Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide facilitates tyrosine hydroxylase induction by cholinergic agonists in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells.

abstract：:Thymidine phosphorylase (TPase) is one of the key enzymes involved in the pyrimidine nucleoside salvage pathway. However, TPase also stimulates angiogenesis, and its expression correlates well with microvessel density and metastasis in a variety of human tumors. We have shown recently that 5'-O-trityl-inosine (KIN59) ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Liekens S,Bronckaers A,Hernández AI,Priego EM,Casanova E,Camarasa MJ,Pérez-Pérez MJ,Balzarini J

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is now recognized as a rapidly increasing worldwide threat to health, largely as a result of causing diabetes. Thus, considerable efforts are underway in the pharmaceutical industry to find drugs to treat this condition. Target validation in various academic and industrial laboratories has revealed a number of...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Pilch PF,Bergenhem N

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabotropic glutamate 5 receptor and the cannabinoid type 1 receptor are G protein-coupled receptors that are widely expressed in the central nervous system. Metabotropic glutamate 5 receptors, present at the postsynaptic site, are coupled to Gαq/11 proteins and display an excitatory response upon activation, whe...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Olmo IG,Ferreira-Vieira TH,Ribeiro FM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrestins mediate G protein-coupled receptor desensitization, internalization, and signaling. Dopamine D(2) and D(3) receptors have similar structures but distinct characteristics of interaction with arrestins. The goals of this study were to compare arrestin-binding determinants in D(2) and D(3) receptors other than ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Lan H,Liu Y,Bell MI,Gurevich VV,Neve KA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bile salt export pump (BSEP/ABCB11) transports bile salts from hepatocytes into bile canaliculi. Its malfunction is associated with severe liver disease. One reason for functional impairment of BSEP is systemic administration of drugs, which as a side effect inhibit the transporter. Therefore, drug candidates are ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Sohail MI,Schmid D,Wlcek K,Spork M,Szakács G,Trauner M,Stockner T,Chiba P

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA topoisomerases are the molecular targets of a range of anticancer and antimicrobial therapeutics. Many of these drugs act by converting their target enzyme to a DNA-damaging agent through the trapping of the covalent enzyme/DNA intermediate. This drug-mediated trapping of the intermediate is reversible, and the le...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Nitiss JL,Wang JC

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the neuromuscular blocker alcuronium on the binding of N-[3H]-methylscopolamine [( 3H]NMS) and l-[3H]quinuclidinylbenzilate ([3H]QNB) to muscarinic binding sites in rat heart atria, longitudinal smooth muscle of the ileum, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and submaxillary glands was measured using filtration...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Tucek S,Musílková J,Nedoma J,Proska J,Shelkovnikov S,Vorlícek J

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling by G-protein-coupled receptors is often considered a uniform process, whereby a homogeneously activated proportion of randomly distributed receptors are activated under equilibrium conditions and produce homogeneous, steady-state intracellular signals. While this may be the case in some biologic systems, the...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Lohse MJ,Hofmann KP

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chelator di-2-pyridylketone 4,4-dimethyl-3-thiosemicarbazone (Dp44mT) shows potent and selective anticancer and antimetastatic activity. However, the mechanism by which it is initially transported into cells to induce cytotoxicity is unknown. Hence, the current investigation examined the cellular uptake of ¹⁴C-Dp4...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Merlot AM,Pantarat N,Menezes SV,Sahni S,Richardson DR,Kalinowski DS

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to cisplatin, one of the most widely used anticancer chemotherapeutic agents, is a major clinical problem. There is no effective way to predict development of cisplatin resistance in cancers. As determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and Western blotting, the expression of gamma-caten...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Liang XJ,Shen DW,Gottesman MM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several structural subclasses of ligands bind to the benzodiazepine (BZD) binding site of the GABA(A) receptor. Previous studies from this laboratory have suggested that imidazobenzodiazepines (i-BZDs, e.g., Ro 15-1788) require domains in the BZD binding site for high-affinity binding that are distinct from the requir...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kucken AM,Teissére JA,Seffinga-Clark J,Wagner DA,Czajkowski C

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine adrenal zona fasciculata (AZF) cells express a noninactivating K+ current (IAC) that sets the resting membrane potential and may mediate depolarization-dependent cortisol secretion. External ATP stimulates cortisol secretion through activation of a nucleotide receptor. In whole-cell patch clamp recordings from ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Xu L,Enyeart JJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TWIK-related K+ channel TREK1, a background leak K+ channel, has been strongly implicated as the target of several general and local anesthetics. Here, using the whole-cell and single-channel patch-clamp technique, we investigated the effect of lidocaine, a local anesthetic, on the human (h)TREK1 channel heterologousl...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Nayak TK,Harinath S,Nama S,Somasundaram K,Sikdar SK

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seven-transmembrane receptor Smoothened (Smo) is the major component involved in signal transduction of the Hedgehog (Hh) morphogens. Smo inhibitors represent a promising alternative for the treatment of several types of cancers linked to abnormal Hh signaling. Here, on the basis of experimental data, we generated...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Manetti F,Faure H,Roudaut H,Gorojankina T,Traiffort E,Schoenfelder A,Mann A,Solinas A,Taddei M,Ruat M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P2X receptors are trimeric membrane proteins. When they bind extracellular ATP, a conformational change occurs that opens a transmembrane ion channel. The ATP-binding pocket is formed in a cleft between two subunits, and a critical amino acid residue for ATP contact is Lys⁶⁹ (P2X2 numbering). In the present work, we s...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Stelmashenko O,Lalo U,Yang Y,Bragg L,North RA,Compan V

