Cellular Cholesterol Distribution Influences Proteolytic Release of the LRP-1 Ectodomain.

abstract：:Most breast and prostate tumors are hormone-dependent, making it possible to use hormone therapy in patients with these tumors. The design of effective endocrine drugs that block the growth of tumors and have no severe side effects is a challenge. Thereupon, synthetic steroids are promising therapeutic drugs for the t...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Scherbakov AM,Komkov AV,Komendantova AS,Yastrebova MA,Andreeva OE,Shirinian VZ,Hajra A,Zavarzin IV,Volkova YA

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 1 million cases of scorpion stings are estimated every year, whereas current treatment is limited to antivenom serum combined with supportive therapy. Tityus serrulatus scorpion venom (TsV) is composed of diverse molecules, including toxins that induce a catecholamine storm and mediate classical symptoms of scorp...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Zoccal KF,Gardinassi LG,Bordon KCF,Arantes EC,Marleau S,Ong H,Faccioli LH

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than a century has passed since the first surgical mesh for hernia repair was developed, and, to date, this is still the most widely used method despite the great number of complications it poses. The purpose of this study was to combine stem cell therapy and laparoscopy for the treatment of congenital hernia in ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Marinaro F,Casado JG,Blázquez R,Brun MV,Marcos R,Santos M,Duque FJ,López E,Álvarez V,Usón A,Sánchez-Margallo FM

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanomedicines can be used for a variety of cancer therapies including tumor-targeted drug delivery, hyperthermia, and photodynamic therapy. Poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA)-based materials are frequently used in such setups. This review article gives an overview of the properties of previously reported PLGA nanop...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Rezvantalab S,Drude NI,Moraveji MK,Güvener N,Koons EK,Shi Y,Lammers T,Kiessling F

更新日期：2018-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruptions in iron homeostasis are linked to a broad spectrum of chronic conditions including cardiovascular, malignant, metabolic, and neurodegenerative disease. Evidence supporting this contention derives from a variety of analytical approaches, ranging from molecular to population-based studies. This review focuse...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Basuli D,Stevens RG,Torti FM,Torti SV

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The skin is the main barrier that protects us against environmental stressors (physical, chemical, and biological). These stressors, combined with internal factors, are responsible for cutaneous aging. Furthermore, they negatively affect the skin and increase the risk of cutaneous diseases, particularly skin cancer. T...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Parrado C,Mercado-Saenz S,Perez-Davo A,Gilaberte Y,Gonzalez S,Juarranz A

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive alcohol consumption is the cause of several diseases and thus is of a major concern for society. Worldwide alcohol consumption has increased by many folds over the past decades. This urgently calls for intervention and relapse counteract measures. Modern pharmacological solutions induce complete alcohol self...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Singh L,Joshi T,Tewari D,Echeverría J,Mocan A,Sah AN,Parvanov E,Tzvetkov NT,Ma ZF,Lee YY,Poznański P,Huminiecki L,Sacharczuk M,Jóźwik A,Horbańczuk JO,Feder-Kubis J,Atanasov AG

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bleomycin (BLM) is an effective curative option in the management of several malignancies including pleural effusions; but pulmonary toxicity, comprising of pneumonitis and fibrosis, poses challenge in its use as a front-line chemotherapeutic. Although Amifostine has been found to protect lungs from the toxic effects ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Arora A,Bhuria V,Hazari PP,Pathak U,Mathur S,Roy BG,Sandhir R,Soni R,Dwarakanath BS,Bhatt AN

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate the regulation of X-ray irradiation and its effect on the activity and protein and mRNA expression levels of CYP1A2 and CYP2E1 in rats. Rats were randomly divided into 0 Gy (control), 1 Gy (low-dose irradiation), and 5 Gy (high-dose irradiation) groups. CYP1A2 and CYP2E1 ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Li XY,Qu N,Wang XJ,Yang JX,Xin YY,Zhu JB,Bai X,Duan YB

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between T cell and dendritic cells (DCs) that leads to T cell activation affects the progression of the immune response including autoimmune diseases. Antigen presentation on immune cell surface, formation of an immunological synapse (IS), and specific identification of complex by T cells including two...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Tai Y,Wang Q,Korner H,Zhang L,Wei W

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: A generic vaginal progesterone gel has recently been developed in China. Little is known about its pharmacokinetic properties in Chinese subjects. The purpose of our study was to investigate the pharmacokinetics of three forms of vaginal progesterone gel (test formulations at 4 and 8% strength vs. a referen...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Wu G,Chen J,Hu X,Zhou H,Liu J,Lv D,Wu L,Shentu J

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal dysplasias represent a large and diverse group of rare conditions affecting collagen and bone. They can be clinically classified based on radiographic and physical features, and many can be further defined at a molecular level (Bonafe et al., 2015). Early diagnosis is critical to proper medical management inc...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Jelin AC,O'Hare E,Blakemore K,Jelin EB,Valle D,Hoover-Fong J

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular senescence is an irreversible cell growth arrest and is associated with aging and age-related diseases. High plasma phosphate (Pi) and deficiency of Klotho contribute to aging and kidney fibrosis, a pathological feature in the aging kidney and chronic kidney disease. This study examined the interactive role o...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Maique J,Flores B,Shi M,Shepard S,Zhou Z,Yan S,Moe OW,Hu MC

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycolysis can improve the tolerance of tissue cells to hypoxia, and its intermediates provide raw materials for the synthesis and metabolism of the tumor cells. If it can inhibit the activity of glycolysis-related enzymes and control the energy metabolism of tumor, it can be targeted for the treatment of malignant tu...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Wu ST,Liu B,Ai ZZ,Hong ZC,You PT,Wu HZ,Yang YF

更新日期：2020-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumors frequently arise as a result of an acquired genomic instability and the subsequent evolution of neoplastic populations with variable genomes. A barrier to the study of the somatic genetics of human solid tumors in vivo is the presence of admixtures of non-neoplastic cells with normal genomes in patient samples....

