GABAergic signaling beyond synapses: an emerging target for cancer therapy

D Huang, PB Alexander, QJ Li, XF Wang - Trends in cell biology, 2023 - cell.com
Traditionally, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is best known for its role as a primary inhibitory
neurotransmitter reducing neuronal excitability in the mammalian central nervous system …

Cell culture metabolomics: applications and future directions

M Čuperlović-Culf, DA Barnett, AS Culf, I Chute - Drug discovery today, 2010 - Elsevier
Metabolomics represents a global quantitative assessment of metabolites within a biological
system. The metabolic analysis of cell cultures has many potential applications and …

Germline BRCA2 mutations drive prostate cancers with distinct evolutionary trajectories

RA Taylor, M Fraser, J Livingstone, SMG Espiritu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Germline mutations in the BRCA2 tumour suppressor are associated with both an increased
lifetime risk of developing prostate cancer (PCa) and increased risk of aggressive disease …

Diet-induced changes in maternal gut microbiota and metabolomic profiles influence programming of offspring obesity risk in rats

HA Paul, MR Bomhof, HJ Vogel, RA Reimer - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Maternal obesity and overnutrition during pregnancy and lactation can program an
increased risk of obesity in offspring. In this context, improving maternal metabolism may …

[HTML][HTML] GABAergic signaling as a potential therapeutic target in cancers

Y Yang, L Ren, W Li, Y Zhang, S Zhang, B Ge… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
GABA is the most common inhibitory neurotransmitter in the vertebrate central nervous
system. Synthesized by glutamic acid decarboxylase, GABA could specifically bind with two …

Structure-based profiling of metabolites and isotopomers by NMR

TWM Fan, AN Lane - Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance …, 2008 - Elsevier
Since its introduction in the 1970s, the field of metabolic NMR has made several milestones
of advances, first in the in vivo application of cell suspensions and excised tissues (most …

GABA's control of stem and cancer cell proliferation in adult neural and peripheral niches

SZ Young, A Bordey - Physiology, 2009 - journals.physiology.org
Aside from traditional neurotransmission and regulation of secretion, γ-amino butyric acid
(GABA) through GABAA receptors negatively regulates proliferation of pluripotent and …

TRPC1 binds to caveolin-3 and is regulated by Src kinase–role in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

OL Gervásio, NP Whitehead, EW Yeung… - Journal of cell …, 2008 - journals.biologists.com
Transient receptor potential canonical 1 (TRPC1), a widely expressed calcium (Ca2+)-
permeable channel, is potentially involved in the pathogenesis of Duchenne muscular …

Selective sigma-2 ligands preferentially bind to pancreatic adenocarcinomas: applications in diagnostic imaging and therapy

H Kashiwagi, JE McDunn, PO Simon… - Molecular cancer, 2007 - Springer
Background Resistance to modern adjuvant treatment is in part due to the failure of
programmed cell death. Therefore the molecules that execute the apoptotic program are …

1H-NMR based metabonomic profiling of human esophageal cancer tissue

L Wang, J Chen, L Chen, P Deng, Q Bu, P Xiang, M Li… - Molecular cancer, 2013 - Springer
Background The biomarker identification of human esophageal cancer is critical for its early
diagnosis and therapeutic approaches that will significantly improve patient survival …