EXSPub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1007/3-7643-7417-9_12
Satya P Kalra, Pushpa S Kalra
{"title":"Subjugation of hypothalamic NPY and cohorts with central leptin gene therapy alleviates dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and obesity for life-time.","authors":"Satya P Kalra, Pushpa S Kalra","doi":"10.1007/3-7643-7417-9_12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7417-9_12","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An interactive network comprised of neuropeptide Y (NPY) and cohorts is obligatory in the hypothalamic integration of appetite and energy expenditure on a minute-to-minute basis. High or low abundance of NPY and cognate receptors dysregulates the homeostatic milieu engendering hyperphagia, decreased energy expenditure, obesity and attendant metabolic syndrome cluster of dyslipidemia, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia, risk factors for type II diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Increasing the supply of the endogenous repressor hormone leptin locally in the hypothalamus with the aid of leptin gene therapy, blocked age-related and dietary obesities, and the sequential development of dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, and insulin resistance. Thus, sustained repression of NPY signaling with increased leptin selectively in the hypothalamus can avert environmental obesity and the risks of metabolic diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":77125,"journal":{"name":"EXS","volume":" 95","pages":"157-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/3-7643-7417-9_12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25775181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXSPub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_11
Robert D Oades
{"title":"Function and dysfunction of monoamine interactions in children and adolescents with AD/HD.","authors":"Robert D Oades","doi":"10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77125,"journal":{"name":"EXS","volume":"98 ","pages":"207-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_11","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26291404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXSPub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_12
José Larrauri, Nestor Schmajuk
{"title":"Prepulse inhibition mechanisms and cognitive processes: a review and model.","authors":"José Larrauri, Nestor Schmajuk","doi":"10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77125,"journal":{"name":"EXS","volume":"98 ","pages":"245-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26291405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXSPub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1007/3-7643-7378-4_12
Marianne Sowa, Benjamin J Arthurs, Brian J Estes, William F Morgan
{"title":"Effects of ionizing radiation on cellular structures, induced instability and carcinogenesis.","authors":"Marianne Sowa, Benjamin J Arthurs, Brian J Estes, William F Morgan","doi":"10.1007/3-7643-7378-4_12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7378-4_12","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ionizing radiation is perhaps the most extensively studied human carcinogen. There have been a number of epidemiological studies on human populations exposed to radiation for medical or occupational reasons, as a result of protracted environmental exposures due to radiation accidents, or after atomic bombings. As a result of these studies exposure to ionizing radiation has been unambiguously linked to cancer causation. While cancer induction is the primary concern and the most important somatic effect of exposure to ionizing radiation, potential health risks do not only involve neoplastic diseases but also somatic mutations that might contribute to birth defects and ocular maladies, and heritable mutations that might impact on disease risks in future generations. Consequantly it is important we understand the long-term health risks associated with exposure to ionizing radiation.</p>","PeriodicalId":77125,"journal":{"name":"EXS","volume":" 96","pages":"293-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/3-7643-7378-4_12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25775068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXSPub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_9
Hans C Dringenberg, Min-Ching Kuo
{"title":"Cholinergic, histaminergic, and noradrenergic regulation of LTP stability and induction threshold: cognitive implications.","authors":"Hans C Dringenberg, Min-Ching Kuo","doi":"10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77125,"journal":{"name":"EXS","volume":"98 ","pages":"165-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26291402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXSPub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_7
Adi Guterman, Gal Richter-Levin
{"title":"Neuromodulators of LTP and NCAMs in the amygdala and hippocampus in response to stress.","authors":"Adi Guterman, Gal Richter-Levin","doi":"10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Possibly, at the onset of an emotional event the stress hormones permissively mediate plasticity. Specifically, CORT and NE stress hormones participate in modulation of memory consolidation processes in both the amygdala and the hippocampus. In addition, glucocorticoids and norepinephrin bound to adrenoceptors are also involved in modulating the regulation of NCAM polysialylation both in the amygdala and in the hippocampus. PSA-related synaptic remodeling is mobilized for memory formation in particularly challenging circumstances.</p>","PeriodicalId":77125,"journal":{"name":"EXS","volume":"98 ","pages":"137-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-3-7643-7772-4_7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26291400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EXSPub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1007/3-7643-7311-3_1
Holger Gerhardt, Christer Betsholtz
{"title":"How do endothelial cells orientate?","authors":"Holger Gerhardt, Christer Betsholtz","doi":"10.1007/3-7643-7311-3_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7311-3_1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In sprouting angiogenesis, endothelial cells must orientate in the tissue environment in order to effectively invade tissues and form vascular patterns according to the local needs. Here, we review recent data indicating that sprouting angiogenesis is a guided process resembling axonal guidance and insect trachea formation. Angiogenesis requires functional specialization of endothelial cells within the sprout. Cells situated at the tip of the sprouts sense and navigate the environment using long filopodia, whereas cells in the sprout stalks proliferate and form a vascular lumen. Migration of the tip cells depends on a graded distribution of VEGF-A and activation of VEGFR2 located on the tip-cell filopodia. Proliferation in the stalk is concomitantly regulated by the local VEGF-A levels. Thus, the shape of the VEGF-A gradient controls the balance between tip cell migration and stalk cell proliferation, which in turn determines the initial vascular pattern. An imbalance between the two processes may explain why abnormal vascular patterns develop in pathological angiogenesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":77125,"journal":{"name":"EXS","volume":" 94","pages":"3-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/3-7643-7311-3_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24876628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}