Improving the embryo implantation via novel molecular targets.

abstract：:Programmed cell death, commonly associated with the term apoptosis, is an integrated intracellular program that plays a critical role in lymphoid tissue homeostasis. Alterations in this highly regulated process is a common feature of most lymphoid malignancies, thus facilitating tumor escape from traditional chemother...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Saborit-Villarroya I,Roué G,López-Guerra M,Alonso R,Xargay-Torrent S,Rosich L,Colomer D

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:A group of oxytocinergic neurons originating in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and projecting to extrahypothalamic brain areas (e.g. hippocampus, medulla oblongata and spinal cord) control penile erection. Activation of these neurons by dopamine and dopamine agonists, excitatory amino acids (N-methyl-...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Melis MR,Argiolas A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of OA disease, NF-kappaB transcription factors can be triggered by a host of stress-related stimuli including pro-inflammatory cytokines, excessive mechanical stress and ECM degradation products. Activated NF-kappaB regulates the expression of many cytokines and chemokines, adhesion molecules, inflammat...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Marcu KB,Otero M,Olivotto E,Borzi RM,Goldring MB

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Osteosarcoma is considered the most frequent primary bone malignancy. Lung metastasis is the leading cause of death and the most consistent factor for predicting negative patient outcome in osteosarcoma. Third-generation nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates, such as zoledronic acid, have been shown to reduce ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Ouyang Z,Li H,Zhai Z,Xu J,Dass CR,Qin A,Dai K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA, as an intermediate in the production of every gene encoded protein and the genetic material of many pathogenic viruses, presents an attractive target for both biological and therapeutic manipulation. Despite its extensive involvement in living systems, its chemical diversity based on four units is relatively low ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Cairns MJ,Saravolac EG,Sun LQ

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiopathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative Colitis (UC), the two major forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is still unknown. Although the exact cause and mechanisms of both IBD have yet to be completely understood, it is widely accepted that both CD and UC result from an inappropriate immune re...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Stefanelli T,Malesci A,Repici A,Vetrano S,Danese S

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rationale for surfactant replacement therapy in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is to restore the normal composition of the surfactant system, as well as to overcome ongoing inactivation of present surfactant. Indeed, surfactant replacement therapy can normalize the composition of the surf...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Schultz MJ,Kesecioglu J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymphatic filariasis is a pervasive and life-threatening disease for human beings. Currently, 893 million people in 49 countries worldwide affected by lymphatic filariasis as per WHO statistics. The concealed aspects of lymphatic diseases such as delayed disease detection, inappropriate disease imaging, the ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Shrivastava S,Gupta A,Kaur CD

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Inflammation is a risk factor for cancer development in several tissues. In the colorectum, inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease) is a longstanding inflammatory disease with increased risk for colorectal cancer (CRC). Several molecular events involving in chronic inflammatory process cont...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Tanaka T

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenosine pathway is a powerful evolutionarily selected mechanism aimed at a fine modulation of inflammatory responses and protection of tissues from injuries. Adenosine exerts its modulatory effects via interaction with G protein-coupled receptors, designated as A(1), A(2A), A(2B) and A(3). In this regard, extrac...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Antonioli L,Colucci R,La Motta C,Tuccori M,Awwad O,Da Settimo F,Blandizzi C,Fornai M

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Measurement of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) is widely used for assessing vitamin D status. There has been a dramatic increase in 25-OHD requests over recent years prompting many laboratories to consider the use of automated immunoassays. To achieve higher throughput, these methods have abandoned the traditional solven...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Carter GD

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prohibitin (PHB) is overtly conserved evolutionarily and ubiquitously expressed protein with pleiotropic functions in diverse cellular compartments. However, regulation and function of these proteins in different cells, tissues and in various diseases is different as evidenced by expression of these proteins...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Chowdhury D,Kumar D,Sarma P,Tangutur AD,Bhadra MP

