In vivo effects of mercury (II) on deoxyuridine triphosphate nucleotidohydrolase, DNA polymerase (alpha, beta), and uracil-DNA glycosylase activities in cultured human cells: relationship to DNA damage, DNA repair, and cytotoxicity.

abstract：:Ubiquitination of the human kappa opioid receptor (hKOR) expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells was observed in the presence of the proteasomal inhibitor N-benzoyloxycarbonyl (Z)-Leu-Leu-leucinal (MG132) and enhanced by the agonists (-)(trans)-3,4-dichloro-N-methyl-N-[2-(1-pyrrolidiny) cyclohexyl] benzeneaceta...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Li JG,Haines DS,Liu-Chen LY

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as a novel class of endogenous, small, noncoding RNAs that negatively regulate gene expression via degradation or translational inhibition of their target mRNAs. Over 700 miRNAs have been identified and sequenced in humans, and the number of miRNA genes is estimated at more than 1000. I...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kukreja RC,Yin C,Salloum FN

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro binding of [3H]LY354740, the first high affinity group II-selective metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptor radioligand, was characterized in rat cortical, hippocampal, and thalamic membranes as well as in rat brain sections. [3H]LY354740 binding was saturable in all regions investigated. Nonspecific bindi...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Schaffhauser H,Richards JG,Cartmell J,Chaboz S,Kemp JA,Klingelschmidt A,Messer J,Stadler H,Woltering T,Mutel V

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：: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：:It has long been believed that the cortical actin cytoskeleton plays an important role in regulating the secretion of hormones and neurotransmitters. In this study, we investigated the control of actin dynamics in primary neuroendocrine cells and determined the relationship of actin dynamics to various components of t...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Bittner MA,Holz RW

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Rat-1 fibroblasts, endothelin-1 and a protein kinase C-stimulating phorbol ester stimulated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), whereas phenylephrine, acting at stably transfected human alpha1A-adrenoceptors, inhibited basal and endothelin-1- and phorbol ester-stimulated ERK. On the other hand, phenylephri...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Alexandrov A,Keffel S,Goepel M,Michel MC

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-protein-coupled receptor activation is generally analyzed under equilibrium conditions. However, real-life receptor functions are often dependent on very short, transient stimuli that may not allow the achievement of a steady state. This is particularly true for synaptic receptors such as the α(2A)-adrenergic recept...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Ambrosio M,Lohse MJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly specialized metabotropic glutamate receptor type 6 (mGluR6) is postsynaptically localized and expressed only in the dendrites of ON bipolar cells. Upon activation of mGluR6 by glutamate released from photoreceptors, a nonselective cation channel is inhibited, causing these cells to hyperpolarize. Mutations ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Beqollari D,Betzenhauser MJ,Kammermeier PJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the non-tumor-promoting protein kinase C (PKC) activator bryostatin 1 and the PKC inhibitors staurosporine and UCN-01 were examined with respect to modulation of 1-[beta-D-arabinofuranosyl]cytosine (ara-C)-induced apoptosis in human myeloid leukemia cells (HL-60) overexpressing the antiapoptotic protein...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Wang S,Vrana JA,Bartimole TM,Freemerman AJ,Jarvis WD,Kramer LB,Krystal G,Dent P,Grant S

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In GH3 pituitary cell homogenates, acetylcholine (ACh) (IC50 200 nM) inhibits adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] activity in a concentration- and GTP-dependent manner. Maximal inhibition was obtained with 10 microM ACh and corresponded to approximately a 50% decrease in basal enzyme ac...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Onali P,Eva C,Olianas MC,Schwartz JP,Costa E

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacological preservation of bone in the ovariectomized rat by estrogen, selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), and bisphosphonates has been well described. However, comprehensive molecular analysis of the effects of these pharmacologically diverse antiresorptive agents on gene expression in bone has n...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Helvering LM,Liu R,Kulkarni NH,Wei T,Chen P,Huang S,Lawrence F,Halladay DL,Miles RR,Ambrose EM,Sato M,Ma YL,Frolik CA,Dow ER,Bryant HU,Onyia JE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-human immunodeficiency virus (-HIV) nucleoside analogs azidothymidine (AZT), dideoxycytidine (ddC), dideoxyinosine (ddl), dideoxydidehydrothymidine (D4T), and dideoxydidehydrocytidine (D4C) and the anticancer drug cytosine arabinoside (AraC) were compared for their effects on the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) con...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Chen CH,Vazquez-Padua M,Cheng YC

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To screen for residues of hKv1.3 important for current block by the phenylalkylamine verapamil, the inactivated-state-reduced H399T mutant was used as a background for mutagenesis studies. This approach was applied mainly to abolish the accumulation in the inactivated blocked state, recovery from which in the wild typ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Dreker T,Grissmer S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of breast cancer resistance protein (Bcrp/Abcg2) on the disposition of the phytoestrogens daidzein, genistein, and coumestrol was investigated using Bcrp(-/-) mice. Expression of the genes for either mouse Bcrp or human BCRP in MDCK II cells induced apically directed transport of the three phytoestrogens, w...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Enokizono J,Kusuhara H,Sugiyama Y

