Control of Complement Activation by the Long Pentraxin PTX3: Implications in Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

abstract：:Interest is increasing in the development of non-animal methods for toxicological evaluations. These methods are however, particularly challenging for complex toxicological endpoints such as repeated dose toxicity. European Legislation, e.g., the European Union's Cosmetic Directive and REACH, demands the use of altern...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Batke M,Gütlein M,Partosch F,Gundert-Remy U,Helma C,Kramer S,Maunz A,Seeland M,Bitsch A

更新日期：2016-09-21 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：:Chemotherapy is a leading intervention against cancer. Albeit highly effective, chemotherapy has a multitude of deleterious side-effects including skeletal muscle wasting and fatigue, which considerably reduces patient quality of life and survivability. As such, a defense against chemotherapy-induced skeletal muscle d...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Sorensen JC,Petersen AC,Timpani CA,Campelj DG,Cook J,Trewin AJ,Stojanovska V,Stewart M,Hayes A,Rybalka E

更新日期：2017-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Reliable and precise measurement of patient adherence to medications is feasible by incorporating a microcircuitry into pharmaceutical packages of various designs, such that the maneuvers needed to remove a dose of drug are detected, time-stamped, and stored. The principle is called "electronic medication ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Arnet I,Walter PN,Hersberger KE

更新日期：2013-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Rhein is considered to have beneficial influence on diabetic nephropathy. Animal experiments suggested that the mechanisms of rhein against diabetic nephropathy may involve many processes, but the credibility of the evidence is unclear. Therefore, we conducted systematic review and meta-analysis of pre-cli...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Hu HC,Zheng LT,Yin HY,Tao Y,Luo XQ,Wei KS,Yin LP

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In angiotensin II (Ang II)-dependent hypertensive rats there is an increased expression of proximal tubule angiotensinogen (AGT), collecting duct renin and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE), which contributes to intratubular Ang II formation. Ang II acts on Ang II type 1 receptors promoting sodium retention and vaso...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Gonzalez AA,Gallardo M,Cespedes C,Vio CP

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) and the presence of Lewy bodies (LBs) in the surviving SNc neurons. LBs formation is caused by the accumulation of α-synuclein (α-syn) or phosphorylated α-syn at serine-129 (pSer129-α-syn), wh...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Li T,Feng Y,Yang R,Wu L,Li R,Huang L,Yang Q,Chen J

更新日期：2018-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited ocular disorder with no effective treatment. RP onset and progression trigger a cascade of retinal disorders that lead to the death of photoreceptors. After photoreceptors death, neuronal, glial and vascular remodeling can be observed in the retina. The purpose of this study w...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Gimeno-Hernández R,Cantó A,Fernández-Carbonell A,Olivar T,Hernández-Rabaza V,Almansa I,Miranda M

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD), is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by cognitive loss. Most researchers believe that aggregation and accumulation of β-amyloid peptides (Aβ) in brain cells are the central pathological hallmark of this disease. Methods: Based on the amyloid hypothesis,...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Liu W,Sun F,Wan M,Jiang F,Bo X,Lin L,Tang H,Xu S

更新日期：2018-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cannabis extracts in oil are becoming increasingly available, and, during the last years, there has been growing public and scientific interest about therapeutic properties of these compounds for the treatment of several neurologic diseases, not just epilepsy. The discovered role of the endocannabinoid system in epile...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Raucci U,Pietrafusa N,Paolino MC,Di Nardo G,Villa MP,Pavone P,Terrin G,Specchio N,Striano P,Parisi P

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and Purpose:Drynaria fortunei J. Sm (D. fortunei), known as Gu-Sui-Bu, is used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat common injuries, including bone fractures and bruising. The specific functional mechanisms of the angiogenic and endothelial cell migration properties of D. fortunei are currently unclear....

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Huang ST,Chang CC,Pang JS,Huang HS,Chou SC,Kao MC,You HL

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Several reports have shown that the periventricular region of the brain, including the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), is critical to sensing and responding to changes in plasma osmolality. Further studies also implicate the transient receptor potential ion channel, type V4 (TRPV4) channel in this homeostatic behavior....

