Safety and tolerability of agomelatine: focus on hepatotoxicity.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prolonged circulation time of nanoparticles in the blood is a prerequisite to realize a controlled and targeted (passive or active targeting) release of the encapsulated gene/drug at the desired site of action. The most popular method to mask or camouflage nanoparticles is the adsorbed, grafted or conjug...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Hu J,Sheng Y,Shi J,Yu B,Yu Z,Liao G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New chemical entities are routinely screened in vitro and in vivo for their ability to induce cytochrome P450s (CYP), other drug-metabolizing enzymes and possibly transporters in an attempt to more accurately predict clinical parameters such as drug-drug interactions and clearance in humans. Some of these potential th...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Mankowski DC,Ekins S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accompanying with hot discussions on developing multi-target drugs for the therapy of multi-gene diseases, herbal medicines are receiving more and more attention worldwide in both academic and industrial fields. Pharmacokinetic and metabolic research is one of the important issues for intensive understanding of therap...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Wu L,Hao H,Wang G

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early understanding of the metabolic pathway and potential interaction of new drug candidates with other drugs is one of the goals of preclinical studies in the drug discovery process. Although other body organs are involved in drug biotransformation, the liver is the predominant organ of metabolism for a wide range o...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Fasinu P,Bouic PJ,Rosenkranz B

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral administration remains the most preferred route for the treatment of many diseases due to its convenience and adaptability. However, the presystemic metabolism may be an important barrier that prevents lipophilic drugs from achieving their pharmacological effects following oral delivery. Nano-based drug delivery ...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Zhang Z,Gao F,Jiang S,Ma L,Li Y

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo hepatic clearance of tanshinone IIA in the rat was predicted using microsome, cytosol and S9 fractions combined with two different cofactor systems, NADPH-regenerating and UDPGA system. Two different models, the well stirred model and the parallel-tube model, were used in predicting the in vivo clearance i...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Li P,Wang GJ,Li J,Zhang Q,Liu X,Khlentzos A,Roberts MS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucuronidation is responsible for the clearance of a diverse range of drug and chemicals whose topology confers properties that complicate in vitro-in vivo clearance correlations as compared to those possible for oxidative metabolism. The active site of the UGTs faces the inside of the luminal space of the endoplasmi...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Lin JH,Wong BK

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methotrexate (MTX) is a folate analogue with high therapeutic efficiency in the treatment of cancers and autoimmune diseases. The efficacy and toxicity of MTX may be altered by genetic polymorphisms in genes involved in MTX metabolic pathway. Personalized pharmacotherapy based on gene polymorphisms enables a...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Cao M,Guo M,Wu DQ,Meng L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro models of the liver using isolated primary hepatocytes have been used as screens for measuring the metabolism, toxicity and efficacy of xenobiotics, for studying hepatocyte proliferation, and as bioartificial liver support systems. Yet, primary isolated hepatocytes rapidly lose liver specific functions when m...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Sivaraman A,Leach JK,Townsend S,Iida T,Hogan BJ,Stolz DB,Fry R,Samson LD,Tannenbaum SR,Griffith LG

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The M2 proton channel is translated by the M gene segment of influenza viruses, and has been adopted as an attractive target for influenza A viruses, on which a series of adamantane-based drugs act. However, recently epidemic influenza viruses have had strong resistant effects against the adamantane-based drugs. In th...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Yu Y,Li X,Hao P,Wang JF,Chou KC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kidney dysfunction resulting from various drugs is an important issue during the drug development process. Traditional in vivo animal experiments are limited with respect to evaluating drug efficacy and nephrotoxicity due to discrepancies in drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics between humans and anima...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Lee J,Kim S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a comprehensive evaluation of the effects of culture duration on the gene expression of P450 isoforms, uptake transporters and efflux transporters in human hepatocyte cultured in the absence and presence of the prototypical proinflammatory cytokine, interleukin-6 (IL-6). Primary collagen-matrigel sandwi...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Yang Q,Doshi U,Li N,Li AP

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Singh S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiopurines such as azathioprine, 6-mercaptopurine and 6-thioguanine are antimetabolites that have been used for several decades in the treatment of several diseases including inflammatory bowel diseases. Additional anti-inflammatory properties of these thiopurines have been discovered in recent years. Thiopurine meta...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Van Asseldonk DP,de Boer NK,Peters GJ,Veldkamp AI,Mulder CJ,Van Bodegraven AA

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been suggested that some of the neuropharmacological, neurochemical and behavioural effects of ethanol are mediated by its first metabolite, acetaldehyde. In spite of the well documented psychoactivity of acetaldehyde, the precise role of this compound in alcohol abuse remains a matter of intense debate am...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Hipólito L,Sánchez MJ,Polache A,Granero L

