PHB in Cardiovascular and Other Diseases: Present Knowledge and Implications.

abstract：:Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) metabolizes heme to generate carbon monoxide (CO), biliverdin, and iron. Biliverdin is subsequently metabolized to bilirubin by biliverdin reductase. HO-1 has recently emerged as a promising therapeutic target in the treatment of vascular disease. Pharmacological induction or gene transfer of H...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Durante W

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study is to provide an overview of several emerging anti-diabetic molecules. BACKGROUND:Diabetes is a complex metabolic disorder involving the dysregulation of glucose homeostasis at various levels. Insulin, which is produced by β-pancreatic cells, is a chief regulator of glucose metabolism, regul...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Wu P,Liu Z,Jiang X,Fang H

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing number of cellular and molecular pathways believed to be involved in mechanisms of ischemic cell death in the brain has spurred a similar growth in the number of potential neuroprotective modalities, the majority of which are pharmacological in nature. Preventing or minimizing the first few steps in the ca...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Schurr A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer is predicted to be the second deadliest malignancy (a median survival of 4-6 months and a 5-year survival of less than 5%) in the USA by 2020. Although current medical detection technologies have dramatically improved the survival rate for patients with other gastrointestinal malignancies, the dismal...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Barton LA,Ren J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin-1 (Gal1) was the first identified member of the galectin family of beta-galactosidase-binding proteins. Gal1 has important roles in processes fundamental to growth and survival of an organism, including cell adhesion, cell proliferation and apoptosis, and is expressed in many tissues, including the nervous sy...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Gaudet AD,Steeves JD,Tetzlaff W,Ramer MS

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of predictive biomarkers provides potential individualized cancer therapeutic options to prevent therapy failure as well as serious toxicities. Several recent studies showed that predictive and prognostic biomarkers are a notable personalized strategy to improve patients' care in several cancers. Trabectedin (...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Souid S,Aissaoui D,Srairi-Abid N,Essafi-Benkhadir K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As early as 1940, Abraham and Chain described "an enzyme able to destroy penicillin". In the late 1940's, penicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus were found to be a clinical problem. They produced a penicillinase that could hydrolyze the amide bond in the β-lactam ring. Later, an enzyme mediated by an R-...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Frère JM,Sauvage E,Kerff F

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylases are a class of enzymes that play important roles in post translational modifications of histones by deacetylating the lysine residues as well as interacting with various non-histone proteins. This type of enzymes is closely related to oncogenesis and has been proved to be attractive targets for de...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Li X,Zhang J,Xie Y,Jiang Y,Yingjie Z,Xu W

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigated the use of mixed treatment comparison (MTC) meta-analysis models to summarize results from randomized clinical trials (RCTs) on approved pharmacological treatments for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). METHODS:The number of patients with visual loss or visual gain of 3 or mo...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Virgili G,Novielli N,Menchini F,Murro V,Giacomelli G

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saponins are plant glycosides that consist of a steroid, steroid alkaloid or triterpenoid aglycone and one or more sugar chains that are covalently linked by glycosidic binding to the aglycone. Glucose, galactose, glucuronic acid, xylose and rhamnose are commonly bound monosaccharides. Saponins are found in all organs...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Fuchs H,Bachran D,Panjideh H,Schellmann N,Weng A,Melzig MF,Sutherland M,Bachran C

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, natural compounds of plant origin with anticancer effects have gained more attention because of their clinical safety and broad efficacy profiles. Autophagy is a multistep lysosomal degradation pathway that may have a unique potential for clinical benefit in the setting of cancer treatment. To retrieve artic...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Forouzanfar F,Mousavi SH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic diseases are turning into one of the few diseases that cannot be effectively cured due to some reasons although various receptors existed in the liver. Currently, several passive targeting delivery systems have been used in the drug/gene delivery for the treatment of hepatic diseases. For example, Zinostatin s...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Wang Y,Du H,Zhai G

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), two chronic and relapsing inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), are supposed to develop in genetically-predisposed individuals as a result of an excessive immune mucosal response directed against normal components of the gut microbiota. There is also evidence that defects...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Marafini I,Zorzi F,Codazza S,Pallone F,Monteleone G

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of protein crystal structures being refined to atomic resolution is increasing each year as well as the size of proteins being studied. There are currently 346 structures in the protein data bank which have been refined to or beyond atomic resolution. The benefits of atomic resolution X-ray data are discuss...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Coates L,Myles DA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adipose tissue plays a role in the storage of excess energy as triglycerides (TGs). Excess fat accumulation causes various metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. It has been reported that ectopic fat deposition and excess TG accumulation in non-adipose tissue might be important predictors of cardiometabolic ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Kugo H,Moriyama T,Zaima N

