The possibility of measuring sulfide levels in the central nervous system (CNS) opens up
many avenues for exploration. In acute hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) poisoning, death results from …

Ginsenosides, the saponins of ginseng, are bioactive ingredients which exert many
beneficial effects. One ginsenoside, Rb 1 , extracted from North American ginseng (Panax …

… The crude synaptosomal fraction (P2) was prepared by homogenization and centrifugation
as described by Benishin et al. (1988). The uptake incubation was initiated by addition of an …

Venom from the green mamba(Dendroaspis angusticeps) blocked 86Rb efflux through
voltage-gated K channels in rat brain synaptosomes. Crude venom inhibited both rapidly …

The effect of an active synthetic N-terminal fragment of bovine parathyroid hormone (bPTH),
bPTH-(1-34), on Ca2+ channels was studied in mouse neuroblastoma cells (N1E-115). With …

Three forms of acetyl coenzyme A: choline‐O‐acetyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.6, ChAT) have
been isolated from mouse and rat forebrain synaptosomes with a 100 mM sodium phosphate (…

A reliable in vitro cytotoxic system is essential in neurocytotoxic and neuroprotective
research. The present study examined four cytotoxic insults with the SK-N-SH human …

… with the muscle relaxing effect (Sun and Benishin, unpublished data). CGRP did not …
and CG Benishin, 1991, Effects of rat calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) on myenteric …

Estrogen has been considered to be a neuroprotectant and a neuromodulator in many
neuronal cell lines and tissue preparations. The protective effects of estrogen may be mediated …

To determine the clinical significance of parathyroid hypertensive factor (PHF), physiological
studies previously performed in animal models of hypertension were parallelled by human …