Choline glutamate

Determination of glucose, cholesterol, choline glutamate, xantine, uric acid, galactose etc. 

If a substance is to be a NT it should be possible to demonstrate appropriate enzymes for its synthesis from a precursor at its site of action, although peptides are transported to their sites of location and action after synthesis in the axon or distal neuronal cell body. The specificity of any enzyme system must also be established, especially if they are to be modified to manipulate the levels of a particular NT, or used as markers for it. Thus choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) may be taken as indicative of ACh and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) of GABA but some of the synthesising enzymes for the monoamines lack such specificity. 

Low concentrations of solubilised jS-albumin inhibit ACh release in slices from rat hippocampus and cortex areas which show degeneration in AzD, but not in slices from the striatum which is unaffected. While not totally specific to ACh, since some inhibition of NA and DA and potentiation of glutamate release have been reported, this effect is achieved at concentrations of A/i below those generally neurotoxic. Since jS-amyloid can inhibit choline uptake it is also possible (see Auld, Kar and Quiron 1998) that in order to obtain sufficient choline for ACh synthesis and the continued function of cholinergic neurons, a breakdown of membrane phosphatidyl choline is required leading to cell death (so-called autocannibalism), /i-amyloid can also reduce the secondary effects of Mi receptor activation such as GTPase activity... 

Hotchkiss, A.J. Morgan, M.E. and Gibb, J.W. The long-term effects of multiple doses of methamphetamine on neostriatal tryptophan hydroxylase, tyrosine hydroxylase, choline acetyltransferase and glutamate decarboxylase activities. Life Sci 25 1373-1378. 1979. 

Marquette C.A., Degiuli A., Blum L.J., Electrochemiluminescent biosensors array for the concomitant detection of choline, glucose, glutamate, lactate, lysine and urate, Biosens. Bioelectron. 2003 19 433-439. 

Metal hexacyanoferrates-based biosensors were developed for analysis of glucose [11, 114, 118, 127, 147, 149, 152, 155-166], ethanol [11], D-alanine [147], oxalate [167-169], cholesterol [170, 171], glutamate [114, 119], sucrose [172], and choline [163], Among the transducers used Prussian blue undoubtedly dominates especially if one takes into account that instead of both chromium and cobalt hexacyanoferrates the activity of the transducers in publications [149, 159, 167, 168] was most probably provided by Prussian blue [117]. The sensitivity of cupric hexacyanoferrate is several orders of magnitude lower compared to Prussian blue. However, chemically synthesized... 

Choline-containing phospholipids have been determined in human serum using an IMER consisting of coimmobilized phospholipase D and choline oxidase [51]. Recently, immobilized glutamate oxidase was used to determine L-glutamic acid in culture media [52],... 

FIND Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence NR not reported NA not applicable NAA A -acetyl-aspartate Glu glutamate Gin glutamine Cho choline ... 

Fig. 4. 500 MHz DOSY spectrum of a D2O solution of a perchloric acid extract of gerbil brain. Assignments of selected signals are indicated as follows ac = acetate ala = alanine cho = choline cr = creatine ere = creatinine etn = ethanolamine GABA = 7-aminobutyric acid glu = glutamate GPC = glycerophosphocholine lac = lactate m-ino = myo-inositol NAA = N-acetylaspartate succ = succinate and tau = taurine. (Raw data...

Danik M., Cassoly E., Manseau F., Sotty F., Mouginot D., and Williams S. (2005). Frequent coexpression of the vesicular glutamate transporter 1 and 2 genes, as well as coexpression with genes for choline acetyltransferase or glutamic acid decarboxylase in neurons of rat brain. J. Neurosci. Res. 81 506-521. 

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