Novel HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitor Development by Virtual Screening Based on QSAR Models.

abstract：:The human tuberculosis (TB) is primarily caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) that inhabits inside and amidst immune cells of the host with adapted physiology to regulate interdependent cellular functions with intact pathogenic potential. The complexity of this disease is attributed to various factors such as th...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Borah P,Deb PK,Venugopala KN,Al-Shar'i NA,Singh V,Deka S,Srivastava A,Tiwari V,Mailavaram RP

更新日期：2020-12-11 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：:Over the past decades, a tremendous rise in invasive fungal infection diseases attributed to the yeast Candida albicans in immunocompromised individuals poses a seriously challenging issue. Another concern is the emergence of multi-drug resistant pathogens to the existing medicines due to their overuse and misuse. It ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Tratrat C

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Development of acetyl- (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) inhibitors belongs to viable strategies for the treatment of dementia and other diseases related to decrease in cholinergic neurotransmission. OBJECTIVE:That is why we designed twenty-two analogues of a dual AChEBuChE salicylanilide inhibitor, ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Krátký M,Jaklová K,Štěpánková Š,Svrčková K,Pflégr V,Vinšová J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penile erection is a complex physiologic event resulting from the interactions of the nervous system on a highly specialized vascular organ. Activation of central nervous system melanocortinergic (MC) receptors with either endogenous or synthetic melanotropic ligands may initiate and/or facilitate spontaneous penile e...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： King SH,Mayorov AV,Balse-Srinivasan P,Hruby VJ,Vanderah TW,Wessells H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoic acid (LA) is an antioxidant able to produce its effects in aqueous or lipophilic environments. Lipoate is the conjugate base of lipoic acid, and the most prevalent form of LA under physiological conditions. It presents a highly negative reduction potential, increases the expression of antioxidant enzymes and pa...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Moura FA,de Andrade KQ,dos Santos JC,Goulart MO

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biofilm is a critical virulence factor associated with the strains of Candida spp. pathogens as it confers significant resistance to the pathogen against antifungal drugs. METHODS:A systematic review of the literature was undertaken by focusing on natural products, which have been reported to inhibit biofil...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Singla RK,Dubey AK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the tremendous progress in the field of drug designing, discovering a new drug molecule is still a challenging task. Drug discovery and development is a costly, time consuming and complex process that requires millions of dollar and 10-15 years to bring new drug molecules in the market. This huge investment an...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Singla D,Dhanda SK,Chauhan JS,Bhardwaj A,Brahmachari SK,Open Source Drug Discovery Consortium.,Raghava GP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In medical oncology, targeted therapy has emerged over the last decade, as the most promising strategy to fight cancer. In addition, a more complete understanding of tumor heterogeneity and pharmacology of the more conventional anti-cancer agents has led to development of metronomic chemotherapy (MC) (i.e. a more freq...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： André N,Pasquier E,Kamen B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of vaccines has led to tremendous decreases in disease burdens across the world. Many challenges remain in expanding vaccine coverage to new pathogens, however, a struggle further hampered by a lack of understanding into many of the fundamental processes through which vaccines elicit robust immunity. In this r...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Platt A,Wetzler L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For effective tumour imaging by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) there is a clear need to develop organ, tissue and cell specific contrast agents that can selectively bind to tumour biomarkers. The versatility of a range of bioconjugation techniques and facile coupling chemistries has facilitated the synthesis of MRI ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Kamaly N,Miller AD,Bell JD

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem in this work is the computational characterization of cyclodextrins, crown ethers and hyaluronan (HA) as hosts of inclusion complexes for nanosized drug delivery vehicles in pharmaceutical formulations. The difficulty is addressed through a computational study of some thermodynamic, geometric and topologic...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Torrens F,Castellano G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Safety and biocompatibility assessment of biomaterials are themes of constant concern as advanced materials enter the market as well as products manufactured by new techniques emerge. Within this context, this review provides an up-to-date approach on current methods for the characterization and safety assessment of b...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Oliveira JPR,Melendez-Ortiz HI,Bucio E,Alves PT,Lima MIS,Goulart LR,Mathor MB,Varca GHC,Lugao AB

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the identification of the anti-inflammatory properties of VA5-13l (2-benzyl-1- methyl-5-nitroindazolinone) in previous investigations, some of its analogous compounds were designed, synthesized and evaluated in two anti-inflammatory methods: LPS-enhanced leukocyte migration assay in zebrafish; and 12-O-tetradeca...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Siverio-Mota D,Andujar I,Marrero-Ponce Y,Giner RM,Diaz-Mendoza C,Paba GM,Vicet-Muro L,Cordero-Maldonado ML,de Witte PAM,Crawford AD,Veitia MS,Perez-Jimenez F,Aran VJ

