Polyarginine molecular weight determines transfection efficiency of calcium condensed complexes.

abstract：:Porous silicon microparticles presenting pathogen-associated molecular patterns mimic pathogens, enhancing internalization of the microparticles and activation of antigen presenting dendritic cells. We demonstrate abundant uptake of microparticles bound by the TLR-4 ligands LPS and MPL by murine bone marrow-derived de...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Meraz IM,Melendez B,Gu J,Wong ST,Liu X,Andersson HA,Serda RE

更新日期：2012-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Today, about 50% of men and 15-30% of women suffer from hair loss as well as the associated psychological impact. Drug therapy, especially through topical administration, is the main treatment strategy for stimulating hair regrowth. However, challenges exist due to the skin barrier that hinders drug penetration. To th...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Yang G,Chen G,Gu Z

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c (Cyt c) is a small mitochondrial heme protein involved in the intrinsic apoptotic pathway. Once Cyt c is released into the cytosol, the caspase mediated apoptosis cascade is activated resulting in programmed cell death. Herein, we explore the covalent immobilization of Cyt c into mesoporous silica nanopar...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Méndez J,Morales Cruz M,Delgado Y,Figueroa CM,Orellano EA,Morales M,Monteagudo A,Griebenow K

更新日期：2014-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallacarborane moieties have been identified as promising pharmacophores. The pharmaceutical use of such compounds is, however, complicated by their low solubility and tendency to self-assemble in aqueous solution. In this work, we estimated the solubilities of a vast series of metallacarboranes [cobalt bis(dicarbol...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Rak J,Dejlová B,Lampová H,Kaplánek R,Matějíček P,Cígler P,Král V

更新日期：2013-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular unbound drug concentrations determine affinity to targets in the cell interior. However, due to difficulties in measuring them, they are often overlooked in pharmacology. Here we present a simple experimental technique for the determination of unbound intracellular drug concentrations in cultured cells t...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Mateus A,Matsson P,Artursson P

更新日期：2013-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Prediction of the rate and extent of drug absorption upon oral dosing needs models that capture the complexities of both the drug molecule and intestinal physiology. We report here the development of a continuous intestinal absorption model based on the convection-diffusion equation. The model includes explicit entero...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Nagar S,Korzekwa RC,Korzekwa K

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of cancer and fibrotic diseases has been shown to be highly dependent on disregulation of cap-dependent translation. Binding protein eIF4E to N(7)-methylated guanosine capped mRNA has been found to be the rate-limiting step governing translation initiation, and therefore represents an attractive target...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Li S,Jia Y,Jacobson B,McCauley J,Kratzke R,Bitterman PB,Wagner CR

更新日期：2013-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional drug solubilization strategies limit the understanding of the full potential of poorly water-soluble drugs during drug screening. Here, we propose a screening approach in which poorly water-soluble drugs are entrapped in poly(2-(methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine)-poly(2-(diisopropylaminoethyl methacr...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Sola-Barrado B,M Leite D,Scarpa E,Duro-Castano A,Battaglia G

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To predict the outcome of intestinal drug transporter induction on pharmacokinetics, signaling of the DNA message along with messenger RNA (mRNA) transcription and protein translation leading to transporter function must be understood. We quantified the gene expression of PXR and CAR, gene expression and protein abund...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Brueck S,Bruckmueller H,Wegner D,Busch D,Martin P,Oswald S,Cascorbi I,Siegmund W

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic RGD (cRGD) peptide-conjugated boronated albumin was developed to direct toward integrin αvβ3, which overexpresses on many cancer cells. A stepwise conjugation of c[RGDfK(Mal)] and maleimide-conjugated closo-dodecaborate (MID) to bovine serum albumin (BSA) afforded cRGD-MID-BSA, which was noncytotoxic toward bot...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Kawai K,Nishimura K,Okada S,Sato S,Suzuki M,Takata T,Nakamura H

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Current cancer chemotherapies commonly suffer from nonspecificity, drug resistance, poor bioavailability, and narrow therapeutic indices. To achieve the optimum drug efficacy, we designed a polymeric drug delivery system for targeted intracellular delivery of a clinically approved, water-soluble anticancer drug, gemci...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Kulhari H,Pooja D,Kota R,Reddy TS,Tabor RF,Shukla R,Adams DJ,Sistla R,Bansal V

