Ginsenoside Rb1 Induces Beta 3 Adrenergic Receptor-Dependent Lipolysis and Thermogenesis in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes and db/db Mice.

abstract：:Tacrolimus (Tac) is a profoundly effective immunosuppressant that reduces the risk of rejection after solid organ transplantation. However, its use is hampered by its narrow therapeutic window along with its highly variable pharmacological (pharmacokinetic [PK] and pharmacodynamic [PD]) profile. Part of this variabili...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Woillard JB,Mourad M,Neely M,Capron A,van Schaik RH,van Gelder T,Lloberas N,Hesselink DA,Marquet P,Haufroid V,Elens L

更新日期：2017-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the years chemotherapy failure has been a vital research topic as researchers have been striving to discover reasons behind it. The extensive studies carried out on chemotherapeutic agents confirm that resistance to chemotherapy is a major reason for treatment failure. "Resistance to chemotherapy," however, is a ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： El-Awady R,Saleh E,Hashim A,Soliman N,Dallah A,Elrasheed A,Elakraa G

更新日期：2017-01-10 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：:Dizocilpine (MK-801) is a non-competitive NMDA antagonist that induces schizophreniclike effects. It is therefore widely used in experimental models of schizophrenia including prepulse inhibition (PPI) impairments in rodents. Nevertheless, MK-801 has never been tested in monkeys on a PPI paradigm. In order to evaluate...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Saletti PG,Maior RS,Hori E,Nishijo H,Tomaz C

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer decreases survival time and quality of life because of drug resistance and peripheral neuropathy during conventional treatment. This study was undertaken to investigate whether αvβ3 integrin receptor antagonist compounds NDAT and XT199 can suppress the development of cisplatin resistance and cisplati...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Debreli Coskun M,Sudha T,Bharali DJ,Celikler S,Davis PJ,Mousa SA

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids is an intensively studied group of natural compounds with antioxidant, antineoplastic, antihyperglycemic, cardioprotective, and neuroprotective properties. The present study intends to investigate the geroprotective action of three selected flavonoids (naringin, luteolin, chrysin) in two model organisms, Ca...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lashmanova E,Zemskaya N,Proshkina E,Kudryavtseva A,Volosnikova M,Marusich E,Leonov S,Zhavoronkov A,Moskalev A

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that serotonin O-sulphate (5-HT-SO4) could be quantified in human plasma using modern liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) method as well as develop and validate that method. First, a suitable LC-MS method for detection of 5-HT-SO4 in human plasma sampl...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lozda R,Purviņš I

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is characterized by renal dysfunction, which is a common feature of other major diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes. Unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) has been used as a model of CKD in experimental animals and consists of total obstruction of one kidney ureter. The UUO decreas...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Figueroa SM,Lozano M,Lobos C,Hennrikus MT,Gonzalez AA,Amador CA

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing interest in the pharmaceutical industry to design novel tailored drugs for RNA targeting. The vertebrate-specific RNase A superfamily is nowadays one of the best characterized family of enzymes and comprises proteins involved in host defense with specific cytotoxic and immune-modulatory properties. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Prats-Ejarque G,Lu L,Salazar VA,Moussaoui M,Boix E

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodamages caused by UVA radiation induced oxidative injuries are closely related to photoaging and skin cancer. Paeoniflorin (PF), extracted from the root of Paeonia lactiflora, has been reported to be an effective antioxidant. PLIN2, known as adipose differentiation-related protein, has been previously involved in...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lu YS,Jiang Y,Yuan JP,Jiang SB,Yang Y,Zhu PY,Sun YZ,Qi RQ,Liu T,Wang HX,Wu Y,Gao XH,Chen HD

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-activated K+ channels constitute attractive targets for the treatment of neurological and cardiovascular diseases. To explain why certain 2-aminobenzothiazole/oxazole-type KCa activators (SKAs) are KCa3.1 selective we previously generated homology models of the C-terminal calmodulin-binding domain (CaM-BD) of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Shim H,Brown BM,Singh L,Singh V,Fettinger JC,Yarov-Yarovoy V,Wulff H

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of individuals worldwide. So far, no disease-modifying drug is available to treat patients, making the search for effective drugs an urgent need. Neurodegeneration is triggered by the activation of several cellular processes, including oxidative stress, mitochondrial impairme...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： de Souza JM,Goncalves BDC,Gomez MV,Vieira LB,Ribeiro FM

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:MOF is a well-known histone acetyltransferase to catalyze acetylation of histone H4 lysine 16 (K16), and it is relevant to diverse biological processes, such as gene transcription, cell cycle, early embryonic development and tumorigenesis. Here, we identify MOF as an oncogene in most thyroid cancer. It is found that e...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Li D,Yang Y,Chen B,Guo X,Gao S,Wang M,Duan M,Li X

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol-induced gastric mucosal injury is a common gastrointestinal disorder. Polysaccharides separated from herbs have been shown to be effective for ethanol-induced gastric mucosal injury, but whether the polysaccharides from Dendrobium officinale Kimura & Migo leaves (LDOP-1) protected mucosa from ethanol-induced i...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Ke Y,Zhan L,Lu T,Zhou C,Chen X,Dong Y,Lv G,Chen S

