Stirpe F (2004) Featured Article: The discovery of saporin. Targeting Trends 5(3) Related Products: Saporin (Cat. #PR-01) Read the featured article in Targeting Trends.
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Chronic pain conditions are often caused by ongoing disease states or tissue damage that create sensitization of both the primary afferents (nerves that convey impulses from the outer part of the body) and spinal cord neurons. This sensitization results in a persistent increased sensitivity to both noxious (hyperalgesia) and non-noxious (allodynia) stimuli. Many persistent pain
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Contributed by Dr. Fiorenzo Stirpe, Dipartimento di Patologia sperimentale, Università di Bologna, I-40125 Bologna, Italy Saporin from Saponaria officinalis (soapwort plant of the Caryophyllaceae family) was discovered as part of research on plant toxins we undertook around 1970, when we became interested in the study of the mechanism of action of ricin. Ricin, from Ricinus
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Nishiguchi J, Sasaki K, Seki S, Chancellor MB, Erickson KA, de Groat WC, Kumon H, Yoshimura N (2004) Effects of isolectin B4-conjugated saporin, a targeting cytotoxin, on bladder overactivity induced by bladder irritation. Eur J Neurosci 20(2):474-482. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03508.x Summary: It has been demonstrated that IB4-binding non-peptidergic C-fiber neuronal populations are present in afferent pathways
Hunter CL, Quintero EM, Gilstrap L, Bhat NR, Granholm AC (2004) Minocycline protects basal forebrain cholinergic neurons from mu p75-saporin immunotoxic lesioning. Eur J Neurosci 19(12):3305-3316. doi: 10.1111/j.0953-816X.2004.03439.x Summary: In Alzheimer’s disease basal cholinergic degeneration is accompanied by glial activation and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines. To investigate whether neural events other than degeneration can
Wang G, Anrather J, Huang J, Speth RC, Pickel VM, Iadecola C (2004) NADPH oxidase contributes to angiotensin II signaling in the nucleus tractus solitarius. J Neurosci 24(24):5516-5524. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1176-04.2004 PMID: 15201324 Objective: To investigated whether NADPH oxidase is involved in angiotensin II signaling in central autonomic neurons. Summary: Angiotensin II (AngII), acting through angiotensin
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Fargo KN, Sengelaub DR (2004) Exogenous testosterone prevents motoneuron atrophy induced by contralateral motoneuron depletion. J Neurobiol 60(3):348-359. doi: 10.1002/neu.20027 Summary: Gonadal steroids have been shown to supply a variety of neuroprotective and neurotherapeutic effects. Using 1-µl injections of 0.1% CTB-SAP (Cat. #IT-14) into the ipsalateral bulbocavernosus and the levator ani of rats, the authors
Cooper-Kuhn CM, Winkler J, Kuhn HG (2004) Decreased neurogenesis after cholinergic forebrain lesion in the adult rat. J Neurosci Res 77(2):155-165. doi: 10.1002/jnr.20116 Summary: Adult mammalian brains can produce new neurons, mainly in two areas: the interconnected system of the lateral ventricle and the olfactory bulb, and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. The authors
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Lappi DA, Wiley RG (2004) Immunotoxins and neuropeptide-toxin conjugates experimental applications. Mini Rev Med Chem 4(5):585-595. doi: 10.2174/1389557043403882 Summary: The use of targeted toxins in research is rich and varied; here the authors describe some of the exciting results that researchers have made in the neurosciences.
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Winters BD, Dunnett SB (2004) Selective lesioning of the cholinergic septo-hippocampal pathway does not disrupt spatial short-term memory: a comparison with the effects of fimbria-fornix lesions. Behav Neurosci 118(3):546-562. doi: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.3.546 Summary: The authors wished to investigate the role of the cholinergic system of the basal forebrain in delayed matching (DMTP)- and nonmatching (DNMTP)-to-position tasks