Diabetic gastroparesis. A critical reappraisal of new treatment strategies.

abstract：:Novo Nordisk has developed a subcutaneous formulation of semaglutide (Ozempic®), a modified human glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue, for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. It has been developed using Novo Nordisk's proprietary protein-acylation technology, and is administered using an injection device. ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Dhillon S

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional formulations of metoprolol have become well established in cardiovascular medicine and are particularly useful in the management of hypertension and ischaemic heart disease. Recently developed controlled release metoprolol delivery systems (metoprolol CR/ZOK and metoprolol OROS) were designed to overcome ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Plosker GL,Clissold SP

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rilpivirine is an orally administered, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that is a component drug in combination therapy for antiretroviral-naive patients with HIV-1 infection. The randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, multinational ECHO and THRIVE trials in antiretroviral-naive adult patients with HIV-...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Sanford M

更新日期：2012-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Canagliflozin (Invokana™), an oral selective sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, is under global development with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. SGLT2 are mainly located in the proximal tubule of t...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Elkinson S,Scott LJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar disorder is a common and severe condition, and has a clinical outcome that is frequently sub-optimal. Only a small number of therapeutic options are currently available for the disorder. A growing range of novel therapeutic options for the treatment of bipolar disorder are under investigation. These include th...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Berk M,Segal J,Janet L,Vorster M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study showed that intensive treatment of type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, with sulphonylureas or insulin, significantly reduced microvascular complications but did not have a significant effect on macrovascular complications after 10 years. Insulin ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Campbell IW

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular disease continues to be the principal cause of death in Western countries. Epidemiological studies have repeatedly demonstrated a striking relationship between blood pressure and the risk of cardiovascular disease in that those with the highest levels of blood pressure are at the greatest risk for subse...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Whelton PK,Klag MJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of effective pharmacological treatments to aid the control of blood pressure, the global rate of uncontrolled blood pressure remains high. As such, further measures are required to improve blood pressure control. Recently, several national and international guidelines for the management of hyp...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Kjeldsen S,Feldman RD,Lisheng L,Mourad JJ,Chiang CE,Zhang W,Wu Z,Li W,Williams B

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With changing donor characteristics and the growing shortage in organ supply, renal transplant practitioners have sought to optimize the use of expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys, which have poorer outcomes than standard criteria donor (SCD) kidneys. The outcomes may represent an acceptable trade-off if ECD transpl...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： House AA,Nguan CY,Luke PP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a progressive and complex disorder that is difficult to treat effectively in the long term. The majority of patients are overweight or obese at diagnosis and will be unable to achieve or sustain near normoglycaemia without oral antidiabetic agents; a sizeable proportion of patients will eve...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Krentz AJ,Bailey CJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinupristin-dalfopristin (RP 59500) is an injectable streptogramin antibiotic. It possesses a wide spectrum of activity against Gram-positive bacteria including methicillin-resistant staphylococci, glycopeptide-resistant. Enterococcus faecium and penicillin-resistant pneumococci. Quinupristin-dalfopristin has activit...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Bryson HM,Spencer CM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pinacidil is a newly developed antihypertensive vasodilator, proposed to belong to the new group of smooth muscle relaxants, the K+ channel openers. The in vitro effects of pinacidil on induced tone, smooth muscle membrane potential and 86Rb and 42K efflux from rat resistance vessels (internal diameter about 200 micro...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Videbaek LM,Aalkjaer C,Mulvany MJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cidofovir is a nucleotide analogue which inhibits viral DNA polymerase and is effective against human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. It is phosphorylated to its active form by cellular enzymes. With the long intracellular half-life of its metabolites, cidofovir can be administered weekly during induction and every o...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Lea AP,Bryson HM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic rhinitis represents a global health burden. The disease can seriously affect quality of life and is associated with multiple co-morbidities. Histamine and leukotrienes are important pro-inflammatory mediators in nasal allergic inflammation. Their actions on target cells are mediated through specific receptors...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Van Hoecke H,Vandenbulcke L,Van Cauwenberge P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the European Multicentre Study (EMS), the safety and efficacy of a single 30U intravenous injection of anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex (APSAC) was studied in patients with acute myocardial infarction. The present study discusses the Belgian data on safety and tolerance from the EMS study. 87...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Bossaert LL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fenfluramine has been used for a number of years as a short-term adjunct to diet in the management of obesity. Controlled studies and clinical experience have shown that it possesses anorectic activity at least as good as that of other therapeutically useful drugs of its type, but like these drugs it has only a limite...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Pinder RM,Brogden RN,Sawyer PR,Speight TM,Avery GS

