Teratology of retinoids.

abstract：:Arsenic is a naturally occurring metalloid and one of the few metals that can be metabolized inside the human body. The pervasive presence of arsenic in nature and anthropogenic sources from agricultural and medical use have perpetuated human exposure to this toxic and carcinogenic element. Highly exposed individuals ...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Chen QY,Costa M

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the potential toxicity of compounds early in the drug discovery process can be extremely beneficial in terms of both time and money conservation. Because of the speed of modern chemical synthesis and screening, to accurately evaluate the large number of compounds being produced, toxicology assays must have...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Waring JF,Ulrich RG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroglial cells of the central nervous system include the astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia. Their counterparts in the peripheral nervous system are the Schwann cells. The term neuroglia comes from an erroneous concept originally coined by Virchow (1850), in which he envisioned the neurons to be embedded in...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Aschner M,Allen JW,Kimelberg HK,LoPachin RM,Streit WJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone acetylation is a prominent epigenetic modification of the central nervous system that is unequivocally associated with an increase in the rate of gene transcription. Because gene transcription, in turn, plays an important role in long-lasting forms of memory, histone acetylation generally favors long-term memo...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Gräff J,Tsai LH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA topoisomerases are double-edged swords. They are essential for many vital functions of DNA during normal cell growth. However, they are also highly vulnerable under various physiological and nonphysiological stresses because of their delicate act on breaking and rejoining DNA. These stresses (e.g. exposure to topo...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Li TK,Liu LF

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caveolae, a subset of membrane (lipid) rafts, are flask-like invaginations of the plasma membrane that contain caveolin proteins, which serve as organizing centers for cellular signal transduction. Caveolins (-1, -2, and -3) have cytoplasmic N and C termini, palmitolylation sites, and a scaffolding domain that facilit...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Patel HH,Murray F,Insel PA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have led to a greater appreciation of the diverse roles RNAs play in maintaining normal cellular function and how they contribute to disease pathology, broadening the number of potential therapeutic targets. Antisense oligonucleotides are the most direct means to target RNA in a selective manner and hav...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Bennett CF,Baker BF,Pham N,Swayze E,Geary RS

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Systems approaches have long been used in pharmacology to understand drug action at the organ and organismal levels. The application of computational and experimental systems biology approaches to pharmacology allows us to expand the definition of systems pharmacology to include network analyses at multiple scales of ...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Zhao S,Iyengar R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent discoveries of novel and potentially important biological activity have spurred interest in the chemistry and biochemistry of nitroxyl (HNO). It has become clear that, among all the nitrogen oxides, HNO is unique in its chemistry and biology. Currently, the intimate chemical details of the biological actions of...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Fukuto JM,Switzer CH,Miranda KM,Wink DA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian circadian system is organized in a hierarchical manner in that a central pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the brain's hypothalamus synchronizes cellular circadian oscillators in most peripheral body cells. Fasting-feeding cycles accompanying rest-activity rhythms are the major timing cue...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Levi F,Schibler U

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:γ-Secretases are a group of widely expressed, intramembrane-cleaving proteases involved in many physiological processes. Their clinical relevance comes from their involvement in Alzheimer's disease, cancer, and other disorders. A clinical trial with the wide-spectrum γ-secretase inhibitor semagacestat has, however, de...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： De Strooper B,Chávez Gutiérrez L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of the developing conceptus to selected environmental agents can lead to deleterious and often times lethal birth defects. These malformations result in serious emotional and financial consequences to families and societies worldwide. As we continue to progress technologically, we face challenges from the int...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Finnell RH,Waes JG,Eudy JD,Rosenquist TH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kv7 channels (Kv7.1-7.5) are voltage-gated K+ channels that can be modulated by five β-subunits (KCNE1-5). Kv7.1-KCNE1 channels produce the slow-delayed rectifying K+ current, IKs, which is important during the repolarization phase of the cardiac action potential. Kv7.2-7.5 are predominantly neuronally expressed and c...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Thompson E,Eldstrom J,Fedida D

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear receptors (NR) are ligand-modulated transcription factors that play diverse roles in cell differentiation, development, proliferation, and metabolism and are associated with numerous liver pathologies such as cancer, steatosis, inflammation, fibrosis, cholestasis, and xenobiotic/drug-induced liver injury. The ...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Rudraiah S,Zhang X,Wang L

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we discuss the potential pharmacological targeting of a set of powerful epigenetic mechanisms: DNA methylation control systems in the central nervous system (CNS). Specifically, we focus on the possible use of these targets for novel future treatments for learning and memory disorders. We first describ...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Day JJ,Kennedy AJ,Sweatt JD

