Recent chemical and enzymatic approaches to the synthesis of glycosaminoglycan oligosaccharides.

abstract：:Demyelination occurs in several central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including multiple sclerosis, viral infection and spinal cord injury and can result in severe functional impairment. Therefore there is great interest in developing therapies promoting repair in CNS demyelinating diseases and trauma. Cell replacem...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lavdas AA,Papastefanaki F,Thomaidou D,Matsas R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyclic nucleoside analogues bearing phosphonomethoxy residues in the side chain (ANP) attract much attention due to a very beneficial combination of biological properties. Intensive work of organic chemists during the last two decades resulted in a large panel of new compounds that were evaluated as potential antivir...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Khandazhinskaya A,Yasko M,Shirokova E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a notorious pathogenic bacterium causing a wide range of diseases from soft-tissue contamination, to more serious and deep-seated infections. This species is highlighted by its ability to express several kinds of virulence factors and to acquire genes related to drug resistance. Target this nu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Diniz RC,Soares LW,Nascimento da Silva LC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the recent market approval of Pitolisant (Wakix®), the interest in clinical application for novel multifunctional histamine H3 receptor antagonists has clearly increased. Several combinations of different H3R pharmacophores with pharmacophoric elements of other G-protein coupled receptors, transporters or enzymes...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Szczepańska K,Kuder KJ,Kieć-Kononowicz K

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Poisoning of DNA topoisomerase I is the mechanism by which camptothecins interfere with tumor growth. Although the clinical use of camptothecins has had a significant impact on cancer therapy, de novo or acquired clinical resistance to these drugs is common. Clinical resistance to camptothecins is still a poorly under...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Beretta GL,Gatti L,Perego P,Zaffaroni N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with diabetes mellitus have an increased risk of mortality due to cardiovascular complications. Supplementation with specific sulphur-containing amino acids is rapidly emerging as a possible therapeutic adjuvant for diabetes and associated cardiovascular complications. OBSERVATIONS:It is well-known...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Tappia PS,Adameova A,Dhalla NS

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fungi play an important role in terrestrial ecosystems interacting positively or negatively with plants. These interactions are complex and the outcomes are different depending on the fungal lifestyles, saprotrophic, mutualistic or pathogenic. Furthermore, fungi are well known for producing secondary metabol...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Masi M,Maddau L,Linaldeddu BT,Scanu B,Evidente A,Cimmino A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoxygenases (LOXs) are non-heme iron containing dioxygenases involved in the oxygenation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) such as arachidonic acid (AA). Depending on the position of insertion of oxygen, LOXs are classified into 5-, 8-, 9-, 12- and 15-LOX. Among these, 5-LOX is the most predominant isoform asso...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Aparoy P,Reddy KK,Reddanna P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various human tumors preferentially metastasize by lymphatic route and lymphovascular invasion predicts lymph node metastasis. In this review article, we will summarize recent literature data concerning lymphangiogenesis, focusing on tumor lymphangiogenesis. In detail, we try to answer some important questions related...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Raica M,Ribatti D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) based mapping and imaging is a fast emerging technology which is being increasingly applied to investigate tissues in the high-throughput mode. The high resolution close to the cellular level, the possibility to determine the bio-distribution of molecules of interest (proteins, pepti...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Petter CH,Heigl N,Rainer M,Bakry R,Pallua J,Bonn GK,Huck CW

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia in tumor cells is characterized by a lack of oxygen resulting from reduced blood supply to the surrounding tissue, and is a common characteristic of solid tumors as a consequence of rapid cell growth. Hypoxia in tumors is a predictor of both resistance to chemotherapy and of a metastatic/aggressive form of can...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Liang D,Miller GH,Tranmer GK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) plays an important role in the onset and prognosis of myocardial infarction. Targets of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors might include not only ACE but also MMP-9, and ACE seems to be closely associated with complications of hypertension such as cardiovascular remodelin...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Yamamoto D,Takai S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical treatment of multifactorial pathologies (e.g. cancer, Alzheimer's disease, psychiatric disorders), is still a major challenge. Many researches have been published dealing with the design of multiple ligands, able to act at the same time towards several targets relevant for a given pathology. In the presen...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Costantino L,Barlocco D

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since photodynamic therapy emerged as a promising cancer treatment, the development of photosensitizers has gained great interest. In this context, the photosynthetic pigments, chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls, as excellent natural photosensitizers, attracted much attention. In effect, several (bacterio) chloroph...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Staron J,Boron B,Karcz D,Szczygieł M,Fiedor L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ozkan SA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, enzymatic therapy is a very promising line of treatment for many different diseases. There is a group of disorders and conditions, caused by fibrotic and scar processes and associated with the excessive accumulation of collagen that needs to be catabolized to normalize the connective tissue content. The huma...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Shekhter AB,Balakireva AV,Kuznetsova NV,Vukolova MN,Litvitsky PF,Zamyatnin AA Jr

