Interferon-Beta Increases Plasma Ceramides of Specific Chain Length in Multiple Sclerosis Patients, Unlike Fingolimod or Natalizumab.

abstract：:There are three members of the endogenous gas transmitter family. The first two are nitric oxide and carbon monoxide, and the third newly added member is hydrogen sulfide (H2S). They all have similar functions: relaxing blood vessels, smoothing muscles, and getting involved in the regulation of neuronal excitation, le...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Zhong H,Yu H,Chen J,Sun J,Guo L,Huang P,Zhong Y

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Among factors influencing the higher risk of developing unknown or rare adverse drug reactions (ADRs) among children and adolescents, there is the frequent off-label use of drugs that seems to be very common in pediatric oncological patients. Our study aim to collect and evaluate data on the safety profile o...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Mascolo A,Scavone C,Bertini M,Brusco S,Punzo F,Pota E,Di Martino M,Di Pinto D,Rossi F

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChE-I) are recommended for the treatment of cognitive symptoms but also of behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia. They are widely used not only in Alzheimer's disease, but also in other forms of dementia. Efficacy of treatment might depend on serum concentration ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Ortner M,Stange M,Schneider H,Schroeder C,Buerger K,Müller C,Dorn B,Goldhardt O,Diehl-Schmid J,Förstl H,Steimer W,Grimmer T

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with the pathogenic bacterium Clostridioides (C.) difficile are coming more into focus, in particular in hospitalized patients after antibiotic treatment. C. difficile produces the exotoxins TcdA and TcdB. Since some years, hypervirulent strains are described, which produce in addition the binary actin ADP-...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Korbmacher M,Fischer S,Landenberger M,Papatheodorou P,Aktories K,Barth H

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk assessment of environmental chemicals and drugs is undergoing a paradigm shift in approach which seeks the full replacement of animal testing with high throughput, mechanistic, in vitro systems. This new approach will be reliant on the measurement in vitro, of concentration-dependent responses where prolonged...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： McNally K,Loizou GD

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Disorder of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is closely related to the pathogenesis of various autoimmune diseases (ADs). Catecholamine triggered beta2-adrenergic receptor (β2-AR) signaling is important in creating a bidirectional response in the progression of ADs due to factors including diverse expression patte...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Wu L,Tai Y,Hu S,Zhang M,Wang R,Zhou W,Tao J,Han Y,Wang Q,Wei W

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Aconitine is the main bioactive ingredient of Aconitum plants, which are well-known botanical herbs in China. Aconitine is also notorious for its high cardiotoxicity, as it can induce life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. Unfortunately, there are few effective antidotes to aconitine toxicity. This study aimed to e...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Ma LQ,Yu Y,Chen H,Li M,Ihsan A,Tong HY,Huang XJ,Gao Y

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnant women appear to be more susceptible to infectious diseases than women in reproductive age. According to the California Department of Public Health pregnant women were 9.6-folds more likely to be hospitalized during the 2009 influenza outbreak when compared to non-pregnant women in reproductive age. In contras...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Acosta-Elias J,Espinosa-Tanguma R

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Paeoniflorin (PF) is the main active component of Paeonia lactiflora Pall., which is used in the treatment of severe cholestatic hepatitis. However, its biological mechanism in regulating bile acid metabolism and cholestatic liver injury has not been fully revealed. Our study aimed to reveal the mechanism of PF in the...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Wei S,Ma X,Niu M,Wang R,Yang T,Wang D,Wen J,Li H,Zhao Y

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:SUMOylation is a post-translational modification that plays a crucial role in the cellular stress response. We aimed to demonstrate whether and how the SUMO E2 conjugation enzyme Ubc9 affects acute myocardial ischemic (MI) injury. Methods and Results:Adenovirus expressing Ubc9 was administrated by multipoint inje...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Xiao Q,Chen XH,Jiang RC,Chen SY,Chen KF,Zhu X,Zhang XL,Huang JJ,Qin Y,Zhang GP,Yi Q,Luo JD

