Selectivity for binding of peptide analogs to vascular receptors for vasoactive intestinal peptide.

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：:Electron affinities, approximated by lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energies, were determined for an extensive group of nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by ab initio methods at the STO-3G level. Significant correlations were demonstrated between nitroarene LUMO energy and the corresponding mutagen...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Maynard AT,Pedersen LG,Posner HS,McKinney JD

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors are sensors that interact with a large variety of elements, including photons, ions, and large proteins. Not surprisingly, these receptors participate in the numerous normal physiologic processes that we refer to as health and in its perturbations that constitute disease. It has been estima...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Pupo AS,García-Sáinz JA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-2 (IL-2) is an immunoregulatory cytokine whose biological effects are mediated through interaction with specific receptors on the surface of target cells. Due to its presumed role in generating a normal immune response, IL-2 is being evaluated for the treatment of a variety of tumors, in addition to infect...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Chang DZ,Tasayco ML,Ciardelli TL

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The verapamil-like arylazide (-)-[3H]azidopamil specifically photoaffinity labeled two low molecular mass polypeptides, with apparent molecular masses of 22 and 27 kDa, in the endoplasmic reticulum of guinea pig liver, kidney, adrenal gland, and lung. It was recently shown that the 22-kDa polypeptide binds the anti-is...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Moebius FF,Burrows GG,Hanner M,Schmid E,Striessnig J,Glossmann H

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very few antagonists have been identified for the human pregnane X receptor (PXR). These molecules may be of use for modulating the effects of therapeutic drugs, which are potent agonists for this receptor (e.g., some anticancer compounds and macrolide antibiotics), with subsequent effects on transcriptional regulatio...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Ekins S,Kholodovych V,Ai N,Sinz M,Gal J,Gera L,Welsh WJ,Bachmann K,Mani S

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Adrenergic receptor blockers (β-blockers) are commonly used to treat heart failure, but the biologic mechanisms governing their efficacy are still poorly understood. The complexity of β-adrenergic signaling coupled with the influence of receptor polymorphisms makes it difficult to intuit the effect of β-blockers on ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Amanfu RK,Saucerman JJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described the development of genetic models to study the in vivo functions of the hepatic cytochrome P450 (P450) system, through the hepatic deletion of either cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase [POR; HRN (hepatic reductase null) line] or cytochrome b(5) [HBN (hepatic cytochrome b(5) null) line]. However, HR...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Henderson CJ,McLaughlin LA,Wolf CR

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible binding of warfarin to defatted serum albumin was studied by equilibrium dialysis at pH 7.4, in a 66 mM sodium phosphate buffer at 37 degrees. The binding isotherm could be described by two stoichiometric binding constants, K1 in the range 141,000 to 192,000 M-1 and K2 at 39,000 to 57,000 M-1. At least two ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Larsen FG,Larsen CG,Jakobsen P,Brodersen R

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies specific for cytochromes P-450 induced by 3-methylcholanthrene (Mab 1-7-1) and phenobarbital (Mab 2-66-3) have been used in an unlabeled peroxidase-antiperoxidase immunohistochemical procedure to investigate the intralobular distribution and induction sites of the hemoproteins within the livers o...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Forkert PG,Mirehouse-Brown P,Park SS,Gelboin HV

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacological studies suggest a role for CB1 cannabinoid receptors (CB1R) in regulating neurogenesis in the adult brain. To investigate this possibility, we measured neurogenesis by intraperitoneal injection of bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), which labels newborn neurons, in wild-type and CB1R-knockout (CB1R-KO) mice. CB1...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Jin K,Xie L,Kim SH,Parmentier-Batteur S,Sun Y,Mao XO,Childs J,Greenberg DA

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no approved means to prevent the toxic actions of cocaine. Cocaine esterase (CocE) is found in a rhodococcal strain of bacteria that grows in the rhizosphere soil around the coca plant and has been found to hydrolyze cocaine in vitro. The esteratic activity of CocE (0.1-1.0 mg, i.v.) was characterized and con...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Cooper ZD,Narasimhan D,Sunahara RK,Mierzejewski P,Jutkiewicz EM,Larsen NA,Wilson IA,Landry DW,Woods JH

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High expression of the aflatoxin B1 (AFB1)-8,9-epoxide-conjugating glutathione S-transferase A3 (mGSTA3) subunit in mouse liver confers intrinsic resistance to AFB1 hepatocarcinogenesis. It is not known how the gene encoding this protein is regulated. The murine mGSTA3 gene has been identified using bioinformatics. It...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Jowsey IR,Jiang Q,Itoh K,Yamamoto M,Hayes JD

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smad4, a key transcription factor in the transforming growth factor-β signaling pathway, is involved in a variety of cell physiologic and pathologic processes. Here, we characterized megakaryocyte/platelet-specific Smad4 deficiency in mice to elucidate its effect on platelet function. We found that megakaryocyte/plate...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Wang Y,Jiang L,Mo X,Lan Y,Yang X,Liu X,Zhang J,Zhu L,Liu J,Wu X

