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Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol
January 2025
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, India.
Neuropathic pain, a challenging condition often associated with diabetes, trauma, or chemotherapy, impairs patients' quality of life. Current treatments often provide inconsistent relief and notable adverse effects, highlighting the urgent need for safer and more effective alternatives. This review investigates marine-derived bioactive compounds as potential novel therapies for neuropathic pain management.
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January 2025
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
Background: 6-Nitrodopamine (6-ND) released from rat vas deferens acts an endogenous modulator of vas deferens contractility.
Objectives: To investigate whether rat isolated seminal vesicles (RISV) releases 6-ND, the mechanisms involved in the release, and the modulatory role of 6-ND on tissue contractility.
Methods: Rat seminal vesicles were removed and placed in Krebs-Henseleit's solution at 37°C for 30 min, and an aliquot was used to analyze the concentrations of 6-ND, dopamine, noradrenaline, and adrenaline by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).
Biomedicines
November 2024
Centro Universitario de Los Lagos, Universidad de Guadalajara, Lagos de Moreno 47460, Jalisco, Mexico.
Pharmacotherapy for depression includes drugs such as monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), noradrenaline (NA) and serotonin (5-HT) reuptake inhibitors (NaSSAs), and atypical antidepressants; these drugs exert differentially beneficial effects on symptoms of depression after acute and chronic treatment in animal models. Said effects are established through neuroplastic mechanisms involving changes in neurogenesis and synaptogenesis as result of the activation of intracellular signaling pathways associated with neurochemical and behavioral changes. Antidepressants increase the synaptic availability of monoamines (monoaminergic hypothesis) such as 5-HT, NA, and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) by inhibiting their reuptake or degradation and activating intracellular signaling pathways such as the responsive element binding protein (cAMP-CREB) cascade, which regulates the expression of genes related to neuroplasticity and neurogenesis, such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), in various brain structures implicated in depression.
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December 2024
Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
β-adrenergic receptors (β-ARs) play a critical role in modulating learning, memory, emotionality, and long-term synaptic plasticity. Recent studies indicate that β-ARs are necessary for long-term potentiation (LTP) induction in the ventral hippocampus under moderate synaptic activation conditions that do not typically induce LTP. To explore potential dorsoventral differences in β-AR-mediated effects, we applied the β-AR agonist isoproterenol (10 μM, 30 min) to dorsal and ventral hippocampal slices, recording field excitatory postsynaptic potentials (fEPSPs) and population spikes (PSs) from the CA1 region.
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