Receptors, Purinergic P2Y

Adenosine 5'-triphosphate is known to function as a potent extracellular messenger producing its effects via a distinct family of… Expand

Extracellular nucleotides interact with purinergic receptors, which regulate ion transport in a variety of epithelia. With the… Expand

Activation of purinoceptors by extracellular ATP is an important component of the glial response to injury in the central nervous… Expand

It is known that ATP acts as an extracellular messenger mediating Ca2+ signalling in glial cells. Here, the mechanisms involved… Expand

Extracellular nucleotides regulate NaCl transport in some epithelia. However, the effects of nucleotide agonists on NaCl… Expand

Activation of ATP/P2Y purinergic receptors stimulates proliferation of astrocytes, but the mitogenic signaling pathway linked to… Expand

The classification of receptors for adenosine, ATP and ADP (collectively called purinoceptors) has seen a number of developments… Expand

mRNA of the P2u purinoceptor (or nucleotide receptor) is detected both by polymerase chain reaction or Northern blot analyses in… Expand

Bovine aortic endothelial cells in culture contain two coexisting phosphoinositidase C-linked receptors for ATP, the P2y… Expand

1. Suramin, an inhibitor of several types of ATPase, was investigated for its ability to antagonize responses mediated via P2X… Expand