Objective(s) Psychotropic medications produce their effects, in part, through increasing neurotrophin levels in the brain. Since studies concerning nerve growth factor (NGF) analysis have been limited in scope, in the current experiments we investigated the effects of diverse psychotropic agents on NGF protein levels in various brain regions of rat. Materials and Methods Male Wistar rats rec...

PURPOSE Nerve growth factor (NGF) has been shown to inhibit retinal ganglion cell (RGC) degeneration when injected intraocularly in animal models of ocular hypertension, optic nerve transaction, and ischemia. The present study sought to establish the bioavailability of topical NGF to the retina and optic nerve in rats. METHODS Autoradiography was performed to evaluate whether exogenous (125)I...

Administration of nerve growth factor (NGF) to the offspring of Sprague-Dawley rats transplacentally exposed to 50 mg/kg ethylnitrosourea on the 20th day of gestation resulted in a significant reduction of trigeminal and peripheral nerve neurinomas. Forty, 60, and 80 micrograms of NGF was administered in five s.c. doses, one dose on each of days 12-16, 90-94, and 210-214 postnatally. Of the 34 ...

Nerve growth factor (NGF) is a neurotrophic factor essential for the development and survival of neurons, and is also an important mediator of inflammation. It is released by airway cells stimulated by interleukin (IL)-1beta. As IL-1beta induces airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) to the tachykinin NK-1 receptor agonist [Sar9,Met(O2)11]-substance P in human isolated bronchi, the aim of this study ...

Pruritus is common in autoimmune diseases and a prominent symptom especially patients with dermatomyositis (DM). In contrast, the severity of pruritus cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) less severe. Importantly, an important to differentiate DM from CLE. It has been found that keratinocytes-derived interleukin (IL)-18 played pathophysiologic role IL-18 potentially distinguishes The present stu...

objective(s) psychotropic medications produce their effects, in part, through increasing neurotrophin levels in the brain. since studies concerning nerve growth factor (ngf) analysis have been limited in scope, in the current experiments we investigated the effects of diverse psychotropic agents on ngf protein levels in various brain regions of rat. materials and methods male wistar rats receiv...

Nerve growth factor (NGF) facilitates reinnervation of perivascular nerves that regulate vascular tone and blood flow. This study investigated whether NGF prevents tumor growth by promoting neuronal regulation of tumor blood flow. The growth rate of DU145 prostate carcinoma cells subcutaneously implanted into nude mice was significantly inhibited by subcutaneous NGF administration. Significant ...

Diabetic Neuropathy (DN) is one of the prevailing micro vascular complications diabetes which can be characterized by neuropathic pain. Streptozotocin (STZ) induced in rat has been increasingly used as a model painful diabetic neuropathy. STZ injection leads to neurotoxicity peripheral nerves that development Peripheral model. The present study was aimed at exploring protective role Tinospora c...

INTRODUCTION We previously described the presence of nerve growth factor receptors in the inflamed synovial compartment. Here we investigated the presence of the corresponding nerve growth factors, with special focus on nerve growth factor (NGF). METHODS mRNA expression levels of four ligands (NGF, brain derived growth factor (BDNF), neurotrophin (NT)-3, NT-4) and their four corresponding rec...

Nerve growth factor (NGF) and its precursor proNGF are perhaps the best described growth factors of the mammalian nervous system. There remains, however, a paucity of information regarding the precise cellular sites of proNGF/NGF synthesis. Here we report the generation of transgenic mice in which the NGF promoter controls the ectopic synthesis of enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP). Thes...