Metal and inflammatory targets for Alzheimer's disease.

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：:Seventy five percent of hospitalized patients with Crohn's disease suffer from malnutrition. One third of Crohn's disease patients have a body mass index below 20. Sixty percent of Crohn's disease patients have sarcopenia. However some inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients are obese or suffer from sarcopenic-obesi...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Hebuterne X,Filippi J,Schneider SM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch signaling plays a key role in cell differentiation, survival, and proliferation through diverse mechanisms. Thus, alterations of the Notch signaling can lead to a variety of disorders including human malignancies. Of considerable interest, recent evidence indicates that there is a significant cross-talk betw...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mo YY,Tang H,Miele L

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memories associated with substance use disorders, or substance-associated cues increase the likelihood of craving and relapse during abstinence. There is a growing consensus that manipulation of synaptic plasticity may reduce the strength of substance abuse-related memories. On the biological front, there are new insi...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mohamed RMP,Kumar J,Yap E,Mohamed IN,Sidi H,Adam RL,Das S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preeclampsia, a gestational disease characterized by hypertension and proteinuria twenty weeks into pregnancy, is one of the leading causes of fetal and maternal mortality. Although multiple genetic and environmental factors are found to be related to the preeclampsia risk, the pathogenic pathways remain lar...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Song X,Luo X,Gao Q,Wang Y,Gao Q,Long W

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions worldwide. Many dietary compounds have been found to exert health beneficial effects against different pathologies including diabetes. Most bioactive compounds have been identified in fruits and vegetables and their mechanisms of action explored both in vitro and in vivo. In p...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Turrini E,Ferruzzi L,Fimognari C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida species, in particular C. albicans, represent a major threat to immunocompromised patients. Able to exist as a commensal on mucosal surfaces of healthy individuals, these opportunistic fungi frequently cause superficial infections of mucosae and skin. Furthermore, in hospital settings, Candida species may caus...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mavor AL,Thewes S,Hube B

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of erectile dysfunction (ED) in heart failure (HF) are extremely high. Limited capacity of patients with HF to exercise and coronary artery disease are considered to be the main causative mechanisms. Both HF and ED are associated with increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis fact...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Rodrigues FL,Fais RS,Tostes RC,Carneiro FS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical chronobiology deals with the way body's rhythm influences a person's health and disease states. To match body rhythms, deliberate alteration of drug concentration is done to optimize therapeutic outcomes and minimize size effects and this approach is known as Chronotherapeutics. In general the concept of homeo...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Das R,Mehta DK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-translational modification represents an important mechanism to regulate protein function in cardiac cells. Ubiquitin (Ub) and ubiquitin-like proteins (UBLs) are a family of protein modifiers that share a certain extent of sequence and structure similarity. Conjugation of Ub or UBLs to target proteins is dynamica...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Li J,Johnson JA,Su H

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:The last 15 years have witnessed a resurgence of the role of surgical options for prevention of ischemic stroke. The landmark randomized trials including NASCET and ECST were published and explored the role of carotid endarterectomy in this regard. Patients with high grade stenosis of the internal carotid artery (> or...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Rajamani K,Chaturvedi S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytometabolites are functional elements derived from plants and most of them exhibit therapeutic characteristics such as anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant effects. Phytometabolites exert their anti-cancer effect by targeting multiple signaling pathways. One of the remarkable phenomena targeted by phytom...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Hasanpourghadi M,Looi CY,Pandurangan AK,Sethi G,Wong WF,Mustafa MR

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advancing age presents a major challenge for the elderly population in terms of quality of life. The risk of cognitive impairment, motor in-coordination, and behavioral inconsistency due to neuronal damage is relatively higher in aging individuals of society. The brain, through its structural and functional integrity,...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Dhote V,Samundre P,Ganeshpurkar A,Upaganlawar A

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibrinolytic system consists of a balance between rates of plasminogen activation and fibrin degradation, both of which are finely regulated by spatio-temporal mechanisms. Three distinct inhibitors of the fibrinolytic system that differently regulate these two steps are plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Urano T,Suzuki Y,Iwaki T,Sano H,Honkura N,Castellino FJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Efforts to interfere with the initiation and promotion of breast and other cancers by endocrine manipulation are not new. It is of obvious benefit to cancer patients to administer substances that combine minimal general toxicity with maximal oestrogen inhibition. Raloxifene is a relatively recent addition to a group o...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Kellen JA

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As early as 1940, Abraham and Chain described "an enzyme able to destroy penicillin". In the late 1940's, penicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus were found to be a clinical problem. They produced a penicillinase that could hydrolyze the amide bond in the β-lactam ring. Later, an enzyme mediated by an R-...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Frère JM,Sauvage E,Kerff F

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Dysbiosis has been repeatedly observed in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and is now recognized as an essential factor in the gut inflammatory process. IBD is a significant burden to health-care systems, mainly due to treatment-related costs. Available treatments have several limitations: up to 30% of patients are pr...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Zatorski H,Nakov R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) with interferon-alpha (IFN-α) was introduced in the early 1980s. Several clinical trials showed a survival advantage for patients treated with IFN-α compared to conventional chemotherapy. Some patients achieved longstanding complete cytogenetic remissions (i.e. >2 log tumor ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Simonsson B,Hjorth-Hansen H,Bjerrum OW,Porkka K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelium plays an important role in health and disease. Endothelial dysfunction contributes to sepsis pathophysiology. An important goal is to develop novel therapies that reverse endothelial dysfunction in sepsis. This review will consider the role of the endothelium in sepsis and will highlight its untapped t...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Aird WC

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids are chromene analogues abundantly found in plants. It is always of curiosity to discover natural flavonoid structures, since living things, including human, are routinely exposed to these compounds through many dietaries. Indeed, numerous studies conducted so far on flavonoids to display their diverse biolo...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Gulcan HO,Orhan IE

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is identified in approximately 25- 30% of breast cancers and indicates a poor prognosis. Trastuzumab, the anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody (mAb), has shown significant clinical effects selectively in HER2-overexpressing metastatic breast cancer (MBC) w...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Huang Y,Fu P,Fan W

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteoporosis is a debilitating disease characterized by bone micro-architecture degradation contributing to fragility fractures. Currently, determining bone mineral density (BMD) via dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the most reliable form of diagnosing osteoporosis and managing pharmacological treat...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Kwon S,Wang AH,Sadowski CA,Yuksel N,Doschak MR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive production of reactive oxygen species is an important mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of diabetes associated macrovascular and microvascular complications including diabetic nephropathy. Diabetic nephropathy is characterized by glomerular enlargement, early albuminuria and progressive glomerulosclerosi...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Arora MK,Singh UK

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Vascular Disrupting Agents (VDA) are a potential new class of oncology drugs that have garnered attention recently as a number of these agents have entered into Phase 2-3 studies. Currently available data suggest how the subsequent evolution of these agents into clinical practice may proceed, with new therapeutic para...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Spear MA,LoRusso P,Mita A,Mita M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alzheimer's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, is characterized by accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and loss of cholinergic neurons. LITERATURE REVIEW:The localization of Aβ plaques particularly in the cholinergic neuron-rich areas has led to the discovery that Aβ binds...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Farhat SM,Ahmed T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The androgen receptor (AR) signalling pathway remains a key driver of prostate cancer progression despite castrate levels of testosterone in advanced disease. The androgen biosynthesis inhibitor abiraterone and the anti-androgen enzalutamide have been shown to prolong survival in randomized clinical trials both pre-an...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Assi R,Temraz S,Shamseddine A,Mukherji D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00