Effect of calcium on halothane-depressed beating in heart cells in culture.

abstract：:Nefiracetam (DM-9384) is a new pyrrolidone nootropic drug being developed for the treatment of Alzheimer's type and poststroke vascular-type dementia. Because the cholinergic system plays an important role in cognitive functions and Alzheimer's disease dementia, the present study was conducted to elucidate the mechani...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Zhao X,Kuryatov A,Lindstrom JM,Yeh JZ,Narahashi T

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:Organic anion transporter-1 (OAT1) mediates the body disposition of a diverse array of clinically important drugs, including anti-HIV therapeutics, antitumor drugs, antibiotics, antihypertensives, and anti-inflammatories. Therefore, understanding the regulation of OAT1 has profound clinical significance. We previously...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Li S,Zhang Q,You G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite some blockbuster G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) drugs, only a small fraction (∼ 15%) of the more than 390 nonodorant GPCRs have been successfully targeted by the pharmaceutical industry. One way that this issue might be addressed is via translation of recent deorphanization programs that have opened the pro...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Bolognini D,Tobin AB,Milligan G,Moss CE

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In PC12 cells stably expressing alpha(1A)-adrenergic receptors (ARs), norepinephrine (NE) activates several mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways and causes differentiation (). Using retroviral luciferase reporters, we found that NE also activated both signal transducers and activators of transcription (Stat) and ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Zhong H,Murphy TJ,Minneman KP

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma differentiation associated gene-7 (mda-7)/interleukin-24 (IL-24), a member of the IL-10 cytokine gene family, preferentially induces cell death in neoplastic epithelial cells types while sparing their normal counterparts. The effects of mda-7/IL-24 in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells have not been extensive...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Rahmani M,Mayo M,Dash R,Sokhi UK,Dmitriev IP,Sarkar D,Dent P,Curiel DT,Fisher PB,Grant S

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently developed stable isotope dilution liquid chromatography-multiple reaction/mass spectrometry method to quantify focal adhesion kinase (FAK) activation loop phosphorylation was used to study endogenous Src kinase activity. This revealed that bis-phosphorylated pTyr(576)/Tyr(577)-FAK was a biomarker of Src act...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Ciccimaro E,Hanks SK,Blair IA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several novel phenylaminotetralins (PATs) cause functional changes in brain that are associated with binding to saturable, high affinity sites that are not identical to any known central nervous system receptor. These PATs were tested for their ability to cause receptor-mediated functional effects on tyrosine hydroxyl...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Booth RG,Wyrick SD,Baldessarini RJ,Kula NS,Myers AM,Mailman RB

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both human ether-à-go-go-related gene (hERG1) and the closely related human ether-à-go-go (hEAG1) channel are aberrantly expressed in a large proportion of human cancers. In the present study, we demonstrate that transfection of hERG1 into mouse fibroblasts is sufficient to induce many features characteristic of malig...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Pier DM,Shehatou GS,Giblett S,Pullar CE,Trezise DJ,Pritchard CA,Challiss RA,Mitcheson JS

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of high potency agonists has restricted analysis of the G protein-coupled receptor GPR35. Moreover, marked variation in potency and/or affinity of current ligands between human and rodent orthologs of GPR35 has limited their productive use in rodent models of physiology. Based on the reported modest potency of th...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： MacKenzie AE,Caltabiano G,Kent TC,Jenkins L,McCallum JE,Hudson BD,Nicklin SA,Fawcett L,Markwick R,Charlton SJ,Milligan G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the block of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors by n-alkyl (straight chain) diamines and related monoamines and triamines using whole-cell voltage clamp recording of NMDA receptor currents in cultured rat hippocampal neurons and [3H] dizocilpine binding to rat forebrain homogenates. At -60 mV, the diami...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Subramaniam S,Donevan SD,Rogawski MA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosolic sulfotransferase 1C3 (SULT1C3) is the least characterized of the three human SULT1C subfamily members. Originally identified as an orphan SULT by computational analysis of the human genome, we recently reported that SULT1C3 is expressed in human intestine and LS180 colorectal adenocarcinoma cells and is upre...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Dubaisi S,Fang H,Kocarek TA,Runge-Morris M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbonic anhydrase (CA) isozyme (IV) in microsomes is thought to have a dominant role in secretory processes. Using microsomes from bovine kidney and lung (which had the same activity), we have measured the Km and kcat for CO2 hydration and compared these numbers with those for CA I (red blood cells and gut), CA I...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Maren TH,Wynns GC,Wistrand PJ

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retina from 1-day-old chicks is a valuable tissue model for studying neuronal nicotinic receptors because it expresses a large number of the developmentally regulated high affinity [(3)H]epibatidine labeled nicotinic receptors. Most of these receptors contain the beta4 subunit associated with different alpha subunits....

