Preventive and Therapeutic Effects of the Retinoid X Receptor Agonist Bexarotene on Tumors.

abstract：:Cytochromes P450 of the liver are involved in maintenance of lipid homeostasis (cholesterol, vitamin D, oxysterol and bile acid metabolism) and in detoxification processes of endogenous compounds (i. e. bile acids) and xenochemicals (drugs). This review describes the roles of various CYPs in production of cholesterol ...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Hafner M,Rezen T,Rozman D

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bioequivalence studies are a vital part of drug development. The average bioequivalence approach is the standard method of assessment to conclude whether the generic product is bioequivalent to the innovator product. Of late, debates are on whether the average bioequivalence approach adequately addresses dru...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Micheal F,Sayana M,Prasad R,Motilal BM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, it was found that mutations in the binding cavity of drug-metabolizing Cytochrome P450 BM3 mutants can result in major changes in regioselectivity in testosterone (TES) hydroxylation. In the current work, we report the intrinsic reactivity of TES' C-H bonds and our attempts to rationalize experimentally obse...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： de Beer SB,van Bergen LA,Keijzer K,Rea V,Venkataraman H,Guerra CF,Bickelhaupt FM,Vermeulen NP,Commandeur JN,Geerke DP

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transporters for organic anions and organic cations in kidney, liver, intestine, brain, and placenta play essential roles in drug disposition. The cloning and characterization of these transporters have significantly advanced our understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the drug disposition process. T...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： You G

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicogenomics is defined as an integration of genomics (transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics) and toxicology. It is a scientific field that studies how the genome is involved in responses to environmental stressors and toxicants. It combines studies of mRNA expression, cell and tissue-wide protein expression ...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Gomase VS,Tagore S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several clinically useful endoperoxides, mainly artemisinin derivatives available in market for the treatment of malaria. These are highly potent drugs, with fastest parasite reduction ratio, broadest parasite stage specificity and effectiveness against all species of plasmodium in human. Endoperoxides are c...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Gautam A,Ahmed T,Batra V,Paliwal J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuropsychiatric diseases primarily characterized by dementia stand third in the global list of diseases causing disability. The poor water solubility, erratic oral absorption, low bioavailability, poor intestinal absorption, and the impeding action of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) are the major factors limi...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Rehman S,Nabi B,Pottoo FH,Baboota S,Ali J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of psychoactive substances is one of the most dangerous social problems worldwide. Nicotine dependence results from the interaction between neurobiological, environmental and genetic factors. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that has a wide range of central nervous system activities. The serotonin tra...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Kandemis E,Tuncel G,Asut O,Temel SG,Ergoren MC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arylamine N-acetyltransferases (NAT) are xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes responsible for the acetylation of many aromatic arylamine and heterocyclic amines, thereby playing an important role in both detoxification and activation of numerous drugs and carcinogens. Two closely related isoforms (NAT1 and NAT2) have been ...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Rodrigues-Lima F,Dairou J,Dupret JM

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When used at a high dose, many anticancer drugs produce undesirable side effects including hepatotoxicity. Transdermal delivery bypasses first-pass metabolism, allowing the use of a lower dose of drug while decreasing systemic toxicity. In this review, we summarize various advanced technologies for improving anticance...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Fang JY,Liu PF,Huang CM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human genome sequencing highlights the involvement of genetic variation towards differential risk of human diseases, presence of different phenotypes, and response to pharmacological elements. This brings the field of personalized medicine to forefront in the era of modern health care. Numerous recent approaches have ...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Prakash S,Agrawal S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Because of the high affinity of these animal neurotoxin proteins for some special target site, they were usually used as pharmacological tools and therapeutic agents in medicine to gain deep insights into the function of the nervous system. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:The animal neurotoxin proteins are one of the mo...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Yu Y,Wang S,Wang Y,Cao Y,Yu C,Pan Y,Su D,Lu Q,Zuo Y,Yang L

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Clinical studies during pregnancy are rare due to ethical and practical limitations. Giving pregnant females the same dosing regimen used in adult males or nonpregnant females is inappropriate. Pregnancy physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling is a powerful tool that can be used to refine pharmacother...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Alsmadi MM,Idkaidek N

