Nitrosative stress and its association with cardiometabolic disorders

I Pérez-Torres, L Manzano-Pech, ME Rubio-Ruíz… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Reactive nitrogen species (RNS) are formed when there is an abnormal increase in the level
of nitric oxide (NO) produced by the inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and/or by the …

Targeting the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor in Alzheimer's disease

L Dwomoh, GS Tejeda, AB Tobin - Neuronal Signaling, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and
despite extensive research, only a few drugs are available for management of the disease …

Molecularly defined circuits for cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary control

A Veerakumar, AR Yung, Y Liu, MA Krasnow - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems regulate the activities of internal
organs, but the molecular and functional diversity of their constituent neurons and circuits …

Safety and tolerability of KarXT (xanomeline–trospium) in a phase 2, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in patients with schizophrenia

CU Correll, AS Angelov, AC Miller, PJ Weiden… - Schizophrenia, 2022 - nature.com
KarXT combines xanomeline, an M1/M4 preferring muscarinic agonist with no direct D2
receptor antagonism, with the peripherally restricted anticholinergic trospium. In …

Regulators of cholinergic signaling in disorders of the central nervous system

K Winek, H Soreq, A Meisel - Journal of Neurochemistry, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cholinergic signaling is crucial in cognitive processes, and degenerating cholinergic
projections are a pathological hallmark in dementia. Use of cholinesterase inhibitors is …

Autoimmune dysautonomia in women with silicone breast implants

G Halpert, A Watad, AM Tsur, A Dotan… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Importance and objectives There is unmet medical need to understand the pathogenic
mechanism of the panoply of clinical manifestations associated with silicone breast implants …

A growing understanding of the role of muscarinic receptors in the molecular pathology and treatment of schizophrenia

B Dean, G Bakker, HR Ueda, AB Tobin… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Pre-clinical models, postmortem and neuroimaging studies all support a role for muscarinic
receptors in the molecular pathology of schizophrenia. From these data it was proposed that …

Pathophysiology and pharmacology of G protein-coupled receptors in the heart

A Grogan, EY Lucero, H Jiang… - Cardiovascular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), comprising the largest superfamily of cell surface
receptors, serve as fundamental modulators of cardiac health and disease owing to their key …

Opportunities and challenges for the development of M1 muscarinic receptor positive allosteric modulators in the treatment for neurocognitive deficits

HTM Nguyen, ET van der Westhuizen… - British Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Targeting allosteric sites of M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (M1 receptors) is a
promising strategy to treat neurocognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and …

Differential actions of muscarinic receptor subtypes in gastric, pancreatic, and colon cancer

A Schledwitz, MH Sundel, M Alizadeh, S Hu… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancers arising from gastrointestinal epithelial cells are common, aggressive, and difficult to
treat. Progress in this area resulted from recognizing that the biological behavior of these …