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endogenous bronchodilator, S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO), increases expression, maturation, and function of both the wild-type and the DeltaF508 mutant of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulatory protein (CFTR). Though transcriptional mechanisms of action have been identified, GSNO seems also to have...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Zaman K,Carraro S,Doherty J,Henderson EM,Lendermon E,Liu L,Verghese G,Zigler M,Ross M,Park E,Palmer LA,Doctor A,Stamler JS,Gaston B

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesnarinone, a cardiotonic agent, blocks I(Kr) and, unlike other I(Kr) blockers, produces a frequency-dependent prolongation of action potential duration (APD). To elucidate the mechanisms, we studied the effects of vesnarinone on HERG, the cloned human I(Kr) channel, heterologously expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kamiya K,Mitcheson JS,Yasui K,Kodama I,Sanguinetti MC

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol-inducible CYP2E1 is an enzyme of major toxicological interest because it metabolizes several precarcinogens, drugs, and solvents to reactive metabolites. CYP2E1 has also been implicated in alcohol liver disease because of its contribution to oxidative stress. Previously, polymorphic alleles with mutations in i...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Hu Y,Oscarson M,Johansson I,Yue QY,Dahl ML,Tabone M,Arincò S,Albano E,Ingelman-Sundberg M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we showed that the human kappa-opioid receptor (hkor) stably expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells underwent down-regulation after prolonged U50,488H treatment. In the present study, we determined the mechanisms underlying this process. U50, 488H caused a significant down-regulation of the hkor, a...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Li JG,Benovic JL,Liu-Chen LY

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshly isolated rat hepatocytes rapidly lose their cytochrome P450 (P450) proteins and mRNAs, with no evidence of subsequent restoration, after placement into traditional systems of primary culture on type I collagen. We examined the patterns of expression of 10 constitutively expressed P450 mRNAs in rat hepatocytes ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kocarek TA,Schuetz EG,Guzelian PS

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) is induced by adding thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) to COS-7 cells cotransfected with TRH receptors and an epitope-tagged MAPK. Long term treatment of the cells with pertussis toxin has no effect on TRH-induced MAPK activation. Incubation of the cells with the...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Palomero T,Barros F,del Camino D,Viloria CG,de la Peña P

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) to the Ah receptor leads to transcriptional activation of several genes and a toxicity syndrome that includes tumor promotion, wasting, hormonal and immune system dysfunction, and death. Recent findings indicate that TCDD may also affect cardiac function. Here, we ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Canga L,Paroli L,Blanck TJ,Silver RB,Rifkind AB

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The local anesthetic-like Na+ channel-blocking drug [3H]PD85639 [alpha-([4-3H]phenyl)-N-[3-(2,6-dimethyl-1-piperizinyl)-alpha-prop yl] [4-3H]benzeneacetamide] binds specifically to receptor sites on Na+ channels in intact synaptosomes and synaptosomal membranes, purified and reconstituted Na+ channels, and type IIA Na...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Thomsen W,Hays SJ,Hicks JL,Schwarz RD,Catterall WA

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ro 11-2465 is a cyanide derivative of imipramine. In cerebral cortex homogenates, [3H] Ro 11-2465 displays a binding profile similar to that of [3H]imipramine. Agents compete with binding of [3H]Ro 11-2465 in an order of potency similar to their ability to block serotonin uptake, and raphe lesions greatly decrease the...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Dumbrille-Ross A,Tang SW

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis, the pathogen responsible for whooping cough, releases a soluble calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase into its culture medium which enters several different types of animal cells and elevates intracellular cAMP. In this study, the influence of B. pertussis adenylate cyclase on intracellular cAMP...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Selfe S,Hunter DD,Shattuck RL,Nathanson NM,Storm DR

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A1 adenosine receptors in bovine cerebral cortex have been solubilized and subjected to sedimentation analysis using sucrose density gradient centrifugation. Because the receptors bound both agonists and antagonists with high affinity after solubilization, receptors labeled with an agonist or an antagonist radioligand...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Leung E,Green RD

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dantrolene was recently identified as a novel inhibitor of the plasmodial surface anion channel (PSAC), an unusual ion channel on Plasmodium falciparum-infected human red blood cells. Because dantrolene is used clinically, has a high therapeutic index, and has desirable chemical synthetic properties, it may be a lead ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kang M,Lisk G,Hollingworth S,Baylor SM,Desai SA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular determinants of high-affinity human ether-a-go-go-related gene (HERG) potassium channel blockade by methanesulfonanilides include two aromatic residues (Phe656 and Tyr652) on the inner helices (S6) and residues on the pore helices that face into the inner cavity, but determinants for lower-affinity HERG ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Witchel HJ,Dempsey CE,Sessions RB,Perry M,Milnes JT,Hancox JC,Mitcheson JS

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:The nuclear pregnane X receptor (PXR) and constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) play central roles in protecting the body against environmental chemicals (xenobiotics). PXR and CAR are activated by a wide range of xenobiotics and regulate cytochrome P450 and other genes whose products are involved in the detoxificati...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Maglich JM,Stoltz CM,Goodwin B,Hawkins-Brown D,Moore JT,Kliewer SA

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00