Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor α ligands as anticancer drugs targeting mitochondrial metabolism.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Terminalia arjuna (TA) has been reported and explored traditionally for its cardiotonic properties while the mechanism of antihypertensive effect of TA has not been clearly reported. METHOD:The oxidative stress is a major cause for hypertension, hence different extracts of TA having variable marker yield we...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Khatkar S,Nanda A,Ansari SH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing trend of herbal medicines in India as well as other parts of the world. The use of herbal medicines alone or alongside prescription drugs for disease management is quite common now. We hereby carry out a review of dominant species of Selinum mainly S. vaginatum C.B. Clarke and S. wallichianum (DC.) ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Srivastava RP,Dixit P,Singh L,Verma PC,Saxena G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of diseases found to be associated with defects of the mitochondrial genome has grown significantly over the last decade. Despite major advances in understanding mtDNA defects at the genetic and biochemical level, there is no satisfactory treatment for the vast majority of patients available. This is largel...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Weissig V,Torchilin VP

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxymatrine is one of the most promising alkaloids from Sophora flavescens for its excellent pharmacological effects. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this research is to assess the biopharmaceutical and pharmacokinetic activities of oxymatrine, and clarify its mechanisms of absorption and metabolism. METHODS:The biolo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Wang HQ,Chen FH,Wang L,Chi LQ,Wang GH

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea of cancer stem cell (CSC) has recently moved to the forefront of cancer research. There is still a lack of a widespread consensus on their description and definition. ,The increasing literature on CSCs has compelled researchers worldwide to rewrite the natural history of cancer including those cells as princi...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Albini A,Cesana E,Noonan DM

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foods and nutrients play a vital role in normal functioning of the body. They are helpful in maintaining the health of the individual and in reducing the risk of various diseases. Worldwide acceptance of this fact formed a recognition link between "nutrition" and "health" and the concept of "nutraceuticals" was evolve...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Ramaa CS,Shirode AR,Mundada AS,Kadam VJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recombinant monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are useful in research, diagnosis, and therapy. The increased demands of recombinant mAbs require efficient production systems. A variety of expression vectors have been developed for stable or transient production of mAbs in mammalian cells. Although a few commercial...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Zhang G,Liu J,Fan W,Chen Q,Shi B

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) is the collection of vessels of blood with special properties of permeability that allow a limited range of drug and compounds to pass through it. The BBB plays a vital role in maintaining balance between intracellular and extracellular environment for brain. Brain Capillary Endothelial Cells...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Saxena D,Sharma A,Siddiqui MH,Kumar R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raman spectroscopy has long been used as a powerful tool for chemical composition analyses. Raman scattering light measurement has the advantage of being able to examine biomolecules in a nondestructive and non-labeling manner. However, molecular imaging of cells and tissues by using Raman microscopy had been hampered...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Harada Y,Takamatsu T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of immunogenicity is a major aspect in evaluating the safety of biological therapeutic proteins. It is important to evaluate the immunogenic potential of the biologics in an appropriate fashion using clearly defined strategy and clinical trials. The studies must include the appropriate risk assessment proce...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Kaliyaperumal A,Jing S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein M (apoM) has been suggested to play a role in reverse cholesterol transport. Here we studied the influence of liver X-receptor (LXR) agonist on the transcriptional regulation of apoM. Studies were performed in murine liver and intestinal mucosal cells in vivo and in human intestinal Caco-2 cells in vitr...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Calayir E,Becker TM,Kratzer A,Ebner B,Panzenböck U,Stefujl J,Kostner GM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wound healing is a complex process that consists of several phases that range from coagulation, inflammation, accumulation of radical substances, to proliferation, formation of fibrous tissues and collagen, contraction of wound with formation of granulation tissue and scar. Since antiquity, vegetable substances have b...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Tejada S,Manayi A,Daglia M,Nabavi SF,Sureda A,Hajheydari Z,Gortzi O,Pazoki-Toroudi H,Nabavi SM

更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Frequent administrations for DPPIV-resistant GLP-1 analogs are necessary to maintain the blood concentrations due to the short half-life of less than 5 minutes. However, most delivery systems that possess the ability of sustainable release of GLP-1 have drawbacks such as low yield, high cost and undesirable s...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Fan L,Fan Y,Fan H,Huang K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active or passive immunotherapy is expected to slow or stop the pathological process of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Immunotherapy for AD has demonstrated that targeting beta-amyloid (Aβ) or tau protein with vaccines or antibodies can reduce AD pathologies. Active anti-Aβ immunization for AD includes using AN1792 and sec...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Yang C,Xiao S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike any other cell type, T cells have a unique potential to eliminate cancer cells and to eventually cure cancer patients. As a result, researchers have made extensive efforts over the past three decades to develop therapeutics with the potential to mount T cell responses against cancer cells. One way in which such...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Baeuerle PA,Itin C

