Central oxytocinergic neurotransmission: a drug target for the therapy of psychogenic erectile dysfunction.

abstract：:Biomedical science is currently undergoing an epoch-marking transition from its classical phase to the post-genome era. The outstanding success of world-wide genome sequencing efforts, evidenced by the recent publication of the draft of the human genome, together with the completion of several genomes of eukaryotic mo...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Nagl SB

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mitochondria may very well determine the final commitment of the cell to death, particularly in times of energy stress. Cancer chemotherapeutics such as the anthracycline doxorubicin perturb mitochondrial structure and function in tumour cells, as evidenced in osteosarcoma, for which doxorubicin is used ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Armstrong J,Dass CR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sialyltransferase family represents a group of enzymes that transfers sialic acid from its common nucleotide sugar donor, CMP-NeuAc, to the terminal carbohydrates group of various glycoproteins and glycolipids. Cloning of these enzymes from mammalian sources indicated these are all type II membrane proteins with t...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Datta AK

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies indicate that anti-inflammatory drugs, especially the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), decrease the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). Their beneficial effects may be due to interference in the chronic inflammatory reaction, that takes place in AD. The best-characterize...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Hoozemans JJ,Veerhuis R,Rozemuller AJ,Eikelenboom P

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to international guidelines, treatment of cervical cancer (CC) consists of surgery in early stages and of chemoradiation in locally advanced disease. Metastatic disease is usually treated with palliative chemotherapeutic regimens, but cytostatic drugs present significant side effects and show limited activit...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Tomao F,Di Tucci C,Imperiale L,Boccia SM,Marchetti C,Palaia I,Muzii L,Panici PB

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of protein crystal structures being refined to atomic resolution is increasing each year as well as the size of proteins being studied. There are currently 346 structures in the protein data bank which have been refined to or beyond atomic resolution. The benefits of atomic resolution X-ray data are discuss...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Coates L,Myles DA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), two chronic and relapsing inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), are supposed to develop in genetically-predisposed individuals as a result of an excessive immune mucosal response directed against normal components of the gut microbiota. There is also evidence that defects...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Marafini I,Zorzi F,Codazza S,Pallone F,Monteleone G

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present article is to review the indications, the monitoring and the complications of sedation in the post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU). In this setting, sedation is often an unwanted side effect of anaesthetic drugs that delay discharge, however it could be specifically indicated. Such indications incl...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： De Gaudio AR,Rinaldi S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The down regulation of gene expression is a promising strategy for molecular medicine and experimental biology. Molecules that bind to the DNA double helix may interfere with gene expression and, in addition to potential therapeutic applications, can be helpful for the investigation of DNA processing, chromatin packag...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Besch R,Giovannangeli C,Degitz K

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) is an inducible enzyme involved in the conversion of arachidonic acid to prostaglandin and other eicosanoids. Molecular pathology studies have revealed that Cox-2 is over-expressed in cancer and stroma cells during tumor progression, and anti-cancer chemo-radiotherapies induce expression of Co...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Khan Z,Khan N,Tiwari RP,Sah NK,Prasad GB,Bisen PS

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine aminopeptidases (MetAP) are intracellular metalloproteins responsible for the removal of the initiator NH(2)-terminal methionine from newly synthesized proteins, thereby facilitating their intracellular translocation from the ribosome. Two types of MetAP enzymes, MetAP-1 (type-I) and MetAP-2 (type-II), whic...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mauriz JL,Martín-Renedo J,García-Palomo A,Tuñón MJ,González-Gallego J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review we focus on the impact of genetic admixture on pharmacogenomics in the American continent, where five centuries of intermarriage between Amerindians, European and Africans, resulted in the extensive population heterogeneity observed nowadays. We compare two alternative views of human genomic variation, ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Suarez-Kurtz G,Pena SD

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are life-threating conditions still lacking a definite therapy and carrying a high mortality and morbidity, especially in children and infants. Albeit respiratory assistance and supportive therapies are crucial for ALI/ARDS, many drugs have been pr...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： De Luca D,Piastra M,Tosi F,Pulitanò S,Mancino A,Genovese O,Pietrini D,Conti G

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gabapentin and pregabalin inhibit Ca(2+) currents via high-voltage-activated channels containing the alpha2delta-1 subunit, reducing neurotransmitter release and attenuating the postsynaptic excitability. They are antiepileptic drugs successfully used also for the chronic pain treatment. A large number of cl...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Dauri M,Faria S,Gatti A,Celidonio L,Carpenedo R,Sabato AF

