Current concepts and treatments of schizophrenia

P Stępnicki, M Kondej, AA Kaczor - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness which involves three groups of symptoms, ie,
positive, negative and cognitive, and has major public health implications. According to …

International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. CX. Classification of receptors for 5-hydroxytryptamine; pharmacology and function

NM Barnes, GP Ahern, C Becamel, J Bockaert… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - ASPET
5-HT receptors expressed throughout the human body are targets for established
therapeutics and various drugs in development. Their diversity of structure and function …

Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons

S Yun, B Yang, JD Anair, MM Martin, SW Fleps… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Elevated dopamine transmission in psychosis is assumed to unbalance striatal output
through D1-and D2-receptor-expressing spiny-projection neurons (SPNs). Antipsychotic …

Ultra-large library docking for discovering new chemotypes

J Lyu, S Wang, TE Balius, I Singh, A Levit, YS Moroz… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Despite intense interest in expanding chemical space, libraries containing hundreds-of-
millions to billions of diverse molecules have remained inaccessible. Here we investigate …

Biased signalling: from simple switches to allosteric microprocessors

JS Smith, RJ Lefkowitz, S Rajagopal - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest class of receptors in the human
genome and some of the most common drug targets. It is now well established that GPCRs …

DREADDs for neuroscientists

BL Roth - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
To understand brain function, it is essential that we discover how cellular signaling specifies
normal and pathological brain function. In this regard, chemogenetic technologies represent …

How ligands illuminate GPCR molecular pharmacology

D Wacker, RC Stevens, BL Roth - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which are modulated by a variety of endogenous and
synthetic ligands, represent the largest family of druggable targets in the human genome …

Structure of the D2 dopamine receptor bound to the atypical antipsychotic drug risperidone

S Wang, T Che, A Levit, BK Shoichet, D Wacker… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that has been implicated in processes as diverse as reward,
addiction, control of coordinated movement, metabolism and hormonal secretion …

[HTML][HTML] Crystal structure of an LSD-bound human serotonin receptor

D Wacker, S Wang, JD McCorvy, RM Betz… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The prototypical hallucinogen LSD acts via serotonin receptors, and here we describe the
crystal structure of LSD in complex with the human serotonin receptor 5-HT 2B. The complex …

Dopamine receptors–IUPHAR R eview 13

JM Beaulieu, S Espinoza… - British journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The variety of physiological functions controlled by dopamine in the brain and periphery is
mediated by the D 1, D 2, D 3, D 4 and D 5 dopamine GPCRs. Drugs acting on dopamine …