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests the involvement of estrogen in depression. Estrogen can modulate neurotransmitter turnover, enhancing the levels of serotonin and noradrenaline (norepinephrine), and it is involved in the regulation of serotonin receptor number and function. Across the female reproductive life, fluctuati...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Ryan J,Ancelin ML

更新日期：2012-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Aflibercept (Eylea(®)) is an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor agent indicated for intravitreal use in the treatment of diabetic macular oedema. In patients with diabetic macular oedema, significantly greater improvements from baseline to week 52 in visual acuity were seen with intravitreal aflibercept versus ma...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Keating GM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabeprazole is an inhibitor of the gastric proton pump. It causes dose-dependent inhibition of acid secretion and has a more rapid onset of action than omeprazole. Duodenal ulcers healed faster after treatment with rabeprazole 20 or 40 mg/day than placebo or ranitidine 150 mg 4 times daily and at a generally similar r...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Langtry HD,Markham A

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin is currently the most widely prescribed treatment in the prevention of cardiovascular complications. The indications for the use of aspirin during pregnancy are, however, the subject of much controversy. Since the first evidence of the obstetric efficacy of aspirin in 1985, numerous studies have tried to deter...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Atallah A,Lecarpentier E,Goffinet F,Doret-Dion M,Gaucherand P,Tsatsaris V

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain is the main reason prompting patients to consult their physicians. In acute conditions, pain has a very particular significance as a warning sign, enabling the physician to attempt a diagnosis. Nevertheless, its detrimental effect upon the individual (even in the case of acute pain) and its cost to society are no...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Brasseur L

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in diagnosis and therapy of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection have helped to reduce CMV-associated mortality following organ transplantation. However, CMV is still associated with significant morbidity in recipients of an allogeneic stem cell or solid-organ transplant. The clinical symptoms of active...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Hebart H,Kanz L,Jahn G,Einsele H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allergic reaction to a specific antigen is characterised by a series of complex immunological processes consisting of an early specific immune response and a late inflammatory reaction. The release of active substances (principally histamine) from cytoplasmic granules of mast cells and basophils in response to ant...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Buendia E

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Budesonide is a glucocorticoid with high topical activity, but low systemic bio-availability which results in reduced systemic effects in comparison with other glucocorticoids. To date, it has been evaluated for use in patients with inflammatory bowel disease when administered either orally as a controlled ileal relea...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Spencer CM,McTavish D

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelium is involved in both the physiological regulation of vascular tone and the structural transformation of the vessel under pathological conditions. Under physiological conditions, endothelial cells continuously secrete nitric oxide (NO), which relaxes smooth muscle cells and ensures vessel patency. Damage...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Haller H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of penicillin-resistant pneumococci is increasing worldwide. Methods for susceptibility testing, as well as in vitro susceptibility of penicillin-susceptible and -resistant strains to new and existing agents (including oral and parenteral streptogramins), are described. For all specimens except CSF, oxa...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Appelbaum PC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene rearrangements involving the neurotrophic receptor kinase genes NTRK1, NTRK2, and NTRK3 (referred to as TRK, encoding TRKA, TRKB, and TRKC, respectively) result in highly oncogenic fusions. TRK fusions are rare, with a prevalence of < 1% in solid tumors. Detection of TRK fusions can be based on fluorescence in-si...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Rohrberg KS,Lassen U

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimetrexate is a folinic acid analogue structurally related to methotrexate, whose primary mechanism of action is believed to be inhibition of dihydrofolate reductase. This reduces the production of DNA and RNA precursors and leads to cell death. Trimetrexate is lipophilic and can passively diffuse across cell membra...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Fulton B,Wagstaff AJ,McTavish D

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardinal haemodynamic disturbance in established hypertension is an increased total peripheral resistance and a subnormal blood flow, particularly during exercise. The spontaneously occurring changes in central haemodynamics have been followed in young males with essential hypertension over a 17-year period: a gra...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Lund-Johansen P

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep apnoea (SA) is a common sleep disorder affecting 4 to 25% of the adult population. The most common form, obstructive SA, is characterised by recurrent upper airway obstruction during sleep associated with sleep disruption and hypoxaemia. There is increasing evidence that SA leads to impaired vigilance, quality o...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Grunstein RR,Hedner J,Grote L

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00