Ins and outs of GPCR signaling in primary cilia

KB Schou, LB Pedersen, ST Christensen - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
Primary cilia are specialized microtubule‐based signaling organelles that convey
extracellular signals into a cellular response in most vertebrate cell types. The physiological …

Don't worry, be happy: endocannabinoids and cannabis at the intersection of stress and reward

ND Volkow, AJ Hampson… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Cannabis enables and enhances the subjective sense of well-being by stimulating the
endocannabinoid system (ECS), which plays a key role in modulating the response to …

Multiple forms of endocannabinoid and endovanilloid signaling regulate the tonic control of GABA release

SH Lee, M Ledri, B Tóth, I Marchionni… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Persistent CB1 cannabinoid receptor activity limits neurotransmitter release at various
synapses throughout the brain. However, it is not fully understood how constitutively active …

The cannabinoid receptor CB1 interacts with the WAVE1 complex and plays a role in actin dynamics and structural plasticity in neurons

C Njoo, N Agarwal, B Lutz, R Kuner - PLoS biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The molecular composition of the cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) receptor complex beyond the
classical G-protein signaling components is not known. Using proteomics on mouse cortex …

Protein interactors and trafficking pathways that regulate the cannabinoid type 1 receptor (CB1R)

A Fletcher-Jones, KL Hildick, AJ Evans… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) acts as a negative feedback mechanism to suppress
synaptic transmission and plays a major role in a diverse range of brain functions including …

Integrating endocannabinoid signaling in the regulation of anxiety and depression

A Yin, F Wang, X Zhang - Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2019 - nature.com
Brain endogenous cannabinoid (eCB) signaling seems to harmonize appropriate behavioral
responses, which are essential for the organism's long-term viability and homeostasis …

Inhibiting Endocannabinoid hydrolysis as emerging analgesic strategy targeting a spectrum of ion channels implicated in migraine pain

A Della Pietra, J Savinainen, R Giniatullin - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Migraine is a disabling neurovascular disorder characterized by severe pain with still limited
efficient treatments. Endocannabinoids, the endogenous painkillers, emerged, alternative to …

The C-terminal helix 9 motif in rat cannabinoid receptor type 1 regulates axonal trafficking and surface expression

A Fletcher-Jones, KL Hildick, AJ Evans, Y Nakamura… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Cannabinoid type one receptor (CB1R) is only stably surface expressed in axons, where it
downregulates neurotransmitter release. How this tightly regulated axonal surface polarity is …

Visual-area-specific tonic modulation of GABA release by endocannabinoids sets the activity and coordination of neocortical principal neurons

F Koukouli, M Montmerle, A Aguirre, MDB Van Velze… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Perisomatic inhibition of pyramidal neurons (PNs) coordinates cortical network activity
during sensory processing, and this role is mainly attributed to parvalbumin-expressing …

Cannabinoid receptors modulate neuronal morphology and AnkyrinG density at the axon initial segment

M Tapia, A Dominguez, W Zhang… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Neuronal polarization underlies the ability of neurons to integrate and transmit information.
This process begins early in development with axon outgrowth, followed by dendritic growth …