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular signaling is regulated by several biochemical reactions, whose dynamics depends on changes in the fluxes of specific ligands through the containment barriers that are the biological membranes. The regulation of this complex dynamic equilibrium is mainly due to the activity of border proteins, that must be abl...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Dainese E,Oddi S,Maccarrone M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The market, sales and regulatory approval of new human medicines, during the past few years, indicates increasing number and share of new biologics and emergence of new multibillion dollar molecules. The global sale of monoclonal antibodies in 2006 were $20.6 billion. Remicade had annual sales gain of $1 billion durin...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Maggon K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the development of nanoparticle systems for antimicrobial drug delivery. Numerous antimicrobial drugs have been prescribed to kill or inhibit the growth of microbes such as bacteria, fungi and viruses. Even though the therapeutic efficacy of these drugs has been well established, inefficient del...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhang L,Pornpattananangku D,Hu CM,Huang CM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its discovery, peroxynitrite has been known as a potent oxidant in biological systems, and a rapidly growing body of literature has characterized its biochemistry and role in the pathophysiology of various conditions. Either directly or by inducing free radical pathways, peroxynitrite damages vital biomolecules ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Stadler K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stilbene scaffold is a basic element for a number of biologically active natural and synthetic compounds, and it is considered as a privileged structure. Stilbenes exemplified by resveratrol, combretastatin A-4 and pterostilbene are of significant interest for drug research and development because of their potenti...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Giacomini E,Rupiani S,Guidotti L,Recanatini M,Roberti M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites comprise a group of protozoans responsible for human diseases, with a serious impact on human health and the socioeconomic growth of developing countries. Chemotherapy is the main option to control these pathogenic organisms and nucleotide metabolism is considered a promising a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Valente M,Vidal AE,González-Pacanowska D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cells are permanently being selected for survival and proliferation. During this process, tumor cells often co-opt basic physiological mechanisms to protect themselves from toxic chemotherapy. One of these mechanisms is the overexpression of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) drug efflux pumps leading to multidrug resi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lorendeau D,Dury L,Nasr R,Boumendjel A,Teodori E,Gutschow M,Falson P,Di Pietro A,Baubichon-Cortay H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory neurotransmission mediated by NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartic acid) receptors plays a key role in both healthy and diseased processes in the brain. Therefore, bioactive compounds that can interact selectively with these receptors have been the aim of extensive research in the search of effective therapeutic agent...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bonaccorso C,Micale N,Ettari R,Grasso S,Zappalà M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histone deacetylases (HDAC) are an important class of enzymes that play a pivotal role in epigenetic regulation of gene expression that modifies the terminal of core histones leading to remodelling of chromatin topology and thereby controlling gene expression. HDAC inhibitors (HDACi) counter this action and ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Sultana F,Manasa KL,Shaik SP,Bonam SR,Kamal A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is an example of a solid tumour which is well treated in the early stages of disease by surgical excision, but once metastatic spread has occurred, medical therapies (chemotherapy and radiotherapy) are highly toxic, expensive and palliative. It is known that certain tumours exhibit specific patterns of m...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Dowsland MH,Harvey JR,Lennard TW,Kirby JA,Ali S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term Lewy body diseases (LBDs) refers to a subset of neurodegenerative disorders that share the accumulation of the so-called Lewy bodies (LB) including: Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and PD later characterized by the occurrence of dementia (PDD). Moreover, multiple system atrophy (MSA...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bauckneht M,Arnaldi D,Nobili F,Aarsland D,Morbelli S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance is an ever-increasing problem throughout the world and has already reached severe proportions. Two very common neglected tropical diseases are Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis. Chagas' disease is a severe health problem, mainly in Latin America, causing approximately 50000 deaths a year and m...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bandyopadhyay D,Samano S,Villalobos-Rocha JC,Sanchez-Torres LE,Nogueda-Torres B,Rivera G,Banik BK

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic compounds with a tri- and tetra-substituted imidazole scaffold are known as selective inhibitors of the p38 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase responsible for proinflammatory cytokine release. The scope is to review the literature describing their design, synthesis and activity studies. To date a great p...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Scior T,Domeyer DM,Cuanalo-Contreras K,Laufer SA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and development of radiolabelled steroid derivatives has been an important area of research due to their wellknown value in breast cancer targeting. The estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) are important biomarkers in the diagnosis, prognosis and follow-up of the therapeutic response of bre...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Oliveira MC,Neto C,Ribeiro Morais G,Thiemann T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00