Alternatives to conventional vaccines--mediators of innate immunity.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global death rate due to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) is highest as compared to other ailments. Principal risk factor associated with CVDs is hypertension. Major classes of current antihypertensive (AHT) therapies include angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI), angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs)...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Niaz T,Hafeez Z,Imran M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One approach to identify new drugs with antimicrobial activities is to screen large libraries of molecules directly for their capacity to block the growth of bacterial or fungal monocultures. A more relevant way to assess both a product's efficacy and its potential cytotoxicity is undoubtedly to use an in vivo infecti...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Squiban B,Kurz CL

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hedgehog signal transduction network is a critical regulator of metazoan development. Inappropriate activation of this network is implicated in several different cancers, including breast. Genetic evidence in mice as well as molecular biological studies in human cells clearly indicate that activated signaling can ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Visbal AP,Lewis MT

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD; Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis) is highest during the peak reproductive years, hence the increased concern with the safety of IBD drugs during pregnancy. Over the past 11 years, anti-TNF-alpha antibody therapy has emerged as a treatment approach for refractory IBD...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： El Mourabet M,El-Hachem S,Harrison JR,Binion DG

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The plant milk thistle and silymarin has been traditionally used as a natural remedy for the treatment of various ailments including neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and cerebral ischemia for over 2000 years. OBJECTIVE:In this article we review the neuroprotective effects o...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Devi KP,Malar DS,Braidy N,Nabavi SM,Nabavi SF

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PDZ domains play an essential role in a number of cellular processes by facilitating protein scaffolding and assembly of protein complexes. These domains consist of 80 to 90 amino acids and are found to recognize short C-terminal sequences of target proteins. Protein complex formation between PDZ target molecules can ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Holcomb J,Spellmon N,Trescott L,Sun F,Li C,Yang Z

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Lipoxygenase (5-LO) is the key enzyme involved in the synthesis of pro-inflammatory leukotrienes (LTs) and has become a prime target for new drug discovery research and development efforts by the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. The pathophysiological effects of LTs can be modulated by the selective inhibition o...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Anwar Y,Sabir JS,Qureshi MI,Saini KS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infiltrating inflammatory cells into the kidney mediate the initiation and progression of damage by direct cytotoxicity, the secretion of soluble factors such as cytokines and proteases, or by the subsequent induction of further immune response. Before leukocytes can exert their effects on renal damage or repair, they...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Panzer U,Steinmetz OM,Stahl RA,Wolf G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxysterols are pleiotropic messengers interacting with multiple receptor systems. One of the cognate receptors for oxysterols is EBI2, a G protein-coupled receptor highly expressed in the cells of the immune system. Here we discuss the receptor's role in the adapted immunity and inflammation as well as the receptor's ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Rutkowska A,Dev KK,Sailer AW

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：:Saponins are plant glycosides that consist of a steroid, steroid alkaloid or triterpenoid aglycone and one or more sugar chains that are covalently linked by glycosidic binding to the aglycone. Glucose, galactose, glucuronic acid, xylose and rhamnose are commonly bound monosaccharides. Saponins are found in all organs...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Fuchs H,Bachran D,Panjideh H,Schellmann N,Weng A,Melzig MF,Sutherland M,Bachran C

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelia are the layers of cells that form barriers between external milieu and underlying tissues and thus, are important components of most organs of the body. Epithelial layers of organs, such as the lung, are exposed to various challenges resulting in frequent injury. Epithelial wound healing represents an import...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Allahverdian S,Patchell BJ,Dorscheid DR

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenothiazines and structurally related compounds alongside their other biological activities are able to modulate multidrug resistance (MDR) in tumor cells. The extensive investigations on their MDR modulation effects consist part of the efforts to overcome MDR - the major obstacle in cancer chemotherapy. In this art...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Tsakovska I,Pajeva I

