REV-ERB and ROR nuclear receptors as drug targets

DJ Kojetin, TP Burris - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
The nuclear receptors REV-ERB (consisting of REV-ERBα and REV-ERBβ) and retinoic acid
receptor-related orphan receptors (RORs; consisting of RORα, RORβ and RORγ) are …

Physiology of circadian entrainment

DA Golombek, RE Rosenstein - Physiological reviews, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Mammalian circadian rhythms are controlled by endogenous biological oscillators, including
a master clock located in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN). Since the period …

Natriuretic peptides: their structures, receptors, physiologic functions and therapeutic applications

LR Potter, AR Yoder, DR Flora, LK Antos… - … generators, effectors and …, 2009 - Springer
Natriuretic peptides are a family of three structurally related hormone/paracrine factors. Atrial
natriuretic peptide (ANP) and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) are secreted from the cardiac …

Concepts of neural nitric oxide‐mediated transmission

J Garthwaite - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
As a chemical transmitter in the mammalian central nervous system, nitric oxide (NO) is still
thought a bit of an oddity, yet this role extends back to the beginnings of the evolution of the …

Distribution of CaMKIIα expression in the brain in vivo, studied by CaMKIIα-GFP mice

X Wang, C Zhang, G Szábo, QQ Sun - Brain research, 2013 - Elsevier
To facilitate the study of the CaMKIIα function in vivo, a CaMKIIα-GFP transgenic mouse line
was generated. Here, our goal is to provide the first neuroanatomical characterization of …

Mitochondria need their sleep: redox, bioenergetics, and temperature regulation of circadian rhythms and the role of cysteine-mediated redox signaling, uncoupling …

RB Richardson, RJ Mailloux - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Highlights What are the main findings? Hypothesis: Redox, bioenergetic and temperature
regulation is critical in maintaining cellular circadian rhythms; wakefulness is mainly …

Ion channels controlling circadian rhythms in suprachiasmatic nucleus excitability

JRM Harvey, AE Plante… - Physiological …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Animals synchronize to the environmental day-night cycle by means of an internal circadian
clock in the brain. In mammals, this timekeeping mechanism is housed in the …

Dipper and non-dipper blood pressure 24-hour patterns: circadian rhythm–dependent physiologic and pathophysiologic mechanisms

F Fabbian, MH Smolensky, R Tiseo… - Chronobiology …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Neuroendocrine mechanisms are major determinants of the normal 24-h blood pressure
(BP) pattern. At the central level, integration of the major driving factors of this temporal …

Biological adaptations in the Arctic cervid, the reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)

Z Lin, L Chen, X Chen, Y Zhong, Y Yang, W Xia, C Liu… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) are naturally distributed across the Arctic
and subarctic regions. Consequently, these animals have evolved to face numerous …

Nitric oxide in fungi: is there NO light at the end of the tunnel?

D Cánovas, JF Marcos, AT Marcos, J Strauss - Current genetics, 2016 - Springer
Nitric oxide (NO) is a remarkable gaseous molecule with multiple and important roles in
different organisms, including fungi. However, the study of the biology of NO in fungi has …