Role of calcium modulation in the pathophysiology and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

D Baracaldo-Santamaría, SS Avendaño-Lopez… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease and the most frequent
cause of progressive dementia in senior adults. It is characterized by memory loss and …

The calcium-sensing receptor in inflammation: Recent updates

L Iamartino, ML Brandi - Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Calcium-Sensing Receptor (CaSR) is a member of the class C of G-proteins coupled
receptors (GPCRs), it plays a pivotal role in calcium homeostasis by directly controlling …

International union of basic and clinical pharmacology. CVIII. Calcium-sensing receptor nomenclature, pharmacology, and function

K Leach, FM Hannan, TM Josephs, AN Keller… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - ASPET
The calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) is a class CG protein–coupled receptor that responds
to multiple endogenous agonists and allosteric modulators, including divalent and trivalent …

G protein-coupled receptors in neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders

TS Wong, G Li, S Li, W Gao, G Chen, S Gan… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Neuropsychiatric disorders are multifactorial disorders with diverse aetiological factors.
Identifying treatment targets is challenging because the diseases are resulting from …

Danger-sensing/patten recognition receptors and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

A Chiarini, U Armato, P Hu, I Dal Prà - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Fibrillar aggregates and soluble oligomers of both Amyloid-β peptides (Aβs) and
hyperphosphorylated Tau proteins (p-Tau-es), as well as a chronic neuroinflammation are …

NLRP3 Inflammasome's Activation in Acute and Chronic Brain Diseases—An Update on Pathogenetic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Perspectives with Respect to …

A Chiarini, L Gui, C Viviani, U Armato, I Dal Prà - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Increasingly prevalent acute and chronic human brain diseases are scourges for the elderly.
Besides the lack of therapies, these ailments share a neuroinflammation that is …

The nervous system relevance of the calcium sensing receptor in health and disease

ML Giudice, B Mihalik, A Dinnyés, J Kobolák - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
The calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) was first identified in parathyroid glands, and its
primary role in controlling systemic calcium homeostasis by the regulation of parathyroid …

Alzheimer's Disease and Its Possible Evolutionary Origin: Hypothesis

JF Whitfield, K Rennie, B Chakravarthy - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The enormous, 2–3-million-year evolutionary expansion of hominin neocortices to the
current enormity enabled humans to take over the planet. However, there appears to have …

[HTML][HTML] Notch enhances Ca2+ entry by activating calcium-sensing receptors and inhibiting voltage-gated K+ channels

S Song, A Babicheva, T Zhao… - … of Physiology-Cell …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
The increase in cytosolic Ca 2+ concentration ([Ca 2+] cyt) and upregulation of calcium-
sensing receptor (CaSR) and stromal interaction molecule 2 (STIM2) along with inhibition of …

Family C G-protein-coupled receptors in Alzheimer's disease and therapeutic implications

I Dal Prà, U Armato, A Chiarini - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD), particularly its sporadic or late-onset form (SAD/LOAD), is the
most prevalent (96–98% of cases) neurodegenerative dementia in aged people. AD's …