Synaptophysin is a M, 38,000 integral membrane glycoprotein ex pressed by a variety of normal and neoplastic neuroendocrine cells. \Ve studied Synaptophysin as an immunocytochemical marker for neuroen docrine differentiation in lung cancer and compared it to the immunocy tochemical expression of chromogranin A, a marker for dense core (endocrine) granules, and the biochemical activity of i.-dop...

The N-glycosylated integral membrane protein synaptophysin is one of the major polypeptide components of small presynaptic transmitter-containing vesicles in neurons and of similar vesicles in neuroendocrine cells of mammals. Functional properties, including a possible participation in channel formation, have been investigated by integration of purified synaptophysin into planar lipid bilayers....

Axon outgrowth requires plasma membrane expansion, which results from post-Golgi vesicular transport and fusion. However, the molecular mechanisms regulating post-Golgi vesicular trafficking for membrane expansion and axon outgrowth remain unclear. Here, we show that Rab33a expression became upregulated during axon outgrowth of cultured rat hippocampal neurons. Rab33a was preferentially localiz...

We have reported previously that the synaptic vesicle (SV) protein synaptophysin, when expressed in fibroblastic CHO cells, accumulates in a population of recycling microvesicles. Based on preliminary immunofluorescence observations, we had suggested that synaptophysin is targeted to the preexisting population of microvesicles that recycle transferrin (Johnston, P. A., P. L. Cameron, H. Stukenb...

Collision tumors are that have at least two types of in the same anatomical site with no area mixing within transition zone. In 2010 WHO classification neuroendocrine consists an adenocarcinoma component and a carcinoma which each components accounts for 30% tumor. Such defined as mixed adenoneuroendocrine carcinomas. Occurrence exocrine endocrine pancreas is extremely rare. The aim our study w...

Although synaptophysin is one of the most abundant integral proteins of synaptic vesicle membranes, its contribution to neurotransmitter release remains unclear. One possibility is that through its association with dynamin it controls the fine tuning of transmitter release. To test this hypothesis, we took advantage of amperometric measurements of quantal catecholamine release from chromaffin c...

Although behavioral lateralization is known to correlate with certain aspects of brain asymmetry in primates, there are limited data concerning hemispheric biases in the microstructure of the neocortex. In the present study, we investigated whether there is asymmetry in synaptophysin-immunoreactive puncta density and protein expression levels in the region of hand representation of the primary ...

BACKGROUND The present study explored the effects of propofol on hippocampal autophagy and synaptophysin in depression-model rats undergoing electroconvulsive shock (ECS). MATERIAL AND METHODS The rat depression model was established by exposing Sprague-Dawley rats to stress for 28 consecutive days. Forty rats were assigned randomly into the depression group (group D; no treatment), the ECS gro...

b-Amyloid peptide accumulation, tau hyperphosphorylation, and synapse loss are characteristic neuropathological symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Tau hyperphosphorylation is suggested to inhibit the association of tau with microtubules, making microtubules unstable and causing neurodegeneration. The mechanism of tau phosphorylation in AD brain, therefore, is of considerable significance. Al...

Synaptophysin is a synaptic vesicle glycoprotein involved in the regulation process for neurotransmitter release, which is distributed throughout neuroendocrine cells and all neurons in the brain and spinal cord. In an effort to determine whether amyloid β (Aβ)-42 peptides could influence the quantity and biochemical properties of synaptophysin, alterations in the levels of the synaptophysin pr...