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Effects of antidepressants on P2X7 receptors

Psychiatry Research, 2016
Antidepressants including paroxetine, fluoxetine and desipramine are commonly used for treating depression. P2×7 receptors are member of the P2X family. Recent studies indicate that these receptors may constitute a novel potential target for the treatment of depression. In the present study, we examined the action of these antidepressants on cloned rat
Wei, Wang   +4 more
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The P2X7 Receptor

2017
The P2X7 receptor is a trimeric ion channel gated by extracellular adenosine 5'-triphosphate. The receptor is present on an increasing number of different cells types including stem, blood, glial, neural, ocular, bone, dental, exocrine, endothelial, muscle, renal and skin cells.
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Analyzing the Role of the P2X7 Receptor in Epilepsy

2022
Purinergic signaling is increasingly recognized to play a role during the generation of hyperexcitable networks in the brain. Among the purinergic receptors, the ionotropic ATP-gated P2X7 receptor has attracted particular attention as a possible drug target for epilepsy.
Mariana, Alves   +2 more
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Regulation of Immune Response by P2X7 Receptor

Critical Reviews™ in Immunology, 2006
The P2X7 receptor is an ATP-gated cation channel that is widely expressed in cells of the immune system. Signal transduction is accompanied by fast influx of Ca2+ and Na+, and efflux of K+. This receptor differs from other members of the P2X family in its relatively low affinity for ATP, the presence of a long C-terminal region that contains several ...
Lanfen, Chen, Celia F, Brosnan
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Agonists, Antagonists, and Modulators of P2X7 Receptors

2022
The P2X7 receptor has been proposed as a novel drug target for different types of diseases associated with inflammation, including brain diseases, peripheral inflammation, and cancers. Structurally diverse P2X7 receptor antagonists, mainly negative allosteric modulators (NAMs), have been developed in recent years, and several P2X7 receptor antagonists ...
Christa E. Müller   +1 more
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The role of microglia and P2X7 receptors in gliomas

Journal of Neuroimmunology, 2019
Gliomas are the most prevalent tumours of the central nervous system and present with high morbidity and mortality. The most common and most aggressive form of glioma is glioblastoma multiforme, of which patients have a median survival time of only 12 to 15 months.
Liyen Katrina, Kan   +4 more
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Molecular Probes for P2X7 Receptor Studies

Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2007
The ionotropic P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) has become the focus of intense research interest for a number of reasons: i) it is a cation selective ion channel that is modulated by extracellular ATP. Upon stimulation by high concentrations of ATP it generates a non-selective membrane pore which is permeable to hydrophilic molecules with molecular weight up to ...
Gunosewoyo, Hendra   +2 more
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Roles of P2X7 Receptor in Glial and Neuroblastoma Cells: The Therapeutic Potential of P2X7 Receptor Antagonists

Molecular Neurobiology, 2010
Recently, one of the P2 purinergic receptors, the P2X(7) receptor, has been extensively studied in nervous system and important functions have been revealed in both astrocytes and microglia. Stimulation of the receptors induces a sustained and nondesensitized increase in intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)).
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P2X7 receptor antagonism in the treatment of cancers

Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs, 2011
ATP-gated P2X7 receptors (P2X7) make a unique family of extracellular ATP-activated plasma membrane ion channels expressed in haematopoietic and epithelial cells. They have been extensively studied in immune cells where their activation leads to the rapid release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and the initiation of the inflammatory cascade.
Sébastien, Roger, Pablo, Pelegrin
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P2X7 receptor antagonism: Implications in diabetic retinopathy

Biochemical Pharmacology, 2017
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most frequent complication of diabetes and one of leading causes of blindness worldwide. Early phases of DR are characterized by retinal pericyte loss mainly related to concurrent inflammatory process. Recently, an important link between P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) and inflammation has been demonstrated indicating this ...
Platania C   +6 more
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