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    Publication Date: 1999-01-05
    Description: Programmed cell death (apoptosis) occurs during normal development of the central nervous system. However, the mechanisms that determine which neurons will succumb to apoptosis are poorly understood. Blockade of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptors for only a few hours during late fetal or early neonatal life triggered widespread apoptotic neurodegeneration in the developing rat brain, suggesting that the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate, acting at NMDA receptors, controls neuronal survival. These findings may have relevance to human neurodevelopmental disorders involving prenatal (drug-abusing mothers) or postnatal (pediatric anesthesia) exposure to drugs that block NMDA receptors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ikonomidou, C -- Bosch, F -- Miksa, M -- Bittigau, P -- Vockler, J -- Dikranian, K -- Tenkova, T I -- Stefovska, V -- Turski, L -- Olney, J W -- AG 11355/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- DA 05072/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- MH 38894/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jan 1;283(5398):70-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pediatric Neurology, Charite-Virchow Clinics, Humboldt University, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany. hrissanthi.ikonomidou@charite.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9872743" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Apoptosis ; Brain/*cytology/drug effects/embryology/growth & development ; Calcium Channel Blockers/pharmacology ; Dizocilpine Maleate/pharmacology ; Dopamine Antagonists/pharmacology ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/pharmacology ; Fetus ; Haloperidol/pharmacology ; Immunohistochemistry ; In Situ Nick-End Labeling ; Microscopy, Electron ; Muscarinic Antagonists/pharmacology ; *Nerve Degeneration ; Neurons/*cytology/drug effects/metabolism ; Quinoxalines/pharmacology ; Rats ; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Scopolamine Hydrobromide/pharmacology
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Lamellar whorls ; Arcuate nucleus ; Hypothalamus ; Estradiol benzoate ; Cyproterone acetate
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (AH) of male rats which had been treated either with estradiol benzoate (E2B) or cyproterone acetate (CPA) was examined ultrastructurally for the presence of whorls of endoplasmic reticulum. The incidence of whorl containing neurons (WCN) was 2–4 times higher in the AH of animals treated for 2–3 weeks with E2B or for 2 weeks with CPA than in the AH of oil treated controls. CPA is a powerful anti-androgen while E2B acts both peripherally and centrally to limit testosterone production. These findings, together with previous evidence that whorls proliferate in AH of male rats deprived of androgen by morphine treatment or castration, suggest that steroid feedback (androgen alone or both androgen and estrogen) plays an important role in AH whorl proliferation. The possibility that WCN may be LH-RH containing neurons is suggested by the close correspondence between the number and location of WCN within AH as determined in this study and the distribution of LH-RH containing cells reported by others.
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Arcuate nucleus ; LH-RH ; Testosterone ; Morphine ; Lamellar whorls
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary A comprehensive ultrastructural examination of one cross-sectional level (middle 1/3) of the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (AH) of male rats several weeks after castration or after two weeks of morphine treatment confirmed a marked increase in lamellar whorls of endoplasmic reticulum in AH neurons in each group. A comparable incidence of AH whorls was not detected in rats treated with lactose, those treated for only 1–3 days with morphine, or in those given testosterone plus morphine for 2 weeks. It is postulated that the testosterone deficiency following either castration or chronic morphine treatment stimulated the observed increase in AH whorls. A close correspondence was noted between the distribution within the AH of neurons containing whorls and those reported by others to contain luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LH-RH). The possibility that whorls may be a marker for hypothalamic neurons which play a role in the LH-RH regulatory system warrants further consideration.
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