Glucose transporters in brain in health and disease

H Koepsell - Pflügers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology, 2020 - Springer
Energy demand of neurons in brain that is covered by glucose supply from the blood is
ensured by glucose transporters in capillaries and brain cells. In brain, the facilitative …

Molecular mechanisms of brain water transport

N MacAulay - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Our brains consist of 80% water, which is continuously shifted between different
compartments and cell types during physiological and pathophysiological processes …

High mobility group box-1 and blood–brain barrier disruption

M Nishibori, D Wang, D Ousaka, H Wake - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Increasing evidence suggests that inflammatory responses are involved in the progression
of brain injuries induced by a diverse range of insults, including ischemia, hemorrhage …

ABC transporters at the blood–brain interfaces, their study models, and drug delivery implications in gliomas

D Gomez-Zepeda, M Taghi, JM Scherrmann… - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Drug delivery into the brain is regulated by the blood–brain interfaces. The blood–brain
barrier (BBB), the blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB), and the blood–arachnoid …

Transcriptome analysis reveals sexual disparities in gene expression in rat brain microvessels

PK Chandra, S Cikic, MC Baddoo… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Sex is an important determinant of brain microvessels (MVs) function and susceptibility to
cerebrovascular and neurological diseases, but underlying mechanisms are unclear. Using …

Liquid biopsy enables quantification of the abundance and interindividual variability of hepatic enzymes and transporters

B Achour, ZM Al‐Majdoub… - Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Variability in individual capacity for hepatic elimination of therapeutic drugs is well
recognized and is associated with variable expression and activity of liver enzymes and …

Non-uniformity of changes in drug-metabolizing enzymes and transporters in liver cirrhosis: implications for drug dosage adjustment

E El-Khateeb, B Achour, ZM Al-Majdoub… - Molecular …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Liver cirrhosis is a chronic disease that affects the liver structure, protein expression, and
overall metabolic function. Abundance data for drug-metabolizing enzymes and transporters …

Proteomic quantification of human blood–brain barrier SLC and ABC transporters in healthy individuals and dementia patients

ZM Al-Majdoub, H Al Feteisi, B Achour… - Molecular …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) maintains brain homeostasis by controlling traffic of
molecules from the circulation into the brain. This function is predominantly dependent on …

Quantification of proteins involved in drug metabolism and disposition in the human liver using label-free global proteomics

N Couto, ZM Al-Majdoub, B Achour… - Molecular …, 2019 - ACS Publications
There is an urgent need (recognized in FDA guidance, 2018) to optimize the dose of
medicines given to patients for maximal drug efficacy and limited toxicity (precision dosing) …

Comparison of absolute protein abundances of transporters and receptors among blood–brain barriers at different cerebral regions and the blood–spinal cord barrier …

Y Uchida, Y Yagi, M Takao, M Tano… - Molecular …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This work was designed to clarify the absolute abundances of transporters and receptors at
different cerebral regions of the blood–brain barriers (BBB) and blood–spinal cord barrier …