Elevated Pressure Changes the Purinergic System of Microglial Cells.

abstract：:Pulmonary fibrosis is closely associated with the recruitment of fibroblasts from capillary vessels with damaged endothelial cells, the epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) of type II alveolar epithelial cells, and the transformation of fibroblasts to myofibroblasts. Recent studies suggest that EMT is a key factor ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Xie L,Zeng Y

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanistic basis for temozolomide (TMZ)-induced glioma resistance is an important obstacle in developing an effective form of chemotherapy for this type of tumor. Glycogenolysis is known to play an essential role in cellular proliferation and potassium homeostasis and involves the glycogen phosphory...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Xu J,Zhang Y,Guo X,Sun T

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:ORY-1001, an inhibitor of covalent lysine (K)-specific demethylase 1A (KDM1A), has been used as a therapy for the treatment of acute leukemia. However, the underlying mechanisms of anticancer are still not fully elucidated. Here, we report that KDM1A is highly expressed in lung cancers, where it appears to drive aggre...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lu Z,Guo Y,Zhang X,Li J,Li L,Zhang S,Shan C

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired homeostasis of the carboxylic acids oxalate and citrate, dramatically increases the risk for the formation of Ca2+-oxalate kidney stones, which is the most common form of kidney stones in humans. Renal homeostasis of oxalate and citrate is controlled by complex mechanisms including epithelial transport protei...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Shimshilashvili L,Aharon S,Moe OW,Ohana E

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut microbiome maintains local gut integrity and systemic host homeostasis, where optimal control of intestinal lipopolysaccharides (LPS) activity may play an important role. LPS mainly produced from gut microbiota are a group of lipid-polysaccharide chemical complexes existing in the outer membrane of Gram-negative b...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lin TL,Shu CC,Chen YM,Lu JJ,Wu TS,Lai WF,Tzeng CM,Lai HC,Lu CC

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD), characterized with bradykinesia, static tremor, rigidity and disturbances in balance, is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. Along with the largely aging population in the world, the incidence is increasing year by year, which imposes the negative impacts on patients, their fam...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Li X,Zhang Y,Wang Y,Xu J,Xin P,Meng Y,Wang Q,Kuang H

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Corneal neovascularization (CNV) is a sight-threatening disease usually associated with inflammatory, infectious, degenerative, and traumatic disorders of the ocular surface. Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family members play an important role in angiogenesis to induce corneal neovascularization, which significantly a...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Chen M,Bao L,Zhao M,Cao J,Zheng H

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the anticancer effects of Ophiopogonin D' (OPD', a natural product extracted from a traditional Chinese medicine (Radix Ophiopogonis) against androgen-independent prostate cancer cells and to explore the underlying molecular mechanism(s) of action. Methods: The CCK-...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lu Z,Wang H,Zhu M,Song W,Wang J,Wu C,Kong Y,Guo J,Li N,Liu J,Li Y,Xu H

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the prevalence of and risk factors for hypersensitivity reactions related to carboplatin, which is commonly used to treat gynecological malignancies. All women with pathologically documented ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer treated with carboplatin alone or a carboplatin-based combina...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Tai YH,Tai YJ,Hsu HC,Lee SP,Chen YY,Chiang YC,Chen YL,Chen CA,Cheng WF

更新日期：2017-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:For the treatment of malignancy, many therapeutic agents, including small molecules, photosensitizers, immunomodulators, proteins and genes, and so forth, have been loaded into nanocarriers for controllable cancer therapy. Among these nanocarriers, polymeric micelles have been considered as one of the most promising n...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Wang J,Li S,Han Y,Guan J,Chung S,Wang C,Li D

更新日期：2018-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the major public health problem and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality on a global basis. Wenxin Keli (WXKL), a formally classical Chinese patent medicine with obvious efficacy and favorable safety, plays a great role in the management of patients with CVDs. Accumulating evid...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Tian G,Sun Y,Liu S,Li C,Chen S,Qiu R,Zhang X,Li Y,Li M,Shang H

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Wenxin Keli (WXKL) is a widely used Chinese botanical drug for the treatment of arrhythmia, which is consisted of four herbs and amber. In the present study, we analyzed the chemical composition of WXKL using liquid chromatography coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) to tentatively identify 71 comp...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Liu H,Chen X,Zhao X,Zhao B,Qian K,Shi Y,Baruscotti M,Wang Y

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to our interest in the chemical space of organic dyes to identify potential small-molecule inhibitors (SMIs) for protein-protein interactions (PPIs), we initiated a screen of such compounds to assess their inhibitory activity against the interaction between SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and its cognate receptor ACE2, w...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Bojadzic D,Alcazar O,Buchwald P

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Bangpungtongsung-san (BTS) is a traditional Korean medicine consisting of 18 herbs, some which have antidepressant effects. Here, we used an animal model of reserpine-induced depression and lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated BV2 microglia to assess the antidepressant and anti-neuroinflammatory effects of BTS. Aside f...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Park BK,Kim NS,Kim YR,Yang C,Jung IC,Jang IS,Seo CS,Choi JJ,Lee MY

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholamban (PLN) is a phosphoprotein in cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) that is a reversible regulator of the Ca(2) (+)-ATPase (SERCA2a) activity and cardiac contractility. Dephosphorylated PLN inhibits SERCA2a and PLN phosphorylation, at either Ser(16) by PKA or Thr(17) by Ca(2) (+)-calmodulin-dependent protei...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Mattiazzi A,Kranias EG

