Fluoroquinolones: Blessings Or Curses.

abstract：:The rationale for surfactant replacement therapy in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is to restore the normal composition of the surfactant system, as well as to overcome ongoing inactivation of present surfactant. Indeed, surfactant replacement therapy can normalize the composition of the surf...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Schultz MJ,Kesecioglu J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of novel T cell therapies to target leukemia has facilitated the translation of this approach for hematologic malignancies. Different methods of manufacturing leukemia-specific T cells have evolved, along with additional measures to increase the safety of this therapy. This is an overview of expanded T...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Cruz CR,Bollard CM

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The rates of erectile dysfunction (ED) in heart failure (HF) are extremely high. Limited capacity of patients with HF to exercise and coronary artery disease are considered to be the main causative mechanisms. Both HF and ED are associated with increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis fact...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Rodrigues FL,Fais RS,Tostes RC,Carneiro FS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade has witnessed the introduction of a large number of novel, molecularly targeted agents into the therapeutic armamentarium against diverse forms of cancer, including leukemia. Such agents include signal transduction, cell cycle, histone deacetylase, Hsp90, proteasome, and Bcl-2 family member inhibitors,...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Grant S,Dent P

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death, chronic illness and disability in Western countries. The most common cause of CVD derives from the harmful effects of acute myocardial ischemia and subsequent reperfusion injury. Cardioprotection against acute ischemia/ reperfusion injury is made possible b...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Penna C,Granata R,Tocchetti CG,Gallo MP,Alloatti G,Pagliaro P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the presence of functional interaction between the opioid and cannabinoid system has been shown in various pharmacological responses. Although there is an increasing interest for the feasible therapeutic application of a co-administration of cannabinoids and opioids in some disorders (i.e. to manage pain, to...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Parolaro D,Rubino T,Viganò D,Massi P,Guidali C,Realini N

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic modifications ensure the maintenance of normal cellular functions, and their dysregulation is frequently found in many disease states, including cancer. Nowadays, the most studied epigenetic dysregulation associated with tumorigenesis, cancer progression and metastasis refers to the variations in DNA methyl...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Lin SQ,Li X

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In evolutionary terms, mitochondria in apicomplexan parasites appear to be "relicts-in-the-making": they possess the smallest mitochondrial genomes known, encoding only three proteins, and in one genus, Cryptosporidium, the genome is eliminated altogether. Several features of mitochondrial physiology provide validated...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mather MW,Henry KW,Vaidya AB

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Inflammatory bowel disease diagnostic and management algorithms continue to rapidly evolve. This is partly driven by advanced radiologic techniques that provide objective, non-invasive evaluations. The realms of information provided by radiology and endoscopy continue to be intertwined. This has led to the question of...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Bruining DH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Because stroke is a multifactorial disease with a short therapeutic window many clinical stroke trials have failed and the only currently approved therapy is thrombolysis. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are endogenously expressed noncoding short single-stranded...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Ouyang YB,Stary CM,Yang GY,Giffard R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 replicates by infecting new target cells either as cell-free viral particle or, much more efficiently, via cell-to-cell viral transmission. Cell-mediated viral spread, in which the infected cell directly transfers the viral particles to target cells via cell-cell contacts, in vitro is up to three orders of magni...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Casartelli N

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannosylphospho dolichol synthase (DPMS) catalyzes the transfer reaction GDP-mannose + Dol-P <--> Dol-P-Man + GDP, a 'key step' in the assembly of lipid-linked oligosaccharide (LLO) and a pre-requisite for asparagine-linked (N-linked) protein glycosylation. DPMS is present from a protozoan parasite to human, and its s...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Baksi K,Tavárez-Pagán JJ,Martínez JA,Banerjee DK

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Galanin (GAL) constitutes a family of neuropeptides composed of four peptides: (i) galanin (GAL), (ii) galanin-message associated peptide (GAMP), (iii) galanin-like peptide (GALP), and (iv) alarin. GAL contains 29/30 amino acids, and its biological action occurs through the interactions with its various rece...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Oliveira Volpe CM,Vaz T,Rocha-Silva F,Villar-Delfino PH,Nogueira-Machado JA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular Disrupting Agents (VDA) are a potential new class of oncology drugs that have garnered attention recently as a number of these agents have entered into Phase 2-3 studies. Currently available data suggest how the subsequent evolution of these agents into clinical practice may proceed, with new therapeutic para...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Spear MA,LoRusso P,Mita A,Mita M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexity of the central nervous system (CNS) exposes it to a number of different diseases, often caused by only small variations in gene sequence or expression level. Antisense oligonucleotides and RNA interference-mediated therapies hold great promise for the treatment of CNS diseases in which neurodegeneration...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Forte A,Cipollaro M,Cascino A,Galderisi U

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

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：:The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor is a major type of ionotropic glutamate receptor. Many studies have shown that NMDA receptors play a pivotal role in the central nervous system (CNS) under both physiological and pathological conditions. The functional diversity of NMDA receptors can be mainly attributed to the...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Li ST,Ju JG

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids are chromene analogues abundantly found in plants. It is always of curiosity to discover natural flavonoid structures, since living things, including human, are routinely exposed to these compounds through many dietaries. Indeed, numerous studies conducted so far on flavonoids to display their diverse biolo...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Gulcan HO,Orhan IE

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy five percent of hospitalized patients with Crohn's disease suffer from malnutrition. One third of Crohn's disease patients have a body mass index below 20. Sixty percent of Crohn's disease patients have sarcopenia. However some inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients are obese or suffer from sarcopenic-obesi...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Hebuterne X,Filippi J,Schneider SM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a portable infusion pump, intravenous opioid patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) permits a patient to self-deliver a small bolus of opioid to achieve prompt relief without over sedation. Use of PCA for pain management is increasing in hospitals, largely because it can provide equivalent or better analgesia than c...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Mann C,Ouro-Bang'na F,Eledjam JJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol (DAG) kinase (DGK) modulates the balance between the two signaling lipids, DAG and phosphatidic acid (PA), by phosphorylating (consuming) DAG to yield PA. Ten mammalian DGK isozymes have been identified to date. In addition to two or three cysteine-rich C1 domains (protein kinase C-like zinc finger stru...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Sakane F,Imai S,Kai M,Yasuda S,Kanoh H

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:An understanding of the historical paths that have lead to our current state of knowledge in the field of platelet studies can be both illuminating and inspiring. Considering that the existence and function of platelets were initially described just barely over 100 years ago it is exciting to recognize how far our kno...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Steinhubl SR

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rituximab has demonstrated a major effect in B-cell lymphoma and in a wide range of autoimmune disorders. Unfortunately, the blood-brain-barrier excludes the disorders restricted to the central nervous system (CNS) from the action of rituximab. The progressive phase of multiple sclerosis (MS) is a prototypical CNS aut...

journal_title：Current drug targets

authors： Bonnan M,Ferrari S,Bertandeau E,Demasles S,Krim E,Miquel M,Barroso B

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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