Adenosine receptor antagonists: Recent advances and therapeutic perspective

A Saini, R Patel, S Gaba, G Singh, GD Gupta… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Adenosine is an endogenous purine-based nucleoside expressed nearly in all body tissues.
It regulates various body functions by activating four G-protein coupled receptors, A 1, A 2A …

Ectonucleotidases in acute and chronic inflammation

AL Giuliani, AC Sarti, F Di Virgilio - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ectonucleotidases are extracellular enzymes with a pivotal role in inflammation that
hydrolyse extracellular purine and pyrimidine nucleotides, eg, ATP, UTP, ADP, UDP, AMP …

Uncovering the Mechanisms of Adenosine Receptor-Mediated Pain Control: Focus on the A3 Receptor Subtype

E Coppi, F Cherchi, E Lucarini, C Ghelardini… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agonists of the Gi protein-coupled A3 adenosine receptor (A3AR) have shown important
pain-relieving properties in preclinical settings of several pain models. Active as a …

A2B Adenosine Receptors: When Outsiders May Become an Attractive Target to Treat Brain Ischemia or Demyelination

E Coppi, I Dettori, F Cherchi, I Bulli, M Venturini… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Adenosine is a signaling molecule, which, by activating its receptors, acts as an important
player after cerebral ischemia. Here, we review data in the literature describing A2BR …

The pathophysiology and treatment of essential tremor: the role of adenosine and dopamine receptors in animal models

B Kosmowska, J Wardas - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common neurological disorders that often affects
people in the prime of their lives, leading to a significant reduction in their quality of life …

Update on the recent development of allosteric modulators for adenosine receptors and their therapeutic applications

S Pasquini, C Contri, M Cappello, PA Borea… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Adenosine receptors (ARs) have been identified as promising therapeutic targets for
countless pathological conditions, spanning from inflammatory diseases to central nervous …

Selective activation of Gαob by an adenosine A1 receptor agonist elicits analgesia without cardiorespiratory depression

MJ Wall, E Hill, R Huckstepp, K Barkan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of therapeutic agonists for G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is
hampered by the propensity of GPCRs to couple to multiple intracellular signalling …

Therapeutic Potential of Highly Selective A3 Adenosine Receptor Ligands in the Central and Peripheral Nervous System

E Coppi, F Cherchi, M Venturini, E Lucarini… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ligands of the Gi protein-coupled adenosine A3 receptor (A3R) are receiving increasing
interest as attractive therapeutic tools for the treatment of a number of pathological …

The role of adenosine A1 receptor on immune cells

L Zhong, Q Peng, X Zeng - Inflammation Research, 2022 - Springer
Background Adenosine, acting as a regulator by mediating the activation of G protein-
coupled adenosine receptor families (A1, A2A, A2B, and A3), plays an important role under …

Purinergic signaling in endometriosis-associated pain

C Trapero, M Martín-Satué - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent gynecological disease, with an associated chronic
inflammatory component, characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the …