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Barrett MT,Lenkiewicz E,Evers L,Holley T,Ruiz C,Bubendorf L,Sekulic A,Ramanathan RK,Von Hoff DD

更新日期：2013-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension is a prevalent, complex, and polygenic cardiovascular disease, which is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. Across the world, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) constituted by herbal medicine and non-pharmacological therapies is used to assist blood pressure management. Though widely accept...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Yang M,Lao L

更新日期：2019-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of colorectal cancer (CRC) cases have increased gradually year by year. In fact, CRC is one of the most widely diagnosed cancer in men and women today. This disease is usually diagnosed at a later stage of the development, and by then, the chance of survival has declined significantly. Even though substanti...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Hon KW,Abu N,Ab Mutalib NS,Jamal R

更新日期：2017-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 71 (EV71) was implicated in a widespread outbreak of hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) across the Asia Pacific area since 1997 and has also been reported sporadically in patients with brain stem encephalitis. Neurogenic shock with pulmonary edema (PE) is a fatal complication of EV71 infection. Among inotr...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Wang SM

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of current neuroleptics was largely aiming to decrease excessive dopaminergic signaling in the striatum. However, the notion that abnormal dopamine creates psychotic symptoms by causing an aberrant assignment of salience that drives maladaptive learning chronically during disease development suggests a...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Kätzel D,Wolff AR,Bygrave AM,Bannerman DM

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lung injury (ALI) is a complex syndrome with sepsis occurring in critical patients, who usually lack effective therapy. Nuciferine is a primary bioactive component extracted from the lotus leaf, and it displays extensive pharmacological functions, including anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant propert...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Wu H,Yang Y,Guo S,Yang J,Jiang K,Zhao G,Qiu C,Deng G

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is constantly rising into a major health threat worldwide. Activation of brown-like transdifferentiation of white adipocytes (browning) has been proposed as a promising molecular target for obesity treatment. In this study, we investigated the effect of ginsenoside Rb1 (Rb1), a saponin derived from Panax ginse...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lim S,Park J,Um JY

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-calmodulin/dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) plays an essential role in LTP induction, but since it has the capacity to remain persistently activated even after the decay of external stimuli it has been proposed that it can also be necessary for LTP maintenance and therefore for memory persistence. It has b...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Juárez-Muñoz Y,Ramos-Languren LE,Escobar ML

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are a group of morbid pregnancy complications, with preeclampsia (PE) being the most common subclassification among them. PE affects 2%-8% of pregnancies globally and threatens maternal and fetal health seriously. However, the only effective treatment of PE to date is the time...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Zhang Y,Liu X,Yang L,Zou L

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 216 in vol. 5, PMID: 25295006.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Frontiers Production Office.

更新日期：2014-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Scoring functions play an important role in structure-based virtual screening. It has been widely accepted that target-specific scoring functions (TSSFs) may achieve better performance compared with universal scoring functions in actual drug research and development processes. A method that can effectively construct T...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Wang D,Cui C,Ding X,Xiong Z,Zheng M,Luo X,Jiang H,Chen K

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we propose DeCoST (Drug Repurposing from Control System Theory) framework to apply control system paradigm for drug repurposing purpose. Drug repurposing has become one of the most active areas in pharmacology since the last decade. Compared to traditional drug development, drug repurposing may provide ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Nguyen TM,Muhammad SA,Ibrahim S,Ma L,Guo J,Bai B,Zeng B

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacogenomics is moving from a candidate gene strategy to large scale approaches. This is in line with the new paradigm of linking a trait to (a) pathway(s) rather than to single genes. In addition, breakthroughs in genomics offer a non-a priori assessment of implicated genes, expanding the possibilities in pharmac...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： di Iulio J,Rotger M

更新日期：2012-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most widespread form of dementia, affecting about 45 million people worldwide. Although the β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) remains the most acknowledged culprit of AD, the multiple failures of Aβ-centric therapies call for alternative therapeutic approaches. Conceivably, the complexity of the A...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Balducci C,Forloni G

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:CLC-K channels belong to the CLC gene family, which comprises both Cl(-) channels and Cl(-)/H(+) antiporters. They form homodimers which additionally co-assemble with the small protein barttin. In the kidney, they are involved in NaCl reabsorption; in the inner ear they are important for endolymph production. Mutation...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Gradogna A,Pusch M

更新日期：2010-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Several initiatives have assessed if mining electronic health records (EHRs) may accelerate the process of drug safety signal detection. In Europe, Exploring and Understanding Adverse Drug Reactions (EU-ADR) Project Focused on utilizing clinical data from EHRs of over 30 million patients from several Europ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Patadia VK,Schuemie MJ,Coloma PM,Herings R,van der Lei J,Sturkenboom M,Trifirò G

更新日期：2018-06-06 00:00:00