Insights into Aβ aggregation: a molecular dynamics perspective.

abstract：:Viral entry, the first process in the reproduction of viruses, primarily involves attachment of the viral envelope proteins to membranes of the host cell. The crucial components that play an important role in viral entry include viral surface glycoprotein gp120, viral transmembrane glycoprotein gp41, host cell glycopr...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Suttisintong K,Kaewchangwat N,Thanayupong E,Nerungsi C,Srikun O,Pungpo P

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latest microarray-based technologies, including small molecule-, peptide-, protein- and cell-based arrays, and their applications in the field of proteomics are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Chen GY,Uttamchandani M,Lue RY,Lesaicherrea ML,Yao SQ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coumarins are natural products characterized as 1,2 benzopyrones widely distributed in plants, as well as, in many species of fungi and bacteria. Nowadays, many synthetic procedures allow the discovery of coumarins with expanded chemical space. The ability to exert noncovalent interactions with many enzymes and recept...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Pereira TM,Franco DP,Vitorio F,Kummerle AE

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The computational assessment of drug metabolism has gained considerable interest in pharmaceutical research. Amongst others, machine learning techniques have been employed to model relationships between the chemical structure of a compound and its metabolic fate. Examples for these techniques, which were originally de...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Fox T,Kriegl JM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Release of somatostatin into the circulation from the activated TRPV1-expressing nociceptors revealed by antidromic stimulation of dorsal roots in the rat pinpointed to a novel potential drug target on these nociceptors. The review summarizes the functional, biochemical and pharmacological evidence for a novel somatos...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Szolcsányi J,Pintér E,Helyes Z,Petho G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Anxiety disorders manifest in women more than in men by almost twofold. This narrative review aims to summarize the sex-related biological factors, which underpin anxiety, focusing on the interactions of sex and tryptophan/serotonin with anxiety. METHODS:A literature search was conducted using Google Scho...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Songtachalert T,Roomruangwong C,Carvalho AF,Bourin M,Maes M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma glucose is continuously filtered through the glomerulus and then is reabsorbed via the transcellular transport system of proximal tubules in the kidney. The glucose reabsorption system in the kidney is mediated by sodium-dependent glucose cotransporters (SGLTs). Most of filtered glucose is reabsorbed by the low...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Nomura S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, a limited number of strategies exist for diagnostic imaging of patients with bacterial infection. While radiolabeled probes and white blood cells provide robust solutions to detect bacteria in humans, they also give false positives in cases of sterile inflammation. With the onset of bacterial drug resistan...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sasser TA,Van Avermaete AE,White A,Chapman S,Johnson JR,Van Avermaete T,Gammon ST,Leevy WM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural activity utilizes energy resources and requires replenishment of metabolites through vascular dilation. During wake, cortical neurons usually have depolarized membrane potentials and exhibit frequent spontaneous action potentials, requiring an increased metabolic delivery to activated tissue and causing blood v...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Schei JL,Rector DM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron chelators may be of value as therapeutic agents in the treatment of cancer. They may act by depleting iron, a necessary nutrient, and limiting tumor growth. Alternatively or additionally, they may form redox-active metal complexes that cause oxidative stress via production of reactive oxygen species, damaging cri...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Buss JL,Greene BT,Turner J,Torti FM,Torti SV

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication cycle of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is divided into an early and a late phase. Most of the steps of the cycle have been targeted in antiviral therapy, although the drugs currently available for clinical use are only effective against two replication enzymes of the virus, either against the reve...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Tözsér J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) and monoglyceride lipase (MGL) are hydrolytic enzymes which degrade the endogenous cannabinoids (endocannabinoids) N-arachidonoylethanolamine (anandamide, AEA) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), respectively. Endocannabinoids are an important class of lipid messenger molecules that ar...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Minkkilä A,Saario S,Nevalainen T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease that affects largely synovial joints. It has been postulated that activated autoreactive CD4 T cells play a key role in triggering and/or maintaining the chronic inflammatory process in RA. Dendritic cells (DCs) are antigen-presenting cells that ac...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Rodríguez-Fernández JL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer research has progressed leaps and bounds over the years. This review is a brief overview of the cancer research, milestone achievements and therapeutic studies on it over the one hundred ten years which would give us an insight into how far we have come to understand and combat this fatal disease leading to mil...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Shastri S,Chatterjee B,Thakur SS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermolysin (TLN) and other thermolysin-like zinc metalloproteinases (TLPs),are important virulence factors for pathogenesis of bacterial infections by suppressing the innate immune system of the host. Therapeutic inhibition ofTLPs is believed to be a novel strategy inthe development of a new generation antibiotics.In...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Khan MT,Dedachi K,Matsui T,Kurita N,Borgatti M,Gambari R,Sylte I

