The vagus nerve and the inflammatory reflex—linking immunity and metabolism

VA Pavlov, KJ Tracey - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2012 - nature.com
The vagus nerve has an important role in regulation of metabolic homeostasis, and efferent
vagus nerve-mediated cholinergic signalling controls immune function and proinflammatory …

Second-generation antipsychotics and dysregulation of glucose metabolism: beyond weight gain

D Grajales, V Ferreira, ÁM Valverde - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are the cornerstone of treatment for schizophrenia
because of their high clinical efficacy. However, SGA treatment is associated with severe …

Pathophysiological mechanisms of increased cardiometabolic risk in people with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses

DC Henderson, B Vincenzi, NV Andrea… - The Lancet …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Patients with schizophrenia have increased mortality and morbidity compared with the
general population. These patients have a 20-year shorter lifespan than peers without …

Antipsychotic drugs: from receptor-binding profiles to metabolic side effects

S Siafis, D Tzachanis, M Samara… - Current …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Antipsychotic-induced metabolic side effects are major concerns in
psychopharmacology and clinical psychiatry. Their pathogenetic mechanisms are still not …

Improved social interaction, recognition and working memory with cannabidiol treatment in a prenatal infection (poly I: C) rat model

AL Osborne, N Solowij, I Babic, XF Huang… - …, 2017 - nature.com
Neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia are associated with cognitive impairment,
including learning, memory and attention deficits. Antipsychotic drugs are limited in their …

Inhibition of hypothalamic inflammation reverses diet-induced insulin resistance in the liver

M Milanski, AP Arruda, A Coope, LM Ignacio-Souza… - Diabetes, 2012 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Defective liver gluconeogenesis is the main mechanism leading to fasting hyperglycemia in
type 2 diabetes, and, in concert with steatosis, it is the hallmark of hepatic insulin resistance …

Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics in NAMD

YT Pang, Y Miao, Y Wang… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) is a recently developed enhanced
sampling technique that provides efficient free energy calculations of biomolecules. Like the …

Accelerated molecular dynamics simulations of ligand binding to a muscarinic G-protein-coupled receptor

K Kappel, Y Miao, JA McCammon - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2015 - cambridge.org
Elucidating the detailed process of ligand binding to a receptor is pharmaceutically
important for identifying druggable binding sites. With the ability to provide atomistic detail …

Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: theory, implementation, and applications

Y Miao, JA McCammon - Annual reports in computational chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract A novel Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (GaMD) method has been
developed for simultaneous unconstrained enhanced sampling and free energy calculation …

Understanding the effects of antipsychotics on appetite control

S Mukherjee, S Skrede, E Milbank… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Antipsychotic drugs (APDs) represent a cornerstone in the treatment of schizophrenia and
other psychoses. The effectiveness of the first generation (typical) APDs are hampered by so …