Triplex-forming oligonucleotides - sequence-specific DNA ligands as tools for gene inhibition and for modulation of DNA-associated functions.

abstract：:Imaging of the kidneys can provide valuable information in the work up and management of acute kidney injury. Several different imaging modalities are used to gather information on anatomy of the kidney, to rule out obstruction, differentiate acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease and to obtain informati...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Kalantarinia K

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels are the main, if not the only, lipid target in the effort to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality. Several primary and secondary CVD prevention trials with statins shaped current guidelines and provided detailed targets across a range...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Athyros VG,Mikhailidis DP,Kakafika AI,Karagiannis A,Hatzitolios A,Tziomalos K,Ganotakis ES,Liberopoulos EN,Elisaf M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a process the primary role of which is to clear up damaged cellular components such as long-lived proteins and organelles, thus participating in the conservation of different cells. Osteoporosis associated with aging is characterized by consistent changes in bone metabolism with suppression of bone format...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Wang T,He H,Liu S,Jia C,Fan Z,Zhong C,Yu J,Liu H,He C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with anti-cancer agents in most cases ultimately results in apoptotic cell death of the target tumor cells. Unfortunately, tumor cells can develop multidrug resistance, e.g., by a reduced propensity to engage in apoptosis by which they become insensitive to multiple chemotherapeutics. Ceramide. the central m...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Kok JW,Sietsma H

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium is a key determinant of cardiac excitation, contraction and relaxation. Cardiac excitation and contraction is powered by ATP that is synthesized within mitochondria via a calcium-dependent process known as oxidative phosphorylation. During this process oxygen molecules within the mitochondria are converted to ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Viola HM,Hool LC

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long term treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) is the standard therapeutic approach to eradicate seizures. However, a small but significant number of patients fail AED treatment. Intrinsic drug resistance may depend on two main and not necessarily mutually exclusive mechanisms: 1) Loss of pharmacological target (...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Marroni M,Marchi N,Cucullo L,Abbott NJ,Signorelli K,Janigro D

更新日期：2003-05-01 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

abstract：:Programmed cell death, commonly associated with the term apoptosis, is an integrated intracellular program that plays a critical role in lymphoid tissue homeostasis. Alterations in this highly regulated process is a common feature of most lymphoid malignancies, thus facilitating tumor escape from traditional chemother...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Saborit-Villarroya I,Roué G,López-Guerra M,Alonso R,Xargay-Torrent S,Rosich L,Colomer D

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：: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：:Immunity is a balanced status with adequate biological defenses to recognize and fight "non-self", as well as adequate tolerance to recognize "self". To maintain this immune homeostasis, a well-organized T cell immune network is required, which in part depends on the well-controlled development of alternative effector...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Liu HX,Jiang A,Chen T,Qu W,Yan HY,Ping J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to potential health benefits and the general assumption that natural products are safe, there is an increasing trend in the general population - including pregnant women - to supplement their diet with flavonoid-based food supplements. In addition, preclinical studies aim to prevent developmental adverse effects i...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Barenys M,Masjosthusmann S,Fritsche E

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endometriosis (EMS) is a gynecological disease defined by the translocation and growth of endometrial tissue in other tissues or organs outside the uterus. Its clinical manifestations are dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, and even infertility. Although EMS is a benign disease, it has the characteristics ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Ding L,Yang L,Ren C,Zhang H,Lu J,Wang S,Wu Z,Yang Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There exists an immediate need to develop novel medications for the treatment of mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression. Initial interest in glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) as a target for the treatment of mood disorders arose from the finding that the mood stabilizing drug lithium directly inhibite...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Gould TD,Picchini AM,Einat H,Manji HK

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer is predicted to be the second deadliest malignancy (a median survival of 4-6 months and a 5-year survival of less than 5%) in the USA by 2020. Although current medical detection technologies have dramatically improved the survival rate for patients with other gastrointestinal malignancies, the dismal...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Barton LA,Ren J

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become linked to inflammation and metal biology. Metals (copper, zinc and iron) and inflammatory cytokines are significant factors that increase the onset of sporadic late onset forms of the dementia. The genetic discovery that alleles in the hemochromatosis gene accelerate the onset of di...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Rogers JT,Lahiri DK

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtual screening for active compounds has become an essential step within the drug development pipeline. The computer based prediction of compound binding modes is one of the most time and cost efficient methods for screening ligand libraries and enrich results of potential drugs. Here we present an overview about cu...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Krüger J,Thiel P,Merelli I,Grunzke R,Gesing S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Metabolic Syndrome is a common metabolic disease associated with an increased risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and mortality. In contrast to "traditional" risk factors for atherosclerosis, such as low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, the Metabolic Syndrome represents a network of interacting risk fa...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Péterfy M,Davis RC,Lusis AJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rituximab has demonstrated a major effect in B-cell lymphoma and in a wide range of autoimmune disorders. Unfortunately, the blood-brain-barrier excludes the disorders restricted to the central nervous system (CNS) from the action of rituximab. The progressive phase of multiple sclerosis (MS) is a prototypical CNS aut...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Bonnan M,Ferrari S,Bertandeau E,Demasles S,Krim E,Miquel M,Barroso B

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：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：:Resveratrol (3,4',5 tri-hydroxystilbene) is a phytoalexin produced in hudge amount in grapevine skin in response to infection by Bothrytis cinerea. This production of resveratrol blocks the proliferation of the pathogen, thereby acting as a natural antibiotic. Numerous studies have reported interesting properties of t...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Delmas D,Lançon A,Colin D,Jannin B,Latruffe N

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play important roles in a variety of biological processes, and many PPIs have been regarded as biologically compelling targets for drug discovery. Extensive efforts have been made to develop feasible proteinprotein docking approaches to study PPIs in silico. Most of these approaches...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Zhang Q,Feng T,Xu L,Sun H,Pan P,Li Y,Li D,Hou T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thymoquinone (TQ) is a bioactive phytoconstituent obtained from Nigella sativa (black seeds). It has promising potential in cancer prevention. OBJECTIVE:Previous studies have shown that TQ can modulate signaling pathways responsible for cancer progression, thus enhancing the efficacy and improving the safet...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Barkat MA,Harshita,Ahmad J,Khan MA,Beg S,Ahmad FJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:The growing number of cellular and molecular pathways believed to be involved in mechanisms of ischemic cell death in the brain has spurred a similar growth in the number of potential neuroprotective modalities, the majority of which are pharmacological in nature. Preventing or minimizing the first few steps in the ca...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Schurr A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the success of combined antiretroviral therapy, more than half of HIV-1-infected patients in the USA show HIV-associated neurological and neuropsychiatric deficits. This is accompanied by anatomical and functional alterations in vulnerable brain regions of the mesocorticolimbic and nigrostriatal systems that r...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Hu XT

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:The hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels play an important role in the generation of pacemaker activity of cardiac sinoatrial node cells and immature cardiomyocytes. HCN channels are also present in adult atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes, where the physiological role is currently und...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Sartiani L,Romanelli MN,Mugelli A,Cerbai E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00