Fetal determinants of type 2 diabetes.

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：:Radiation-induced myelosuppression remains a rate-limiting factor of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, hematological targets of radiation damage are of great significance for radiation oncology and normal tissue injury and protection. Protection of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells is pivotal. In order t...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Kulkarni S,Ghosh SP,Hauer-Jensen M,Kumar KS

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：: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：:Recently, a significant number of breast cancer (BC) patients have been diagnosed at an early stage. It is therefore critical to accurately predict the risk of recurrence and distant metastasis for better management of BC in this setting. Clinicopathologic patterns, particularly lymph node status, tumor size, and horm...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Gouri A,Benarba B,Dekaken A,Aoures H,Benharkat S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD6 molecule is a pan T cell marker involved in T cell regulation. Although CD6 expression has been correlated with human autoimmune diseases, only a few therapeutic approaches are exploring this molecule as target in the clinic. The biological functions and mechanisms of actions of CD6 have not been definitively ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Hernández P,Moreno E,Aira LE,Rodríguez PC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in computer power and chemoinformatics methodology make possible that a huge amount of data become available through internet. These databases are devoted to a wide spectrum of scientific fields. Here we are concerned with databases related to protein-drug interactions. More specifically, databases...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Timmers LF,Pauli I,Caceres RA,de Azevedo WF Jr

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：: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：: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：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：:Fluoroquinolones are one of the world's most valuable and popularly used categories of antimicrobial agents. This paper attempts to review the substantial progress of fluoroquinolones from their discovery to black box warning. Antibiotic drug choice will remain difficult in the presence of increasing resistance, but t...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Majalekar PP,Shirote PJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：:Atherosclerosis is associated with the increased trans-sialidase activity, which can be detected in the blood plasma of atherosclerosis patients. The likely involvement in the disease pathogenesis made this activity an interesting research subject and the enzyme that may perform such activity was isolated and characte...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Glanz VY,Myasoedova VA,Grechko AV,Orekhov AN

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombomodulin (TM) is a type 1 membrane bound glycoprotein that has a C-type lectin domain at its Nterminus, 6 copies of the epidermal growth factor-like (EGF) motif and serine/threonine rich domain carrying a glycosoaminoglycan external to the membrane. TM binds thrombin changing thrombin's substrate specificity fro...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Morser J

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：: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：:Aberrant activation of receptor-tyrosine kinase c-Met/HGF pathway is shown to be associated with cell proliferation, invasion, metastasis and poor-prognosis in several tumor types, including upper gastrointestinal-malignancies. The interaction of c-Met with multiple signalling-pathways involved in tumorigenic-properti...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Gholamin S,Fiuji H,Maftouh M,Mirhafez R,Shandiz FH,Avan A

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：:Lung cancer kills approximately 1.3 million citizens in the world annually. The tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) erlotinib and gefitinib are effective anti-tumor agents especially in lung cancer patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. The goal is to increase the potency of TKI in lung cancer p...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Moody TW,Nuche-Berenguer B,Nakamura T,Jensen RT

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Recently, there are scientific attempts to discover new drugs in the biotechnology industry in order to treat various diseases including atherosclerosis. OBJECTIVE:The main objective of the present review was to highlight the cellular, molecular biology and inflammatory process related to the atheromatous p...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Thent ZC,Chakraborty C,Mahakkanukrauh P,Nik Ritza Kosai Nik Mahmood N,Rajan R,Das S

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Efficient drug delivery systems are exceedingly important for novel drug discovery. The evidence-based personalized medicine (EBPM) promises to deliver the right drug at the right time to a right patient as it covers clinicallysignificant genetic predisposition and chronopharmacological aspects of nanotheranostics. Re...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Sharma S

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Galectin-1 (Gal1) was the first identified member of the galectin family of beta-galactosidase-binding proteins. Gal1 has important roles in processes fundamental to growth and survival of an organism, including cell adhesion, cell proliferation and apoptosis, and is expressed in many tissues, including the nervous sy...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Gaudet AD,Steeves JD,Tetzlaff W,Ramer MS

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease diagnostic and management algorithms continue to rapidly evolve. This is partly driven by advanced radiologic techniques that provide objective, non-invasive evaluations. The realms of information provided by radiology and endoscopy continue to be intertwined. This has led to the question of...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Bruining DH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV-1 transactivator Tat protein plays a key role in AIDS pathogenesis. Besides the Tat role as activator of HIV-1 transcription, it exerts several important functions on infected and uninfected cells. In fact, HIV-1 Tat is released by infected cells and is taken up by neighboring cells. In this way it regulates e...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Chiozzini C,Toschi E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00