Repurposing sigma-1 receptor ligands for COVID-19 therapy?

JM Vela - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Outbreaks of emerging infections, such as COVID-19 pandemic especially, confront health
professionals with the unique challenge of treating patients. With no time to discover new …

The molecular function of σ receptors: past, present, and future

HR Schmidt, AC Kruse - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2019 - cell.com
The σ 1 and σ 2 receptors are enigmatic proteins that have attracted attention for decades
due to the chemical diversity and therapeutic potential of their ligands. However, despite …

Sigmar1's molecular, cellular, and biological functions in regulating cellular pathophysiology

R Aishwarya, CS Abdullah, M Morshed… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Sigma 1 receptor (Sigmar1) is a ubiquitously expressed multifunctional inter-organelle
signaling chaperone protein playing a diverse role in cellular survival. Recessive mutation in …

A chemical genomics-aggrephagy integrated method studying functional analysis of autophagy inducers

T Kataura, E Tashiro, S Nishikawa, K Shibahara… - Autophagy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Macroautophagy/autophagy plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of various human
diseases including neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson disease (PD) and …

Antipsychotics function as epigenetic age regulators in human neuroblastoma cells

J Du, Y Nakachi, A Fujii, S Fujii, M Bundo, K Iwamoto - Schizophrenia, 2022 - nature.com
Recent epigenetic age studies suggested accelerated aging in schizophrenia. Although
antipsychotics may modulate epigenetic age, direct estimation of their roles was impeded …

[HTML][HTML] Ligand docking in the sigma-1 receptor compared to the sigma-1 receptor-BiP complex and the effects of agonists and antagonists on C. elegans lifespans

K Verma, MI Prasanth, T Tencomnao… - Biomedicine & …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Model organisms are commonly used to study human diseases; we set out to
understand the relevance of several model organisms with relation to the σ1R protein. The …

The efficacy and safety of haloperidol for the treatment of delirium in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

J Huang, H Zheng, X Zhu, K Zhang, X Ping - Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Delirium is common during critical illness and is associated with poor outcomes.
Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis to investigate the efficacy and safety of …

[HTML][HTML] High-throughput screening discovers antifibrotic properties of haloperidol by hindering myofibroblast activation

M Rehman, S Vodret, L Braga, C Guarnaccia, F Celsi… - JCI insight, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Fibrosis is a hallmark in the pathogenesis of various diseases, with very limited therapeutic
solutions. A key event in the fibrotic process is the expression of contractile proteins …

[PDF][PDF] Cardiac sigma receptors-an update.

T Stracina, M Nováková - Physiological Research, 2018 - biomed.cas.cz
More than four decades passed since sigma receptors were first mentioned. Since then,
existence of at least two receptor subtypes and their tissue distributions have been …

The unfolded protein response and autophagy as drug targets in neuropsychiatric disorders

V Srinivasan, L Korhonen, D Lindholm - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neurons are polarized in structure with a cytoplasmic compartment extending into dendrites
and a long axon that terminates at the synapse. The high level of compartmentalization …