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic material in humans contains approximately 6 billion base pairs in the nuclear genome and 16,569 base pairs in the mitochondrial genome [1-3]. In some cases the difference between a healthy and a sick individual consists in only one nucleotide. Thus, it is evident that the pristine replication of the genome...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Brieba LG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several non-cardiovascular drugs have been withdrawn from the market due to their inhibition of hERG K+ channels that can potentially lead to severe heart arrhythmia and death. As hERG safety testing is a mandatory FDArequired procedure, there is a considerable interest for developing predictive computational tools to...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Braga RC,Alves VM,Silva MF,Muratov E,Fourches D,Tropsha A,Andrade CH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although bioactivation is a well-documented process and the role of active metabolites in the drug discovery field has long been recognized, drug metabolites are usually ignored in virtual screening campaigns oriented to drug repositioning. The present article discusses different issues related to overlooking of the a...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Talevi A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a class of peptides found across a wide array of organisms that play key roles in host defense. AMPs induce selective death in target cells and orchestrate specific or nonspecific immune responses. Many AMPs exhibit native anticancer activity in addition to antibacterial activity, and...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Rubin SJS,Qvit N

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research over the years has gradually and sequentially highlighted contributory role of hypothalamic- based kisspeptin-signaling axis as a major positive modulator of the neuroendocrinological reproductive axis in mammals. However, a series of landmark studies provided convincing evidence of role of this signaling in ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Jabeen S,Qureshi MZ,Javed Z,Iqbal MJ,Ismail M,Farooqi AA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although water molecules are small and only consist of two different atom types, they play various roles in cellular systems. This review discusses their influence on the binding process between biomacromolecular targets and small molecule ligands and how this influence can be modeled in computational drug design appr...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： de Beer SB,Vermeulen NP,Oostenbrink C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human multidrug resistance protein (MRP/ABCC) family contains 9 members (MRP1-9) which transport a structurally diverse array of anticancer and antimicrobial drugs and several important endogenous substances including prostaglandins (PGs) and leukotrienes (LTs) with different substrate specificity. MRP1-5 can collecti...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Yang AK,Zhou ZW,Wei MQ,Liu JP,Zhou SF

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (AII), Asp1-Arg2-Val3-Tyr4-Ile5-His6-Pro7-Phe8, the primary active hormone of the Renin-Angiotensin-System (RAS), is a major vasoconstrictor implicated in the cause of hypertension. To unravel the question of the biologically active conformation(s) of this flexible peptide hormone and to better understa...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Tzakos AG,Gerothanassis IP,Troganis AN

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of computational tools for the prediction of passive transport is reviewed with particular reference to four diverse approaches: the rule-of-5, polar surface area, Volsurf and Abraham's General Solvation Equation. To illustrate the current state of the art, several examples of the application of in sil...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Clark DE,Grootenhuis PD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review discusses the state of the art, challenges and perspectives in recent applications of electrochemistry in the life sciences. It deals mainly with the elucidation of molecular mechanisms of drug action, drug design and development, involving electron transfer, pharmaco-electrochemistry (the combination of e...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： de Paiva YG,da Rocha Ferreira F,Silva TL,Labbe E,Buriez O,Amatore C,Fonseca Goulart MO

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) contribute to the degradation of the extracellular matrix of coronary plaque and contribute to the thinning of the fibrous cap. As a result, the atheromatous plaque becomes unstable and prone to rupture with consequent clinical manifestations including acute...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Papageorgiou N,Tousoulis D,Hatzis G,Briasoulis A,Androulakis E,Giolis A,Siasos G,Latsios G,Vogiatzi G,Tentolouris C,Stefanadis C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are currently (July, 2002) six protease inhibitors approved for the treatment of HIV infection, each of which can be classified as peptidomimetic in structure. These agents, when used in combination with other antiretroviral agents, produce a sustained decrease in viral load, often to levels below the limits of ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Randolph JT,DeGoey DA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified version of the CORAL software (http://www.insilico.eu/coral) allows building up the classification model for the case of the Yes/No data on the anti-sarcoma activity of organic compounds. Three random splits into the sub-training, calibration, and test sets of the data for 3017 compounds were examined. The ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Toropov AA,Toropova AP,Benfenati E,Gini G,Leszczynska D,Leszczynski J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notwithstanding the functional role that the aggregates of some amyloidogenic proteins can play in different organisms, protein aggregation plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of a large number of human diseases. One of such diseases is Alzheimer's disease (AD), where the overproduction and aggregation of the β-a...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Viayna E,Sabate R,Muñoz-Torrero D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation of existing and proposed Fe chelators, both synthetic and natural products, for the treatment of Fe-overload disease must address a number of issues. There are fundamental parameters that determine the efficacy of a drug: absorption, distribution, metabolism, clearance and toxicity. However, the administ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sharpe PC,Richardson DR,Kalinowski DS,Bernhardt PV

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00