Macrophage migration inhibitory factor and the discovery of tautomerase inhibitors.

abstract：:The serotonergic system is involved in pathomechanisms of both epilepsy and neuropathic pain. So far, participation in the epileptogenesis and maintenance of epilepsy was proved for 5-HT1A, 5-HT2C, 5-HT3, 5-HT4 and 5-HT7 receptors as well as 5-HTT serotonin transporter. Depending on the receptor type or its localizati...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Panczyk K,Golda S,Waszkielewicz A,Zelaszczyk D,Gunia-Krzyzak A,Marona H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The so-called hygiene hypothesis is, at least in part, accountable for the increase in allergic diseases in the developed countries. Although there is support for one of its primary predictions that host-microbe interactions in early life have longterm effects on the development of disease across populations, the theo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Jeurink PV,Rijnierse A,Martin R,Garssen J,Knippels LM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is often considered as a causative factor in carcinogenesis. In addition, current knowledge recognizes oxidative stress as a mechanism by which various cancer therapies act against cancer. To ameliorate the side effects of cancer therapy, many of the patients suffering from cancer are subject to adjuv...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Milkovic L,Siems W,Siems R,Zarkovic N

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human herpesviruses herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) can cause severe recurrent disease in humans and establish lifelong infection in their hosts. Several antiviral therapies are available to control disease and spread, but these are not completely effective and do not affect latent virus. The ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ramachandran S,Kinchington PR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the frequency of detection of different human papillomavirus (HPV) types in women with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) or low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) cytology in a population-based primary screening programme. 247 liquid-based cytology (LBC) samples with A...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Andersson S,Mints M,Weiderpass E,Johansson B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pivotal role of leptin in regulating body weight and energy homeostasis is very well established. More recently, leptin also emerged as an important regulator of T-cell-dependent immunity. Reduced leptin levels, as observed during periods of starvation, correlate with an impaired cellular immune response, whereby ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Peelman F,Iserentant H,Eyckerman S,Zabeau L,Tavernier J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is an allergy-mediated inflammatory disease characterised by infiltration of the airway with mast cells, lymphocytes, and eosinophils. The disease is induced by co-ordination of T-helper cell type 2 (Th2) cytokines and inflammatory signal molecules. Fruits and vegetables are a rich source of polyphenolic bioact...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Nyanhanda T,Gould EM,Hurst RD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders associated with conformational conversion of the cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) into an isoform designated PrP(Sc). The pathogenic mechanism that links this conformational distortion with the development of prion diseases is unknown. PrP(C) is a GPI-anchored cell s...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Varela-Nallar L,González A,Inestrosa NC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing novel treatments to help cancer patients live longer and have better lives remains one of the biggest challenges of the pharmaceutical industry. Today much is known about the molecular and genetic causes of cancers thus facilitating the development of novel targeted cancer drugs with improved risk-benefit ra...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Frieden M,Ørum H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is regulated by stimulators and inhibitors and involve multiple biological processes including endothelial cell proliferation, migration, cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion, assembly into tube structures as well as apoptosis. Designing and developing peptides for therapeutic application to inhibit angioge...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sulochana KN,Ge R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are a huge family of ATP-dependent transmembrane proteins whose main function is exporting or importing substances or molecules through the cell membranes, plasma cell membrane, or inner membranes in organelles. They fulfill these functions by maintaining cell integrity, metabol...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Benadiba M,Maor Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cyclodextrins (CDs), as one type of the novel pharmaceutical excipients, have been widely used in drug delivery and pharmaceutical industry. Over the past decades, a large amount of molecular modeling studies in CDs were reported for profound understanding of structural, dynamic and energetic features of CDs...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Zhao Q,Zhang W,Wang R,Wang Y,Ouyang D

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the development of strong antibiotics, the pneumonia death is increasing all over the world in these decades. Among the people who died of pneumonia, the majority were 65 years old or over. Although pneumonia is recently categorized into several entities, aspiration pneumonia includes all entities. Therefore, ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ebihara S,Ebihara T,Gui P,Osaka K,Sumi Y,Kohzuki M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last three decades, neoplasms have become the largest cause of human mortality due to both high tumor incidence and mortality. Chemotherapy is one of the main therapies employed to treat neoplasms. Although classical genotoxic drugs, such as cyclophosphamide, 5-FU, cisplatin and doxorubicin have been applied ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Quan C,Xiao J,Liu L,Duan Q,Yuan P,Zhu F

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneuploidy is a pathological condition that affects 35% of human spontaneous abortions and 0.3% of livebirths. In spite of the increasing knowledge about molecular mechanisms of meiosis and chromosome segregation, maternal age remains the only ascertained aetiological factor. Genetically modified mouse models have bee...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Pacchierotti F,Ranaldi R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic macular edema (DME) represents the most common cause of vision loss in patients affected by diabetes mellitus. Although the pathophysiology of DME is not wholly understood, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has been identified as a key contributor to the development of DME. In addition, latest informa...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bandello F,Cicinelli MV,Parodi MB