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Painful peripheral neuropathy is a dose-limiting adverse effect of the antitumor drug oxaliplatin. The main symptoms of neuropathy: tactile allodynia and cold hyperalgesia, appear in more than 80% of patients on oxaliplatin therapy and are due to the overexpression of neuronal sodium channels (Navs) and neur...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Furgała-Wojas A,Kowalska M,Nowaczyk A,Fijałkowski Ł,Sałat K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years several arylpiperazine derivatives have reached the stage of clinical application, mainly for the treatment of depression, psychosis or anxiety. Examples are the pyrimidinylpiperazine buspirone, the chlorophenylpiperazine derivatives nefazodone and trazodone, the dichlorophenylpiperazine aripiprazole a...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Caccia S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ophthalmic drugs are delivered to ocular tissues predominantly via relatively simple formulations, such as topically dosed water-soluble drug solutions and water-insoluble drug suspensions in ointments. An ideal topical drug delivery system should possess certain desirable properties, such as good corneal and conjunct...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Bu HZ,Gukasyan HJ,Goulet L,Lou XJ,Xiang C,Koudriakova T

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:The combined treatment with anticonvulsant and antidepressant drugs is reported in both neurologic and psychiatric practice; it is, therefore, evident that the issue of managing such type of polytherapy is frequently encountered by clinicians. To review current literature on pharmacokinetic interactions between antico...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Mula M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review provides a vista of the current opportunities and remaining challenges in the area of in vitro-in vivo extrapolation, with particular emphasis on drug binding terms in predictive models, which has been the source of much controversy. Although the importance of fu(inc) (fraction unbound in in vitro incubati...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Grime K,Riley RJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) results in a chronic infection that progressively cripples the host immune defenses. HIV infection is associated with increased tryptophan (trp) catabolism by the cytokine-inducible enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO). IDO has powerful immune suppressiv...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Boasso A,Shearer GM

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Phenolic compounds are commonly found in natural sources like plant-based foods and beverages. These compounds have received much attention due to their unique biological properties. Polyphenols possess a significant binding affinity for serum albumins which are known to be principal extracellular proteins with a high...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Jaldappagari S,Balakrishnan S,Hegde AH,Teradal NL,Narayan PS

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene and its modified nano-composites have gained much attention in recent times in cancer therapy as nanotheranostics due to low production cost, ease in synthesis and physicochemical properties (ultra-large surface area with planar structure and π-π conjugation with the unsaturated and aromatic drugs/biomolecule...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Rahman M,Ahmad MZ,Ahmad J,Firdous J,Ahmad FJ,Mushtaq G,Kamal MA,Akhter S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain, the centre of the nervous system and an integral part the body, is protected by two anatomical and physiological barriers- Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) and Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier (BCSFB). Blood-Brain Barrier is a very complex and highly organized multicellular structure that shields the brain from harmf...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Sarkar A,Fatima I,Jamal QMS,Sayeed U,Khan MKA,Akhtar S,Kamal MA,Farooqui A,Siddiqui MH

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：:Arachidonic acid (AA) is metabolized by enzymes of the cytochrome P450 (CYP) 4A and CYP4F subfamilies to 20- hydroxyeicosatetraeonic acid (20-HETE), which plays an important role in the cardiovascular system. In the current work, we reviewed the formation of 20-HETE in different species by different CYPs; 20-HETE meta...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Elshenawy OH,Anwar-Mohamed A,El-Kadi AO

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility to treat central nervous system (CNS) disorders is strongly limited by the poor access of many therapeutic agent to the target tissues. This is mainly due to the presence of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), formed by a complex interplay of endothelial cells, astrocyte and pericytes, through which only se...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： De Rosa G,Salzano G,Caraglia M,Abbruzzese A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well known that ethanol can cause significant morbidity and mortality, and much of the related toxic effects can be explained by its metabolic profile. OBJECTIVE:This work performs a complete review of the metabolism of ethanol focusing on both major and minor metabolites. METHOD:An exhaustive litera...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Dinis-Oliveira RJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00