DREADDs (designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs): chemogenetic tools with therapeutic utility

DJ Urban, BL Roth - Annual review of pharmacology and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
In the past decade, emerging synthetic biology technologies such as chemogenetics have
dramatically transformed how pharmacologists and systems biologists deconstruct the …

Chemogenetic tools to interrogate brain functions

SM Sternson, BL Roth - Annual review of neuroscience, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Elucidating the roles of neuronal cell types for physiology and behavior is essential for
understanding brain functions. Perturbation of neuron electrical activity can be used to probe …

Adenosine receptors as therapeutic targets

KA Jacobson, ZG Gao - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2006 - nature.com
Adenosine receptors are major targets of caffeine, the most commonly consumed drug in the
world. There is growing evidence that they could also be promising therapeutic targets in a …

Physiological control of immune response and inflammatory tissue damage by hypoxia-inducible factors and adenosine A2A receptors

MV Sitkovsky, D Lukashev, S Apasov… - Annu. Rev …, 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Immune cell–mediated destruction of pathogens may result in excessive collateral
damage to normal tissues, and the failure to control activated immune cells may cause …

Remote control of neuronal signaling

SC Rogan, BL Roth, AL Morrow - Pharmacological reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
A significant challenge for neuroscientists is to determine how both electrical and chemical
signals affect the activity of cells and circuits and how the nervous system subsequently …

Chemical genetics

DP Walsh, YT Chang - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
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Chemogenetic modulation of astrocytes and microglia: State‐of‐the‐art and implications in neuroscience

J Bossuyt, Y Van Den Herrewegen, L Nestor, A Buckinx… - Glia, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Insights into the role astrocytes and microglia play in normal and diseased brain functioning
has expanded drastically over the last decade. Recently, chemogenetic tools have emerged …

Use of the A2A adenosine receptor as a physiological immunosuppressor and to engineer inflammation in vivo

MV Sitkovsky - Biochemical pharmacology, 2003 - Elsevier
Inflammation must be inhibited in order to treat, eg, sepsis or autoimmune diseases or must
be selectively enhanced to improve, for example, immunotherapies of tumors or the …

Structural Determinants of A3 Adenosine Receptor Activation:  Nucleoside Ligands at the Agonist/Antagonist Boundary

ZG Gao, SK Kim, T Biadatti, W Chen… - Journal of medicinal …, 2002 - ACS Publications
Mutagenesis of the human A3 adenosine receptor (AR) suggested that certain amino acid
residues contributed differently to ligand binding and activation processes. Here we …

Pharmacological targeting of adenosine receptor signaling

M Peleli, BB Fredholm, L Sobrevia… - Molecular aspects of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Adenosine receptor signaling plays important roles in normal physiology, but is also known
to modulate the development or progression of several different diseases. The design of …