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Barabino B,Vailati S,Moretti M,McIntosh JM,Longhi R,Clementi F,Gotti C

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropeptides vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide (PACAP) and their class II G protein-coupled receptors VPAC(1), VPAC(2), and PAC(1) play important roles in human physiology. No small molecule modulator has ever been reported for the VIP/PACAP receptors, and ther...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Chu A,Caldwell JS,Chen YA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor cell resistance to anthracyclines and epipodophyllotoxins can be due to reduced drug accumulation and/or alterations in the activity of topoisomerase II (TOPO II). HL-60 cells selected in 0.05 micrograms/ml doxorubicin (DOX) are 10-fold and > 20-fold resistant to DOX and etoposide (VP-16), respectively. The accu...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Ganapathi R,Constantinou A,Kamath N,Dubyak G,Grabowski D,Krivacic K

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor δ (PPARδ) has been implicated in vascular pathophysiology. However, its functions in atherogenic changes of the vascular wall have not been fully elucidated. PPARδ activated by GW501516 (2-[2-methyl-4-[[4-methyl-2-[4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1,3-thiazol-5-yl]methylsulfanyl]ph...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Hwang JS,Ham SA,Yoo T,Lee WJ,Paek KS,Lee CH,Seo HG

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established that two Xbal polymorphic restriction fragments [11.5 and 44 kilobases (kb)] hydridizing to a full length debrisoquin hydroxylase cDNA are associated with two different mutant alleles for the debrisoquin hydroxylase gene (IID6). An independent allele, defined by Xbal 16- and 9-kb frag...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Evans WE,Relling MV

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Conotoxins are subtype-selective nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) antagonists. Although potent α3β2 nAChR-selective α-conotoxins have been identified, currently characterized α-conotoxins show no or only weak affinity for α4β2 nAChRs, which are, besides α7 receptors, the most abundant nAChRs in the mammalian...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Beissner M,Dutertre S,Schemm R,Danker T,Sporning A,Grubmüller H,Nicke A

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin [5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)] receptors are distinguished pharmacologically by their characteristic affinities for agonists and antagonists. Two serotonin receptors, the 5-HT2 and 5-HT1c, share a number of pharmacologic and structural properties while differing in their affinities for certain agonists and ant...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Choudhary MS,Craigo S,Roth BL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying novel mechanisms to enhance glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor signaling may enable nascent medicinal chemistry strategies with the aim of developing new orally available therapeutic agents for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that selectively modulating ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Willard FS,Wootten D,Showalter AD,Savage EE,Ficorilli J,Farb TB,Bokvist K,Alsina-Fernandez J,Furness SG,Christopoulos A,Sexton PM,Sloop KW

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Inhibition of multidrug resistance protein 1 (MRP1) mediated cytostatic drug efflux might be useful in the treatment of drug resistant tumors. Because the glutathione (GSH) conjugate of ethacrynic acid (EA), GS-EA, is a good substrate of MRP1, GS-EA derivatives are expected to be good inhibitors of MRP1. To study stru...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Burg D,Wielinga P,Zelcer N,Saeki T,Mulder GJ,Borst P

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thromboxane A2 stimulation of smooth muscle cells contributes to the development of vascular lesions after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. In view of this, we examined the signaling pathways stimulated by a thromboxane receptor agonist, U-46619, in cultures of rat aortic smooth muscle cells. Treatment ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Jones DA,Benjamin CW,Linseman DA

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac function is regulated by many hormones and neurotransmitters that exert their physiological effects through the activation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Identification of new GPCRs that might display a specific pattern of expression within the heart and differentially regulate specific cardiac functi...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Moore-Morris T,Varrault A,Mangoni ME,Le Digarcher A,Negre V,Dantec C,Journot L,Nargeot J,Couette B

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:This study demonstrates the presence of a novel endothelin (ET) receptor subtype that displays high affinity for both ETA- and ETB-selective ligands. This subtype has been identified in canine spleen membranes using ETB-selective agonists ET-3, IRL-1620, sarafotoxin 6c (S6c) as well as ETA-selective antagonists BQ123 ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Nambi P,Pullen M,Kincaid J,Nuthulaganti P,Aiyar N,Brooks DP,Gellai M,Kumar C

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin 5-HT(2B) receptors are often coexpressed with 5-HT(1B) receptors, and cross-talk between the two receptors has been reported in various cell types. However, many mechanistic details underlying 5-HT(1B) and 5-HT(2B) receptor cross-talk have not been elucidated. We hypothesized that 5-HT(2B) and 5-HT(1B) recep...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Janoshazi A,Deraet M,Callebert J,Setola V,Guenther S,Saubamea B,Manivet P,Launay JM,Maroteaux L

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian A2-adenosine receptor binding subunits (A2AR) can be visualized by covalent labeling with the photoaffinity crosslinking ligand 125I-2-[4-[2-[2-[(4-aminophenyl)methylcarbonylamino] ethylaminocarbonyl]ethyl]phenyl]ethylamino-5'-N-ethylcarboxamidoad enosine or directly with the azide derivative described in th...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Barrington WW,Jacobson KA,Stiles GL

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between receptor number and agonist-induced intracellular responses has been well studied in receptors coupled to adenylate cyclase; however, for receptors coupled to phospholipase C (PLC), very little is known about the effect of receptor number on receptor-mediated processes. To explore this issue, ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Tsuda T,Kusui T,Hou W,Benya RV,Akeson MA,Kroog GS,Battey JF,Jensen RT

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00