Publications by authors named "Christelle Devader"

The background potassium channel TREK-1 has been shown to be a potent target for depression treatment. Indeed, deletion of this channel in mice resulted in a depression resistant phenotype. The association of TREK-1 with the sorting protein sortilin prompted us to investigate the behavior of mice deleted from the gene encoding sortilin ().

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Inhibition of the potassium channels TREK-1 by spadin (SPA) is currently thought to be a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of depression. Since these channels are expressed in pancreatic -cells, we investigated their role in the control of insulin secretion and glucose homeostasis. In this study, we confirmed the expression of TREK-1 channels in the insulin secreting MIN6-B1 -cell line and in mouse islets.

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The neuropeptide neurotensin (NT) elicits numerous pharmacological effects through three different receptors (NTSR1, NTSR2, and NTSR3 also called sortilin). Pharmacological approaches and generation of NTSR1 and NTSR2-deficient mice allowed to determine the NT-induced antipsychotic like behavior, the inhibitory of weak fear memory and the nociceptive signaling in a rat formalin tonic pain model to NTSR1. Conversely, the effects of NT on thermal and tonic nociceptions were mediated by NTSR2.

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Background: Despite intense research on mechanisms underlying the depressive pathophysiology, reliable biomarkers to assess antidepressant treatment response are still lacking. Since the sortilin-derived propeptide (PE) displays potent antidepressant activities and can be measured in the blood of rodents, we wondered whether in human its seric level can vary between patients affected by major depressive disorder (MDD) and healthy controls and after antidepressant treatment.

Methods: By using a specific dosing method, characterized by structure-recognition analysis with various synthesized PE analogues, we conducted a translational study to test whether blood levels of PE are under pathophysiological regulation and could serve as biomarkers of the depression state.

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The neurotensin (NT) receptor-3 (NTSR3), also called sortilin is a multifunctional protein localized at the intracellular and plasma membrane level. The extracellular domain of NTSR3 (sNTSR3) is released by shedding from several cell lines including colonic cancer cells. This soluble protein acts as an active ligand through its ability to bind, to be internalized in the human adenocarcinoma epithelial HT29 cells and to stimulate the PI3 kinase pathway.

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Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) has wide-ranging effects on many different cell types, acting through G-protein-coupled receptors such as LPAR6. We show that Xenopus lpar6 is expressed from late blastulae and is enriched in the mesoderm and dorsal ectoderm of early gastrulae. Expression in gastrulae is an early response to FGF signalling.

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The neurotensin (NT) receptor-3 (NTSR3), also called sortilin, is thought to display several functions including a role as a receptor or a co-receptor, in the sorting to plasma membrane and to lysosomes, and in the regulated secretion. The aim of this study was to investigate the function of the soluble form of NTSR3 (sNTSR3) released from several cell lines including colonic cancer cells. The human adenocarcinoma epithelial cell line HT29 has been used to monitor the release, the binding and internalization of sNTSR3 by radioreceptor assays and confocal microscopy.

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The neuropeptide, neurotensin, exerts numerous biological functions, including an efficient anti-apoptotic role, both in the central nervous system and in the periphery. This review summarizes studies that clearly evidenced the protective effect of neurotensin through its three known receptors. The pivotal involvement of the neurotensin receptor-3, also called sortilin, in the molecular mechanisms of the anti-apoptotic action of neurotensin has been analyzed in neuronal cell death, in cancer cell growth and in pancreatic beta cell protection.

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The pharmacological roles of the neuropeptide neurotensin through its three known receptors are various and complex. Neurotensin is involved in several important biological functions including analgesia and hypothermia in the central nervous system and also food intake and glucose homeostasis in the periphery. This review focuses on recent works dealing with molecular mechanisms regulating blood glucose level and insulin secretion upon neurotensin action.

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TREK-1 potassium channels are involved in a number of physiopathological processes such as neuroprotection, pain and depression. Molecules able to open or to block these channels can be clinically important. Having a cell model for screening such molecules is of particular interest.

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We describe a Xenopus P2Y receptor that shares only weak homology with members of the mammalian P2Y family, being most similar to human P2Y(11). When activated by nucleotide analogs, it stimulates both calcium and cAMP mobilization pathways, a feature unique, among mammalian P2Y receptors, to P2Y(11). Activity can be blocked by compounds known to act as antagonists of mammalian P2Y(11).

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We have characterized a cDNA encoding a Xenopus laevis apyrase (XAPY) that is expressed during embryogenesis. XAPY is highly homologous to two recently described mammalian apyrases, human SCAN-1 and rat Ca2+-NDPase, and to a lesser extent the salivary apyrase of the blood-feeding arthropod Cimex lectularis. RT-PCR analysis shows that Xapy is expressed at all the developmental stages tested, from oocytes through to tadpoles.

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