更新日期：2014-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: D-dimer is a small protein fragment and high levels of D-dimer have been associated with increased mortality in patients presenting to emergency departments with infection. Previous studies have reported increased levels of D-dimer in COVID-19; however, it is unclear whether an increased D-dimer level prov...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Li J,Liu Z,Wu G,Yi M,Chen Y,Li K,Xu X,Xiao L,Wu Q,Chen J,Wu X

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:How do psychedelic drugs produce their characteristic range of acute effects in perception, emotion, cognition, and sense of self? How do these effects relate to the clinical efficacy of psychedelic-assisted therapies? Efforts to understand psychedelic phenomena date back more than a century in Western science. In thi...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Swanson LR

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:All excitable cell functions rely upon ion channels that are embedded in their plasma membrane. Perturbations of ion channel structure or function result in pathologies ranging from cardiac dysfunction to neurodegenerative disorders. Consequently, to understand the functions of excitable cells and to remedy their path...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Py C,Martina M,Diaz-Quijada GA,Luk CC,Martinez D,Denhoff MW,Charrier A,Comas T,Monette R,Krantis A,Syed NI,Mealing GA

更新日期：2011-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and Objective: Idiopathic central precocious puberty (ICPP) is characterized by early pubertal changes, the acceleration of growth velocity, and rapid bone maturation that often results in reduced adult height. Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) is currently considered to be an effective therap...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Yu HK,Liu X,Chen JK,Wang S,Quan XY

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Hupresin is a new affinity resin that binds butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) in human plasma and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) solubilized from red blood cells (RBC). Hupresin is available from the CHEMFORASE company. BChE in human plasma binds to Hupresin and is released with 0.1 M trimethylammonium bromide (TMA) with full...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Onder S,David E,Tacal O,Schopfer LM,Lockridge O

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) are at higher risk of local and distant recurrence and are thus more vulnerable to metastatic diseases. Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) and subsequent curative resection with total mesorectal excision (TME) followed by adjuvant chemotherapy have been r...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Zhong X,Zhou Y,Cui W,Su X,Guo Z,Hidasa I,Li Q,Wang Z,Song Y

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Myocardial ischemia can result in marked mitochondrial damage leading to cardiac dysfunction, as such identifying novel mechanisms to limit mitochondrial injury is important. This study investigated the hypothesis that inhibiting soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), responsible for converting epoxyeicosatrienoic acids...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Akhnokh MK,Yang FH,Samokhvalov V,Jamieson KL,Cho WJ,Wagg C,Takawale A,Wang X,Lopaschuk GD,Hammock BD,Kassiri Z,Seubert JM

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This article highlights several refractory oral diseases, such as stomatitis, burning mouth syndrome (BMS), glossalgia, atypical facial pain (AFP), oral cancer, dry mouth, and Sjögren's syndrome (SJS), in which use of Japanese herbal medicines, Kampo medicines (KM), on the basis of Kampo theory could exert the maximum...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Yamaguchi K

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF) and its related peptides differentially bind to CRF receptors to modulate stress-related behaviors. CRF receptors comprise two G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR), type-1 CRF receptors (CRF1), and type-2 CRF receptors (CRF2). CRF2 encompasses three spliced variants in humans, alpha...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Yarur HE,Andrés ME,Gysling K

更新日期：2020-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel alternatives to traditional antibiotics are now of great demand for the successful treatment of microbial infections. Here, we present the engineering and properties of new oligonucleotide inhibitors of RNase P, an essential bacterial enzyme. The series of 2'-O-methyl RNA (2'-OMe-RNA) and phosphoryl guanidine ol...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Novopashina D,Vorobyeva M,Nazarov A,Davydova A,Danilin N,Koroleva L,Matveev A,Bardasheva A,Tikunova N,Kupryushkin M,Pyshnyi D,Altman S,Venyaminova A

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In-depth research on processing can promote the globalization of processed herbs. The purpose of this study is to propose an improved strategy for processing effect investigation. Frankincense and processed frankincense were used as research subjects. First, high-speed countercurrent chromatography (HSCCC) and prepara...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Ning Z,Wang C,Liu Y,Song Z,Ma X,Liang D,Liu Z,Lu A

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the accumulation of protein aggregates (namely Lewy bodies) in dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra region of the brain. Alpha-synuclein (α-syn) is the major component of Lewy bodies in PD patients, and impairment of...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Yuan NN,Cai CZ,Wu MY,Zhu Q,Su H,Li M,Ren J,Tan JQ,Lu JH

更新日期：2019-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Metronomic chemotherapy (MC) is defined as the frequent administration of chemotherapy at doses below the maximal tolerated dose and with no prolonged drug-free break. MC has shown its efficacy in adult tumor types such as breast and ovarian cancer and has to some extent been studied in pediatrics. Objecti...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Verschuur A,Heng-Maillard MA,Dory-Lautrec P,Truillet R,Jouve E,Chastagner P,Leblond P,Aerts I,Honoré S,Entz-Werle N,Sirvent N,Gentet JC,Corradini N,André N

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Isorhapontigenin (trans-3,5,4'-trihydroxy-3'-methoxystilbene, ISO), a dietary resveratrol (trans-3,5,4'-trihydroxystilbene) derivative, possesses various health-promoting activities. To further evaluate its medicinal potentials, the pharmacokinetic and metabolomic profiles of ISO were examined in Sprague-D...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Dai Y,Yeo SCM,Barnes PJ,Donnelly LE,Loo LC,Lin HS

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifampicin exhibits complexities in its pharmacokinetics (PK), including high inter-occasion variability (IOV), which is challenging for dose individualization. Model-informed precision dosing (MIPD) can be used to optimize individual doses. In this simulation-based study we investigated the magnitude of IOV in rifamp...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Keutzer L,Simonsson USH

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00