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenosine pathway is a powerful evolutionarily selected mechanism aimed at a fine modulation of inflammatory responses and protection of tissues from injuries. Adenosine exerts its modulatory effects via interaction with G protein-coupled receptors, designated as A(1), A(2A), A(2B) and A(3). In this regard, extrac...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Antonioli L,Colucci R,La Motta C,Tuccori M,Awwad O,Da Settimo F,Blandizzi C,Fornai M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceruloplasmin contains 95% of the copper in human serum and plays an important role in iron efflux from mammalian cells, including brain cells, due to the activity of ferroxidase, which oxidizes ferrous iron following its transfer to the cell surface via the iron transporter, ferroportin, and delivers ferric iron to e...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Kono S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of predictive biomarkers provides potential individualized cancer therapeutic options to prevent therapy failure as well as serious toxicities. Several recent studies showed that predictive and prognostic biomarkers are a notable personalized strategy to improve patients' care in several cancers. Trabectedin (...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Souid S,Aissaoui D,Srairi-Abid N,Essafi-Benkhadir K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FOXO transcription factors control proliferation, apoptosis, differentiation and metabolic processes. Loss of FOXO function has been identified in several human cancers, and results in increased cellular survival and a predisposition to neoplasia, especially in epithelial cancer. FOXO factors are therefore bona fide t...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Monsalve M,Olmos Y

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral myocarditis is a cardiac disease caused by Group B Coxsackie virus of Enterovirus genus in the Picorna viridae family. It causes heart failure in children, young and adults. Ten Percent (10%) of acute heart failure and 12% of sudden deaths in young and adults who are less than 40 years is due to this viral myoca...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Daba TM,Zhao Y,Pan Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade has witnessed the introduction of a large number of novel, molecularly targeted agents into the therapeutic armamentarium against diverse forms of cancer, including leukemia. Such agents include signal transduction, cell cycle, histone deacetylase, Hsp90, proteasome, and Bcl-2 family member inhibitors,...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Grant S,Dent P

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rationale for surfactant replacement therapy in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is to restore the normal composition of the surfactant system, as well as to overcome ongoing inactivation of present surfactant. Indeed, surfactant replacement therapy can normalize the composition of the surf...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Schultz MJ,Kesecioglu J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is one of the major causes of mortality and disability in adults in industrialized countries. Despite numerous preclinical studies and clinical trials in the field of cerebral ischemia, no pharmacological agent has been validated in the treatment of acute ischemic, except thrombolysis. Cerebral ischemia is not ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Ouk T,Potey C,Gautier S,Bastide M,Deplanque D,Staels B,Duriez P,Leys D,Bordet R

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), killing about two million people worldwide each year. An increase in the prevalence of drug-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis in the past decades has renewed focus on the development of new drugs that can...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Xiong X,Xu Z,Yang Z,Liu Y,Wang D,Dong M,Parker EJ,Zhu W

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombus formation at a site of arterial injury (eg, rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque in a carotid artery), a crucial step in the pathogenesis of cerebral ischemia, is initiated by the adhesion of platelets to the arterial wall. In vivo, activated platelets release adenosine diphosphate (ADP), whose binding to the...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Giossi A,Pezzini A,Del Zotto E,Volonghi I,Costa P,Ferrari D,Padovani A

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV), a member of the Flaviviridae family, has been recognised to be responsible for both parenterally transmitted and sporadic non-A and non-B hepatitis affecting 1-3% of the world population. HCV is a positive stranded RNA virus encoding a single polyprotein which contains at least ten unique stru...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Lahm A,Yagnik A,Tramontano A,Koch U

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel anti-vasculature strategies that are emerging for the treatment of cancer and for the inhibition of angiogenesis may be a promising new tool for the adjuvant therapy of malignant tumours. Over the last fifteen years, several reports have been published concerning the relationship between tumour progression and a...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Pastorino F,Di Paolo D,Loi M,Becherini P,Caffa I,Zorzoli A,Marimpietri D,Carosio R,Perri P,Montaldo PG,Brignole C,Pagnan G,Ribatti D,Allen TM,Ponzoni M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of periodontitis is around 20-50% of global population. If not treated, it can cause of tooth loss. Periodontal treatment aims at preserving the patient's teeth from various methods, including infection control and restoring lost periodontal tissue. The periodontium has great biological regenerative pot...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mohammadipour HS,Forouzanfar F,Forouzanfar A

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport molecules can significantly affect the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of drugs. An important transport molecule, the 170 kDa P-glycoprotein (Pgp), is constitutively expressed at several organ sites in the human body. Pgp is expressed at the blood-brain barrier, in the kidneys, liver, intestines and in...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Liang XJ,Aszalos A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) was the first malignancy for which immunotherapy, in the form of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT), was integrated into the standard of care. Allo-HSCT however is an imperfect therapy associated with significant morbidity and mortality while offering only incom...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Goswami M,Hourigan CS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article aims to review the literature on the relationship between psychology and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). In particular, the first section is dedicated to explore the role of psychological factors in the etiopathology of the disease, its development and the efficacy of treatments, while the second...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Leone D,Menichetti J,Fiorino G,Vegni E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00