更新日期：2018-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The atomic determination of the acetylcholine binding protein (AChBP), a molluscan cholinergic protein, homologous to the amino-terminal extracellular domain of nicotinic receptors (nAChRs), offers opportunities for the modeling of the acetylcholine binding site and its ligands. Recently, we constructed three-dimensio...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Grutter T,Le Novère N,Changeux JP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much attention has focused on the development of protein kinases as drug targets to treat a variety of human diseases including diabetes, cancer, hypertension and arthritis. To date, Gleevec is one example of a drug targeting protein that has successfully treated human cancer. Several other protein kinase inhibitors a...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Haystead TA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The need to find new antimicrobial agents to cope with this phenomenon increases. BACKGROUND:Infection diseases are illness caused by different microorganisms, such as bacteria, among those caused by resistant bacteria are associated with greater morbidity, mortality and cost of the treatment than those caused by...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Nocedo-Mena D,Garza-González E,González-Ferrara M,Del Rayo Camacho-Corona M

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:In this review the conformational studies of natural enkephalins (H-Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met-OH; the [Met(5)]enkephalin and H-Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu-OH; the [Leu(5)]enkephalin), their acyclic and cyclic analogues, including those carried out in our laboratory, performed by experimental and theoretical methods and their combin...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Malicka J,Czaplewski C,Groth M,Wiczk W,Oldziej S,Lankiewicz L,Ciarkowski J,Liwo A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, there has been a great increase in our understanding of pain mechanisms. Given the complexity of the mechanisms involved in pain modulation, it is surprising that the pharmacological control of pain through the application of relatively simple analgesics can be effective. Nevertheless, the appli...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Mico JA,Berrocoso E,Ortega-Alvaro A,Gibert-Rahola J,Rojas-Corrales MO

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gradual alignment with all of drug metabolism with all aspects of drug discovery and development has led to a complete realignment of the way the work is conducted. From a background of conducting bespoke in vivo studies much of the work is now in a high throughput screening mode. Large technological advances have...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Smith DA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP) is the most potent Ca²⁺ mobilizing endogenous compound known to date. Although its Ca²⁺ releasing activity has been demonstrated in many cell types and in response to different extracellular stimuli, several aspects of NAADP signaling are unclear. This overview foc...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Guse AH,Ernst IM,Fliegert R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomarkers in the clinical oncology field can have tremendous therapeutic impact especially if the marker is detected before clinical symptoms. This impact can be extended to the evaluation of clinical oncology treatments allowing evaluation of potential compounds to determine their efficacy in the disease treatment. ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Belkowski SM,Polkovitch D,D'Andrea MR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin S has been of increasing interest as a target of medicinal chemistry efforts given its role in modulating antigen-presentation by major histocompatibility class II (MHC II) molecules as well as its involvement in extracellular proteolytic activities. Inhibition of the cathepsin S enzyme reduces degradation o...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Wiener JJ,Sun S,Thurmond RL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low drug productivity has been a significant problem of the pharmaceutical industry for several decades even though numerous novel technologies were introduced during this period. Currently pharmacologic dogma, "single drug, single target, single disease", is at the root of the lack of drug productivity. From a system...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Ye H,Wei J,Tang K,Feuers R,Hong H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of functionally important biological processes are regulated by allosteric communication within individual proteins and across protein complexes. The proteins controlling these communication networks respond to changes in the cellular environment by switching between different conformational states. Targe...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Persico M,Di Dato A,Orteca N,Fattorusso C,Novellino E,Andreoli M,Ferlini C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrimidine and purine nucleosides and their derivatives have critical functions and pharmacological applications in the brain. Nucleosides and nucleobases are precursors of nucleotides, which serve as the energy-rich currency of intermediary metabolism and as precursors of nucleic acids. Nucleosides (e.g., adenosine) ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Parkinson FE,Damaraju VL,Graham K,Yao SY,Baldwin SA,Cass CE,Young JD

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R115777 (R)-6-amino[(4-chlorophenyl)(1-methyl-1H-imidazol-5-yl)methyl]-4-(3-chlorophenyl)-1-methyl-2(1H)-quinolinone is a potent and selective inhibitor of farnesyl protein transferase with significant antitumor effects in vivo subsequent to oral administration in mice. Taking its roots into Janssen's ketoconazole and...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Venet M,End D,Angibaud P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is involved in the phosphorylation and inactivation of glycogen synthase. GSK-3 inhibitors have been associated with a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer´s disease (AD), diabetes type II, neurologic disorders, and cancer. The inhibition of GSK-3β isoforms is likely to...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Francisco CS,Javarini CL,de S Barcelos I,Morais PAB,de Paula H,de S Borges W,Neto ÁC,Lacerda V

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00