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Feetham CH,Nunn N,Barrett-Jolley R

更新日期：2015-04-23 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：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：:Cardiac hypertrophy is an ongoing clinical challenge, as risk factors such as obesity, smoking and increasing age become more widespread, which lead to an increasing prevalence of developing hypertrophy. Pathological hypertrophy is a maladaptive response to stress conditions, such as pressure overload, and involve a n...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Kastner N,Zlabinger K,Spannbauer A,Traxler D,Mester-Tonczar J,Hašimbegović E,Gyöngyösi M

更新日期：2020-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal epileptic encephalopathy (NEE), as a result of pyridoxine 5'-phosphate oxidase (PNPO) deficiency, is a rare neural disorder characterized by intractable seizures and usually leads to early infant death. The clinical phenotypes do not respond to antiepileptic drugs but are alleviated in most cases by giving la...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Chen PY,Tu HC,Schirch V,Safo MK,Fu TF

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This research evaluated the effects of triterpenes on the regulation of STZ-induced hyperglycaemic diabetes through an anti-inflammatory response. Diabetic mice were orally administered various concentrations of triterpenes on a daily basis. Weight gain, volume of drinking water, and liver and spleen weight were recor...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Wu YS,Chen SN

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Formal definitions allow selecting terms (e.g., identifying all terms related to "Infectious disease" using the query "has causative agent organism") and terminological reasoning (e.g., "hepatitis B" is a "hepatitis" and is an "infectious disease"). However, the standard international terminology Medical D...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Bousquet C,Souvignet J,Sadou É,Jaulent MC,Declerck G

更新日期：2019-09-10 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：:"Lipotoxicity" induced by free fatty acids (FAs) plays a central role in the pathogenesis of many metabolic diseases, with few treatment options available today. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a novel gaseous signaling molecule, has been reported to have a variety of pharmacological properties, but its effect on FAs metaboli...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Zhao C,Yu N,Li W,Cai H,Liu M,Hu Y,Liu Y,Tang M

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Colostrum has been proposed to treat severe dryness and problematic eye lesions showing a beneficial effect. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of 2-fucosyl-lactose, a natural sugar present in the human colostrum, in an experimental dry eye. METHODS:Dry eye was induced in adult male New Zealand...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Bucolo C,Musumeci M,Salomone S,Romano GL,Leggio GM,Gagliano C,Reibaldi M,Avitabile T,Uva MG,Musumeci S,Drago F

更新日期：2015-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Tanshinone IIA (Tan IIA), a lipophilic constituent from Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge, has shown a promising cardioprotective effect including anti-atherosclerosis. This study aims at exploring Tan IIA's anti-inflammatory and immune-regulating roles in stabilizing vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque in ApoE-defi...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Chen Z,Gao X,Jiao Y,Qiu Y,Wang A,Yu M,Che F,Li S,Liu J,Li J,Zhang H,Yu C,Li G,Gao Y,Pan L,Sun W,Guo J,Cao B,Zhu Y,Xu H

更新日期：2019-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Stability of traditional Chinese medicine injection (TCMI) is an important issue related with its clinical application. TCMI is composed of multi-components, therefore, when evaluating TCMI stability, several marker compounds cannot represent global components or biological activities of TCMI. Till now, when evaluatin...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Li JP,Liu Y,Guo JM,Shang EX,Zhu ZH,Zhu KY,Tang YP,Zhao BC,Tang ZS,Duan JA

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiac ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury greatly influences the therapeutic effect and remains an urgent challenge in clinical therapy. Polypharmacology opens a new therapeutic opportunity to design drugs with a specific target for improving the efficacy. In this study, we first forecasted that Rosmarinic acid (R...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Han J,Wang D,Ye L,Li P,Hao W,Chen X,Ma J,Wang B,Shang J,Li D,Zheng Q

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Canonical Wnt signaling pathway, also known as Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, is a crucial mechanism for cellular maintenance and development. It regulates cell cycle progression, apoptosis, proliferation, migration, and differentiation. Dysregulation of this pathway correlates with oncogenesis in various tissues in...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Aminuddin A,Ng PY

更新日期：2016-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Irinotecan is widely used in the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) despite its severe toxicities. Toxicity is often associated with the UGT1A1*28/*28 genotype. An explanation for idiopathic toxicity beyond the UGT1A1 biomarker, however, remains a major concern for clinicians. One of the main irinotecan ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Riera P,Artigas-Baleri A,Salazar J,Sebio A,Virgili AC,Arranz MJ,Páez D

更新日期：2020-06-30 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：:SARS-CoV-2 is a positive sense RNA coronavirus that constitutes a new threat for the global community and economy. While vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are being developed, the mechanisms through which this virus takes control of an infected cell to replicate remains poorly understood. Upon infection, viruses completely ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Gatti P,Ilamathi HS,Todkar K,Germain M

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the oral route is the most convenient route for drug administration, there are a number of circumstances where this is not possible from either a clinical or pharmaceutical perspective. In these cases, the rectal route may represent a practical alternative and can be used to administer drugs for both local an...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Hua S

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Doxorubicin (Dox) can induce endotheliotoxicity and damage the vascular endothelium (VE). The most principle mechanism might be excess reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. Nevertheless, the characteristics of ROS generation, downstream mechanisms, and target organelles in Dox-induced endotheliotoxicit...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： He H,Wang L,Qiao Y,Zhou Q,Li H,Chen S,Yin D,Huang Q,He M

更新日期：2020-01-10 00:00:00