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexity of the central nervous system (CNS) exposes it to a number of different diseases, often caused by only small variations in gene sequence or expression level. Antisense oligonucleotides and RNA interference-mediated therapies hold great promise for the treatment of CNS diseases in which neurodegeneration...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Forte A,Cipollaro M,Cascino A,Galderisi U

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies provide a growing number of evidences that chronic exposure to relatively low levels of cadmium (Cd), nowadays taking place in industrialized countries, may cause health hazard. Thus, growing interest has been focused on effective ways of protection from adverse effects of exposure to this heav...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Brzóska MM,Borowska S,Tomczyk M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major focus has developed for the discovery of proregenerative and neuroprotective therapeutic agents to help the millions of Americans who receive a CNS injury annually. Tribulations have been encountered along the way due to the complicated set of pathways that are initiated post-injury. To target this complicated...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Yonutas HM,Sullivan PG

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While breast cancer (BC) is commonest malignancy among female with highest death rate, male breast cancer (MBC) is very rare but exhibits highest cancer specific death in men and the incidences of MBCs are rising rapidly. Due to rarity of the disease, no detail information about biomarkers and drug targets available a...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Barh D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous opioid peptides have been studied extensively as potential therapeutics for the treatment of pain. The major problems of using natural opioid peptides as drug candidates are their poor receptor specificity, metabolic instability and inability to reach the brain after systemic administration. A lot of synthe...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Piekielna J,Perlikowska R,Gach K,Janecka A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertriglyceridaemia is associated with insulin resistance, hypertension, obesity and diabetes. The management of hypertriglyceridaemia and atherogenic dyslipidaemias increasingly involves the use of several drugs for different aspects of the metabolic syndrome. This review highlights the agents for treatment of bloo...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Viljoen A,Wierzbicki AS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baculoviruses have adapted novel tactics to transcribe their genes during the late stages of replication. These include a DNA-directed RNA polymerase which is evolutionarily divergent from cellular polymerases. The viral RNA polymerase is a multisubunit and multifunctional RNA polymerase that has the ability to recogn...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Passarelli AL,Guarino LA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiopathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative Colitis (UC), the two major forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is still unknown. Although the exact cause and mechanisms of both IBD have yet to be completely understood, it is widely accepted that both CD and UC result from an inappropriate immune re...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Stefanelli T,Malesci A,Repici A,Vetrano S,Danese S

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thromboembolic diseases such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE), myocardial infarction (MI) and ischemic strokes are mainly responsible for people's morbidity and mortality and have severely affected the people's quality of life all over the world. According to WHO statistics, an average of 17 mill...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Guo L,Ma S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In evolutionary terms, mitochondria in apicomplexan parasites appear to be "relicts-in-the-making": they possess the smallest mitochondrial genomes known, encoding only three proteins, and in one genus, Cryptosporidium, the genome is eliminated altogether. Several features of mitochondrial physiology provide validated...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mather MW,Henry KW,Vaidya AB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past years, there was an explosion in the knowledge of the protein target and molecular mechanism associated with various disease types and in the new research of drugs of natural origin. The key idea is to evaluate bioactive natural products interacting with protein domains of different genetic origin but st...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Braca A,Dal Piaz F,Marzocco S,Autore G,Vassallo A,De Tommasi N

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of imatinib, second and third generation ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) (i.e. dasatinib, nilotinib, bosutinib and ponatinib) made CML a clinically manageable and, in a small percentage of cases, a cured disease. TKI therapy also turned CML blastic transformation into a rare event; however, disease progre...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Perrotti D,Silvestri G,Stramucci L,Yu J,Trotta R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial respiratory infections are the main reason of morbidity and mortality among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. In early childhood, the respiratory infections are due to Staphylococcus aureus and Haemophilus influenzae. In older CF patients, pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria like Achromobacter xylosoxidans, Burkh...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Velikova N,Wells JM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represents close to 90% of all lung cancers. When diagnosed, most cases are on an advanced and inoperable stage, with limited therapeutic options. Existing therapies have shown to be insufficient and novel strategies are urgently necessary. New advances in understanding the disease a...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Nascimento AV,Bousbaa H,Ferreira D,Sarmento B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is one of the most concerning diseases in modern times. Despite considerable advances in therapeutic management, the prevalence of diabetes and its contribution to death and disability continue to be a major health problem. Diabetic vasculopathies are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in diabetic p...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： de Oliveira AA,Webb RC,Nunes KP

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the development of modern assisted reproductive technology(ART), the treatment of infertility and the pregnant outcome by ART have been significantly improved. However, implantation failure, particularly the unexplained repeated implantation failure (RIF), is still the unsolved and principal problem to affect the...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Li J,Liang X,Chen Z

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00