introduction: long-term levodopa treatment of parkinson’s disease (pd) is frequently complicated by spontaneously occurring involuntary muscle movements called dyskinesia. the exact pathological mechanism of this complication has not yet been elucidated. we have previously demonstrated that in pd patients the vulnerability to develop peripheral but not orofacial dyskinesia is associated with th...

in this paper a general discussion of the available data on the role of prostaglandin (pg) and phosphodiesterase is discussed. functional studies would be a next step to understand the functional meaning of the data described in this paper. the data presented are a basis for further research on selective modulation of the ep1 and ep2 receptor which could be a therapeutic target in functional bl...

C. elegans has numerous putative cell adhesion receptors, many of which have vertebrate homologues. The simple body plan of C. elegans, its optical transparency and genetic tractability make it well suited for the study of adhesion receptors and their associated complexes (reviewed by Cox and Hardin in this issue, pp. 1885-1897). We focus here on receptors that are likely to directly mediate ad...

Background. Desmoid fibromatosis (DF) is a rare mesenchymal tumor with invasive growth, high relapse rate, and low incidence (24 cases per 1 million people year). Given the small number of patients DF and, as result, lack knowledge this disease, search for molecular predictors disease course individualization treatment prevention relevant.
 Aim. To study cells' genetic immunohistochemical ...

Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRRs, [110]) (nomenclature as agreed by NC-IUPHAR sub-committee on Receptors, [20]) participate in the innate immune response to microbial agents, stimulation of which leads activation intracellular enzymes and regulation gene transcription. PRRs express multiple leucine-rich regions bind a range microbially-derived ligands, termed PAMPs or pathogen-associated mol...

Nuclear receptors (NRs) are transcription factors typically regulated by lipophilic hormones, which coordinate metazoan metabolism, development and homeostasis. C. elegans has undergone a remarkable expansion of the family, harboring 284 of these receptors in its genome. Approximately 20 of them have been analyzed genetically, most of which correspond to conserved homologs in other metazoans. T...

introduction: kainic acid (ka) induces neuropathological changes in specific regions of the mouse hippocampus comparable to changes seen in patients with chronic temporal lobe epilepsy (tle). according to different studies, the expression of a number of genes are altered in the adult rat hippocampus after status epilepticus (se) induced by ka. this study aimed to quantitatively evaluate changes...

Inhibition is crucial for normal function in the nervous system. In the CNS, inhibition is mediated primarily by the amino acid GABA via activation of two ionotropic GABA receptors, GABA(A) and GABA(C). GABA(A) receptor composition and function have been well characterized, whereas much less is known about native GABA(C) receptors. Differences in molecular composition, anatomical distributions,...