ACE2/Angiotensin-(1-7)/Mas Receptor Axis in Human Cancer: Potential Role for Pediatric Tumors.

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

abstract：:Nicotine is one of the most abused substances worldwide and can cause several harmful effects on health. One of the harmful effects, which is often ignored, is osteoporosis. Smoking has been shown to cause a decrease in bone mineral density in humans. Animal studies have proven that nicotine exerts negative effects on...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mohamed N,Muhammad N,Shuid AN,Soelaiman IN

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of reactive oxygen species is a normal part of cell physiology, but many internal and external stimuli are able to trigger the production of excess levels of oxidants that are potentially damaging. The threat of oxidative damage is particularly significant to DNA, as damaged bases can interfere with rep...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Shaukat Z,Liu D,Hussain R,Khan M,Gregory SL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The plant milk thistle and silymarin has been traditionally used as a natural remedy for the treatment of various ailments including neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and cerebral ischemia for over 2000 years. OBJECTIVE:In this article we review the neuroprotective effects o...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Devi KP,Malar DS,Braidy N,Nabavi SM,Nabavi SF

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to international guidelines, treatment of cervical cancer (CC) consists of surgery in early stages and of chemoradiation in locally advanced disease. Metastatic disease is usually treated with palliative chemotherapeutic regimens, but cytostatic drugs present significant side effects and show limited activit...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Tomao F,Di Tucci C,Imperiale L,Boccia SM,Marchetti C,Palaia I,Muzii L,Panici PB

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombomodulin (TM) is a type 1 membrane bound glycoprotein that has a C-type lectin domain at its Nterminus, 6 copies of the epidermal growth factor-like (EGF) motif and serine/threonine rich domain carrying a glycosoaminoglycan external to the membrane. TM binds thrombin changing thrombin's substrate specificity fro...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Morser J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes, which has dramatically increased during the last decade normally results from a combination of pancreatic beta cell dysfunction and insulin resistance. One of the most recent risk factors identified for type 2 diabetes is a sub-optimal fetal and neonatal environment. Numerous human epidemiological stu...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Reusens B,Ozanne SE,Remacle C

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast Cancer (BC) is the most common cancer among women and the second cause of female death for cancer. When the tumor is not correctly eradicated, there is a high relapse risk and incidence of metastasis. Breast Cancer Stem Cells (BCSCs) are responsible for initiating tumors and are resistant to current anticancer ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Polonio-Alcalá E,Rabionet M,Ruiz-Martínez S,Ciurana J,Puig T

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human proteins are subjected to more than 200 known post-translational modifications (PTMs) (e.g., phosphorylation, glycosylation, ubiquitination, S-nitrosylation, methylation, Nacetylation, and citrullination) and these PTMs can alter protein structure and function with consequent effects on the multitude of pathways...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Witalison EE,Thompson PR,Hofseth LJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-target drugs against particular multiple targets get better protection, resistance profiles and curative influence by cooperative rules of a key beneficial target with resistance behavior and compensatory elements. Computational techniques can assist us in the efforts to design novel drugs (ligands) with a prefe...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Abdolmaleki A,Ghasemi JB,Ghasemi F

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA, as an intermediate in the production of every gene encoded protein and the genetic material of many pathogenic viruses, presents an attractive target for both biological and therapeutic manipulation. Despite its extensive involvement in living systems, its chemical diversity based on four units is relatively low ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Cairns MJ,Saravolac EG,Sun LQ

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：: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：:Breast cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death among females worldwide. It signifies a shift from the previous decade during which the most common cause of cancer death was cervical cancer. Current treatment modalities, including surgery, radiotherapy, and adjuvant chemotherapy or hormone therapy, have not be...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Sinha D,Biswas J,Sung B,Aggarwal BB,Bishayee A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceruloplasmin contains 95% of the copper in human serum and plays an important role in iron efflux from mammalian cells, including brain cells, due to the activity of ferroxidase, which oxidizes ferrous iron following its transfer to the cell surface via the iron transporter, ferroportin, and delivers ferric iron to e...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Kono S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become linked to inflammation and metal biology. Metals (copper, zinc and iron) and inflammatory cytokines are significant factors that increase the onset of sporadic late onset forms of the dementia. The genetic discovery that alleles in the hemochromatosis gene accelerate the onset of di...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Rogers JT,Lahiri DK