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been well recognized that inflammatory responses are part of pathogenesis for various disorders such as autoimmune diseases. For example, multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of central nervous system that is presumably caused by activated T cells specific for myelin antigens. Rheuma...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Morimoto J,Kon S,Matsui Y,Uede T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present article is to review the indications, the monitoring and the complications of sedation in the post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU). In this setting, sedation is often an unwanted side effect of anaesthetic drugs that delay discharge, however it could be specifically indicated. Such indications incl...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： De Gaudio AR,Rinaldi S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation-induced myelosuppression remains a rate-limiting factor of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, hematological targets of radiation damage are of great significance for radiation oncology and normal tissue injury and protection. Protection of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells is pivotal. In order t...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Kulkarni S,Ghosh SP,Hauer-Jensen M,Kumar KS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sphingomyelin (SM) pathway is an ubiquitous and evolutionarily conserved signaling system in which ceramide (CA), generated from SM by the action of various isoforms of sphingomyelinases (SMases) functions as an important second messenger. Recent evidence suggests that branching pathways of sphingolipid metabolism...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Claus R,Russwurm S,Meisner M,Kinscherf R,Deigner HP

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to provide a narrative review regarding the prevalence, the associated pathophysiologic pathways and the potential management methods of sexual dysfunction related to ablative surgical techniques for Benign Prostatic Enlargement (BPE). Men suffering from BPE are at high risk of sexual dysfunction due to th...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mykoniatis I,Renterghem KV,Sokolakis I

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fracture healing is a process of recovering injured bone tissue forms and functions. Osteoporosis can delay the healing process, which contributes to personal suffering and loss of activities. Osteoporosis patients tend to lose bone mass at the metaphyseal region which require treatment to increase bone mass. Postmeno...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Ibrahim N',Mohamed N,Shuid AN

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is a natural protein expressed in a wide range of tissues in our body. It is a promising anti-cancer agent due to its selective killing of cancer cells, rendering normal cells unharmed. However, resistance occurs either intrinsically or develops ove...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Ngai SC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One approach to identify new drugs with antimicrobial activities is to screen large libraries of molecules directly for their capacity to block the growth of bacterial or fungal monocultures. A more relevant way to assess both a product's efficacy and its potential cytotoxicity is undoubtedly to use an in vivo infecti...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Squiban B,Kurz CL

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the success of combined antiretroviral therapy, more than half of HIV-1-infected patients in the USA show HIV-associated neurological and neuropsychiatric deficits. This is accompanied by anatomical and functional alterations in vulnerable brain regions of the mesocorticolimbic and nigrostriatal systems that r...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Hu XT

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen and androgen receptor (AR) play a critical role in the development of prostate cancer. Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has become the therapeutic mainstay for patients with metastatic prostate cancer. ADT can reduce the serum testosterone level from the normal range between 500 and 600 ng/dl to the castrat...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Hara N,Nishiyama T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five programmed death-1/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitors are currently approved for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma of the bladder and the upper urinary tract. Following the FDA and EMA restrictions of first-line treatment with Atezolizumab and Pembrolizumab in platinum...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Gevaert T,Cimadamore A,Montironi R,Eckstein M

更新日期：2020-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtual screening for active compounds has become an essential step within the drug development pipeline. The computer based prediction of compound binding modes is one of the most time and cost efficient methods for screening ligand libraries and enrich results of potential drugs. Here we present an overview about cu...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Krüger J,Thiel P,Merelli I,Grunzke R,Gesing S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Zanthoxylum (Rutaceae) comprises about 250 species, of which many are used as food, often as condiments, substituting pepper due to the pungent taste of fruits, seeds, leaves, and bark, and therapeutic remedies especially in Eastern Asian countries and in Central America. The whole plant is also consumed as ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Epifano F,Curini M,Marcotullio MC,Genovese S

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is identified in approximately 25- 30% of breast cancers and indicates a poor prognosis. Trastuzumab, the anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody (mAb), has shown significant clinical effects selectively in HER2-overexpressing metastatic breast cancer (MBC) w...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Huang Y,Fu P,Fan W

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is the most common pathology in many orthopedic diseases, such as: rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis (OA) and other reasons caused osteolysis. The leading factor of inflammation was considered as the differentiation of monocyte and the polarization of macrophage. However, cytokines and different c...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Liu Y,Cao Y,Smith W,He B,Yan L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00