更新日期：2016-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic anion-transporting polypeptides (OATPs) mediate the uptake of various drugs from blood into the liver in the basolateral membrane of hepatocytes. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a potentially powerful tool to assess the activity of hepatic OATPs in vivo, but its utility critically depends on the availabi...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Bauer M,Traxl A,Matsuda A,Karch R,Philippe C,Nics L,Klebermass EM,Wulkersdorfer B,Weber M,Poschner S,Tournier N,Jäger W,Wadsak W,Hacker M,Wanek T,Zeitlinger M,Langer O

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ipratropium bromide, an anticholinergic drug used for the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, has low oral bioavailability, but systemic exposure, superior to oral administration, can be achieved by inhalation. Therefore, we investigated the pulmonary absorption mechanism of ipratropium usin...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Nakamura T,Nakanishi T,Haruta T,Shirasaka Y,Keogh JP,Tamai I

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor endothelial marker 8 (TEM8) is a cell surface receptor that is highly expressed in a variety of human tumors and promotes tumor angiogenesis and cell growth. Antibodies targeting TEM8 block tumor angiogenesis in a manner distinct from the VEGF receptor pathway. Development of a TEM8 imaging agent could aid in pa...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Kuo F,Histed S,Xu B,Bhadrasetty V,Szajek LP,Williams MR,Wong K,Wu H,Lane K,Coble V,Vasalatiy O,Griffiths GL,Paik CH,Elbuluk O,Szot C,Chaudhary A,St Croix B,Choyke P,Jagoda EM

更新日期：2014-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted gene delivery using nonviral vectors is a highly touted scheme to reduce the potential for toxic or immunological side effects by reducing dose. In previous reports, TAT polyplexes with DNA have shown relatively poor gene delivery. The transfection efficiency has been enhanced by condensing TAT/DNA complexes ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Khondee S,Baoum A,Siahaan TJ,Berkland C

更新日期：2011-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on tailored lipid-polymer hybrid nanoparticles (NPs) delivering nitric oxide (NO) under the control of visible light as a tool for overcoming doxorubicin (DOX) resistance. The NPs consist of a polymeric core and a coating. They are appropriately designed to entrap DOX in the poly(lactide-co-glycolide) core a...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Fraix A,Conte C,Gazzano E,Riganti C,Quaglia F,Sortino S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug repositioning is an important drug development strategy as it saves the time and efforts exerted in drug discovery. Since reepithelization of the cornea is a critical problem, we envisioned that the anticonvulsant phenytoin sodium can promote reepithelization of corneal ulcers as it was repurposed for skin wound ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Mahmoud DB,Afifi SA,El Sayed NS

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Liposomes are representative lipid nanoparticles widely used for delivering anticancer drugs, DNA fragments, or siRNA to cancer cells. Upon targeting, various internal and external triggers have been used to increase the rate for contents release from the liposomes. Among the internal triggers, decreased pH within the...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Nahire R,Hossain R,Patel R,Paul S,Meghnani V,Ambre AH,Gange KN,Katti KS,Leclerc E,Srivastava DK,Sarkar K,Mallik S

更新日期：2014-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymer therapeutics have shown promise as tumor-targeted drug delivery systems in mice. The multivalency of polymers allows the attachment of different functional agents to a polymeric backbone, including chemotherapeutic and antiangiogenic drugs, as well as targeting moieties, such as the bone-targeting agent alendr...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Miller K,Eldar-Boock A,Polyak D,Segal E,Benayoun L,Shaked Y,Satchi-Fainaro R

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the fabrication and characterization of dry hybrid lipid-silica nanoparticle based microcapsules with an internal porous matrix structure for encapsulation of poorly soluble drugs, and their delivery properties (in vitro release and lipolysis and in vivo pharmacokinetics demonstrated for indomethacin as a...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Simovic S,Heard P,Hui H,Song Y,Peddie F,Davey AK,Lewis A,Rades T,Prestidge CA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the inhibitory effect of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose acetate succinate (HPMC-AS) on drug recrystallization from a supersaturated solution using carbamazepine (CBZ) and phenytoin (PHT) as model drugs. HPMC-AS HF grade (HF) inhibited the recrystallization of CBZ more strongly than that by HPMC-AS LF grade ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Ueda K,Higashi K,Yamamoto K,Moribe K

