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Impaired LC-NE System—A Novel Molecular Mechanism Underlying Health Disparity and Increased Prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease Among African Americans

  • Yu-Shin Ding,
  • Elizabeth Pirraglia,
  • Jiacheng Wang,
  • Artem Mikheev,
  • Jingyun Chen,
  • Henry Rusinek and
  • James Babb

Background: The current biomarker classification system does not fully explain the increased prevalence of both Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular risk factors for AD—such as diabetes and hypertension--among African Americans (AAs) com...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,349 Views
18 Pages

21 November 2018

With recent advances in technology, there has been growing interest in use of eye-tracking and pupillometry to assess the visual pathway in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Within emerging literature, an atypical pupillary light reflex (PLR) has been...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,656 Views
17 Pages

The Locus Coeruleus in Chronic Pain

  • Jorge Castejón España,
  • Anusha Yasoda-Mohan and
  • Sven Vanneste

Pain perception is the consequence of a complex interplay between activation and inhibition. Noradrenergic pain modulation inhibits nociceptive transmission and pain perception. The main source of norepinephrine (NE) in the central nervous system is...

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  • Open Access
144 Citations
19,621 Views
18 Pages

28 January 2021

Neurodegenerative diseases are a major public health problem worldwide with a wide spectrum of symptoms and physiological effects. It has been long reported that the dysregulation of the cholinergic system and the adrenergic system are linked to the...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,039 Views
18 Pages

The locus coeruleus norepinephrine (LC-NE) system modulates many visceral and cognitive functions, while LC-NE dysfunction leads to neurological and neurodegenerative conditions such as sleep disorders, depression, ADHD, or Alzheimer’s disease....

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,006 Views
15 Pages

24 February 2022

The locus coeruleus (LC) is a brainstem structure that sends widespread efferent projections throughout the mammalian brain. The LC constitutes the major source of noradrenaline (NE), a modulatory neurotransmitter that is crucial for fundamental brai...

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  • Open Access
900 Views
23 Pages

20 December 2025

Development of new therapeutic approaches and strategies for common neuropsychiatric disorders, including Major Depressive Disorder, anxiety disorders, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, represent a significant global health challenge. Recent resear...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,172 Views
15 Pages

Locus Coeruleus in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates

  • Sijia Wang,
  • Zhirong Wang and
  • Yu Mu

20 January 2022

The locus coeruleus (LC) is a vertebrate-specific nucleus and the primary source of norepinephrine (NE) in the brain. This nucleus has conserved properties across species: highly homogeneous cell types, a small number of cells but extensive axonal pr...

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  • Open Access
2,393 Views
24 Pages

19 November 2025

The locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system is a phylogenetically conserved neuromodulatory hub that regulates fundamental brain states and behaviors, including arousal, cognition, emotion, and pain. This review integrates two critical perspect...

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  • Open Access
428 Views
12 Pages

Background/Objectives: Migraine is a complex neurological headache disorder, and transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) can effectively relieve headache symptoms, but its mechanism of effect is still unclear. This study aimed to exp...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,191 Views
17 Pages

22 August 2020

The appearance of a bloom of cyanobacteria in the Sau-Susqueda-El Pasteral system (River Ter, NE Spain) in the autumn of 2015 has been the most recent episode of extensive bloom detected in Catalonia. This system is devoted mainly to urban supply, re...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,683 Views
15 Pages

29 April 2023

Mood and anxiety disorders are heterogeneous psychiatric diagnoses affecting millions. While the disease etiology is complex, various risk factors have been identified, such as stress. Stress is a neuroendocrine physiologic response to a stressor tha...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,904 Views
18 Pages

28 January 2024

The brainstem noradrenergic nucleus, the locus coeruleus (LC), exerts heavy influences on sensory processing, perception, and cognition through its diffuse projections throughout the brain. Previous studies have demonstrated that LC activation modula...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,096 Views
17 Pages

4 October 2022

Cold environment is an inevitable stress source for humans and livestock in cold areas, which easily induce a cold stress response and then cause a series of abnormal changes in energy metabolism, neuroendocrine system, behavior and emotion. Homeosta...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,890 Views
36 Pages

Behavioral and Transcriptomic Changes Following Brain-Specific Loss of Noradrenergic Transmission

  • Elsa Isingrini,
  • Chloé Guinaudie,
  • Léa Perret,
  • Elisa Guma,
  • Victor Gorgievski,
  • Ian D. Blum,
  • Jessica Colby-Milley,
  • Maryia Bairachnaya,
  • Sébastien Mella and
  • Antoine Adamantidis
  • + 2 authors

10 March 2023

Noradrenaline (NE) plays an integral role in shaping behavioral outcomes including anxiety/depression, fear, learning and memory, attention and shifting behavior, sleep-wake state, pain, and addiction. However, it is unclear whether dysregulation of...

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  • Open Access
55 Citations
5,250 Views
14 Pages

Toxicity of Essential Oils Nanoemulsion Against Aphis Craccivora and Their Inhibitory Activity on Insect Enzymes

  • Khaled Abdelaal,
  • Mamdouh Essawy,
  • Attia Quraytam,
  • Fahmy Abdallah,
  • Heba Mostafa,
  • Kamel Shoueir,
  • Hatem Fouad,
  • Fahmy A. S. Hassan and
  • Yaser Hafez

1 April 2021

Essential oils are widely used as botanical insecticides rather than chemically synthesized pesticides which led to catastrophic effects on humans, the environment, and eutrophication. Here, encapsulation of four essential oils Basilicum ocimum, Cumi...

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  • Open Access
57 Citations
10,205 Views
14 Pages

17 September 2018

Epidemiological, cross-sectional, and prospective studies have suggested that insomnia, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and depression are mutually interacting conditions and frequently co-occur. The monoamine and amino acid neurotransmitter systems i...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,750 Views
17 Pages

24 February 2024

This study analyzes tree diversity and its ecological importance value in silvopastoral systems in the Sumaco Biosphere Reserve (SBR), Ecuador, along an altitudinal gradient of 400–2000 masl. Twenty-six plots distributed into low (400–700...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,461 Views
19 Pages

13 October 2023

Remote sensing (RS) data have allowed prospective zones of water accumulation (PZWA) that have been harvested during rainstorms to be revealed. Climatic, hydrologic, and geological data have been combined with radar and optical remote sensing data. A...