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotaviruses are an important cause of human morbidity and mortality, representing the primary pathogens responsible for acute dehydrating diarrhea in children under the age of 3. The infectious rotavirus particle is made up of three concentric layers of protein, and contains a genome consisting of eleven segments of d...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Patton JT,Vasquez-Del Carpio R,Spencer E

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer causes millions of deaths and huge economic losses every year. The currently practiced methods for cancer therapy have many defects, such as side effects, low curate rate, and discomfort for patients. OBJECTIVE:Herein, we summarize the applications of gold nanorods (AuNRs) in cancer therapy based on ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Xu W,Lin Q,Yin Y,Xu D,Huang X,Xu B,Wang G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer is one of the leading cancers in women in the Western world. Cancer treatment, especially chemotherapy, is often associated with physical and psychosocial side effects. OBJECTIVE:To improve the quality of life and manage side effects, a new integrative mind-body-medicine group concept for brea...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Haller H,Choi KE,Lange S,Kümmel S,Paul A,Cramer H,Dobos G,Voiss P

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common causes of chronic liver disease worldwide directly related to the progressive increase in overweight and obesity. The accumulation of lipids in patients with NAFLD contributes to the development of insulin resistance, inflammatory response a...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tejada S,Capó X,Mascaró CM,Monserrat-Mesquida M,Quetglas-Llabrés MM,Pons A,Tur JA,Sureda A

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain is a widespread healthcare problem affecting not only the patient but in many ways all the society. Chronic pain is a disease itself that endures for a long period of time and it is resistant to the majority of medical treatments that provide modest improvements in pain and minimum improvements in physica...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Del Bufalo A,Cesario A,Salinaro G,Fini M,Russo P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increased use of oral anticoagulants for the prevention of venous and arterial thrombosis. Vitamin-K antagonists have been used for decades as the main oral anticoagulants but they have the draback a complex therapeutic management, slow onset of action and by a different oral intake caused by dietary vitam...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lamperti M,Khozenko A,Kumar A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DARPins (designed ankyrin repeat proteins), new kinds of binding proteins, have the potential to overcome the defects of monoclonal antibodies, and hence may become the alternatives to antibodies and generate a novel therapeutic approach. DARPins can be selected to bind any given target proteins with high affinity and...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wu X,Shi Y,Ren P,Wang D,Li G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repurposing already approved drugs as new anticancer agents is a promising strategy considering the advantages such as low costs, low risks and less time-consumption. Disulfiram (DSF), as the first drug for antialcoholism, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over 60 years ago. Increasing eviden...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Yang Q,Yao Y,Li K,Jiao L,Zhu J,Ni C,Li M,Dou QP,Yang H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual emotional stimulation is supposed to elicit psycho-vegetative reactions, which are similar to as the ones elicited by exposure to actual experience. Visual stimulation paradigms have been widely used in studies on agoraphobia with and without panic disorder. However, the applied imagery has hardly ever been dis...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Engel KR,Bandelow B,Neumann C,Obst K,Wedekind D

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors, each one individually associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk. Treatment of all components of MetS is expected to result in reduced risk. Treatment of MetS mainly includes lifestyle changes. In addition, drug therapy may be considered, especially co...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Florentin M,Elisaf MS,Mikhailidis DP,Liberopoulos EN

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, Aβ aggregation prevention, one of the most concerned strategies in drug development has been carefully assessed to treat Alzheimer's disease. Aβ peptides can transform structurally from random coil monomer into β-stranded protofibril via multiple oligomeric states. Among the various Aβ species, the id...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tran L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) can uniquely detect thousands of compounds allowing both their identification and localization within biological tissue samples. MSI is an interdisciplinary science that crosses the borders of physics, chemistry and biology, and enables local molecular analysis at a broad range of lengt...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Barre FPY,Heeren RMA,Potocnik NO

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are key regulators of the cell cycle and RNA polymerase II transcription. Several pharmacological CDK inhibitors (PCIs) are currently in clinical trials as potential cancer therapeutics since CDK hyperactivation is detected in the majority of neoplasias. Within the last few years, the a...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Pumfery A,de la Fuente C,Berro R,Nekhai S,Kashanchi F,Chao SH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of fungal infections of skin has increased rapidly, affecting approximately 40 million people across the globe. A wide variety of antifungal drugs has been utilized in the effective management of numerous dermatological infections. Topical treatment of fungal infections has proved to be quite advantageo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Akhtar N,Verma A,Pathak K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00