Telomere-related Markers for Cancer.

abstract：:Neural activity utilizes energy resources and requires replenishment of metabolites through vascular dilation. During wake, cortical neurons usually have depolarized membrane potentials and exhibit frequent spontaneous action potentials, requiring an increased metabolic delivery to activated tissue and causing blood v...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Schei JL,Rector DM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial complex disease. The pathogenesis of AD is very complicated, and involves the β-amyloid (Aβ) cascade, tau hyperphosphorylation, neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, reduced levels of neurotrophic factors, and damage and loss of synapses as well as...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Li L,Zhang L,Yang CC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease is a motor dysfunction that has been widely studied but many of the reports on commercial drugs for the treatment of this disease have afforded some undesirable side effects that generate an extensive and unviable treatment by economic costs and due to the bioavailability of the assayed compounds. ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Fazel Nabavi S,Uriarte E,Rastrelli L,Modak B,Sobarzo-Sánchez E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The considerable increase in the incidence of Candida infection in recent times has prompted the use of numerous antifungal agents, which has resulted in the development of resistance towards various antifungal agents. With rising Candida infections, the need for design and development of novel antifungal ag...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Gowda DV,Afrasim M,Meenakshi SI,Manohar M,Hemalatha S,Siddaramaiah H,Sathishbabu P,Rizvi SMD,Hussain T,Kamal MA

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Pyrola (Pyrolaceae), also known as Luxiancao/in China, was recorded in Sheng Nong's Herbal Classic listed in top grade. Pyrola herbs were used as medicinal plants for a long history with wide-ranging activities such as nourishing kidney-yang, strengthening muscles and bones, activating blood, stopping bleeding, dispel...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Yang X,She J,Liu J,Yang T,An G,Chen Q,Fan C,Li S,Liu Q,Qian C,Liu Y,Zhou Y,Zhao J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenosine A(2A) receptor is a member of the G protein-coupled receptor family and mediates multiple physiological effects of adenosine, both at the central nervous system and at peripheral tissues. Increasing evidence relates the A(2A) receptor with several pathological conditions such as neurodegenerative disorde...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Clementina M,Giuseppe S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-drug resistant bacteria are appearing at an alarming rate and impose significant burdens on healthcare systems worldwide. Cationic peptides have shown great promise as broad spectrum antimicrobial agents with a demonstrated ability to kill resistant bacteria, however, issues such as protease susceptibility and t...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Hadley EB,Hancock RE

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As master regulators of lipid metabolism the peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) family controls a wide variety of cellular processes, and thus it is not surprising that a large effort has focussed on discovering agents to pharmacologically modulate activity of these receptors. Early generation PPAR liga...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Etgen GJ,Mantlo N

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sol-gel process provides a robust and versatile technology for the immobilization of biologicals. A wide range of inorganic, composites and hybrid materials can be prepared to encapsulate molecular drugs, proteins, antibodies/antigens, enzymes, nucleic acids, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells into bulk gels, partic...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang X,Ahmed NB,Alvarez GS,Tuttolomondo MV,Hélary C,Desimone MF,Coradin T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotransmitter (S)-glutamate [(S)-Glu] is responsible for most of the excitatory neurotransmission in the central nervous system. The effect of (S)-Glu is mediated by both ionotropic and metabotropic receptors. Glutamate receptor agonists are generally α-amino acids with one or more stereogenic centers due to st...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Vogensen SB,Greenwood JR,Bunch L,Clausen RP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One year after its first outbreak reported in China, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is still sweeping the World causing serious infections and claiming more fatalities. COVID-19 is caused by the novel corona virus SARS-CoV-2, which belongs to the genus Betacoronavirus (β-CoVs) which is of greatest clinic...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sabbah DA,Hajjo R,Bardaweel SK,Zhong HA

更新日期：2021-01-18 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：:Core histone acetylation is a key prerequisite for chromatin decondensation and plays a pivotal role in regulation of chromatin structure, function and dynamics. The addition of acetyl groups disturbs histone/DNA interactions in the nucleosome and alters histone/histone interactions in the same or adjacent nucleosomes...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Koprinarova M,Schnekenburger M,Diederich M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (AII), Asp1-Arg2-Val3-Tyr4-Ile5-His6-Pro7-Phe8, the primary active hormone of the Renin-Angiotensin-System (RAS), is a major vasoconstrictor implicated in the cause of hypertension. To unravel the question of the biologically active conformation(s) of this flexible peptide hormone and to better understa...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Tzakos AG,Gerothanassis IP,Troganis AN

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Over activation of the NMDA receptor complex has been implicated in a number of neurological conditions. The use of NMDA antagonists as therapeutic agents has been limited by serious cognitive and motor side effects. Significant efforts have been reported in the development of NR2B subtype-selective antagonists, which...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Layton ME,Kelly MJ 3rd,Rodzinak KJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine ion channel receptors (nAChRs) exist as several subtypes and are involved in a variety of functions and disorders of the central nervous system (CNS), such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. The lack of reliable information on the 3D structure of nAChRs prompted us to focus effor...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Nicolotti O,Altomare C,Pellegrini-Calace M,Carotti A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent times, the novel concept of generating hybrid molecules by pharmacophoric hybridisation approach is fast becoming an alternative to other existing strategies of drug development. These hybrids also known as 'dual drugs' or 'double drugs' are especially found to be effective in overcoming drug resistance prob...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Manohar S,Tripathi M,Rawat DS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge about to which biomolecules a small molecule binds is highly valuable in the drug development process. Although analytical methods to dissect ligand-binding proteome have made substantial progress in the past decades, it is generally too costly, if not infeasible, to know where a small molecule binds at ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Lin JH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Structure-based drug design is a wide area of identification of selective inhibitors of a target of interest. From the time of the availability of three dimensional structure of the drug targets, mostly the proteins, many computational methods had emerged to address the challenges associated with drug desi...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Velmurugan D,Pachaiappan R,Ramakrishnan C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

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：:(18)F-labeled amino acids are an important class of imaging agents for positron emission tomography (PET) that target the increased rates of amino acid transport by many tumor cells. This class of tracers is structurally diverse, and the biological and imaging properties of a given (18)F-labeled amino acid depends lar...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Huang C,McConathy J

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine has been shown to be an important biologically active moiety. This review is a compilation of the scattered output of results of the anticancer activities of the imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine system since 2001, which have been classified as inhibition of CDK, VEGFR, PI3K, EGFR, RGGT etc. along with inh...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Goel R,Luxami V,Paul K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of small molecule melanin concentrating hormone receptor (MHCr1) antagonists as novel therapeutic agents has been widely pursued across the pharmaceutical industry. While multiple chemotypes of small molecule MCHr1 antagonists have been identified and shown to induce weight loss in rodent models of obesi...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Judd AS,Souers AJ,Kym PR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho family small GTPases of the Ras superfamily play key roles in regulating diverse signaling pathways that control a myriad of fundamental cellular processes such as cytoskeletal dynamics, cell cycle progression, gene expression, cell polarity, migration and cell transformation. The Rho GTPases cycle between an ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Ding F,Yin Z,Wang HR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) is a glycoprotein responsible for the accumulation of acetylcholine into pre-synaptic vesicules of cholinergic neurons. Cholinergic innervation has been shown to be decreased at the earlier stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Thus, the expression of VAChT has been correl...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Giboureau N,Som IM,Boucher-Arnold A,Guilloteau D,Kassiou M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00