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:5α-reductase type 2 deficiency (5αRD) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease of the group of 46, XY disorders of sex development (DSD). Objective:To study the growth pattern in Chinese pediatric patients with 5αRD. Subjects:Data were obtained from 141 patients with 5αRD (age: 0-16 years old) who visi...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Zhao X,Song Y,Chen S,Wang X,Luo F,Yang Y,Chen L,Chen R,Chen H,Su Z,Wu D,Gong C

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a progressive autoimmune disease specific to synovial joints; it causes joint damage and other systemic abnormalities, thereby leading to physical disability and early mortality. Marine sponge-derived fungi, Pestalotiopsis sp., secrete immunosuppressive compounds in the culture broth. In t...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lee JY,Kim GJ,Choi JK,Choi YA,Jeong NH,Park PH,Choi H,Kim SH

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex disease is a cascade process which is associated with functional abnormalities in multiple proteins and protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. One drug one target has not been able to perfectly intervene complex diseases. Increasing evidences show that Chinese herb formula usually treats complex diseases ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Gao Y,Wang KX,Wang P,Li X,Chen JJ,Zhou BY,Tian JS,Guan DG,Qin XM,Lu AP

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The upstream stimulatory factors (USFs) are regulators of important cellular processes. Both USF1 and USF2 are supposed to have major roles in metabolism, tissue protection and tumor development. However, the knowledge about the mechanisms that control the function of USFs, in particular in tissue protection and cance...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Horbach T,Götz C,Kietzmann T,Dimova EY

更新日期：2015-02-18 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：:Calcium ions (Ca2+) play a major role in the cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. Intracellular Ca2+ concentration increases during systole and falls in diastole thereby determining cardiac contraction and relaxation. Normal cardiac function also requires perfect organization of the ion currents at the cellular le...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Kistamás K,Veress R,Horváth B,Bányász T,Nánási PP,Eisner DA

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug scheduling within the international system of drug control and national legislation has been recently criticized as having insufficient footing in scientific evidence. The legal harms related to non-medical uses of certain drugs (e.g., cannabis) have arguably exceeded their physiological and social harmfulness co...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Dubljević V

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting metabolic enzymes is believed to provide new therapeutic opportunities for cancer therapy. Phosphoglycerate mutase 1 (PGAM1) is a glycolytic enzyme that importantly coordinates glycolysis, pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) flux and serine biosynthesis in cancer cells and hence gains increasing interest of inhi...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Li X,Tang S,Wang QQ,Leung EL,Jin H,Huang Y,Liu J,Geng M,Huang M,Yuan S,Yao XJ,Ding J

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal secondary metabolites serve as a rich resource for exploring lead compounds with medicinal importance. Diorcinol N (DN), a fungal secondary metabolite isolated from an endophytic fungus, Arthrinium arundinis, exhibits robust anticancer activity. However, the anticancer mechanism of DN remains unclear. In this s...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Yuan XL,Li XQ,Xu K,Hou XD,Zhang ZF,Xue L,Liu XM,Zhang P

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Exhaustive exercise has emerged as an important health issue nowadays. This study was designed to assess the metabolite abnormalities of rats after exhaustive exercise and the holistic efficacy of Chinese medicine Sanqi oral solution (SQ). Through exhaustive swimming, the exhaustive exercise model in rats was establis...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Xu P,Li S,Tian R,Han L,Mao W,Li L,Li C,Wang Y,Luo G,Yang N

更新日期：2019-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone-related infection rates are 4-64% in long open bone fractures and nearly 1% in joint-related surgeries. Treating bone infections and infection-related bone loss is very important. The present study prepared strontium ranelate (SR)-loaded poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) microspheres (PM) with assembled silver...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Mao Z,Li Y,Yang Y,Fang Z,Chen X,Wang Y,Kang J,Qu X,Yuan W,Dai K,Yue B

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: This study aimed to identify the active components of Fuzheng Huayu (FZHY) formula and the mechanism by which they inhibit the viability of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) by a combination of network pharmacology and transcriptomics. Methods: The active components of FZHY formula were screened out by text minin...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Xing X,Chen S,Li L,Cao Y,Chen L,Wang X,Zhu Z

更新日期：2018-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of histamine H3 receptors (H3Rs) in memory is well known, and the potential of H3R antagonists in therapeutic management of neuropsychiatric diseases, e.g., Alzheimer disease (AD) is well established. Therefore, the effects of histamine H3 receptor (H3R) antagonist E159 (2.5-10 mg/kg, i.p.) in adult ma...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Alachkar A,Łażewska D,Kieć-Kononowicz K,Sadek B

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing evidence that the metabolic network is an integral regulator of cellular physiology. Dynamic changes in metabolite concentrations, metabolic flux, or network topology act as reporters of biological or environmental signals, and are required for the cell to trigger an appropriate biological reaction. C...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Ralser M,Michel S,Breitenbach M

更新日期：2012-03-08 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：:Purpose: Asian populations have around 40-60% frequency of reduced function allele CYP2D6∗10 compared to 1-2% in Caucasian populations. The wide range of CYP2D6 enzyme activities in subjects with the CYP2D6∗10 variant is a big concern for clinical practice. The quantitative analysis measuring the impact of CYP2D6 enzy...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Chen R,Zheng X,Hu P

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00