Pro-rich antimicrobial peptides from animals: structure, biological functions and mechanism of action.

abstract：:The brain is a complex, regulated organ with a highly controlled access mechanism: The Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB). The selectivity of this barrier is a double-edged sword, being both its greatest strength and weakness. This weakness is evident when trying to target therapeutics against diseases within the brain. Diseas...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： McCully M,Sanchez-Navarro M,Teixido M,Giralt E

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant expression of chemokines and their receptors play causative roles in the pathophysiology of numerous autoimmune and inflammatory disease processes. Moreover, an integral step in HIV infection involves binding to chemokine receptors, and hence chemokines are intimately linked to HIV-related diseases. Therefore...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Rajarathnam K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS), as well as reactive nitrogen species (RNS) play either harmful or beneficial role in biological systems. Beneficial effects of ROS include physiological roles in cellular responses against infectious agents and in several cellular signalling pathways. Harmful effects are due to high conc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Balsano C,Alisi A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nanodelivery of therapeutics into the brain will require a step-change in thinking; overcoming the blood brain barrier is one of the major challenges to any neural therapy. The promise of nanotechnology is that the selective delivery of therapeutics can be delivered through to the brain without causing secondary d...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ellis-Behnke RG,Teather LA,Schneider GE,So KF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural product drugs that target the tubulin/microtubule system remain an important component in the therapeutic arsenal to treat many types of malignancies. Agents such as the taxanes and vinca alkaloids bind to beta-tubulin and disrupt microtubule dynamics by inducing a potent mitotic block and subsequent cell deat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Verrills NM,Kavallaris M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endothelial dysfunction is commonly present in estrogen-deficient states, e.g., after menopause. In the search for alternatives to hormone replacement therapy (HRT), treatments based on phytoestrogens or in non-hormonal mechanisms have been under evaluation. OBJECTIVE:Here we aim to present an overview of i...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Oliveira PWC,Couto MR,de Sousa GJ,Peixoto P,Moraes FSA,de Andrade TU,Bissoli NS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a severe vascular complication of connective tissue diseases. In the context of systemic sclerosis (SSc), PAH is a devastating disease with a dramatic impact on prognosis and survival. Despite advances in early diagnosis and the development of new targeted treatments, SSc-relat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Dimitroulas T,Giannakoulas G,Karvounis H,Settas L,Kitas GD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low density lipoproteins (LDL) and high density lipoproteins (HDL) are independent risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD); decreasing LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) levels with statin therapy represents the primary goal in the management of cardiovascular disease. However, despite the efficacy of statins in reducing c...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Pirillo A,Norata GD,Catapano AL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell Penetrating Peptides (CPPs) equipped with a high penetrating ability are used as a promising tool to gain access to the cell interior, cross the cell membrane and deliver bioactive small or macromolecular cargos into the cytoplasm or nucleus. The superiority of wide range of applications, high transport efficienc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Zhang F,Yang D,Jiang S,Wu L,Qin L,He H,Zhang P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy may be capable of treating a variety of diseases, a prerequisite of which is the successful delivery of polynucleic acids (e.g., DNA, RNA) to a patient's cells. Delivery can be achieved technologically (e.g., using electroporation), using viruses (natural gene delivery vectors) or non-viral vectors (e.g.,...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Clancy KFA,Hardy JG

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the stomach, pre-absorptive perception of food constituents is of particular importance in maintaining secretion and motility that matches the quantity and quality of nutrients. Products of food protein hydrolysis, free amino acids and short peptides, are the most potent chemical stimulants of the gastric phase of ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Zolotarev VA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that develops after experiencing trauma. Actual therapies do not help majority of patients with PTSD. Moreover, extinguished fear memories usually reappear in the individuals when exposed to trauma cues. New drugs to reduce the impact of conditioned cues in ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Barreto GE,Yarkov A,Avila-Rodriguez M,Aliev G,Echeverria V

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are a serious viral health problem globally, causing liver cirrhosis and inflammation that can develop to hepatocellular carcinoma and death. Since the HCV NS3/4A protease complex cleaves the scissile peptide bond in the viral encoded polypeptide to release the non-structural protein...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Meeprasert A,Rungrotmongkol T,Li MS,Hannongbua S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of skin wounds represents an important research area due to the important physiological and aesthetic role of this tissue. During the last years, nanoparticles have emerged as important platforms to treat skin wounds. Silver, gold, and copper nanoparticles, as well as titanium and zinc oxide nanoparticle...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Oyarzun-Ampuero F,Vidal A,Concha M,Morales J,Orellana S,Moreno-Villoslada I

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine is released in large amounts during myocardial ischemia and is capable of exerting potent cardioprotective effects in the heart. Although these observations on adenosine have been known for a long time, how adenosine acts to achieve its anti-ischemic effect remains incompletely understood. However, recent ad...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Liang BT,Jacobson KA

