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Endogenous TRPV1 stimulation leads to the activation of the inositol phospholipid pathway necessary for sustained Ca2+ oscillations

Pecze, László ; Blum, Walter ; Henzi, Thomas ; Schwaller, Beat

In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research, 2016, vol. 1863, no. 12, p. 2905–2915

Sensory neuron subpopulations as well as breast and prostate cancer cells express functional transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 (TRPV1) ion channels; however little is known how TRPV1 activation leads to biological responses. Agonist-induced activation of TRPV1 resulted in specific spatiotemporal patterns of cytoplasmic Ca²⁺ signals in breast and prostate cancer-derived cells....

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Activation of endogenous TRPV1 fails to induce overstimulation-based cytotoxicity in breast and prostate cancer cells but not in pain-sensing neurons

Pecze, László ; Jósvay, Katalin ; Blum, Walter ; Petrovics, György ; Vizler, Csaba ; Oláh, Zoltán ; Schwaller, Beat

In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research, 2016, vol. 1863, no. 8, p. 2054–2064

Vanilloids including capsaicin and resiniferatoxin are potent transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 (TRPV1) agonists. TRPV1 overstimulation selectively ablates capsaicin-sensitive sensory neurons in animal models in vivo. The cytotoxic mechanisms are based on strong Na⁺ and Ca2 + influx via TRPV1 channels, which leads to mitochondrial Ca2 + accumulation and...

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Mechanism of capsaicin receptor TRPV1-mediated toxicity in pain-sensing neurons focusing on the effects of Na⁺/Ca2 + fluxes and the Ca2 +-binding protein calretinin

Pecze, László ; Blum, Walter ; Schwaller, Beat

In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research, 2013, vol. 1833, no. 7, p. 1680–1691

Transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype 1 (TRPV1) receptor is a pain-sensing, ligand-gated, non-selective cation channel expressed in peripheral sensory neurons. Prolonged activation of TRPV1 by capsaicin leads to cell swelling and formation of membrane blebs in rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons. Similar results were obtained in NIH3T3 fibroblast cells stably expressing TRPV1. Here,...