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Advanced age is associated with impaired angiogenesis in part because of mitochondrial dysfunction. We have recently reported that leonurine exerts protective effects in neuron via regulation of mitochondrial function. The aim of this study was to explore whether leonurine is able to attenuate mitochondrial...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Qi J,Wang JJ,Duan JL,Lu ZY,Yuan YG

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Sigma-1 receptors (S1R) and sigma-2 receptors (S2R) may modulate nociception without the liabilities of opioids, offering a promising therapeutic target to treat pain. The purpose of this study was to investigate the in vivo analgesic and anti-allodynic activity of two novel sigma receptor antagonists, the S1R-selecti...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Cirino TJ,Eans SO,Medina JM,Wilson LL,Mottinelli M,Intagliata S,McCurdy CR,McLaughlin JP

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Processes such as cell proliferation, angiogenesis, apoptosis, or invasion are strongly influenced by the surrounding microenvironment of the tumor. Therefore, the ability to change these surroundings represents an important property through which tumor cells are able to acquire specific functions necessary for tumor ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Noël A,Gutiérrez-Fernández A,Sounni NE,Behrendt N,Maquoi E,Lund IK,Cal S,Hoyer-Hansen G,López-Otín C

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the introduction of antibiotics, they have been used freely, with their prescription occurring almost always when they were not necessary. The other major form of contact between humans and antibiotics, now unintentionally, is with the large amount of these drugs in the environment and in our food. The relations...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Del Fiol FS,Balcão VM,Barberato-Fillho S,Lopes LC,Bergamaschi CC

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The inflammatory airway disease cystic fibrosis (CF) is characterized by airway obstruction due to mucus hypersecretion, airway plugging, and bronchoconstriction. The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) chloride channel is dysfunctional in CF, leading to defects in epithelial transport. Although...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Kunzelmann K,Ousingsawat J,Cabrita I,Doušová T,Bähr A,Janda M,Schreiber R,Benedetto R

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation of the complement system is central to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in the developed world. Most of the genetic variation associated with AMD resides in complement genes, with the greatest risk associated with polymorphisms in the complement factor H (CFH) gene; ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Stravalaci M,Davi F,Parente R,Gobbi M,Bottazzi B,Mantovani A,Day AJ,Clark SJ,Romano MR,Inforzato A

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Purpose:Predictors of response to type-1 hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) therapy are urgently needed. This study's purpose is to evaluate the proposed predictors in these patients. Methods:Forty-two type-1 HRS patients with cirrhosis were treated with albumin and terlipressin. Clinical, biochemical, and demo...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Abdel-Razik A,Mousa N,Abdelsalam M,Abdelwahab A,Tawfik M,Tawfik AM,Hasan AS,Elhelaly R,El-Wakeel N,Eldars W

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic trioxide is a traditional remedy in Chinese Medicine since ages. Nowadays, it is clinically used to treat acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) by targeting PML/RARA. However, the drug's activity is broader and the mechanisms of action in other tumor types remain unclear. In this study, we investigated molecular ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Dawood M,Hamdoun S,Efferth T

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study reveals a link between protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) and Homebox A9 (HoxA9) in the regulation of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. In cardiomyocyte hypertrophy induced by β-adrenergic receptor agonist isoprenaline (ISO), PRMT5 expression was decreased while HoxA9 was upregulated. Silencing of...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Cai S,Liu R,Wang P,Li J,Xie T,Wang M,Cao Y,Li Z,Liu P

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past several decades, natural products with poly-pharmacological profiles have demonstrated promise as novel therapeutics for various complex diseases, including cancer. Berberine (PubChem CID: 2353), a soliloquies quaternary alkaloid, has been validated to exert powerful effects in many cancers. However, the...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Guo P,Cai C,Wu X,Fan X,Huang W,Zhou J,Wu Q,Huang Y,Zhao W,Zhang F,Wang Q,Zhang Y,Fang J

