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7 items found for "Xinzhong Dong"

  • Adrenal G Protein-Coupled Receptors and the Failing Heart: A Long-distance, Yet Intimate Affair

    October 2022 "Systolic heart failure (HF) is a chronic clinical syndrome characterized by the reduction in cardiac function and still remains the disease with the highest mortality worldwide. Despite considerable advances in pharmacological treatment, HF represents a severe clinical and social burden. Chronic human HF is characterized by several important neurohormonal perturbations, emanating from both the autonomic nervous system and the adrenal glands. Circulating catecholamines (norepinephrine and epinephrine) and aldosterone elevations are among the salient alterations that confer significant hormonal burden on the already compromised function of the failing heart. This is why sympatholytic treatments (such as β-blockers) and renin-angiotensin system inhibitors or mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists, which block the effects of angiotensin II (AngII) and aldosterone on the failing heart, are part of the mainstay HF pharmacotherapy presently. The adrenal gland plays an important role in the modulation of cardiac neurohormonal stress because it is the source of almost all aldosterone, of all epinephrine, and of a significant amount of norepinephrine reaching the failing myocardium from the blood circulation. Synthesis and release of these hormones in the adrenals is tightly regulated by adrenal G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), such as adrenergic receptors and AngII receptors. In this review, we discuss important aspects of adrenal GPCR signaling and regulation, as they pertain to modulation of cardiac function in the context of chronic HF, by focusing on the 2 best studied adrenal GPCR types in that context, adrenergic receptors and AngII receptors (AT 1 Rs). Particular emphasis is given to findings from the past decade and a half that highlight the emerging roles of the GPCR-kinases and the β-arrestins in the adrenals, 2 protein families that regulate the signaling and functioning of GPCRs in all tissues, including the myocardium and the adrenal gland." Read more at the source #DrGPCR #GPCR #IndustryNews

  • Regulator of G Protein Signaling 20 Correlates with Long Intergenic Non-Coding RNA (lincRNAs)...

    September 2022 Regulator of G Protein Signaling 20 Correlates with Long Intergenic Non-Coding RNA (lincRNAs ; (d) RGS20 was found to be significantly associated with some tumor-related signaling pathways and long

  • G.CLIPS biotech is 2 years old this month!

    So very grateful to the great hard working team we have and all the great achievements we have done together

  • Biased GPCR signaling by the native parathyroid hormone-related protein 1 to 141 relative to its...

    G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR), the PTH type 1 receptor (PTHR), is largely derived from studies done

  • Therapeutic validation of an orphan G protein‐coupled receptor

    Regarding the second question, there is still a lot to be done in respect to tool compounds to study

  • Glyco-sulfo hotspots in the chemokine receptor system

    In silico analyses done in this study with the NetOGlyc 4.0 prediction algorithm (Steentoft C et al. GSnP-6 displays nanomolar affinity and promising potential for blocking PSGL-1/P-selectin interaction (Wong

  • What's Going On with GPCRs?! Find Out in This Week's Update! ⦿ Nov 4 - 10, 2024

    under diverse states Fan Liu , Han Zhou , Xiaonong Li , Liangliang Zhou , Chungong Yu , Haicang Zhang , Dongbo Award Tectonic Therapeutic Announces Positive Phase 1a Results in AHA 2024 Presentation for TX45, a Long-acting

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