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligonucleotides (ONs) can interfere with biomolecules representing the entire extended central dogma. Antisense gapmer, steric block, splice-switching ONs, and short interfering RNA drugs have been successfully developed. Moreover, antagomirs (antimicroRNAs), microRNA mimics, aptamers, DNA decoys, DNAzymes, synthetic...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Smith CIE,Zain R

更新日期：2019-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of druggable, topographically distinct allosteric sites on a wide range of receptor families has offered new paradigms for small molecules to modulate receptor function. Moreover, ligands that target allosteric sites offer significant advantages over the corresponding orthosteric ligands in terms of selec...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Wenthur CJ,Gentry PR,Mathews TP,Lindsley CW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Risk Assessment Committee of the European Chemicals Agency issued an opinion on classifying titanium dioxide (TiO2) as a suspected human carcinogen upon inhalation. Recent animal studies indicate that TiO2 may be carcinogenic through the oral route. There is considerable uncertainty on the carcinogenicity of TiO2,...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Braakhuis HM,Gosens I,Heringa MB,Oomen AG,Vandebriel RJ,Groenewold M,Cassee FR

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of exciting findings have been made in astrocytes during the past 15 years that have led many researchers to redefine how the brain works. Astrocytes are now widely regarded as cells that propagate Ca(2+) over long distances in response to stimulation, and, similar to neurons, release transmitters (called gli...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Fiacco TA,Agulhon C,McCarthy KD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion channels and G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are regulated by lipids in their membrane environment. Structural studies combined with biophysical and molecular simulation investigations reveal interaction sites for specific lipids on membrane protein structures. For K channels, PIP2 plays a key role in regulati...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Duncan AL,Song W,Sansom MSP

更新日期：2020-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Both pharmacologic and genetic methods are now available to manipulate intracellular levels of the protein thiol metallothionein. These approaches have begun to reveal the protective roles metallothioneins (MTs) have against oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon-centered free radicals, as well as the contributory role of MT to...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Lazo JS,Pitt BR

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphosphonates (BPs) are pyrophosphate analogs in which the oxygen bridge has been replaced by carbon and diverse carbon side chains have generated a large family of compounds. Several are potent inhibitors of bone destruction (resorption) and are in clinical use for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis, Page...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Rodan GA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbicides, substances applied topically to prevent sexual HIV infection, are needed to empower receptive sexual partners with effective prevention methods. Several large microbicide trials, however, failed to demonstrate efficacy, thus motivating a reevaluation of the current microbicide development paradigm, which...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Hendrix CW,Cao YJ,Fuchs EJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous lines of evidence demonstrate that calpains, a family of 14 Ca(2+)-activated neutral cysteine proteases, are involved in oncotic cell death in a variety of models. At this time, the biochemistry of most calpains and the specific roles of different calpains in physiology and pathology remain to be determined. ...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Liu X,Van Vleet T,Schnellmann RG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major concepts presented in this review can be summarized as follows: 1. There is a multidirectional continuum of anesthetic states--some represented by CNS excitation and others by depression. 2. The reticular activating system is influenced by all anesthetics; some inhibit its action (stage III) and some hyperex...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Winters WD

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase (COX), first purified in 1976 and cloned in 1988, is the key enzyme in the synthesis of prostaglandins (PGs) from arachidonic acid. In 1991, several laboratories identified a product from a second gene with COX activity and called it COX-2. However, COX-2 was inducible, and the inducing stimuli included...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Vane JR,Bakhle YS,Botting RM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heptahelical G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) belong to the largest family of cell surface signaling receptors encoded in the human genome. GPCRs signal to diverse extracellular stimuli and control a vast number of physiological responses, making this receptor class the target of nearly half the drugs currently...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Marchese A,Paing MM,Temple BR,Trejo J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organophosphorus insecticide self-poisoning is a major global health problem, killing over 100,000 people annually. It is a complex multi-organ condition, involving the inhibition of cholinesterases, and perhaps other enzymes, and the effects of large doses of ingested solvents. Variability between organophosphorus in...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Eddleston M

更新日期：2019-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:CB1 and CB2 cannabinoid receptors are the primary targets of endogenous cannabinoids (endocannabinoids). These G protein-coupled receptors play an important role in many processes, including metabolic regulation, craving, pain, anxiety, bone growth, and immune function. Cannabinoid receptors can be engaged directly by...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Mackie K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of rapid methods currently used for screening discovery drug candidates for metabolism and pharmacokinetic characteristics is discussed. General considerations are given for screening in this context, including the criteria for good screens, the use of counterscreens, the proper sequencing of screens, ...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： White RE

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00