| | Editorial First joint Italian-German Purine Club meeting “Progress in Purinergic Receptor Pharmacology and Function” Francesco Caciagli and Francesco Di Virgilio PMCID: PMC2096657 Articles The P2Y4 receptor forms homo-oligomeric complexes in several CNS and PNS neuronal cells Nadia D’Ambrosi, Monia Iafrate, Fabrizio Vacca, Susanna Amadio, Alessandro Tozzi, Nicola B. Mercuri, and Cinzia Volonté PMCID: PMC2096661 Novel selective antagonist radioligands for the pharmacological study of A2B adenosine receptors Stefania Gessi, Katia Varani, Stefania Merighi, Edward Leung, Stephen Mac Lennan, Pier Giovanni Baraldi, and Pier Andrea Borea PMCID: PMC2096665 Molecular modelling study of 2-phenylethynyladenosine (PEAdo) derivatives as highly selective A3 adenosine receptor ligands Diego Dal Ben, Catia Lambertucci, Sara Taffi, Sauro Vittori, Rosaria Volpini, Gloria Cristalli, and Karl-Norbert Klotz PMCID: PMC2096654 Roles of P2 receptors in glial cells: focus on astrocytes Maria P. Abbracchio and Stefania Ceruti PMCID: PMC2096663 Different patterns of Ca2+ signals are induced by low compared to high concentrations of P2Y agonists in microglia S. Visentin, C. De Nuccio, and G. C. Bellenchi PMCID: PMC2096653 Modulation of the Akt/Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK pathway by A3 adenosine receptor Stefania Merighi, Annalisa Benini, Prisco Mirandola, Stefania Gessi, Katia Varani, Edward Leung, Stephen MacLennan, Pier Giovanni Baraldi, and Pier Andrea Borea PMCID: PMC2096659 Signal transduction events induced by extracellular guanosine 5′ triphosphate in excitable cells T. Pietrangelo, S. Guarnieri, S. Fulle, G. Fanò, and M. A. Mariggiò PMCID: PMC2096655 Guanosine effect on cholesterol efflux and apolipoprotein E expression in astrocytes Patrizia Ballerini, Renata Ciccarelli, Patrizia Di Iorio, Silvana Buccella, Iolanda D’Alimonte, Patricia Giuliani, Arianna Masciulli, Eleonora Nargi, Alina Beraudi, Michel P. Rathbone, and Francesco Caciagli PMCID: PMC2096658 Non-adenine based purines accelerate wound healing Shucui Jiang, Caleb C.J. Zavitz, Jian Wang, Amit Saraf, Robert Zielinski, James D. Ramsbottom, Patrizia Ballerini, Iolanda D’Alimonte, Silvia Romano, Gemma Fischione, Ugo Traversa, Eva S. Werstiuk, and Michel P. Rathbone PMCID: PMC2096660 Features of adenosine metabolism of mouse heart Andreas Deussen, Johannes Weichsel, and Annette Pexa PMCID: PMC2096662 Recent advances in structure and function of cytosolic IMP-GMP specific 5′-nucleotidase II (cN-II) Piero Luigi Ipata and Maria Grazia Tozzi PMCID: PMC2096664 Mini Review Is the functional interaction between adenosine A2A receptors and metabotropic glutamate 5 receptors a general mechanism in the brain? Differences and similarities between the striatum and the hippocampus M. T. Tebano, A. Martire, R. Pepponi, M. R. Domenici, and P. Popoli PMCID: PMC2096652 Erratum P2X5 and P2X7 receptors in human warts and CIN 612 organotypic raft cultures of human papillomavirus infected keratinocytes Aina V.H. Greig, Scott Cuthill, Claire Linge, Elizabeth Clayton, and Geoffrey Burnstock PMCID: PMC2096656 Corrects: Aina V.H. Greig, et al. P2X5 and P2X7 receptors in human warts and CIN-612 organotypic raft cultures of human papillomavirus infected keratinocytes. Purinergic Signal. 2006 September; 2(3): 509–515. |
