Mucosal healing and anti TNFs in IBD.

abstract：:The α7-nAChR plays critical roles in numerous organs and cells by regulating highly organ and cell typespecific functions. In this special issue different Authors have contributed to clarify the different roles played by the α7- nAChR. Post-translational processes such as receptor "underactivation" or "overactivation"...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Russo P,Cardinale A,Shuller H

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:Type 2 diabetes, which has dramatically increased during the last decade normally results from a combination of pancreatic beta cell dysfunction and insulin resistance. One of the most recent risk factors identified for type 2 diabetes is a sub-optimal fetal and neonatal environment. Numerous human epidemiological stu...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Reusens B,Ozanne SE,Remacle C

更新日期：2007-08-01 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 incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD; Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis) is highest during the peak reproductive years, hence the increased concern with the safety of IBD drugs during pregnancy. Over the past 11 years, anti-TNF-alpha antibody therapy has emerged as a treatment approach for refractory IBD...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： El Mourabet M,El-Hachem S,Harrison JR,Binion DG

更新日期：2010-02-01 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

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：:Over the past years, there was an explosion in the knowledge of the protein target and molecular mechanism associated with various disease types and in the new research of drugs of natural origin. The key idea is to evaluate bioactive natural products interacting with protein domains of different genetic origin but st...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Braca A,Dal Piaz F,Marzocco S,Autore G,Vassallo A,De Tommasi N

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is the most common and second most lethal cancer in men. The majority of prostate cancers are histologically similar to acinar adenocarcinomas and rely on androgen-dependent signaling for their development and progression. Androgen deprivation therapy is a mainstay of treatment regimens and we discuss ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Fisher KW,Montironi R,Lopez Beltran A,Moch H,Wang L,Scarpelli M,Williamson SR,Koch MO,Cheng L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor is a major type of ionotropic glutamate receptor. Many studies have shown that NMDA receptors play a pivotal role in the central nervous system (CNS) under both physiological and pathological conditions. The functional diversity of NMDA receptors can be mainly attributed to the...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Li ST,Ju JG

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article aims to review the literature on the relationship between psychology and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). In particular, the first section is dedicated to explore the role of psychological factors in the etiopathology of the disease, its development and the efficacy of treatments, while the second...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Leone D,Menichetti J,Fiorino G,Vegni E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) characterized by chronic inflammation affecting the colonic mucosa, that can extend to the whole large bowel. The severity of mucosal lesions directly reflects the disease activity and severity and may be prognostic for an aggressive behavior of the pathol...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Fiorino G,Cesarini M,Indriolo A,Malesci A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV), a member of the Flaviviridae family, has been recognised to be responsible for both parenterally transmitted and sporadic non-A and non-B hepatitis affecting 1-3% of the world population. HCV is a positive stranded RNA virus encoding a single polyprotein which contains at least ten unique stru...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Lahm A,Yagnik A,Tramontano A,Koch U

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infiltrating inflammatory cells into the kidney mediate the initiation and progression of damage by direct cytotoxicity, the secretion of soluble factors such as cytokines and proteases, or by the subsequent induction of further immune response. Before leukocytes can exert their effects on renal damage or repair, they...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Panzer U,Steinmetz OM,Stahl RA,Wolf G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in molecular biology has provided application of gene transfer methods in arthritis. Two clinical trails using ex vivo retrovirus mediated delivery of interleukin -1 receptor antagonist gene for rheumatoid arthritis has begun in USA and Germany. However, there are still many issues to be elucidated; on...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Tomita T,Hashimoto H,Yoshikawa H

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannosylphospho dolichol synthase (DPMS) catalyzes the transfer reaction GDP-mannose + Dol-P <--> Dol-P-Man + GDP, a 'key step' in the assembly of lipid-linked oligosaccharide (LLO) and a pre-requisite for asparagine-linked (N-linked) protein glycosylation. DPMS is present from a protozoan parasite to human, and its s...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Baksi K,Tavárez-Pagán JJ,Martínez JA,Banerjee DK

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldose reductase (AR) enzymatically transforms cytosolic glucose into sorbitol, a molecule that poorly penetrates cell membranes and is sometimes slowly metabolized. Hyperglycemia can cause intracellular accumulation of sorbitol and its metabolite, fructose, which can create osmotic swelling and cell dysfunction. Driv...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Oates PJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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：:Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts to speed up cellular biochemical processes. According to their main Enzyme Commission (EC) numbers, enzymes are divided into six categories: EC-1: oxidoreductase; EC-2: transferase; EC-3: hydrolase; EC-4: lyase; EC-5: isomerase and EC-6: synthetase. Different enzym...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Tan JX,Lv H,Wang F,Dao FY,Chen W,Ding H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various herpes- and poxviruses contain DNA sequences encoding proteins with homology to cellular chemokine receptors, which belong to the family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Since GPCRs play a crucial role in cellular communication and chemokine receptors play a prominent role in the immune system, the vira...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Smit MJ,Vink C,Verzijl D,Casarosa P,Bruggeman CA,Leurs R

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to provide a narrative review regarding the prevalence, the associated pathophysiologic pathways and the potential management methods of sexual dysfunction related to ablative surgical techniques for Benign Prostatic Enlargement (BPE). Men suffering from BPE are at high risk of sexual dysfunction due to th...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mykoniatis I,Renterghem KV,Sokolakis I

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：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：: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：:Viral myocarditis is a cardiac disease caused by Group B Coxsackie virus of Enterovirus genus in the Picorna viridae family. It causes heart failure in children, young and adults. Ten Percent (10%) of acute heart failure and 12% of sudden deaths in young and adults who are less than 40 years is due to this viral myoca...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Daba TM,Zhao Y,Pan Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：:Adenocarcinoma of the prostate is the most common type of cancer, excluding skin cancer, and the second leading cause of cancer death in adult men in the United States. The lifetime risk for developing symptomatic prostate cancer is one in five for an American man. A pivotal step in carcinogenesis is a shift in the ba...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Bello-DeOcampo D,Tindall DJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 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