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMDA receptors are a subclass of excitatory, ionotropic L-glutamate neurotransmitter receptors. They are.heteromeric, integral membrane proteins being formed by the assembly of the obligatory NR1 subunit together with modulatory NR2 subunits of which four different types, NR2A-NR2D, have been described. This results i...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Stephenson FA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prohibitin (PHB) is overtly conserved evolutionarily and ubiquitously expressed protein with pleiotropic functions in diverse cellular compartments. However, regulation and function of these proteins in different cells, tissues and in various diseases is different as evidenced by expression of these proteins...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Chowdhury D,Kumar D,Sarma P,Tangutur AD,Bhadra MP

更新日期：2017-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products represent a rich resource for drug delivery and are currently being exploited to target tumour angiogenesis. A vast array of products of natural origin have been shown to have anti-angiogenic potential in preclinical models, including purified endogenous inhibitors, and exogenous compounds derived fro...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Neal CP,Berry DP,Doucas H,Manson MM,Steward W,Garcea G

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive production of reactive oxygen species is an important mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of diabetes associated macrovascular and microvascular complications including diabetic nephropathy. Diabetic nephropathy is characterized by glomerular enlargement, early albuminuria and progressive glomerulosclerosi...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Arora MK,Singh UK

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenothiazines and structurally related compounds alongside their other biological activities are able to modulate multidrug resistance (MDR) in tumor cells. The extensive investigations on their MDR modulation effects consist part of the efforts to overcome MDR - the major obstacle in cancer chemotherapy. In this art...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Tsakovska I,Pajeva I

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hedgehog signal transduction network is a critical regulator of metazoan development. Inappropriate activation of this network is implicated in several different cancers, including breast. Genetic evidence in mice as well as molecular biological studies in human cells clearly indicate that activated signaling can ...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Visbal AP,Lewis MT

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long term treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) is the standard therapeutic approach to eradicate seizures. However, a small but significant number of patients fail AED treatment. Intrinsic drug resistance may depend on two main and not necessarily mutually exclusive mechanisms: 1) Loss of pharmacological target (...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Marroni M,Marchi N,Cucullo L,Abbott NJ,Signorelli K,Janigro D

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a process the primary role of which is to clear up damaged cellular components such as long-lived proteins and organelles, thus participating in the conservation of different cells. Osteoporosis associated with aging is characterized by consistent changes in bone metabolism with suppression of bone format...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Wang T,He H,Liu S,Jia C,Fan Z,Zhong C,Yu J,Liu H,He C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of databases devoted to biological information opened the possibility to integrate, query and analyze biological data obtained from several sources that otherwise would be scattered through the web. Several issues arise in the handling of biological information, mainly due to the diversity of biologica...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Timmers LF,Pauli I,Barcellos GB,Rocha KB,Caceres RA,de Azevedo WF Jr,Soares MB

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). PD is a multifactorial disorder, with several different factors being suggested to play a synergistic pathophysiological role, inc...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Tamtaji OR,Hadinezhad T,Fallah M,Shahmirzadi AR,Taghizadeh M,Behnam M,Asemi Z

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intracranial hemorrhage is characterized by the blood vessel rupture and subsequent hematoma expansion. It is the least treatable stroke subtype, resulting in higher morbidity and mortality per incidence than ischemic stroke. Recent studies have observed lower than normal levels of plasma fibrinogen in patie...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： McBride D,Tang J,Zhang JH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance of human pathogenic bacteria is an emerging problem for global public health. This resistance is often associated with the overproduction of membrane transport proteins that are capable to pump chemotherapeutics, antibiotics, detergents, dyes and organic solvents out of the cell. In Gram-negat...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Seeger MA,Diederichs K,Eicher T,Brandstätter L,Schiefner A,Verrey F,Pos KM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well documented that elevated levels of PAI-1 in plasma can decrease the fibrinolytic activity in blood with an associated increased risk of thrombus formation. A diverse range of molecules including bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the inflammatory mediators tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) and interle...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Balsara RD,Xu Z,Ploplis VA

更新日期：2007-09-01 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