Simple Summary The translocator protein (TSPO) has been under extensive investigation as
a specific marker in positron emission tomography (PET) to visualize brain lesions following …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) induces physical, cognitive, and psychosocial deficits that affect
millions of patients. TBI activates numerous cellular mechanisms and molecular cascades …

Cancer cells share several properties, high proliferation potential, reprogramed metabolism,
and resistance to apoptotic cues. Acquiring these hallmarks involves changes in key …

The translocator protein (TSPO) is expressed at low levels in the healthy human brain and is
markedly upregulated in response to brain injury and inflammation. This increase in TSPO …

Background Numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders show sex differences in
incidence, age of onset, symptomatology or outcome. Astrocytes, one of the glial cell types of …

How rapid induction of steroid hormone biosynthesis occurs in response to trophic hormone
stimulation of steroidogenic cells has been a subject of intensive investigation for …

Steroidogenesis begins with cholesterol transfer into mitochondria through the
transduceosome, a complex composed of cytosolic proteins that include steroidogenesis …

The voltage dependent anion channel (VDAC), located in the outer mitochondrial
membrane, functions as a major channel allowing passage of small molecules and ions …

TSPO (18 kDa translocator protein) was identified decades ago in a search for peripheral
tissue binding sites for benzodiazepines, and was formerly called the peripheral …

Translocator protein (TSPO), previously known as the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor
(PBR), is an outer mitochondrial membrane protein. TSPO has been shown to cooperate …