更新日期：2013-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasion and metastasis of cancer directly related to human death have been associated with interactions among many different types of cells and three-dimensional (3D) tissue matrices. Precise mechanisms related to cancer invasion and metastasis still remain unknown due to their complexities. Development of tumor micr...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Park MH,Song B,Hong S,Kim SH,Lee K

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse laser-induced choroidal neovascularization (mouse LCNV) recapitulates the "wet" form of human age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) is a known inflammatory biomarker, and it increases in the choroidal neovascular tissues characteristic of this experimental model. We h...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Uddin MI,Kilburn TC,Yang R,McCollum GW,Wright DW,Penn JS

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho-GTPases are small GTP-binding proteins that contribute to the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition by regulating several cellular processes including organization of the actin cytoskeleton, cell motility, transcription, and cell proliferation. Overexpression of RhoC-GTPases (RhoC) in breast cancer has been implica...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Kaushal N,Durmaz YY,Bao L,Merajver SD,ElSayed ME

更新日期：2015-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we demonstrated that the simple substitution of the 1,2,4-triazole moiety in 5-( 4H-1,2,4-triazol-4-yl)isophthalic acid (5-TIA) by the 1 H-1,2,3-triazol-5-yl unit enables the preparation of a hydrogelator (click-TIA). In sharp contrast to 5-TIA, its isostere click-TIA undergoes self-assembly in water upo...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Häring M,Rodríguez-López J,Grijalvo S,Tautz M,Eritja R,Martín VS,Díaz Díaz D

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Preferential interactions of formulation excipients govern their overall interactions with protein molecules, and molecular dynamics simulations allow for the examination of the interactions at the molecular level. We used molecular dynamics simulations to examine the interactions of sorbitol, sucrose, and trehalose w...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Cloutier T,Sudrik C,Mody N,Sathish HA,Trout BL

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The controversy surrounding the use of diphtheria toxin (DT) as a therapeutic agent against tumor cells arises mainly from its unexpected harmfulness to healthy tissues. We encoded the cytotoxic fragment A of DT (DTA) as an objective gene in the Light-On gene-expression system to construct plasmids pGAVPO (pG) and pU5...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Xu J,He M,Hou X,Wang Y,Shou C,Cai X,Yuan Z,Yin Y,Lan M,Lou K,Zhao Y,Yang Y,Chen X,Gao F

更新日期：2020-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:P-glycoprotein (Pgp) is highly expressed on blood-brain barrier (BBB) and glioblastoma (GB) cells, particularly on cancer stem cells (SC). Pgp recognizes a broad spectrum of substrates, limiting the therapeutic efficacy of several chemotherapeutic drugs in eradicating GB SC. Finding effective and safe inhibitors of Pg...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Salaroglio IC,Abate C,Rolando B,Battaglia L,Gazzano E,Colombino E,Costamagna C,Annovazzi L,Mellai M,Berardi F,Capucchio MT,Schiffer D,Riganti C

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the aging of the population, the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, is expected to grow and, hence, the demand for adequate treatment modalities. However, the delivery of medicines into the brain for the treatment of brain-related diseases is hampered by the presence o...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Stojanov K,Georgieva JV,Brinkhuis RP,van Hest JC,Rutjes FP,Dierckx RA,de Vries EF,Zuhorn IS

更新日期：2012-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Simvastatin is one of the most widely used active pharmaceutical ingredients for the treatment of hyperlipidemias. Because the compound is employed as a solid in drug formulations, particular attention should be given to the characterization of different polymorphs, their stability domains, and the nature of the phase...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Simões RG,Bernardes CES,Joseph A,M Piedade MF,Kraus W,Emmerling F,Diogo HP,Minas da Piedade ME

更新日期：2018-11-05 00:00:00