Histone deacetylase inhibitors in clinical development.

abstract：:Immunosuppressant drugs are crucial in order to protect transplanted kidney, heart or liver against the body's natural defence mechanisms. These drugs are used to prevent both acute rejection of the organ as well as chronic deterioration of the graft over longer periods of time. Currently used immunosuppressant drugs ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Jorga A,Johnston A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite exciting progress and growth in the understanding of molecular and cellular mechanisms of chronic pain, osteoarthritis (OA) pain remains a challenging clinical entity to treat. There is an emerging diversity of algogenic mechanisms suggesting heterogeneity in pain aetiology in the OA patient populati...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Read SJ,Dray A

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tremendous increase in the global prevalence of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and its conglomeration of metabolic disorders has dramatically intensified the search for innovative therapies to fight this emerging epidemic. Over the last decade, the family of nuclear receptors, especially the peroxisome proliferator-activat...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Savkur RS,Miller AR

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologically-based skin substitutes have developed as commercial products over the last 5 years. The first generation includes the collagen-based synthetic device, Integra, and Alloderm, which is based on devitalised and cross-linked human dermis. These are used as dermal replacements for third degree burns. Within th...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Mansbridge J

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The small tyrosine kinase inhibitor Imatinib Mesylate (Gleevec) protects against diabetes, but it is not known how. AREAS COVERED:It has been suggested that islet amyloid and fibrotic deposits promote beta-cell failure and death, leading to Type-2 diabetes. As Imatinib is known to possess anti-fibrotic/am...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Welsh N

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness among elderly individuals in industrialized countries. New drugs and advanced concepts for the treatment of dry AMD (dAMD) are needed. A new approach is the application of intravenous infusions of prostaglandin E1. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Augustin AJ,Diehm C,Grieger F,Bentz J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term 'blood substitute' is commonly used to describe products which can carry and deliver oxygen. These products are also referred to as 'oxygen carriers' or 'oxygen therapeutics'. Blood substitutes are a new generation of oxygen therapeutics and their introduction will redefine treatment approaches in a wide rang...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Gulati A

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is still considerable interest in cephem antibacterial agents. In fact, there are a significant number of patents submitted for this antibacterial class. All the new cephem derivatives, independent of which group they belong to (III to V), possess a 2-amino-5-thiazolyl or a 5-amino-2-thiadiazolyl ring with an ox...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Bryskier A

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:EGFR has been implicated in various malignancies such as NSCLC, breast, head and neck, and pancreatic cancer. Numerous drugs have been developed in order to target the tyrosine domain of EGFR as an approach in cancer treatment. AREAS COVERED:This article focuses on the different generations of EGFR tyrosi...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Lee CC,Shiao HY,Wang WC,Hsieh HP

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Available drugs partially attenuate the hyperglycemia characteristic of diabetes. However, successful approaches to treat the root cause or to cure or prevent diabetes remain elusive. Drug discovery and development programs continue to focus on mechanisms that impact specific symptoms of diabetes. In 2014,...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Colca JR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several reasons to believe that agents that augment cAMP-mediated signalling in cardiac myocytes should have beneficial effects in patients with heart failure. However, clinical trials of first-generation cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE3) inhibitors, which raise cAMP content by blocking its hydrolys...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Movsesian MA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Subjects with atrial fibrillation are at risk of thromboembolic events. The vitamin K antagonists (e.g., warfarin) are useful at preventing coagulation in atrial fibrillation, but are difficult to use. One of the FXa inhibitors, oral apixaban, has been tested as an anticoagulant in atrial fibrillation. AR...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Doggrell SA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimmunophilin ligands are a class of compounds that hold great promise for the treatment of nerve injuries and neurological disease. In contrast to neurotrophins (e.g., nerve growth factor), these compounds readily cross the blood-brain barrier, being orally effective in a variety of animal models of ischaemia, tr...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Gold BG

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable progress has been made with tyrosine kinase inhibitors. After long and sustained efforts, several tyrosine kinase inhibitors with convincing in vivo experimental antitumour properties such as CP-358,774, ZD 1839, CEP-751 are entering Phase I clinical trials. Significant in vivo experimental antitumour act...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Lavelle F

