in this study, the influence of dopamine receptor agonists and antagonists on antinociception induced by bac10fen has been examined in the formalin test. the gaba-b agonist bac10fen induced antinociception in both phases of the formalin test in mice. the dopamine receptor agonists skf 38393 and quinpirole also induced antinociception in both phases of the test. skf 38393 but not quinpirole pote...

Chromogranin A is the quantitatively major soluble protein in catecholamine storage vesicles of the adrenal medulla and sympathetic nerve, and has been a useful index of exocytosis during sympathoadrenal neurosecretion. To probe human catecholamine storage and release, we isolated chromogranin A from chromaffin tissue in human pheochromocytoma, and compared it to chromogranin A isolated from ch...

OBJECTIVE To determine electroencephalographic signs of dopamine deficiency syndrome during the recovery after severe brain injury (SBI). MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied 35 patients with SBI (23 men and 12 women, mean age 29 ± 13 years). RESULTS AND CONCLUSION We identified a set of neurological symptoms (increased muscular tone of extrapyramidal type, rest tremor, autonomic disorders, whic...

Human serum dopamine-beta-hydroxylase [3,4-dihydroxyphenylethylamine, ascorbate: oxygen oxidoreducatse (beta-hydroxylating), EC 1.14.17.1] levels have been determined in 52 samples with a newly devised radioimmunoassay that utilizes purified human enzyme and its specific antiserum. The values obtained were in excellent agreement (correlation coefficient r equals 0.98) with those obtained by mea...

1. Activity of peripheral and central catecholaminergic neurons was studied in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and deoxycorticosterone (DOCA)-salt hypertensive rats. 2. In young SHR (4 weeks) the plasma values of bpth noradrenaline and dopamine-beta-hydroxylase activity were increased compared with those of normotensive rats of the Wistar/Kyoto strain. Total catecholamines (mostly adrenal...

An identical cytochrome b561 was found to be an integral component of both chromaffin vesicles from adrenal medulla and neurosecretory vesicles from posterior pituitary by spectrophotometric and immunological techniques. The neurosecretory vesicles had 6.8 micrograms of cytochrome/mg of membrane protein versus 69 micrograms/mg in chromaffin vesicles. This cytochrome was also immunologically det...

Abstract In Alzheimer's disease (AD), neuroinflammation is detrimental in causing neurodegeneration. the central nervous system, inhibitor of nuclear factor kappa B kinase subunit beta (IKK2/IKKβ/IKKB/IKBKB) signaling linked to neuroinflammation-mediated learning and memory deficits through canonical pathway, while dopamine agonists have been known reverse such effects. Our silico analysis pred...

INTRODUCTION Clearance of alveolar oedema depends on active transport of sodium across the alveolar-epithelial barrier. beta-Adrenergic agonists increase clearance of pulmonary oedema, but it has not been established whether beta-agonist stimulation achieves sufficient oedema clearance to improve survival in animals. The objective of this study was to determine whether the increased pulmonary o...