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is one of the most common psychiatric conditions affecting numerous individuals in the world. However, the currently available antidepressant medication shows low response and remission rates. Thus, new antidepressants need to be discovered or developed. Aiming to describe the current neurobiological hypoth...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kern N,Sheldrick AJ,Schmidt FM,Minkwitz J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of blood serum atherogenicity was described as the ability of human serum to induce lipid accumulation in cultured cells. The results of recent two-year prospective study in asymptomatic men provided the evidence for association between the changes in serum atherogenicity and dynamics of carotid intima-...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sobenin IA,Myasoedova VA,Anisimova EV,Pavlova XN,Möhlenkamp S,Schmermund A,Seibel R,Berenbein S,Lehmann N,Moebus S,Jöckel K,Orekhov AN,Erbel R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrine (RST), known as FangJi (Pinyin name) in Chinese, is the dried root of Stephania tetrandra S.Moore, and has been prescribed in combination with other herbs to treat cardiovascular diseases and breast cancer in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinical trials. OBJECTIVE:The aim ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Guo Y,Chen B,Pei X,Zhang D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clopidogrel, in combination wih aspirin, is currently the drug of choice to prevent thrombosis after coronary stent implantation. Currently, clopidogrel is administered to the vast majority of patients without any assessment of platelet inhibition. Response variability and resistance, however, definitely occur to clop...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gurbel PA,Lau WC,Bliden KP,Tantry US

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare the efficacy of pemafibrate (PF) and fenofibrate (FF) in treating dyslipidemia. METHODS:A comprehensive search was performed on the public database to identify relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which compared the effects of PF and FF treatment in lipid parameters among patients with dyslipi...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wang H,Li H,Zhou Y,Liu J,Wang F,Zhao Q

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoids (vitamin A and its analogs) exert profound effects on a wide variety of life processes, including morphogenesis and embryonic development. Several retinoids are also effective drugs for therapy of skin diseases and some types of cancer. However, the applicability of this class of compounds is limited by thei...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tzimas G,Nau H

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microdialysis is a technique for sampling the chemistry of the interstitial fluid of tissues and organs in animal and man. It is minimally invasive and simple to perform in a clinical setting. Although microdialysis samples essentially all small molecular substances present in the interstitial fluid the use of microdi...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ungerstedt U,Rostami E

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor for urokinase plasminogen activator (uPAR) is required in hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSC, HPC) mobilization in the mouse. Indeed, uPAR Ko mice are deficient both in retention and mobilization of HSC and HPC, because uPAR causes their retention in the BM through its interaction with the α4β1 inte...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Blasi F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) was first discovered as a caspase-independent apoptosis effector that promoted cell death upon release from the mitochondria (triggered by pro-apoptotic stimuli) and relocalization into the nucleus, where it promotes chromatin condensation and DNA fragmentation. AIF is a mammalian m...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ferreira P,Villanueva R,Cabon L,Susín SA,Medina M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New biopharmaceutical molecules, potentially able to provide more personalized and effective treatments, are being identified through the advent of advanced synthetic biology strategies, sophisticated chemical synthesis approaches, and new analytical methods to assess biological potency. However, translation of many o...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Munsell EV,Ross NL,Sullivan MO

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased plasma levels of both leptin and C reactive protein (CRP) have been reported in a number of conditions, including obesity, and have been linked to cardiovascular pathophysiological processes and increased cardiovascular risk; interestingly these two biomarkers appear to be able to reciprocally regulate their...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Hribal ML,Fiorentino TV,Sesti G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein reviewed the mechanism underlying the gastric hyperemic response following barrier disruption, with a focus on cyclooxygenase (COX) isozymes, prostaglandin (PG) E2, and capsaicin-sensitive afferent neurons. Mucosal damage was induced by exposing the stomach to 20 mM taurocholate (TC) with 50 mM HCl. The TC t...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Takeuchi K,Takeeda M,Amagase K,Nakashima M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although escape from tumor dormancy has long been recognized as an important problem in the treatment of cancer, the molecular and cellular regulators underlying this transition remain poorly understood. The inability of the cancer cells to induce a complete and successful process of angiogenesis can result in tumor d...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Shaked Y,McAllister S,Fainaru O,Almog N

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agitation is commonly seen in acute schizophrenic patients and core symptoms include a wide range of symptom. It requires rapid and effective treatment approaches in order to protect patient and caregiver from potential injury. Clinician's decision of pharmacological treatment should be individualized to the needs and...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： San L,Arranz B,Escobar R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is a severe and frequent neuropsychiatric disorder. Despite antipsychotic medications, up to 30% of patients with schizophrenia still report disabling treatment-resistant symptoms. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been proposed as a novel method to alleviate such symptoms. Here, we revi...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mondino M,Brunelin J,Palm U,Brunoni AR,Poulet E,Fecteau S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00