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 …

Common activation mechanism of class A GPCRs

Q Zhou, D Yang, M Wu, Y Guo, W Guo, L Zhong, X Cai… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Class A G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) influence virtually every aspect of human
physiology. Understanding receptor activation mechanism is critical for discovering novel …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacogenomics of GPCR drug targets

AS Hauser, S Chavali, I Masuho, LJ Jahn… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Natural genetic variation in the human genome is a cause of individual differences in
responses to medications and is an underappreciated burden on public health. Although …

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 …

Drug–target interaction prediction: databases, web servers and computational models

X Chen, CC Yan, X Zhang, X Zhang, F Dai… - Briefings in …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Identification of drug–target interactions is an important process in drug discovery. Although
high-throughput screening and other biological assays are becoming available …

PRESTO-Tango as an open-source resource for interrogation of the druggable human GPCRome

WK Kroeze, MF Sassano, XP Huang, K Lansu… - Nature structural & …, 2015 - nature.com
G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) are essential mediators of cellular signaling and are
important targets of drug action. Of the approximately 350 nonolfactory human GPCRs, more …

Regulation of immune responses by tuft cells

C Schneider, CE O'Leary, RM Locksley - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Tuft cells are rare, secretory epithelial cells that generated scant immunological interest until
contemporaneous reports in 2016 linked tuft cells with type 2 immunity in the small intestine …

Structure-function of the G protein–coupled receptor superfamily

V Katritch, V Cherezov… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
During the past few years, crystallography of G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) has
experienced exponential growth, resulting in the determination of the structures of 16 distinct …

Psychedelics as anti-inflammatory agents

TW Flanagan, CD Nichols - International Review of Psychiatry, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) 2A receptor agonists have recently emerged
as promising new treatment options for a variety of disorders. The recent success of these …