Antioxidative Effects of Rhodiola Genus: Phytochemistry and Pharmacological Mechanisms against the Diseases.

abstract：:L-DOPA is a di-hydroxy-phenyl, catecholamine precursor, amino acid, initially considered as an inert compound and now the key stone for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) and some hereditary dystonias. L-DOPA, when administered to mammals, is rapidly metabolized to dopamine and 3-OM-DOPA, and its half-life in p...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Mena MA,Casarejos MJ,Solano RM,de Yébenes JG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of the androgen receptor has the potential to be an effective treatment for hypogonadism, andropause, and associated conditions such as sarcopenia, osteoporosis, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and sexual dysfunction. Side effects associated with classical anabolic steroid treatments have driven the quest for...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Cadilla R,Turnbull P

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:A better understanding of the biology and pathogenesis of hematological malignancies has led to the development of immunotherapeutic and immunoregulatory drugs. Many of these agents have revolutionized the current treatment modalities, while others are under investigation. Rituximab (anti-CD20 antibody) has been estab...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Pangalis GA,Kyrtsonis MC,Vassilakopoulos TP,Dimopoulou MN,Siakantaris MP,Emmanouilides C,Doufexis D,Sahanas S,Kontopidou FN,Kalpadakis C,Angelopoulou MK,Dimitriadou EM,Kokoris SI,Panayiotidis P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible multifaceted neurodegenerative disorder that gradually degrades neuronal cells. Presently, it is the most common reason for the memory loss and dementia in older individuals. It is patho-physiologically described by extracellular amyloid beta (Aβ) deposition, intracellular n...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Ul Islam B,Khan MS,Jabir NR,Kamal MA,Tabrez S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ropivacaine, the S-(-)-enantiomer of N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-1-propyl-2-piperidinecarboxamide is a new long-acting local anesthetic. This review demonstrates that it is effective in brachial plexus anesthesia. It is at least as efficient as bupivacaine in terms of quality, duration of analgesia, anesthesia, and motor b...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Singelyn FJ

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The connection of microbial biosynthetic gene clusters to the small molecule metabolites they encode is central to the discovery and characterization of new metabolic pathways with ecological and pharmacological potential. With increasing microbial genome sequence information being deposited into publicly available da...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Trautman EP,Crawford JM

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Apatamer technology has been around for a quarter of a century and the field had matured enough to start seeing real applications, especially in the medical field. Since their discovery, aptamers rapidly emerged as key players in many fields, such as diagnostics, drug discovery, food science, drug delivery and therape...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Hernandez LI,Machado I,Schafer T,Hernandez FJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors constitute a novel and growing class of anticancer agents that function by altering intracellular patterns of histone acetylation, the so-called epigenetic "histone code," thereby producing changes in cell cycle arrest, differentiation, and/or apoptosis in tumor cells. This overvi...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Moradei O,Vaisburg A,Martell RE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticancer drug screening can accelerate drug discovery to save the lives of cancer patients, but cancer heterogeneity makes this screening challenging. The prediction of anticancer drug sensitivity is useful for anticancer drug development and the identification of biomarkers of drug sensitivity. Deep learning, as a ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Tan X,Yu Y,Duan K,Zhang J,Sun P,Sun H

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zika is a worldwide pandemic dreadful viral transmission through Aedes mosquito vector. It significantly causes fever, joint pain or rash, and conjunctivitis. Pregnant mothers suffering from Zika viral infection may have fetal abnormalities due to severe neurological problems, characterized by microcephaly a...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Nandi S,Kaur R,Kumar M,Sharma A,Naaz A,Mandal SC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Machine learning (ML) computational methods for predicting compounds with pharmacological activity, specific pharmacodynamic and ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity) properties are being increasingly applied in drug discovery and evaluation. Recently, machine learning techniques such as...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Dobchev DA,Pillai GG,Karelson M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorine-18 ((18)F, beta(+); 96.7%, T(1/2)=109.8 min) is of considerable importance for developing positron emission tomography (PET) ligands for imaging receptor, enzyme, gene expression etc. in brain, tumor, myocardium and other regions or organs due to its optimal decay characteristics. To synthesize (18)F-labeled ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhang MR,Suzuki K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropeptide Y (NPY), peptide YY (PYY) and pancreatic polypeptide (PP) family of hormones exhibit a wide variety of biological actions on the mammalian gastrointestinal tract through known G-protein coupled receptor pathways. At least four receptor subtypes, denoted as Y(1), Y(2), Y(4) an Y(5), each with specific ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Vona-Davis LC,McFadden DW