更新日期：2017-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysbiosis has been repeatedly observed in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and is now recognized as an essential factor in the gut inflammatory process. IBD is a significant burden to health-care systems, mainly due to treatment-related costs. Available treatments have several limitations: up to 30% of patients are pr...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Zatorski H,Nakov R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preeclampsia, a gestational disease characterized by hypertension and proteinuria twenty weeks into pregnancy, is one of the leading causes of fetal and maternal mortality. Although multiple genetic and environmental factors are found to be related to the preeclampsia risk, the pathogenic pathways remain lar...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Song X,Luo X,Gao Q,Wang Y,Gao Q,Long W

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandins serve as the connecting link between inflammation and cancer. mPGES1, the downstream enzyme in the prostaglandin pathway is considered a better target than COX-2 against the progression of cancer due to the cardiovascular and other complications associated with the inhibition of the latter. Despite the ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Ramanan M,Doble M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of imatinib, second and third generation ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) (i.e. dasatinib, nilotinib, bosutinib and ponatinib) made CML a clinically manageable and, in a small percentage of cases, a cured disease. TKI therapy also turned CML blastic transformation into a rare event; however, disease progre...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Perrotti D,Silvestri G,Stramucci L,Yu J,Trotta R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions worldwide. Many dietary compounds have been found to exert health beneficial effects against different pathologies including diabetes. Most bioactive compounds have been identified in fruits and vegetables and their mechanisms of action explored both in vitro and in vivo. In p...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Turrini E,Ferruzzi L,Fimognari C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memories associated with substance use disorders, or substance-associated cues increase the likelihood of craving and relapse during abstinence. There is a growing consensus that manipulation of synaptic plasticity may reduce the strength of substance abuse-related memories. On the biological front, there are new insi...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mohamed RMP,Kumar J,Yap E,Mohamed IN,Sidi H,Adam RL,Das S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endometriosis (EMS) is a gynecological disease defined by the translocation and growth of endometrial tissue in other tissues or organs outside the uterus. Its clinical manifestations are dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, and even infertility. Although EMS is a benign disease, it has the characteristics ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Ding L,Yang L,Ren C,Zhang H,Lu J,Wang S,Wu Z,Yang Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical chronobiology deals with the way body's rhythm influences a person's health and disease states. To match body rhythms, deliberate alteration of drug concentration is done to optimize therapeutic outcomes and minimize size effects and this approach is known as Chronotherapeutics. In general the concept of homeo...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Das R,Mehta DK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV-1 transactivator Tat protein plays a key role in AIDS pathogenesis. Besides the Tat role as activator of HIV-1 transcription, it exerts several important functions on infected and uninfected cells. In fact, HIV-1 Tat is released by infected cells and is taken up by neighboring cells. In this way it regulates e...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Chiozzini C,Toschi E

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Proline dehydrogenase/proline oxidase (PRODH/POX) is an enzyme catalyzing the first step of proline degradation, during which ROS and/or ATP is generated. POX is widely distributed in living organisms and is responsible for a number of regulatory processes such as redox homeostasis, osmotic adaptation, cell signaling ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Kononczuk J,Czyzewska U,Moczydlowska J,Surażyński A,Palka J,Miltyk W

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelia are the layers of cells that form barriers between external milieu and underlying tissues and thus, are important components of most organs of the body. Epithelial layers of organs, such as the lung, are exposed to various challenges resulting in frequent injury. Epithelial wound healing represents an import...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Allahverdian S,Patchell BJ,Dorscheid DR

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in computer power and chemoinformatics methodology make possible that a huge amount of data become available through internet. These databases are devoted to a wide spectrum of scientific fields. Here we are concerned with databases related to protein-drug interactions. More specifically, databases...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Timmers LF,Pauli I,Caceres RA,de Azevedo WF Jr

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis causes bone loss, and makes bone to susceptible to fracture. The main cause of osteoporosis is estrogen deficiency. Estrogen, calcitonin, calcium, vitamin D and antioxidants can be used to prevent osteoporosis. For the treatment of osteoporosis, the potential biological activities of traditional medicines...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Süntar I,Akkol EK

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00