Pharmacogenomics in the Americas: the impact of genetic admixture.

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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:Intracranial hemorrhage is characterized by the blood vessel rupture and subsequent hematoma expansion. It is the least treatable stroke subtype, resulting in higher morbidity and mortality per incidence than ischemic stroke. Recent studies have observed lower than normal levels of plasma fibrinogen in patie...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： McBride D,Tang J,Zhang JH

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：:Nowadays, natural compounds of plant origin with anticancer effects have gained more attention because of their clinical safety and broad efficacy profiles. Autophagy is a multistep lysosomal degradation pathway that may have a unique potential for clinical benefit in the setting of cancer treatment. To retrieve artic...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Forouzanfar F,Mousavi SH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a kind of acquired resistance of microorganisms and cancer cells to chemotherapic drugs that are characterized by different chemical structure and different mechanism of action. Classic MDR is the consequence of the over-expression of a variety of proteins that extrude the chemotherapic f...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Teodori E,Dei S,Martelli C,Scapecchi S,Gualtieri F

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of OA disease, NF-kappaB transcription factors can be triggered by a host of stress-related stimuli including pro-inflammatory cytokines, excessive mechanical stress and ECM degradation products. Activated NF-kappaB regulates the expression of many cytokines and chemokines, adhesion molecules, inflammat...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Marcu KB,Otero M,Olivotto E,Borzi RM,Goldring MB

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of databases devoted to biological information opened the possibility to integrate, query and analyze biological data obtained from several sources that otherwise would be scattered through the web. Several issues arise in the handling of biological information, mainly due to the diversity of biologica...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Timmers LF,Pauli I,Barcellos GB,Rocha KB,Caceres RA,de Azevedo WF Jr,Soares MB

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Newer classes of medications have been proven useful in glycemic control in type 2 diabetes (T2D), but many do not appear capable to slow down the progressive loss of ß-cell function, or to improve population-level glycemic control. Positive energy balance, e.g. surplus energy intake over expenditure, is at the core f...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Liu Z,Yang B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a remarkably aggressive thoracic malignancy with a limited survival of only 5-12 months. However, MPM still remains unresponsive to conventional standards of treatment, including pleurectomy and decortication, extrapleural pneumonectomy for resectable disease with or without che...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Cheng L,Li N,Xu XL,Mao WM

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Various strategies for the use of zein for controlled drug release have been investigated and reported in the literature, especially engineering strategies for using zein conjugates to enhance oral bioavailability and targeted delivery, which has attracted interest in recent research. Although still limited, the abili...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Tran PH,Tran TT

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：:Anticancer peptide (ACP) is a kind of small peptides that can kill cancer cells without damaging normal cells. In recent years, ACP has been pre-clinically used for cancer treatment. Therefore, accurate identification of ACPs will promote their clinical applications. In contrast to labor-intensive experimental techniq...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Feng P,Wang Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The popular use of antioxidative vitamins illustrates the growing awareness of oxidative stress as an important hazard to our health and as an important factor in the ageing process. Superoxide radicals and superoxide-derived reactive oxygen species (ROS) are constantly formed in most cells and tissues. To ensure that...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Dröge W,Kinscherf R,Hildebrandt W,Schmitt T

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of novel T cell therapies to target leukemia has facilitated the translation of this approach for hematologic malignancies. Different methods of manufacturing leukemia-specific T cells have evolved, along with additional measures to increase the safety of this therapy. This is an overview of expanded T...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Cruz CR,Bollard CM

更新日期：2017-01-01 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

abstract：:Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Because stroke is a multifactorial disease with a short therapeutic window many clinical stroke trials have failed and the only currently approved therapy is thrombolysis. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are endogenously expressed noncoding short single-stranded...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Ouyang YB,Stary CM,Yang GY,Giffard R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of oxytocinergic neurons originating in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and projecting to extrahypothalamic brain areas (e.g. hippocampus, medulla oblongata and spinal cord) control penile erection. Activation of these neurons by dopamine and dopamine agonists, excitatory amino acids (N-methyl-...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Melis MR,Argiolas A

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：: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