TSPO ligands prevent the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells and attenuate neointima formation through AMPK activation

AMPK: Sensing Glucose as well as Cellular Energy Status

(2018) Sheng-Cai Lin et al.   Cell Metabolism

TSPO in diverse CNS pathologies and psychiatric disease: A critical review and a way forward

(2018) Tomás R. Guilarte   PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

A newly synthesized Ligustrazine stilbene derivative inhibits PDGF-BB induced vascular smooth muscle cell phenotypic switch and proliferation via delaying cell cycle progression

(2017) Chunlian Peng et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

A role for TSPO in mitochondrial Ca2+ homeostasis and redox stress signaling

(2017) Jemma Gatliff et al.   Cell Death & Disease

Near-infrared autofluorescence induced by intraplaque hemorrhage and heme degradation as marker for high-risk atherosclerotic plaques

(2017) Nay Min Htun et al.   Nature Communications

SRSF1 promotes vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation through a Δ133p53/EGR1/KLF5 pathway

(2017) Ning Xie et al.   Nature Communications

Cardioprotective effects of intracoronary administration of 4-chlorodiazepam in small and large animal models of ischemia-reperfusion

(2016) Michalis Tsamatsoulis et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

18-kDa translocator protein ligand 18F-FEMPA: Biodistribution and uptake into atherosclerotic plaques in mice

(2016) Sanna Hellberg et al.   JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY

Beyond Energy Homeostasis: the Expanding Role of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase in Regulating Metabolism

(2015) David Carling et al.   Cell Metabolism

Enigmatic Translocator protein (TSPO) and cellular stress regulation

(2015) Henri Batoko et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

AMPK: energy sensor and survival mechanism in the ischemic heart

(2015) Dake Qi et al.   TRENDS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Dopamine D4 receptors inhibit proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells induced by insulin via down-regulation of insulin receptor expression

(2014) Changqing Yu et al.   Cardiovascular Diabetology

Estradiol Modulates Translocator Protein (TSPO) and Steroid Acute Regulatory Protein (StAR) via Protein Kinase A (PKA) Signaling in Hypothalamic Astrocytes

(2014) Claire Chen et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

The Mitochondrial Translocator Protein, TSPO, Inhibits HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein Biosynthesis via the Endoplasmic Reticulum-Associated Protein Degradation Pathway

(2014) T. Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Positron emission tomography and functional characterization of a complete PBR/TSPO knockout

(2014) Richard B. Banati et al.   Nature Communications

The translocator protein (TSPO) ligand PK11195 induces apoptosis and cell cycle arrest and sensitizes to chemotherapy treatment in pre- and post-relapse neuroblastoma cell lines

(2013) Maria Mendonça-Torres et al.   CANCER BIOLOGY & THERAPY

MicroRNA-663 Regulates Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotypic Switch and Vascular Neointimal Formation

(2013) Pan Li et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Translocator protein (Tspo) gene promoter-driven green fluorescent protein synthesis in transgenic mice: an in vivo model to study Tspo transcription

(2012) Hui-Jie Wang et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Imaging intraplaque inflammation in carotid atherosclerosis with 11C-PK11195 positron emission tomography/computed tomography

(2011) O. Gaemperli et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Protein Kinase Cε Regulation of Translocator Protein (18 kDa)TspoGene Expression Is Mediated through a MAPK Pathway Targeting STAT3 and c-Jun Transcription Factors

(2010) Amani Batarseh et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Translocator protein (18 kDa) (TSPO) as a therapeutic target for neurological and psychiatric disorders

(2010) Rainer Rupprecht et al.   NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY

AMPK and vasculoprotection

(2010) Marie-Ann Ewart et al.   PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Evaluation of translocator protein quantification as a tool for characterising macrophage burden in human carotid atherosclerosis

(2009) J.L.E. Bird et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Role of Smooth Muscle Cells in the Initiation and Early Progression of Atherosclerosis

(2008) Amanda C. Doran et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Uptake of inflammatory cell marker [11C]PK11195 into mouse atherosclerotic plaques

(2008) Iina Laitinen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING

Translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO): Molecular sensor of brain injury and repair

(2008) Ming-Kai Chen et al.   PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS