Activity of L-carnitine and L-acetylcarnitine on cholinoceptive neocortical neurons of the rat in vivo
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...The ability of ALCAR to increase nerve growth factor [105] and enhance cholinergic activity may be particularly important for neuroprotection in developing brain [1, 106]....
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...ALCAR has been found to have anti-inflammatory effects [7], lead to stabilization of membranes [1], act as an antioxidant protecting against oxidative stress [37, 53, 103, 104], enhance the activity of nerve growth factor [105], and potentiate energy metabolism [57, 97] and cholinergic responses [1, 106]....
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...Moreover, brain lesions of Alzheimer's dementia include subcortical regions rich in cholinergic neurons projecting to widespread muscarinic cholinoceptive field in the cerebral cortex (Coyle et al., 1983)....
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...Forebrain projections to cerebral cortex represent a prominent cholinergic input (Mesulam et al., 1983) and are relevant to the understanding of neurological diseases with cognitive impairment, such as Alzheimer's dementia (Coyle et al....
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...In fact the nerve cell loss associated with aging or degenerative diseases in animals as well as in humans could coexist with an impaired balance of synaptic regulatory systems (Bowen et al., 1976; Rossor, 1982)....
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