The irreversible loss of the dopamine-mediated control of striatal function is considered the functional substrate of the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. This pathological event causes a complex rearrangement of neuronal activity which involves specific dopamine-regulated cellular functions and, secondarily, several other cellular properties and transmitter systems. In the present study, we applied recently developed cDNA microarray technology to investigate the genetic correlates of the alterations produced by 6-hydroxydopamine-induced dopamine denervation in the nucleus striatum. We found that chronic dopamine denervation caused the modulation of 50 different genes involved in several cellular functions. In particular, products of the genes modulated by this experimental manipulation are involved both in the intracellular transduction of dopamine signal and in the regulation of glutamate transmission in striatal neurons, providing some information on the possible neuronal events which lead to the reorganization of glutamate transmission in the striatum of parkinsonian rats.
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Cell Rep
January 2025
Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa 34988, Israel. Electronic address:
The elimination of superfluous neurons via apoptosis and subsequent glial phagocytosis is crucial for the development of the central nervous system (CNS). In Drosophila, two glial phagocytic receptors, six-microns-under (SIMU) and Draper, mediate the phagocytosis of apoptotic neurons during embryogenesis. However, in simu;draper double-mutant embryos, some apoptotic neurons are still engulfed by the glia, suggesting the involvement of additional receptors.
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Department of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, West Yanta Road 277, Xi'an, 710061, China.
Background: We aim to comprehensively analyze and validate the prognostic efficacy of tetraspanin 4 (TSPAN4) and several other migrasome-related markers in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
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Arch Microbiol
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Department of Botany, CMS College Kottayam, Kottayam, Kerala, 686001, India.
Among all photosynthetic life forms, cyanobacteria exclusively possess a water-soluble, light-sensitive carotenoprotein complex known as orange carotenoid proteins (OCPs), crucial for their photoprotective mechanisms. These protein complexes exhibit both structural and functional modularity, with distinct C-terminal (CTD) and N-terminal domains (NTD) serving as light-responsive sensor and effector regions, respectively. The majority of cyanobacterial genomes contain genes for OCP homologs and related proteins, highlighting their essential role in survival of the organism over time.
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Dept. of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur 1706, Bangladesh.
Rice salt tolerance is highly anticipated to meet global demand in response to decreasing farmland and soil salinization. Therefore, dissecting the genetic loci controlling salt tolerance in rice for improving productivity is of utmost importance. Here, we evaluated six salt-tolerance-related traits of a biparental mapping population comprising 280 F2 rice individuals (Oryza sativa L.
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Division of Spine, Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji University, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200065, China.
Background: Ferroptosis and immune responses are critical pathological events in spinal cord injury (SCI), whereas relative molecular and cellular mechanisms remain unclear.
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