Dopamine D3 receptor antagonists as therapeutic agents

JN Joyce, MJ Millan - Drug discovery today, 2005 - Elsevier
The behavioral and pathophysiological role of the dopamine D3 receptor, which was
deduced from anatomical, lesion and drug treatment studies in the ten years following …

Adenosine A2A receptors, dopamine D2 receptors and their interactions in Parkinson's disease

K Fuxe, D Marcellino, S Genedani… - … : official journal of the …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Future therapies in Parkinson's disease may substantially build on the existence of intra‐
membrane receptor–receptor interactions in DA receptor containing heteromeric receptor …

Phenotypic analysis of dopamine receptor knockout mice; recent insights into the functional specificity of dopamine receptor subtypes

A Holmes, JE Lachowicz, DR Sibley - Neuropharmacology, 2004 - Elsevier
The functional specificity of dopamine receptor subtypes remains incompletely understood,
in part due to the absence of highly selective agonists and antagonists. Phenotypic analysis …

Intrastriatal lipopolysaccharide injection induces parkinsonism in C57/B6 mice

RL Hunter, B Cheng, DY Choi, M Liu… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A role for inflammation has been hypothesized in the etiology and progression of
Parkinson's disease (PD). In this study, we generated, characterized, and validated the first …

Low dose pramipexole is neuroprotective in the MPTP mouse model of Parkinson's disease, and downregulates the dopamine transporter via the D3 receptor

JN Joyce, C Woolsey, H Ryoo, S Borwege, D Hagner - BMC biology, 2004 - Springer
Background Our aim was to determine if pramipexole, a D 3 preferring agonist, effectively
reduced dopamine neuron and fiber loss in the 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1, 2, 3, 6 …

Phenotypic studies on dopamine receptor subtype and associated signal transduction mutants: insights and challenges from 10 years at the psychopharmacology …

JL Waddington, C O'Tuathaigh, G O'Sullivan… - …, 2005 - Springer
Background Mutants with targeted gene deletion ('knockout') or insertion (transgenic) of D 1,
D 2, D 3, D 4 and D 5 dopamine (DA) receptor subtypes are complemented by an increasing …

Bitropic D3 dopamine receptor selective compounds s potential antipsychotics

R R. Luedtke, C Rangel-Barajas, M Malik… - Current …, 2015 - benthamdirect.com
Neuropsychiatric disorders represent a substantial social and health care issue. The
National Institutes of Health estimates that greater than 2 million adults suffer from …

Effect of low concentrations of apomorphine on parkinsonism in a randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover study

SA Gunzler, C Koudelka, NE Carlson… - Archives of …, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
Objective To determine whether low concentrations of a dopamine agonist worsen
parkinsonism, which would suggest that activation of presynaptic dopamine autoreceptors …

Selective Activation of D3 Dopamine Receptors Ameliorates DOI-Induced Head Twitching Accompanied by Changes in Corticostriatal Processing

AM Estrada-Sánchez, C Rangel-Barajas… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
D3 receptors, a key component of the dopamine system, have emerged as a potential target
of therapies to improve motor symptoms across neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric …

Locomotor activity induced by MK-801 is enhanced in dopamine D3 receptor knockout mice but suppression by dopamine D3/D2 antagonists does not occur through …

AV Yarkov, TC Der, JN Joyce - European journal of pharmacology, 2010 - Elsevier
There are contradictory data regarding the role of the dopamine D3 receptor in regulating N-
methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist (eg, dizocilpine) induced hyperactivity. The …