Neuregulin-1 is widely investigated due to its hypothesised association with schizophrenia. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms rs764059, rs2954041 and rs3924999 were investigated (417 patients with schizophrenia and 429 controls). We failed to demonstrate a significant association between rs2954041 and rs3924999 with schizophrenia in the three ethnic groups studied (Malay, Chinese, and Indian), wh...

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schizophrenia (scz) is a complex disorder with no clarified etiology or biological diagnosis.  symptoms of schizophrenia including positive, negative and cognitive deficits.the neurodegenrative and neurodevelopmental hypothesis are main views  about the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. neuregulin 1 is one of four proteins in the neuregulin family that act on the egfr family of receptors. nrg1 ...

At the neuromuscular synapse, innervation induces endplate-specific expression of adult-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by selective expression of their subunit-encoding genes (a2b«d) in endplate-associated myonuclei. These genes are specifically regulated by protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTPase) activity. In addition, neureguliny acetylcholine-receptor-inducing activity, a nerve-derived...

BACKGROUND Neuregulins are a family of peptide growth factors that promote cell growth and viability. The potential role of neuregulin-erbB signaling in hypertrophic growth and later failure in the adult heart in vivo is not known. METHODS AND RESULTS We used ribonuclease protection assays to quantify mRNA levels of neuregulin, erbB2, and erbB4 in left ventricular (LV) tissue and myocytes of ...

OBJECTIVE Neuregulin-1 (NRG1) has been put forward as a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia. We investigated the association between Neuregulin-1 and the P300 wave, a schizophrenia endophenotype. METHODS Participants were 64 patients with DSM-IV schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, 97 of their non psychotic relatives and 35 unrelated controls. The P300 wave was extracted from the elec...

Motor neurons are thought to critically regulate the survival of a subset of developing muscle fibers. In muscles that develop in the absence of innervation, primary muscle fibers appear to form in normal numbers, but their long-term survival is thought to require innervation-induced suprathreshold activity. Here I examine interactions between motor neurons and muscle fibers in newborn rats. I ...

BACKGROUND Myelin is critical for efficient axonal conduction in the vertebrate nervous system. Neuregulin (Nrg) ligands and their ErbB receptors are required for the development of Schwann cells, the glial cells that form myelin in the peripheral nervous system. Previous studies have not determined whether Nrg-ErbB signaling is essential in vivo for Schwann cell fate specification, proliferati...