Kunihiro Tsuchida

TL;DR: The complementary DNA of a metabotropic glutamate receptor coupled to inositol phosphate/Ca2+ signal transduction has been cloned and characterized and abundant expression of this messenger RNA is observed in neuronal cells in hippocampal dentate gyrus and CA2−3 and in Cerebellar Purkinje cells, suggesting the importance of this receptor in specific hippocampal and cerebellar functions.

TL;DR: It is suggested that interaction between muscle cells and PDGFRα+ mesenchymal progenitors, not the fate decision of satellite cells, has a considerable impact on muscle homeostasis and is the major contributor to ectopic fat cell formation in skeletal muscle.

TL;DR: Clonal analyses show that PDGFRα+ cells also differentiate into collagen type-I-producing cells, indicating that mesenchymal progenitors are the main origin of not only fat accumulation but also fibrosis in skeletal muscle.

TL;DR: The observed sequence similarity and divergence would contribute to the expression of similar but pharmacologically distinguishable activities of the two tachykinin receptors.

TL;DR: The sequence comparison of the rat neuromedin K, substance P, and substance K receptors revealed that these receptors are highly conserved in the seven transmembrane domains and the cytoplasmic sides of the receptors.