Physiology, signaling, and pharmacology of galanin peptides and receptors: three decades of emerging diversity

R Lang, AL Gundlach, FE Holmes, SA Hobson… - Pharmacological …, 2015 - ASPET
Galanin was first identified 30 years ago as a" classic neuropeptide," with actions primarily
as a modulator of neurotransmission in the brain and peripheral nervous system. Other …

Pathogenic variants damage cell composition and single cell transcription in cardiomyopathies

D Reichart, EL Lindberg, H Maatz, AMA Miranda… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Pathogenic variants in genes that cause dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and arrhythmogenic
cardiomyopathy (ACM) convey high risks for the development of heart failure through …

Galanin receptors and ligands

KEB Webling, J Runesson, T Bartfai… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
The neuropeptide galanin was first discovered 30 years ago. Today, the galanin family
consists of galanin, galanin-like peptide (GALP), galanin-message associated peptide …

MicroRNA profiles in hippocampal granule cells and plasma of rats with pilocarpine-induced epilepsy–comparison with human epileptic samples

P Roncon, M Soukupovà, A Binaschi, C Falcicchia… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The identification of biomarkers of the transformation of normal to epileptic tissue would help
to stratify patients at risk of epilepsy following brain injury and inform new treatment …

Neuropeptides in epilepsy

S Kovac, MC Walker - Neuropeptides, 2013 - Elsevier
Neuropeptides play an important role in modulating seizures and epilepsy. Unlike
neurotransmitters which operate on a millisecond time-scale, neuropeptides have longer …

Development of spexin-based human galanin receptor type II-specific agonists with increased stability in serum and anxiolytic effect in mice

A Reyes-Alcaraz, YN Lee, GH Son, NH Kim, DK Kim… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The novel neuropeptide spexin (SPX) was discovered to activate galanin receptor 2
(GALR2) and 3 (GALR3) but not galanin receptor 1 (GALR1). Although GALR2 is known to …

G protein-coupled receptors in acquired epilepsy: Druggability and translatability

Y Yu, DT Nguyen, J Jiang - Progress in neurobiology, 2019 - Elsevier
As the largest family of membrane proteins in the human genome, G protein-coupled
receptors (GPCRs) constitute the targets of more than one-third of all modern medicinal …

Strain differences in seizure-induced cell death following pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus

PE Schauwecker - Neurobiology of disease, 2012 - Elsevier
Mouse strains differ from one another in their susceptibility to seizure-induced excitotoxic
cell death. Previously, we have demonstrated that mature inbred strains of mice show …

Repeated low-dose kainate administration in C57BL/6J mice produces temporal lobe epilepsy pathology but infrequent spontaneous seizures

AD Umpierre, IV Bennett, LD Nebeker, TG Newell… - Experimental …, 2016 - Elsevier
More efficient or translationally relevant approaches are needed to model acquired temporal
lobe epilepsy (TLE) in genetically tractable mice. The high costs associated with breeding …

[HTML][HTML] Activation of galanin receptor 1 with M617 attenuates neuronal apoptosis via ERK/GSK-3β/TIP60 pathway after subarachnoid hemorrhage in rats

H Shi, Y Fang, L Huang, L Gao, C Lenahan, T Okada… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a devastating cerebrovascular disease. Neuronal
apoptosis plays an important pathological role in early brain injury after SAH. Galanin …