Metabotropic glutamate receptors: from the workbench to the bedside

F Nicoletti, J Bockaert, GL Collingridge, PJ Conn… - …, 2011 - Elsevier
Metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptors were discovered in the mid 1980s and originally
described as glutamate receptors coupled to polyphosphoinositide hydrolysis. Almost 6500 …

Ischemic postconditioning as a novel avenue to protect against brain injury after stroke

H Zhao - Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Ischemic postconditioning initially referred to a stuttering reperfusion performed immediately
after reperfusion, for preventing ischemia/reperfusion injury in both myocardial and cerebral …

Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor signalling and its implication in neurological disease

F M. Ribeiro, M Paquet, S P. Cregan… - CNS & Neurological …, 2010 - benthamdirect.com
Stimulation of Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR1 and mGluR5) leads to
activation of a wide variety of signalling pathways. mGluRs couple to Gαq/11 proteins …

Argon: Neuroprotection in in vitro models of cerebral ischemia and traumatic brain injury

PD Loetscher, J Rossaint, R Rossaint, J Weis, M Fries… - Critical care, 2009 - Springer
Introduction Recently, it has been shown in several experimental settings that the noble
gases xenon and helium have neuroprotective properties. In this study we tested the …

From rapid to delayed and remote postconditioning: the evolving concept of ischemic postconditioning in brain ischemia

H Zhao, C Ren, X Chen, J Shen - Current drug targets, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Ischemic postconditioning is a concept originally defined to contrast with that of ischemic
preconditioning. While both preconditioning and postconditioning confer a neuroprotective …

Metabotropic glutamate receptor-1: a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of breast cancer

CL Speyer, JS Smith, M Banda, JA DeVries… - Breast cancer research …, 2012 - Springer
Metabotropic glutamate receptors are G-protein-coupled receptors normally expressed in
the central nervous system where they mediate neuronal excitability, synaptic plasticity, and …

Excitatory and inhibitory amino acid neurotransmitters in stroke: from neurotoxicity to ischemic tolerance

D Amantea, G Bagetta - Current Opinion in Pharmacology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Clinical trials with neuroprotective drugs have failed in stroke.•Glutamate and
GABA crucially contribute to ischemic pathobiology.•Grabbing glutamate or targeting …

[HTML][HTML] Ischemic postconditioning exerts neuroprotective effect through negatively regulating PI3K/Akt2 signaling pathway by microRNA-124

W Miao, Y Yan, T Bao, W Jia, F Yang, Y Wang… - Biomedicine & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ischemic stroke is a serious threat to human life and health, which is often accompanied by
cerebral ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury in clinic. Ischemic postconditioning (IPostC) is a …

Post‐ischemic brain damage: effect of ischemic preconditioning and postconditioning and identification of potential candidates for stroke therapy

G Pignataro, A Scorziello, G Di Renzo… - The FEBS …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Because clinical trials of pharmacological neuroprotective strategies in stroke have been
disappointing, attention has turned to the brain's own endogenous strategies for …

Metabotropic glutamate receptors in neurodegeneration/neuroprotection: still a hot topic?

F Caraci, G Battaglia, MA Sortino, S Spampinato… - Neurochemistry …, 2012 - Elsevier
Moving from early studies, we here review the most recent evidence linking metabotropic
glutamate (mGlu) receptors to processes of neurodegeneration/neuroprotection. The use of …