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a sudden decrease in kidney function. In the early period, the highest percentage of AKI occurs among newborns hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care units, especially premature neonates. The prognosis of AKI depends on the type and severity of the cause of an injury, the ac...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Kamianowska M,Szczepański M,Wasilewska A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Part I of this article published in the previous issue of Current Drug Metabolism discussed the substrate specificity, inhibitor selectivity and structure-activity relationship (SAR) of human CYP2C9. The features of CYP2C9 pharmacophore and SAR models have been elaborated. Part II of this article will address the homo...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Mo SL,Zhou ZW,Yang LP,Wei MQ,Zhou SF

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the recent decades, the use of herbal products has been rapidly growing in the Western countries. While their use in many cases causes adverse effects, to date, safety issues of herbal products have not been adequately addressed. It is rarely determined whether the non-purported bioactive constituents in the herbs ...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Li N,Xia Q,Ruan J,Fu PP,Lin G

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Induction or inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzyme activities, enzymes that activate or detoxify xenobiotics, is one mechanism by which vegetables may alter cancer risk. As the effect of food on CYP enzyme activities have not been studied in the Jordanian population, we examined the effect of supplement...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Hakooz N,Hamdan I

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the sophisticated dynamic behaviors of drug elution and permeation in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), researchers have tried to reemerge it by employing various in vitro experimental models. However, official in vitro apparatuses routinely used for quality control purposes, employ simple, non-physiolog...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Li Z,He X

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have appeared recently on the underlying mechanisms of liposome-cell interactions under in vitro conditions, in which isolated cell populations or cell lines were used. However, our knowledge of how liposomes interact with cells and the parameters that influence this in vivo is limited. We will sum...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Ishida T,Harashima H,Kiwada H

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical activities of plant flavonoids and stilbenoids point to many health-related applications, hampered however by a low bioavailability associated with rapid metabolic modification. A possible approach to overcome this obstacle is the development of prodrugs. In this review we provide some background infor...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Biasutto L,Zoratti M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical application of nanotechnology is termed as Nanomedicine and is widely used in healthcare industries. Nanotechnology has helped Physicians, Scientists and Technologists to understand the changes in cellular levels to develop nanomedicines and address the challenges faced by the healthcare sectors. Nan...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Ravindran S,Suthar JK,Rokade R,Deshpande P,Singh P,Pratinidhi A,Khambadkhar R,Utekar S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to develop and improve methods for phenotyping of CYP2E1, an important enzyme in the biotransformation of many industrial chemicals, therapeutic drugs and endogenous substances. The possibility to measure CYP2E1 activity in lymphocytes by using p-nitrophenol as a substrate and CYP2E1 p...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Ernstgård L,Johanson G,Karlsson AS,Warholm M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis) is one of the most vulnerable bird species in the world. Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites produced by fungi and considered naturally unavoidable contaminants in animal feed. Our recent survey indicated that the mycotoxins had the potential to contaminate redc...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Liu D,Wu Q,Liu H,Lu C,Gu C,Kuca K,Wu W

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since conventional therapeutic approaches in cancer are highly invasive they hardly prolong patient survival for more than few months. Having the ability to stimulate both cellular and humoural immune responses, immunisation with naked plasmid DNA encoding tumour-associated antigens or tumour-specific antigens has rec...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Chiarella P,Fazio VM,Signori E

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutation in the B RAF at V600E has been well implicated in the carcinogenesis that makes it as an attractive therapeutictarget. In the present study, we sought to identify the basis of V600E mutation at functional and structural grounds. The study also endeavors in identification of small molecule as a poten...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Bandaru S,Sumithnath TG,Sharda S,Lakhotia S,Sharma A,Jain A,Hussain T,Nayarisseri A,Singh SK

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Talin is an intracellular cytoskeletal protein and one of the major components of the focal adhesion complex. It mainly acts as an interlink between transmembrane integrin receptors and cytosolic F-actin. Apart from integrins and actin, it also interacts with various other proteins in the adhesion complex to regulate ...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Malla RR,Vempati RK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the advances in recombinant DNA biotechnology, molecular biology and immunology, the number of biotech drugs, including peptides, proteins and monoclonal antibodies, available for clinical use has dramatically increased in recent years. Although pharmacokinetic principles are equally applicable to the large molec...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Lin JH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nanoparticles (NPs) are being used extensively owing to their increased surface area, targeted delivery and enhanced retention. NPs have the potential to be used in many disease conditions. Despite widespread use, their toxicity and clinical safety still remain a major concern. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Malaviya P,Shukal D,Vasavada AR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00