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of a vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque is well-recognised as the primary cause of stroke, non-fatal myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death. Novel therapeutic agents are being developed to stabilise such plaques. The initial evaluation of these drugs would be facilitated by the use of non-invasive im...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Sosnovik DE,Muller JE,Kathiresan S,Brady TJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: The conventional management of most patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma (UC) is platinum-based chemotherapy followed by immunotherapy. Erdafitinib is an option in post-platinum patients with activating mutations in fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR)-3 and -2. Salvage therapy with taxanes ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： McGregor BA,Sonpavde G

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overactive bladder (OAB) is a chronic distressing condition characterised by urinary urgency with or without urge incontinence, usually with frequency (voiding at least eight times daily) and nocturia. It affects millions of people worldwide independent of age, sex and race. The prevalence increases with age and is re...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Tiwari A,Naruganahalli KS

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Today, propofol or 2,6-diisopropylphenol is the anesthetic mainly used for monitored anesthetic care sedation and during intravenous anesthesia. The formulation, a lipid macroemulsion, shows several disadvantages. Therefore, during the past years considerable scientific effort has been undertaken to find eit...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Fechner J,Ihmsen H,Jeleazcov C,Schüttler J

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement is part of the innate immune system, acting to protect the host from microorganisms such as bacteria, and other foreign and abnormal cells. Although primarily protective, complement activation can also cause damage to the host. In a number of inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and dermati...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Mizuno M,Cole DS

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent protein kinases (CDKs) are key regulators of the cell division cycle, whose various checkpoints proliferating cells must traverse. Since CDK deregulation, either through direct or indirect means, is found in most cancer cells, pharmacological CDK inhibition has become an attractive strategy towards me...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Fischer PM,Gianella-Borradori A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the main agent of chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in the western world. It affects more than 170 million people worldwide. HCV treatment, based on the combination of Peg-interferon and ribavirin, is effective in about 50% of treated pati...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Gentile I,Carleo MA,Borgia F,Castaldo G,Borgia G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable advances have been made on compounds that are active as inhibitors of HIV entry and fusion. The discovery of chemokines a few years ago focused the attention on coreceptor inhibitors in addition to fusion and attachment blockers. During the last 5 years, there has been an intense research activity from bo...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Citterio P,Rusconi S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Philadelphia chromosome negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) mainly comprise polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET) and myelofibrosis (MF, primary or post-PV/ET). Therapy in PV and ET focuses on minimizing thrombosis and bleeding risk, while in MF, prolongation of survival is an ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Bose P,Verstovsek S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the most common viral opportunistic infection in patients suffering with acquired immunodeficiency virus (AIDS). HCMV is a systemic infection that may infect several sites in the body, including the retina, gastrointestinal tract, lungs, liver, and central nervous system. Retinitis is t...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Temsamani J,Pari GS,Guinot P

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main cause of illness and death after the first year of heart transplantation is vasculopathy of the cardiac allograft, probably initiated by early immunological and non-immunological endothelial damage. The incidence of multiple episodes of grade 3A rejection 6 months after primary heart transplantation was lower...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Doggrell SA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Asthma is a major disease burden worldwide. Treatment with steroids and long acting β-agonists effectively manage symptoms in many patients but do not treat the underlying cause of disease and have serious side effects when used long term and in children. Therapies targeting the underlying causes of asthma...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Hansbro PM,Scott GV,Essilfie AT,Kim RY,Starkey MR,Nguyen DH,Allen PD,Kaiko GE,Yang M,Horvat JC,Foster PS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Studies in vitro and in vivo have identified several peptides that are potentially useful in treating systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The rationale for their use lies in the cost-effective production, high potency, target selectivity, low toxicity, and a peculiar mechanism of action that is mainly base...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Talotta R,Atzeni F,Laska MJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherothrombosis, or thrombus formation, at the site of a disrupted atherosclerotic plaque is the common pathophysiology related to myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke and peripheral arterial disease. A growing body of evidence demonstrates an important role for vascular inflammation in the pathophysiology of athe...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Herbert JM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Therapeutic oligonucleotides have emerged as a promising new class of drug that could silence undruggable targets; they can potentially treat metabolic liver diseases such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), hereditary hemochromatosis and alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency. Areas covered: This artic...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Alkhouri N,Gawrieh S

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Despite the heterogeneity of prostate cancer (PCa), androgen stimulation is fundamental to its development, growth, and lethality. Therefore, the blockade of androgen receptor (AR) signaling is critical to controlling the disease, even after progression with castrate levels of androgens. AREAS COVERED:We ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Isaacsson Velho P,Carducci MA

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00