Recent Developments of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Theranostics of Brain Tumor.

abstract：:Despite the introduction of newer drugs, the atypical antipsychotic clozapine remains the most effective drug in psychotic patients who are resistant to treatment with conventional agents. Optimal therapeutic responses to clozapine have been reported with serum concentrations between 350 microg/L and 1000 microg/L. Cl...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Chetty M,Murray M

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several epidemiological studies throughout the years have suggested that polyphenols from fruits and vegetables promote health and reduce the risk of certain chronic and neurodegenerative diseases. Yet, it has been proved to be extremely difficult to quantitatively establish the benefit afforded by polyphenols, princi...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Rubió L,Macià A,Motilva MJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thiopurine antimetabolites are important agents for the treatment of severe diseases, such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia and inflammatory bowel disease. Their pharmacological actions depend on biotransformation into active thioguanine-nucleotides; intracellular metabolism is mediated by enzymes of the salv...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Pelin M,De Iudicibus S,Londero M,Spizzo R,Dei Rossi S,Martelossi S,Ventura A,Decorti G,Stocco G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review provides an overview of the in vitro methods currently used in studies of intestinal drug metabolism and active efflux with a special emphasis on the efflux- metabolism interplay. These methods include e.g. expressed enzymes or efflux transporters, fractionated intestinal cells, cell lines, primary cells, ...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Siissalo S,Heikkinen AT

更新日期：2013-01-01 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:ET-26 hydrochloride is a novel intravenous anesthetic, approved for clinical trials, that produces a desirable sedative-hypnotic effect with stable myocardial performance and mild adrenocortical suppression in rats and beagle dogs. The objective of this study was to assess the absorption, distribution, metab...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Zhang YJ,Deng C,Yang J,Gong D,Kang Y,Liu J,Zhang W

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of in vitro inhibition and induction of the cytochrome P450 enzymes of the liver is a critical part of the drug discovery and development process in order to ensure that two or more drugs can be safely coadministered without alterations in exposure. Early assessment of potential candidates using high th...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Walsky RL,Boldt SE

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses primarily on the mammalian medium and long-chain fatty acid coenzyme A ligases that have been implicated in the metabolism of xenobiotic carboxylic acids such as pesticides, arylpropionate non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and the hypolipidaemic clofibrate and its congeners. Evidence of multipl...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Knights KM,Drogemuller CJ

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is associated with an increase risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Recently, macrovascular complications of diabetes have been shown to start before the development of diabetes. Indeed, several clinical studies have confirmed the increased risk of CVD in patients with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). Sinc...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Yamagishi S,Matsui T,Ueda S,Fukami K,Okuda S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in the biological and analytical sciences have led to unprecedented interest in the discovery and quantitation of endogenous molecules that serve as indicators of drug safety, mechanism of action, efficacy, and disease state progression. By allowing for improved decision-making, these indicators, refer...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Ackermann BL,Hale JE,Duffin KL

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanism of action of organophosphates (OP)/nerve agents -- irreversible acetylcholinesterase (AChE, EC 3.1.1.7) inhibition at the cholinergic synapses followed by metabolic dysbalance of the organism -- two therapeutic principles for antidotal treatment are derived. The main drugs are anticholinerg...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Bajgar J,Kuca K,Jun D,Bartosova L,Fusek J

更新日期：2007-12-01 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 nature and level of systemic exposure to the active herbal constituents will profoundly affect their effects at action sites, which is fundamental in understanding their roles in the overall beneficial effects of a herbal medicine. The objective of this study is to gain a full picture of the systemic exposure to v...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Li L,Zhao Y,Du F,Yang J,Xu F,Niu W,Ren Y,Li C

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：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：:Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) have attracted a lot of interest due to their widespread diagnostic and therapeutic applications in neuro-oncology. Functinalization of the particles surface with targeting molecules that recognize tumor receptors might be exploited for the specific brain tumor targe...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Shevtsov MA

更新日期：2016-06-15 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：:5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) belongs to a group of naturally-occurring psychoactive indolealkylamine drugs. It acts as a nonselective serotonin (5-HT) agonist and causes many physiological and behavioral changes. 5-MeO-DMT is O-demethylated by polymorphic cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) to an active metab...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Shen HW,Jiang XL,Winter JC,Yu AM

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatotoxicity related to antidepressive pharmacotherapy is a major safety concern, particularly considering that severe forms of hepatic failure with fatal outcome have been reported. Severe hepatotoxic adverse drug reactions were also reported for agomelatine (AGM), an antidepressive agent, which was approved for th...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Gahr M,Kratzer W,Fuchs M,Connemann BJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The binding of drugs with serum proteins can affect the activity, distribution, rate of excretion, and toxicity of pharmaceutical agents in the body. One tool that can be used to quickly analyze and characterize these interactions is high-performance affinity chromatography (HPAC). This review shows how HPAC can be us...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Hage DS,Anguizola J,Barnaby O,Jackson A,Yoo MJ,Papastavros E,Pfaunmiller E,Sobansky M,Tong Z

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge regarding cytochrome P450 (P450) is crucial to the fields of drug therapy and drug development, as well as in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the metabolic activation of potentially toxic and carcinogenic compounds. Escherichia coli is the most extensively utilized host in the production of re...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Yun CH,Yim SK,Kim DH,Ahn T

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:For the pharmaceutical industry, one of the challenges in evaluating the risk of future compound attrition at the discovery stage is the successful prediction of the major routes of clearance in humans. For compounds cleared by metabolism, such information will help to avoid the development of compounds that will exhi...

journal_title：Current drug metabolism

authors： Williams JA,Hurst SI,Bauman J,Jones BC,Hyland R,Gibbs JP,Obach RS,Ball SE

更新日期：2003-12-01 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