) produces long-term and progressive cognitive deficits in rats, as well as deficits in cerebral glucose and energy metabol...
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The effects of exogenous melatonin on the morphology of thyrocytes in pinealectomized and irradiated rats
We investigated the effects of exogenous melatonin on the thyrocytes morphology in gamma-irradiated rats under condition where the pineal gland, as a main physiological source of endogenous melatonin, was remo...
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Antioxidant capacity of the neurohormone melatonin
The aim of this study was to elucidate the antioxidant behaviour of melatonin (M) and determine its activity–structure relationship. M or 5-metoxy-N acetyltriptamine is a neurohormone secreted by the pineal gl...
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Serum antioxidant capacity in neurological, psychiatric, renal diseases and cardiomyopathy
The role of free radicals (FR) in the pathogenesis and in the progression of many diseases has been often discussed, but not widely investigated. However, the total antioxidant capacity in the serum seems to ...
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Antioxidant and pro-oxidant capacity of catecholamines and related compounds. Effects of hydrogen peroxide on glutathione and sphingomyelinase activity in pheochromocytoma PC12 cells: potential relevance to age-related diseases
The antioxidant and pro-oxidant capacity of catecholamines (CA) and related compounds were analyzed using the oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) assay. In the assay 2,2′-azobis (2-amidino-propane) dihy...
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Depression in Parkinson's disease: biogenic amines in CSF of “de novo” patients
Introduction. Etiology of depression in Parkinsons disease (PD) is associated with serotonergic dysfunction. Previous studies, supporting this hypothesis, were performed on patients treated with antiparkinsonian...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adrenerg-cholinerge Gleichgewichtshypothese der Depression: der α2-adrenerge Agonist Clonidine antagonisiert nicht das Physostigmin-Syndrom
In Ubereinstimmung mit der adrenerg-cholinergen Gleichgewichtshypothese affektiver Psychosen [13] reagierten affektiv Kranke überempfindlich gegen hirngängige Cholinomimetika wie Physostigmin (PHY) auf Ebene v...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Verteilung von Kainatrezeptoren im menschlichen Gehirn
Glutamat ist eine Aminosäure, die im Gehirn von Säugern weitverbreitet ist und den wichtigsten exzitatorischen Neurotransmitter darstellt [3, 4, 5]. Diese exzitatorische Aminosäure wird vor allem von kortikale...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Biochemische Hypothesen psychogeriatrischer Erkrankungen
Die Anzahl alter Menschen an der Gesamtbevölkerung hat in den entwickelten Industrienationen in diesem Jahrhundert stark zugenommen und wird noch weiter steigen. Daher besteht ein großes Forschungsinteresse an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Butyryl-Cholinesterase, biogene Amine und akustisch evozierte P300 nach cholinerger Modulation bei Probanden
Die Abhängigkeit kognitiver Funktionen von der Aktivität des zentralen cholinergen Neurotransmittersystems ist seit langem bekannt (Drachman 1977). Bei gesunden Probanden führt die Hemmung der cholinergen Neur...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Das psychotrope Wirkprofil neuentwickelter substituierter Benzamide
Substituierte Benzamide werden bislang aufgrund ihres speziellen pharmakologischen Wirkprofils als eigenständige Gruppe psychotroper Substanzen angesehen: Pharma-kologisch-neurobiochemisch bewirken sie eine se...
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Biogenic amines and metabolites in spinal cord of patients with Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
In four human controls, four cases of Parkinson's disease and three cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis analysis of dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin and the metabolites 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid, hom...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Brofaromine (CGP 11 305 A): estimation of plasma concentrations by a biologic technique as compared to liquid chromatography
In an open clinical trial 13 depressives significantly improved under the reversible and selective type-A monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor brofaromine. The inhibitory potency of deproteinated plasma on a crud...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Clinical, biochemical and psychometric findings with the new MAO-A-inhibitors moclobemide and brofaromine in patients with major depressive disorder
N = 53 inpatients with major depressive disorder have been treated with the reversible, selective MAO-A-inhibitors moclobemide (double-blind versus maprotiline) and brofaromine (open study), respectively. Clin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reflection of changes in membrane constituents in various regions of Alzheimer brains to differential scanning thermograms
To test whether changes in basic biochemical membrane constituents were reflected in membrane fluidity measurements, protein, total lipids, triglycerides, lecithine, cholesterol and alkaline phosphatase were d...
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Senile dementia of Alzheimer’s type and Parkinson’s disease: neurochemical overlaps and specific differences
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by a clear rank order with respect to neuropathological findings. Both substantia nigra (SN) and locus coeruleus (LC) are severely damaged, whilst nucleus raphe dorsal...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Urinary dopamine sulfate: regulations and significance in neurological disorders
Dopamine-3-O-sulfate (DA-3-O-S) and dopamine-4-O-sulfate (DA-4-O-S) are important end products of L-dopa metabolism. Therefore they may give indications of disturbances in the peripheral metabolism of catechol...
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Plasma moclobemide and metabolites: lack of correlation with clinical response and biogenic amines
The concentration of the reversible monoamine oxidase type-A (MAO-A) inhibitor moclobemide (Ro 11-1163) was determined by high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) in the plasma of 16 depressives treated with...