Yin-Yang of the Prostaglandin-E2 Receptors: Novel Therapeutic Approaches
Saturday April 04, 2020
11:00 am
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1:00 pm
Eastern Time (ET)
Room 17 A
DDD
MP
NEU
Chair :
Thota Ganesh
Emory University
Prostaglandin-E2 receptors (EP1, EP2, EP3, P4) have emerged as very important biological targets with a variety of beneficial and deleterious functions during the development of a several peripheral and central nervous system diseases, via intracellular cAMP and Ca+2 signaling molecules. Several laboratories have been investigating the “yin-yang” roles of these receptors in physiology and neurodegenerative pathology and gliomas. This symposium will summarize the current developments in the field using genetic animal models, and small molecule modulators of these receptors indicating whether targeting these receptors will be a better strategy than traditional COX-2 inhibition, which led to adverse cardiotoxicity in human.
Speakers
Tilo Grosser
- University of Pennsylvania
Lessons Learned from COX-2 Drugs: Targeting Downstream COX-2 Signaling for Drug Discovery
Katrin Andreasson
- Stanford University School of Medicine
Yin-Yang of PGE2 Receptors in CNS Disorders
Jianxiong Jiang
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Targeting Proinflammatory Prostaglandin Receptors for Malignant Gliomas
Thota Ganesh
- Emory University
Discovery and Poor-of-Concept Studies of EP2 Antagonists in Neurodegenerative Disease Models