中枢神经系统(CNS)是人类最复杂的生理系统之一。中枢神经系统疾病的治疗代表了一个主要的医疗需求领域。中枢神经系统的一个关键方面是它缺乏再生,这样的损害往往是永久性的。损伤通常会导致神经变性,因此,神经保护策略可能会导致重大的医学进步。G蛋白偶联受体(GPCR)家族是主要的受体类别之一,他们已经成功地成为临床目标。一类GPCRs是由生物活性溶血磷脂作为配体激活的那些,特别是鞘氨醇-1-磷酸(S1P)和溶血磷脂酸(LPA)。研究越来越多地表明S1P和LPA的重要作用,和它们的受体,在生理和疾病中发挥作用。在这次审查中,我描述了S1P和LPA受体在神经变性中的作用以及在神经保护中的潜在作用。我们对S1P受体的作用的大部分理解是通过药理学工具实现的。一个这样的工具,芬戈莫德(也称为FTY720),它是一种S1P受体激动剂,但在免疫系统中是一种功能性拮抗剂,通过产生淋巴细胞减少来减少自身免疫攻击,在多发性硬化症中临床上是有效的;然而,有证据表明芬戈莫德也具有神经保护作用。此外,芬戈莫德在许多其他神经病理中具有神经保护作用,包括中风,帕金森病,亨廷顿病,Rett综合征,老年痴呆症,以及这里讨论的其他内容。LPA受体似乎也参与其中,在各种神经病理中被上调。LPA受体的拮抗剂或突变,尤其是LPA1,在各种情况下都具有神经保护作用,包括皮质发育,创伤性脑损伤,脊髓损伤,中风和其他人在这里讨论。最后,LPA受体可能与其他受体相互作用,包括与可塑性相关基因的功能相互作用。
The central nervous system (CNS) is one of the most complex physiological systems, and treatment of CNS disorders represents an area of major medical need. One critical aspect of the CNS is its lack of regeneration, such that damage is often permanent. The damage often leads to neurodegeneration, and so strategies for neuroprotection could lead to major medical advances. The G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family is one of the major receptor classes, and they have been successfully targeted clinically. One class of GPCRs is those activated by bioactive lysophospholipids as ligands, especially sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). Research has been increasingly demonstrating the important roles that S1P and LPA, and their receptors, play in physiology and disease. In this review, I describe the role of S1P and LPA receptors in neurodegeneration and potential roles in neuroprotection. Much of our understanding of the role of S1P receptors has been through pharmacological tools. One such tool, fingolimod (also known as FTY720), which is a S1P receptor agonist but a functional antagonist in the immune system, is clinically efficacious in multiple sclerosis by producing a lymphopenia to reduce autoimmune attacks; however, there is evidence that fingolimod is also neuroprotective. Furthermore, fingolimod is neuroprotective in many other neuropathologies, including stroke, Parkinson\'s disease, Huntington\'s disease, Rett syndrome, Alzheimer\'s disease, and others that are discussed here. LPA receptors also appear to be involved, being upregulated in a variety of neuropathologies. Antagonists or mutations of LPA receptors, especially LPA1, are neuroprotective in a variety of conditions, including cortical development, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke and others discussed here. Finally, LPA receptors may interact with other receptors, including a functional interaction with plasticity related genes.