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse adrenocortical Y-1 cell line has been found to express high affinity binding sites for neuropeptide Y (NPY). Pharmacological studies have shown that these NPY binding sites are of the Y1 type. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction using primers specific for the rat Y1 receptor revealed that the NPY...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Weng G,Yee F,Michl P,Reis D,Wahlestedt C

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[3H]Dihydroalprenolol ([3H]DHA) has been used extensively in receptor binding studies to measure beta-adrenergic receptors in the central nervous system. Usually, nonspecific binding has been defined by high concentrations of the beta-adrenergic receptor agonist isoproterenol or antagonists such as alprenolol or propr...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Riva MA,Creese I

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The L-type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1) is an Na(+)-independent neutral amino acid transporter subserving the amino acid transport system L. Because of its broad substrate selectivity, system L has been proposed to be responsible for the permeation of amino acid-related drugs through the plasma membrane. To underst...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Uchino H,Kanai Y,Kim DK,Wempe MF,Chairoungdua A,Morimoto E,Anders MW,Endou H

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diltiazem is a widely prescribed Ca2+ antagonist drug for cardiac arrhythmia, hypertension, and angina pectoris. Using the ancestral CaV channel construct CaVAb as a molecular model for X-ray crystallographic analysis, we show here that diltiazem targets the central cavity of the voltage-gated Ca2+ channel underneath ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Tang L,Gamal El-Din TM,Lenaeus MJ,Zheng N,Catterall WA

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the hippocampus, two distinct forms of GABAergic inhibition have been identified, phasic inhibitory postsynaptic currents that are the consequence of the vesicular release of GABA and a tonic conductance that is activated by low ambient concentrations of extracellular GABA. It is not known what accounts for the dis...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Yeung JY,Canning KJ,Zhu G,Pennefather P,MacDonald JF,Orser BA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenine-uridine rich elements (AREs) play an important role in modulating mRNA stability, being the target site of many ARE-binding proteins (AUBPs) that are involved in the decay process. Three 26-mer 2'-O-methyl oligoribonucleotides (ORNs) homologous to the core region of ARE of bcl2 mRNA have been studied for decoy...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Bevilacqua A,Ghisolfi L,Franzi S,Maresca G,Gherzi R,Capaccioli S,Nicolin A,Canti G

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes experiments investigating the mechanism of activation of A1 adenosine receptors. Isolated rat fat cells were used as a cellular model. The A1 receptors of these cells were covalently labeled with the agonist photoaffinity label R-2-azido-N6-p-hydroxyphenylisopropyladenosine. The covalent incorpora...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Lohse MJ,Klotz KN,Schwabe U

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic alpha-conotoxin Vc1.1 is a small disulfide bonded peptide currently in development as a treatment for neuropathic pain. Unlike Vc1.1, the native post-translationally modified peptide vc1a does not act as an analgesic in vivo in rat models of neuropathic pain. It has recently been proposed that the primar...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Nevin ST,Clark RJ,Klimis H,Christie MJ,Craik DJ,Adams DJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Methyl-5-(2-pyrazinyl)-1,2-dithiole-3-thione (oltipraz), a prototype drug candidate containing a 1,2-dithiole-3-thione moiety, has been widely studied as a cancer chemopreventive agent. Oltipraz and other novel 1,2-dithiole-3-thione congeners have the capability to prevent insulin resistance via AMP-activated protei...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Shin SM,Kim SG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat cerebellar granule cells express 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)2 receptors that mediate phosphoinositide turnover by a pertussis toxin-sensitive mechanism. Prestimulation of these neurons with 10 microM 5-HT or (+/-)-2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenyl-2-aminopropane [(+/-)-DOI], a putative 5-HT2 receptor agonist, resulted in ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Akiyoshi J,Hough C,Chuang DM

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：: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：:2-Methyl-2-nitrosopropane (MNP) has long been known to undergo photochemical and thermal decomposition, generating di-tert-butyl nitroxide, in organic solvent. The present study was undertaken to demonstrate that MNP can be used as a caged-nitric oxide (NO), which can liberate NO upon illumination. Photolysis of MNP l...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Pou SJ,Anderson DE,Surichamorn W,Keaton LL,Tod ML

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ethanol on intracellular ionized calcium concentrations (Cai) was studied in synaptosomes isolated from mouse whole brain and in hepatocytes isolated from rat liver. The fluorescent calcium chelator, fura-2, was used to quantitate Cai. Incubation of synaptosomes with ethanol (350-700 mM) increased restin...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Daniell LC,Brass EP,Harris RA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we demonstrated that aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) 1a1 is the major ALDH expressed in mouse liver and is an effective catalyst in metabolism of lipid aldehydes. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed a ≈2.5- to 3-fold induction of the hepatic ALDH1A1 mRNA in mice administered eit...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Makia NL,Amunom I,Falkner KC,Conklin DJ,Surapureddi S,Goldstein JA,Prough RA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widely distributed environmental toxicants derived from sources that include cigarette smoke, petroleum distillation, gas- and diesel-engine exhaust, and charcoal-grilled food. The gastrointestinal tract is the principal route of PAH exposures, even when inhaled. The most th...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Shi Z,Dragin N,Gálvez-Peralta M,Jorge-Nebert LF,Miller ML,Wang B,Nebert DW

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00