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ethanol on a number of electrophysiological parameters were examined in 10 different voltage-gated potassium channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes. None of the channels examined was highly sensitive to ethanol, but there was significant variability among the channels tested at concentrations of ethanol ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Anantharam V,Bayley H,Wilson A,Treistman SN

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial event upon binding of insulin-like growth factor 1 to the insulin-like growth factor type-I receptor (IGF-1R) is auto-phosphorylation of tyrosine residues within the activation loop of the kinase domain followed by phosphorylation of other receptor tyrosine residues and the subsequent activation of the int...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Vasilcanu R,Vasilcanu D,Sehat B,Yin S,Girnita A,Axelson M,Girnita L

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine uptake via nucleoside transporters is inhibited when S49 and NG108-15 cell lines cells are exposed to ethanol. This inhibition leads to an accumulation of extracellular adenosine that binds to adenosine A2 receptors and increases cAMP production. Subsequently, there is a heterologous desensitization of recep...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Krauss SW,Ghirnikar RB,Diamond I,Gordon AS

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET) and ATP mobilize Ca2+ in rat C6 glioma cells by stimulating phosphoinositide turnover. Both agents also inhibit adenylyl cyclase (AC) activity in C6 glioma cells. The goal of this study was to characterize the molecular mechanisms responsible for the inhibition of AC activity. The administration of e...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Lin WW,Chuang DM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor can be expressed in Xenopus oocytes by injection of in vitro synthesized RNA for the alpha, beta, gamma, and delta mouse muscle subunits. However, detectable responses can also be obtained by injection of alpha, beta, and delta subunit RNA only. The receptors expressed in this case...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Charnet P,Labarca C,Lester HA

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that at least two subtypes of somatostatin (SRIF) receptors (SRIF1 and SRIF2) are expressed in mammalian cells. SRIF1 receptors have high affinity for MK 678, whereas SRIF2 receptors have no affinity for MK 678 but selectively bind peptides with structures similar to that of CGP 23996. Rece...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Rens-Domiano S,Law SF,Yamada Y,Seino S,Bell GI,Reisine T

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine can enhance working memory and attention. Activation of both alpha7 and beta2(*) nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) has been implicated in these processes. The ability of presynaptic nAChRs to modulate neurotransmitter release, notably glutamate release, is postulated to...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Dickinson JA,Kew JN,Wonnacott S

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combining chemotherapeutics to treat malignant tumors has been shown to be effective in preventing drug resistance, tumor recurrence, and reducing tumor size. We modeled combination drug therapy in PC-3 human prostate cancer cells using mixture design response surface methodology (MDRSM), a statistical technique desig...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Oblad R,Doughty H,Lawson J,Christensen M,Kenealey J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CB1 cannabinoid receptor has been implicated in the regulation of bone remodeling and bone mass. A high bone mass (HBM) phenotype was reported in CB1-null mice generated on a CD1 background (CD1(CB1-/-) mice). By contrast, our preliminary studies in cb1-/- mice, backcrossed to C57BL/6J mice (C57(CB1-/-) mice), rev...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Tam J,Ofek O,Fride E,Ledent C,Gabet Y,Müller R,Zimmer A,Mackie K,Mechoulam R,Shohami E,Bab I

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-adrenergic receptors were characterized in a particulate fraction of human auricles obtained from patients operated upon for coronary insufficiency or valvular disease. [125I] Hydroxybenzylpindolol binding was evaluated in terms of kinetics; KD and Bmax values; and inhibition of binding in the presence of 10 micr...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Robberecht P,Delhaye M,Taton G,De Neef P,Waelbroeck M,De Smet JM,Leclerc JL,Chatelain P,Christophe J

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine biotransformation affects the smoking habits of addicted individuals and therefore their health risk. Using an improved analytical method, we have discovered that the human UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 2B10, a liver enzyme previously unknown to conjugate nicotine or exhibit considerable activity toward a...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kaivosaari S,Toivonen P,Hesse LM,Koskinen M,Court MH,Finel M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies from our laboratory have provided evidence that multiple states of the phencyclidine (PCP) receptor exist. In addition, several compounds such as PCP and the novel anticonvulsant MK-801 were found to inhibit binding more potently in the presence of Mg2+ and L-glutamate (L-GLU) than when these agents wer...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Sills MA,Loo PS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human CYP2C9 plays a crucial role in the metabolic clearance of a wide range of clinical therapeutics. The *2 allele is a prevalent genetic variation in CYP2C9 that is found in various populations. A marked reduction of catalytic activity toward many important drug substrates has been demonstrated by CYP2C9*2, whi...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Parikh SJ,Evans CM,Obi JO,Zhang Q,Maekawa K,Glass KC,Shah MB

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in vertebrate neuromuscular synapses have revealed previously that ATP, via P2Y receptors, plays a critical role in regulating postsynaptic gene expressions. An equivalent regulatory role of ATP and its P2Y receptors would not necessarily be expected for the very different situation of the brain synapses, but ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Siow NL,Choi RC,Xie HQ,Kong LW,Chu GK,Chan GK,Simon J,Barnard EA,Tsim KW

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma brucei encodes a relatively high number of genes of the equilibrative nucleoside transporter (ENT) family. We report here the cloning and in-depth characterization of one T. brucei brucei ENT member, TbNT9/AT-D. This transporter was expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and displayed a uniquely high affini...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Al-Salabi MI,Wallace LJ,Lüscher A,Mäser P,Candlish D,Rodenko B,Gould MK,Jabeen I,Ajith SN,de Koning HP

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00