An updated review of lysophosphatidylcholine metabolism in human diseases

SH Law, ML Chan, GK Marathe, F Parveen… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) is increasingly recognized as a key marker/factor positively
associated with cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. However, findings from …

Extracellular cues influencing oligodendrocyte differentiation and (re) myelination

NA Wheeler, B Fuss - Experimental neurology, 2016 - Elsevier
There is an increasing number of neurologic disorders found to be associated with loss
and/or dysfunction of the CNS myelin sheath, ranging from the classic demyelinating …

Downregulated glia interplay and increased miRNA-155 as promising markers to track ALS at an early stage

C Cunha, C Santos, C Gomes, A Fernandes… - Molecular …, 2018 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease of unknown cause.
Absence of specific targets and biomarkers compromise the development of new therapeutic …

Machine-learning based lipid mediator serum concentration patterns allow identification of multiple sclerosis patients with high accuracy

J Lötsch, S Schiffmann, K Schmitz, R Brunkhorst… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Based on increasing evidence suggesting that MS pathology involves alterations in
bioactive lipid metabolism, the present analysis was aimed at generating a complex serum …

Pleotropic roles of autotaxin in the nervous system present opportunities for the development of novel therapeutics for neurological diseases

DR Herr, WS Chew, RL Satish, WY Ong - Molecular neurobiology, 2020 - Springer
Autotaxin (ATX) is a soluble extracellular enzyme that is abundant in mammalian plasma
and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). It has two known enzymatic activities, acting as both a …

Development and therapeutic potential of autotaxin small molecule inhibitors: From bench to advanced clinical trials

AN Matralis, A Afantitis, V Aidinis - Medicinal research reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Several years after its isolation from melanoma cells, an increasing body of experimental
evidence has established the involvement of Autotaxin (ATX) in the pathogenesis of several …

Inhibition of autotaxin ameliorates LPA-mediated neuroinflammation and alleviates neurological dysfunction in acute hepatic encephalopathy

S Roy, M Chakrabarti, H Dasgupta… - ACS Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Growing evidence suggests an essential role of neuroinflammation in behavioral
abnormalities associated with hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Here, we report the …

Lysophospholipids in laboratory medicine

Y Yatomi, M Kurano, H Ikeda, K Igarashi… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Lysophospholipids (LPLs), such as lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), sphingosine 1-phosphate
(S1P), and lysophosphatidylserine (LysoPS), are attracting attention as second-generation …

Autotaxin inhibitors: a patent review (2012-2016)

A Nikolaou, MG Kokotou, D Limnios… - Expert opinion on …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Autotaxin (ATX) is a secreted enzyme that hydrolyzes lysophosphatidylcholine
to lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and choline. The ATX/LPA axis has received increasing …

Lysophospholipids and their producing enzymes: Their pathological roles and potential as pathological biomarkers

S Yaginuma, J Omi, K Kano, J Aoki - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2023 - Elsevier
Accumulating evidence suggests that lysophospholipids (LPL) serve as lipid mediators that
exert their diverse pathophysiological functions via G protein-coupled receptors. These …