Tumor target prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) and its regulation in prostate cancer

A Ghosh, WDW Heston - Journal of cellular biochemistry, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA), is a unique membrane bound glycoprotein,
which is overexpressed manifold on prostate cancer as well as neovasculature of most of …

The roles of iron in health and disease

PT Lieu, M Heiskala, PA Peterson, Y Yang - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2001 - Elsevier
Iron is vital for almost all living organisms by participating in a wide variety of metabolic
processes, including oxygen transport, DNA synthesis, and electron transport. However, iron …

The role of excitotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease: implications for therapy

A Doble - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 1999 - Elsevier
Glutamic acid is the principal excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous
system. Glutamic acid binds to a variety of excitatory amino acid receptors, which are ligand …

Expression of prostate-specific membrane antigen in normal and malignant human tissues

Y Kinoshita, K Kuratsukuri, S Landas, K Imaida… - World journal of …, 2006 - Springer
Background Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is upregulated in androgen-
dependent prostate carcinoma and it has been targeted for immunotherapy and diagnosis of …

STEAP: a prostate-specific cell-surface antigen highly expressed in human prostate tumors

RS Hubert, I Vivanco, E Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
In search of novel genes expressed in metastatic prostate cancer, we subtracted cDNA
isolated from benign prostatic hypertrophic tissue from cDNA isolated from a prostate cancer …

[PDF][PDF] Design of remarkably simple, yet potent urea-based inhibitors of glutamate carboxypeptidase II (NAALADase)

AP Kozikowski, F Nan, P Conti, J Zhang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2001 - researchgate.net
Introduction. The amino acid glutamate is present in high concentrations in the mammalian
brain, and it acts as the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the CNS. Through its actions on …

Crystal structure of the ectodomain of human transferrin receptor

CM Lawrence, S Ray, M Babyonyshev, R Galluser… - Science, 1999 - science.org
The transferrin receptor (TfR) undergoes multiple rounds of clathrin-mediated endocytosis
and reemergence at the cell surface, importing iron-loaded transferrin (Tf) and recycling …

Delivery of peptide and protein drugs over the blood–brain barrier

I Brasnjevic, HWM Steinbusch, C Schmitz… - Progress in …, 2009 - Elsevier
Peptide and protein (P/P) drugs have been identified as showing great promises for the
treatment of various neurodegenerative diseases. A major challenge in this regard …

N‐Acetylaspartylglutamate: The Most Abundant Peptide Neurotransmitter in the Mammalian Central Nervous System

JH Neale, T Bzdega… - Journal of neurochemistry, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
In the progress of science, as in life, timing is important. The acidic dipeptide, N‐
acetylaspartylglutamate (NAAG), was discovered in the mammalian nervous system in 1965 …

N-[N-[(S)-1,3-Dicarboxypropyl]Carbamoyl]-4-[18F]Fluorobenzyl-l-Cysteine, [18F]DCFBC: A New Imaging Probe for Prostate Cancer

RC Mease, CL Dusich, CA Foss, HT Ravert… - Clinical Cancer …, 2008 - AACR
Purpose: Previously, we showed successful imaging of xenografts that express the prostate-
specific membrane antigen (PSMA) using small-animal positron emission tomography (PET) …