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroinflammation is regarded as one of the pathogenic factors of Alzheimer disease (AD). Previously, we showed that mice regularly injected with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) possessed the AD-like symptoms like episodic memory decline, elevated amounts of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide (1-42), and decreased levels of...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lykhmus O,Koval L,Voytenko L,Uspenska K,Komisarenko S,Deryabina O,Shuvalova N,Kordium V,Ustymenko A,Kyryk V,Skok M

更新日期：2019-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently a strong interest in using high-throughput in-vitro ion-channel screening data to make predictions regarding the cardiac toxicity potential of a new compound in both animal and human studies. A recent FDA think tank encourages the use of biophysical mathematical models of cardiac myocytes for this p...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Mistry HB,Davies MR,Di Veroli GY

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The importance of a framework for a systematic structured assessment of the benefits and risks has been established, but in addition, it is necessary that the benefit-risk decisions and the processes to derive those decisions are documented and communicated to various stakeholders for accountability. Hence ther...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Leong J,Walker S,Salek S

更新日期：2015-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Costunolide, a sesquiterpene isolated from Vladimiria souliei (Franch.) Ling, is known to exhibit anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, and anti-tumor activities. However, the effects of costunolide on liver injury are poorly understood. The current study aimed to investigate the hepatoprotective effects of costunolide again...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Mao J,Yi M,Wang R,Huang Y,Chen M

更新日期：2018-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene and remains the most common life-shortening diseases affecting the exocrine organs. The absence of this channel results in an imbalance of ion concentrations across the cell membrane and results in more a...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Bardin P,Sonneville F,Corvol H,Tabary O

更新日期：2018-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma (OS) is a malignant primary bone tumor with high metastatic rate. C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 6 (CXCL6) and its receptor C-X-C motif chemokine receptor 1/2 (CXCR1/2) have been found to participate in the process of carcinogenesis. In this study, we evaluated the role of CXCL6/CXCR1/2 axis in proliferatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Liu G,An L,Zhang H,Du P,Sheng Y

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is characterized by inflammation and fibrosis, in addition to steatosis, of the liver, but no therapeutic agents have yet been established. The mast cell protease chymase can generate angiotensin II, matrix metalloproteinase-9 and transforming growth factor-β, all of which are asso...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Takai S,Jin D

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis, antimicrobial activity evaluations, biomolecule-binding properties (DNA), and absorption and emission properties of a new series of (Z)-1,1,1-trichloro-4-alkyl(aryl)amino-4-arylbut-3-en-2-ones (4, 5) and 2,2-difluoro-3-alkyl(aryl)amino-4-aryl-6-(trichloromethyl)-2H-1,3,2-oxazaborinin-3-ium-2-uides (6, 7...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Rosa WC,Rocha IO,Rodrigues MB,Coelho HS,Denardi LB,Ledur PC,Zanatta N,Acunha TV,Iglesias BA,Bonacorso HG

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenethyl isothiocyanate is widely present in cruciferous vegetables with multiple biological effects. Here we reported the antiatherogenic effects and the underlying mechanisms of JC-5411 (Phenethyl isothiocyanate formulation) in vitro and in vivo. Luciferase reporter assay showed that JC-5411 increased the activity ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Jiang X,Li Y,Wang W,Han X,Han J,Chen M,Zhang J,Wang C,Li S,Luo J,Wang X,Xu Y,Xu Y,Cheng J,Si S

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic enzymes are crucial for a variety of biological processes in organisms ranging from lower (virus, bacteria, and parasite) to the higher organisms (mammals). Proteases cleave proteins into smaller fragments by catalyzing peptide bonds hydrolysis. Proteases are classified according to their catalytic site, a...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Verma S,Dixit R,Pandey KC

更新日期：2016-04-25 00:00:00