Environmental toxins and Parkinson's disease.

abstract：:The RNA polymerase I (Pol I) transcription machinery in the nucleolus is the key convergence point that collects and integrates a vast array of information from cellular signaling cascades to regulate ribosome production that in turn guides cell growth and proliferation. Cancer cells commonly harbor mutations that ina...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Drygin D,Rice WG,Grummt I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The realization that there exists a multimembered family of cation channels with structural similarity to Drosophila's Trp channel emerged during the second half of the 1990s. In mammals, depending on the species, the TRP family counts 29 or 30 members which has been subdivided into 6 subfamilies on the basis of seque...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Birnbaumer L

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent advances made in elucidating the processes of nociception have altered the way that chronic pain therapy and analgesic drug development are approached. Recent studies have highlighted new targets for drug discovery, including inhibition of inflammatory mediators (kinins, growth factors), newly expressed pro...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Dray A,Urban L

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) is a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) kinase kinase of the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) and p38 MAPK pathways. ASK1 is preferentially activated by various cytotoxic stressors and plays pivotal roles in a wide variety of cellular response to them. Recent analyses of A...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Takeda K,Noguchi T,Naguro I,Ichijo H

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Long-acting contraceptives are the most effective reversible contraceptive methods. Increasing patients' access to these contraceptives may translate into fewer unintended pregnancies and lead to substantial individual and public health benefits. However, development of long-acting products can be complex and challeng...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Li L,Tran D,Zhu H,Balimane P,Willett G,Zhao P,Gerrard SE,Vogelsong KM,Wang Y,Seo SK

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay is an account of the author's experience in trying to interpret the action of drugs as seen in in vitro bioassays. The central theme is how the development of simple mathematical models has assisted in the interpretation of drug actions. Starting from encounters with partial agonists, the essay describes th...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Black J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are the largest family of cytokines in human immunophysiology. These proteins are defined by four invariant cysteines and are categorized based on the sequence around the first two cysteines, which leads to two major and two minor subfamilies. Chemokines function by activating specific G protein-coupled rec...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Fernandez EJ,Lolis E

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most facets of mammalian physiology and behavior vary according to time of day, thanks to endogenous circadian clocks. Therefore, it is not surprising that many aspects of pharmacology and toxicology also oscillate according to the same 24-h clocks. Daily oscillations in abundance of proteins necessary for either drug...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Dallmann R,Brown SA,Gachon F

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Conflicting views abound on the peripheral neurotransmitter and neuromodulator roles of purine compounds. Substantial organ- and species-related variations have become apparent. There is, however, a body of compelling evidence for such roles, if not so broad and ubiquitous as those envisioned (7) for the central nervo...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Su C

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoids regulate gene transcription by binding to the nuclear receptors, the retinoic acid (RA) receptors (RARs), and the retinoid X receptors (RXRs). RARs and RXRs are ligand-activated transcription factors for the regulation of RA-responsive genes. The actions of RARs and RXRs on gene transcription require a highl...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Wei LN

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Human syndromes and mouse mutants that exhibit accelerated but bona fide aging in multiple organs and tissues have been invaluable for the identification of nine denominators of aging: telomere attrition, genome instability, epigenetic alterations, mitochondrial dysfunction, deregulated nutrient sensing, altered inter...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Vermeij WP,Hoeijmakers JH,Pothof J

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Research on autophagy and its effects on cell metabolism and physiology has increased dramatically during recent years. Multiple forms of autophagy have been characterized, and many of the genes involved in the regulation of this process have been identified. The importance of autophagy for embryonic development and m...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Orrenius S,Kaminskyy VO,Zhivotovsky B

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:Cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR) and nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP) are two Ca(2+) messengers derived from NAD and NADP, respectively. Although NAADP is a linear molecule, structurally distinct from the cyclic cADPR, it is synthesized by similar enzymes, ADP-ribosyl cyclase and its homolog, CD38. The c...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Lee HC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta 3 subtype of adrenaline and noradrenaline receptors has now been extensively characterized at the structural and functional levels. Ligand binding and adenylyl cyclase activation studies helped define a beta-adrenergic profile that is quite distinct from that of the beta 1- and beta 2-adrenergic receptors, bu...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Strosberg AD

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective, nonpeptide antagonists for tachykinin receptors first became available ten years ago. Of the three known tachykinin receptors, drug development has focused most intensively on the substance P-preferring receptor, neurokinin(1) (NK(1)). Although originally studied as potential analgesic compounds, recent evi...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Stout SC,Owens MJ,Nemeroff CB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein variously named ABCG2/BCRP/MXR/ABCP is a recently described ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter originally identified by its ability to confer drug resistance that is independent of Mrp1 (multidrug-resistance protein 1) and Pgp (P-glycoprotein). Unlike Mrp1 and Pgp, ABCG2 is a half-transporter that must...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Krishnamurthy P,Schuetz JD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV protease inhibitors, as components of combination antiretroviral drug regimens, have substantially reduced the morbidity and mortality associated with HIV infection. They selectively block the action of the virus-encoded protease and stop the virus from replicating. In general, these drugs have poor systemic bioav...

journal_title：Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology

authors： Flexner C

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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