Cellular mechanisms underlying the interaction between cannabinoid and opioid system.

abstract：:Vaccines have been described as "weapons of mass protection". The eradication of many diseases is testament to their utility and effectiveness. Nevertheless, many vaccine preventable diseases remain prevalent because of political and economic barriers. Additionally, the effects of immaturity and old age, therapies tha...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Eisen DP,Liley HG,Minchinton RM

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：:The genus Zanthoxylum (Rutaceae) comprises about 250 species, of which many are used as food, often as condiments, substituting pepper due to the pungent taste of fruits, seeds, leaves, and bark, and therapeutic remedies especially in Eastern Asian countries and in Central America. The whole plant is also consumed as ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Epifano F,Curini M,Marcotullio MC,Genovese S

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). PD is a multifactorial disorder, with several different factors being suggested to play a synergistic pathophysiological role, inc...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Tamtaji OR,Hadinezhad T,Fallah M,Shahmirzadi AR,Taghizadeh M,Behnam M,Asemi Z

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Mucosal healing has been incorporated in the assessment of treatment efficacy in ulcerative colitis, but in Crohn's disease this concept has only emerged after biological therapies have been evaluated in clinical trials. Systemic steroids don't induce mucosal healing in Crohn's disease, but purine analogues and anti T...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： van Assche G,Vermeire S,Rutgeerts P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide. In developed countries, its mortality remains high, yet the prevalence has established owing to effective screening programs; however due to the westernization of lifestyle, the incidences in many other countries have increased. Although the treatmen...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Bartoszek A,Fichna J,Tarasiuk A,Binienda A,Fabisiak A,Krajewska JB,Mosińska P,Niewinna K,Salaga M

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Different clinical studies have given inconsistent results on whether the use of antipsychotics increases the risk of thromboembolism. In this paper, we reviewed all relevant literature to provide suggestions for clinical diagnosis and treatment. METHODS:PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Cochrane and...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Dai L,Zuo Q,Chen F,Chen L,Shen Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Biomedical science is currently undergoing an epoch-marking transition from its classical phase to the post-genome era. The outstanding success of world-wide genome sequencing efforts, evidenced by the recent publication of the draft of the human genome, together with the completion of several genomes of eukaryotic mo...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Nagl SB

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:The liver is essential for the control of glucose and lipid metabolism. Excessive accumulation of fat in the liver disturbs its function and leads to the development of fatty liver diseases. The nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common type of fatty liver disease found in patients who have not consumed sig...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Chen G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexity of the central nervous system (CNS) exposes it to a number of different diseases, often caused by only small variations in gene sequence or expression level. Antisense oligonucleotides and RNA interference-mediated therapies hold great promise for the treatment of CNS diseases in which neurodegeneration...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Forte A,Cipollaro M,Cascino A,Galderisi U

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pivotal role of 5-HT in the control of appetite was formally proposed nearly 30 years ago. In particular endogenous hypothalamic 5-HT has been implicated in the processes of within meal satiation and the end state of post meal satiety. Of the numerous 5-HT receptor subtypes currently identified, 5-HT(1B) and 5-HT(...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Halford JC,Harrold JA,Lawton CL,Blundell JE

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of reactive oxygen species is a normal part of cell physiology, but many internal and external stimuli are able to trigger the production of excess levels of oxidants that are potentially damaging. The threat of oxidative damage is particularly significant to DNA, as damaged bases can interfere with rep...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Shaukat Z,Liu D,Hussain R,Khan M,Gregory SL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of protein crystal structures being refined to atomic resolution is increasing each year as well as the size of proteins being studied. There are currently 346 structures in the protein data bank which have been refined to or beyond atomic resolution. The benefits of atomic resolution X-ray data are discuss...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Coates L,Myles DA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major focus has developed for the discovery of proregenerative and neuroprotective therapeutic agents to help the millions of Americans who receive a CNS injury annually. Tribulations have been encountered along the way due to the complicated set of pathways that are initiated post-injury. To target this complicated...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Yonutas HM,Sullivan PG

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multifunctional rational drug design of protein tyrosine kinases inhibitors allows a potent drug to be utilized to treat more than one disease for greater patient benefits. Many protein tyrosine kinases (PTK), including Janus kinase 3 (JAK3) and Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), have been identified as potential drug ta...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Vassilev AO,Tibbles HE,DuMez D,Venkatachalam TK,Uckun FM

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：: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：:Trauma-induced coagulopathy (TIC) is a recently described condition which traditionally has been diagnosed by the common coagulation tests (CCTs) such as prothrombin time/international normalized ratio (PT/INR), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), platelet count, and fibrinogen levels. The varying sensitivit...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Walsh M,Fritz S,Hake D,Son M,Greve S,Jbara M,Chitta S,Fritz B,Miller A,Bader MK,McCollester J,Binz S,Liew-Spilger A,Thomas S,Crepinsek A,Shariff F,Ploplis V,Castellino FJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol (DAG) kinase (DGK) modulates the balance between the two signaling lipids, DAG and phosphatidic acid (PA), by phosphorylating (consuming) DAG to yield PA. Ten mammalian DGK isozymes have been identified to date. In addition to two or three cysteine-rich C1 domains (protein kinase C-like zinc finger stru...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Sakane F,Imai S,Kai M,Yasuda S,Kanoh H

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:The Wnt signaling pathway has important functions in development, tissue homeostasis, and regeneration. Deregulation of canonical Wnt/beta-catenin signaling is frequently found in various human cancers, particularly in colorectal cancer, and non-canonical Wnt signaling pathways also have been implicated in neoplasia. ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Qi J,Zhu YQ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death, chronic illness and disability in Western countries. The most common cause of CVD derives from the harmful effects of acute myocardial ischemia and subsequent reperfusion injury. Cardioprotection against acute ischemia/ reperfusion injury is made possible b...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Penna C,Granata R,Tocchetti CG,Gallo MP,Alloatti G,Pagliaro P

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：:Immune-based inflammatory diseases involve immune related dysregulation in different sites of body, which includes rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, atherosclerosis, etc. Advancements in molecular research have facilitated investigation of their pathogenesis that is involved in infl...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Rahman M,Beg S,Verma A,Kazmi I,Patel DK,Anwar F,Al Abbasi FA,Kumar V

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00