Recent Advances on the Role of G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Hypoxia-Mediated Signaling

AAPS Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 305-310

  Lappano, Rosamaria ^a   Rigiracciolo, Damiano ^a   De Marco, Paola ^a   Avino, Silvia ^a   Cappello, Anna Rita ^a   Rosano, Camillo ^b   Maggiolini, Marcello ^a   De Francesco, Ernestina Marianna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; GPCRs; GPER; hypoxia; signal transduction

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 30; G PROTEIN ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; HIF1A PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANGIOGENESIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFORMATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; DRUG DISCOVERY; HUMANS; HYPOXIA; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84959495571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15507416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1208/s12248-016-9881-6     Document Type: Review

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