Adenosine Receptors in Health and Disease

1. Introduction to Adenosine Receptors as Therapeutic Targets
Kenneth A. Jacobson

2. A1 Adenosine Receptor Antagonists, Agonists, and Allosteric Enhancers
William F. Kiesman, Elfatih Elzein, Jeff Zablocki

3. Recent Developments in Adenosine A2A Receptor Ligands
Gloria Cristalli, Christa E. Müller, Rosaria Volpini

4. Recent Developments in A2B Adenosine Receptor Ligands
Rao V. Kalla, Jeff Zablocki, Mojgan Aghazadeh Tabrizi, Pier Giovanni Baraldi

5. Medicinal Chemistry of the A3 Adenosine Receptor: Agonists, Antagonists, and Receptor Engineering
Kenneth A. Jacobson, Athena M. Klutz, Dilip K. Tosh, Andrei A. Ivanov, Delia Preti, Pier Giovanni Baraldi

6. Adenosine Receptors and the Heart: Role in Regulation of Coronary Blood Flow and Cardiac Electrophysiology
S. Jamal Mustafa, R. Ray Morrison, Bunyen Teng, Amir Pelleg

7. Adenosine Receptors and Reperfusion Injury of the Heart
John P. Headrick, Robert D. Lasley

8. Adenosine Receptors and Inflammation
Michael R. Blackburn, Constance O. Vance, Eva Morschl, Constance N. Wilson

9. A1 Adenosine Receptor: Role in Diabetes and Obesity
Arvinder K. Dhalla, Jeffrey W. Chisholm, Gerald M. Reaven, Luiz Belardinelli

10. A3 Adenosine Receptor: Pharmacology and Role in Disease
P.A. Borea, S. Gessi, S. Bar-Yehuda, P. Fishman

11. Adenosine Receptors and Asthma
Constance N. Wilson, Ahmed Nadeem, Domenico Spina, Rachel Brown, Clive P. Page, S. Jamal Mustafa

12. Adenosine Receptors, Cystic Fibrosis, and Airway Hydration
Gulnur Com, J.P. Clancy

13. Adenosine Receptors in Wound Healing, Fibrosis and Angiogenesis
Igor Feoktistov, Italo Biaggioni, Bruce N. Cronstein

14. Adenosine Receptors and Cancer
P. Fishman, S. Bar-Yehuda, M. Synowitz, J.D.
Powell, K.N. Klotz, S. Gessi, P.A. Borea

15. Adenosine Receptors and the Kidney
Volker Vallon, Hartmut Osswald

16. Adenosine Receptors and the Central Nervous System
Ana M. Sebastião, Joaquim A. Ribeiro

17. Adenosine Receptors and Neurological Disease: Neuroprotection and Neurodegeneration
Trevor W. Stone, Stefania
Ceruti, Mariapia P. Abbracchio

18. Adenosine A2A Receptors and Parkinson’s Disease
Micaela Morelli, Anna R. Carta, Peter Jenner

19. Adenosine Receptor Ligands and PET Imaging of the CNS
Andreas Bauer, Kiichi Ishiwata

Keywords: Biomedicine, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Human Physiology, Cell Biology