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Farnesol is an acyclic sesquiterpene alcohol, endogenously synthesized via the ergosterol pathway. It is a quorum sensing molecule (QSM) that was first discovered in C. albicans, and is involved in the inhibition of hyphae formation. METHODS:This review focuses on the comprehensive details of occurrence, ch...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Gupta P,Sharma M,Arora N,Pruthi V,Poluri KM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review discusses the state of the art, challenges and perspectives in recent applications of electrochemistry in the life sciences. It deals mainly with the elucidation of molecular mechanisms of drug action, drug design and development, involving electron transfer, pharmaco-electrochemistry (the combination of e...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： de Paiva YG,da Rocha Ferreira F,Silva TL,Labbe E,Buriez O,Amatore C,Fonseca Goulart MO

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(2R,3R)-2,3-Butanediol has many industrial applications, such as it is used as an antifreeze agent and low freezing point fuel. In addition, it is particularly important to provide chiral groups in drugs. In recent years, this valuable bio-based chemical has attracted increasing attention, and significant progress has...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Xie NZ,Chen XR,Wang QY,Chen D,Du QS,Zhou GP,Huang RB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2010, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program within the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), which was created to stimulate drug discovery and development for rare and neglected tropical diseases through a collabor...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Ottinger EA,Kao ML,Carrillo-Carrasco N,Yanjanin N,Shankar RK,Janssen M,Brewster M,Scott I,Xu X,Cradock J,Terse P,Dehdashti SJ,Marugan J,Zheng W,Portilla L,Hubbs A,Pavan WJ,Heiss J,Vite CH,Walkley SU,Ory DS,Silbe

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory of Mind, the ability to understand the potential mental states and intentions of others, represents a relevant aspect of social cognition, with high impact on the capacity to interact within the social world. This very human ability has been one of the focuses of neuroscience research in the past decades and da...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Bosia M,Riccaboni R,Poletti S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a common infectious disease with high mortality and morbidity. The increasing prevalence of drug-resistant strains of TB presents a major public health problem. Due to the lack of effective drugs to treat these drug-resistant strains, the d...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Koseki Y,Aoki S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures are one of the most common neurological disorders in clinical medicine. Triggering mechanisms by which seizures form remain unclear, but are related to a rapid change in ionic composition, including an increase of intracellular potassium concentration and pH shifts within the brain. pH buffering of extra- and...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Thiry A,Dogné JM,Supuran CT,Masereel B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary protein biomarkers and metabolomic markers have been leveraged to detect acute Drug Induced Kidney Injury (DIKI) in rats; however, the utility of these indicators to enable early detection of DIKI in canine models has not been well documented. Therefore, we evaluated temporal changes in biomarkers and metaboli...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Wagoner MP,Yang Y,McDuffie JE,Klapczynski M,Buck W,Cheatham L,Eisinger D,Sace F,Lynch KM,Sonee M,Ma JY,Chen Y,Marshall K,Damour M,Stephen L,Dragan YP,Fikes J,Snook S,Kinter LB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetics of Alzheimer's disease (AD) implies that restoring non-pathological levels or ratios of different amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide species in the brain could prevent the onset or delay the progression of this neurodegenerative disease. In particular, a selective reduction of the longer Abeta(1-42) peptide whi...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Beher D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, a number of computational methods have been developed, which attempt to evaluate the thermodynamic properties of individual water molecules at the solute-solvent interface, in order to assess contributions to protein-ligand binding. In some cases, these tools tell us what we already know, e.g. th...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Graves AP,Wall ID,Edge CM,Woolven JM,Cui G,Le Gall A,Hong X,Raha K,Manas ES

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In general perturbation methods starts with a known exact solution of a problem and add "small" variation terms in order to approach to a solution for a related problem without known exact solution. Perturbation theory has been widely used in almost all areas of science. Bhor's quantum model, Heisenberg's matrix mecha...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： González-Díaz H,Arrasate S,Gómez-SanJuan A,Sotomayor N,Lete E,Besada-Porto L,Ruso JM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mosquito borne diseases continue to propagate and cause millions of deaths annually. They are caused either by protozoan parasites such as Plasmodium, Toxoplasma or by flaviviruses including Dengue and Zika. Among the proteome of such parasitic organisms, proteases play essential roles in events such as ho...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Pant A,Pasupureddy R,Pande V,Seshadri S,Dixit R,Pandey KC

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Nayarisseri A,Hood EA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic nitrates, such as nitroglycerin, have been used in clinical practice for more than one century for the treatment of angina, even before the identification of Nitric Oxide (NO) as the so-called Endothelium Derived Relaxing Factor (EDRF). Recently, multiple functions of this molecule in biology and pathophysiolo...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Bolla M,Almirante N,Benedini F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00