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system protects against infectious microbes by the recognition of pathogen- associated molecular patterns, which serve to detect pathogens on the host cell surface or in endosomes by pattern recognition receptors such as Toll-like receptors, nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protei...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Fischer S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three clones of Cabernet Franc (Nos. 02, 010 and 012) were selected in the last phase of clonal selection in Serbia. Wines made from each clone were assessed for quality parameters and taste during five consecutive vintages (2008-2012) and compared to the standard. The wine quality was determined based on th...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Popovic-Djordjevic J,Pejin B,Dramicanin A,Jovic S,Vujovic D,Zunic D,Ristic R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metastatic cascade and colonization remains a major challenge in clinical therapeutics. The formation of metastasis has many rate limiting steps. The expression of metastases initiation genes in primary tumors is driven by the need for cell motility, invasiveness, handling the shear stress in the vasculature and l...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Gueron G,De Siervi A,Vazquez E

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tinospora cordifolia (Giloy) is a medicinal plant used in folk and Ayurvedic medicines throughout India since ancient times. All the parts of the plant are immensely useful due to the presence of different compounds of pharmaceutical importance belonging to various groups as alkaloids, diterpenoid lactones, glycosides...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Kumar P,Kamle M,Mahato DK,Bora H,Sharma B,Rasane P,Bajpai VK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel steroidal oxime (SO) was synthesized using an economic method and then characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). When dispersed in pure water, SO can self-assemble into a nano-scale circular structure which was verified by dynamic light scattering (DLS) and tra...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Chou TH,Chen CW

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ivermectin is a broad spectrum antiparasitic veterinary drug introduced in human medicine in 1987. It is considered the drug of choice in onchocerciasis and strongyloidiasis infections, and remains as a therapeutic option for mass treatment in lymphatic filariasis, for which it has widely proved its efficacy. While re...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： González P,González FA,Ueno K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been considered highly successful and proficient in terms of their mechanical, thermal and electrical functionalization and biocompatibility. In regards to their significant extent in bone regeneration, it has been determined that CNTs hold the capability to endure clinical appli...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Ilbasmis-Tamer S,Ciftci H,Turk M,Degim T,Tamer U

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to evaluate the safety of imipenem and meropenem in the treatment of infections in neurosurgical patients. METHODS:An observational retrospective study was conducted of consecutive cases treated with imipenem from Sept. 2007 to Sept. 2009 and meropenem within 1 year from Sept. 2008 in Beijing Tiant...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Wu Y,Chen K,Shi Z,Wang Q

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid nanocapsules with their unique composition represent a promising biocompatible drug delivery platform in nanometer range with narrow size distribution. They are highly stable in comparison to other nano-vectors and were found to impart very desirable characteristics to the therapeutic molecule being delivered wi...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Nasr M,Abdel-Hamid S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: CME-1 is a polysaccharide purified from the mycelia of medicinal mushroom Cordyceps sinensis, its molecular weight was determined to be 27.6 kDa by using nuclear magnetic resonance and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The initiation of arterial thromboses is relevant to various cardiovascular diseases ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Chang YI,Hsu WH,Lu WJ,Jayakumar T,Liao JC,Lin MJ,Wang SH,Geraldine P,Lin KH,Sheu JR

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To better identify patients at high risk for cardiovascular events, several markers of risk have been proposed for use in screening. Recently, oxidative stress and inflammation have been evaluated as potential tools for prediction of the risk of cardiovascular events. Among them, we have measured reactive oxygen speci...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Yasunari K,Watanabe T,Nakamura M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this review article is to describe the history of photodynamic therapy (PDT), its current medical applications, the mechanism of action, contraindications of the method, and different types of photosensitizers used. The second part of the article deals with applications for gastrointestinal diseases. Th...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Wiedmann MW,Caca K

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This mini-review describes how single-molecule sensitive fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and photoinduced electron transfer (PET) reactions can be successfully applied to monitor conformational dynamics in biopolymers. Single-pair FRET experiments are ideally suited to study conformational dynamics occur...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Neuweiler H,Sauer M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide and the current mode of cancer treatment causes side effects on normal cells and are still the key challenges in its' treatment. However, natural products or active compounds of medicinal plants have shown to be safe, affordable, and effective in diseases cure. ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Almatroodi SA,Almatroudi A,Alsahli MA,Khan AA,Rahmani AH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Better understanding of protein higher order structures (HOS) is of major interest to researchers in the field of biotechnology and biopharmaceutics. Monitoring a protein's HOS is crucial towards understanding the impact of molecular conformation on the biotechnological application. In addition, maintaining the HOS is...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical biotechnology

authors： Nagarkar RP,Murphy BM,Yu X,Manning MC,Al-Azzam WA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00