Pharmacotherapy for obesity.

abstract：:The endothelin family of peptides are extremely potent endogenous vasoconstrictor and pressor agents. Of the 3 isoforms, endothelin-1 is the major isoform produced by the vascular endothelium and is, therefore, likely to be of most importance for regulation of vascular function. Two endothelin receptor subtypes have s...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Ferro CJ,Webb DJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the theoretical concepts and methods utilised with isolated tissues to characterise drugs and drug receptors. Specifically the impact, on the in vitro measurement of agonist affinity and relative efficacy, of the idea that receptors bind to transduction proteins in the lipid bilayer of the cell memb...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Kenakin T

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovulation induction is the most common medical intervention for the treatment of infertility. Clomifene is generally the first treatment choice for patients with amenorrhoea, unless there is profound hypothalamic deficiency. When clomifene fails to induce ovulation, menotropins (human menopausal gonadotrophin) or gona...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Collins JA,Hughes EG

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of pulmonary embolism (PE) and venous thromboembolism (VTE) is higher in pregnant patients than in non-pregnant patients. The incidence of thrombosis in all pregnancies is reported to be between 0.05 and 1%, and an incidence as high as 3% may be present in women after caesarean section. Anticoagulant med...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Laurent P,Dussarat GV,Bonal J,Jego C,Talard P,Bouchiat C,Cellarier G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Budesonide MMX(®) (Cortiment(®); Uceris(®)) is a novel once-daily oral formulation of budesonide using Multi Matrix (MMX(®)) colonic delivery technology to permit the release of budesonide at a controlled rate throughout the colon. It is available in the USA for the induction of remission in patients with active, mild...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Hoy SM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Involuntary infertility is an increasing problem in this era of delayed childbearing. Fortunately, many advances have been made recently in the medical and surgical treatment of infertility. This article reviews the principal aetiologies of infertility and their treatments, and focuses on the current and future uses o...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Quigley MM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of organ transplantation is to provide durable organ function while minimizing risks such as infection and cancer. Induction therapy in renal transplantation provides improved short- and long-term graft outcomes compared with placebo. Three agents are currently available and widely used in the US; rabbit anti...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Wagner SJ,Brennan DC

更新日期：2012-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisatracurium besilate (besylate) is a nondepolarising neuromuscular blocking agent with an intermediate duration of action. It is the R-cis, R'-cis isomer of atracurium besilate and is approximately 3-fold more potent than the mixture of isomers that constitute the parent drug. The ED95 for cisatracurium besilate (do...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Bryson HM,Faulds D

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original article can be found online. ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Scott LJ

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Part I of this article reviewed the targets against which anti-HIV drugs can be directed, problems in assessing active compounds (e.g. resistance development and use of surrogate end-points). and nucleoside analogues effective against HIV reverse transcriptase. Intensive research is currently being undertaken in labor...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Sandström E,Oberg B

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain represents a major clinical, social and economic problem, with estimates of its prevalence ranging from 8% to more than 60%, depending on the population. The impact of pain on economies is enormous, with the cost of back pain alone equivalent to more than one-fifth of one country's total health expenditure and 1....

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Phillips CJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of late side effects of long term levodopa therapy (fluctuations in motor performance, abnormal movements, and symptoms unresponsive to dihydroxyphenylalanine) led to the search for novel anti-Parkinsonian drugs. Dopamine agonists are one of the newer families of anti-Parkinsonian agents, and they inclu...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Montastruc JL,Rascol O,Senard JM

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness characterised by abnormalities of thought and perception that affects 1-2% of the population. Patients who experience a first episode of schizophrenia should be treated early and optimally with antipsychotic agents to lessen the morbidity of the initial episode and possibly imp...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Bradford DW,Perkins DO,Lieberman JA

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:Antibacterial activities of cefotaxime and its major metabolite, desacetylcefotaxime, against 178 strains (of 10 species) were assessed in terms of minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC50 and MIC80), and were compared with those of cefoperazone and ceftazidime. The activity of desacetylcefotaxime was several times le...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Oizumi K,Hayashi I,Aonuma S,Konno K

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:Levocabastine is a potent and selective histamine H1-receptor antagonist which has been evaluated as a topical treatment (nasal spray and/or eyedrops) for allergic rhinitis and/or conjunctivitis. Data available at the time of the previous review in Drugs, together with more recent results, have clearly demonstrated th...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Noble S,McTavish D

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous susoctocog alfa (Obizur(®)) is a recombinant, B-domain deleted, porcine sequence antihaemophilic factor VIII (FVIII) product that has recently been approved for the treatment of bleeding episodes in adults with acquired haemophilia A (AHA). Intravenous susoctocog alfa was an effective and generally well to...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Burness CB,Scott LJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：: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：:Recent clinical trials have demonstrated beyond doubt that statins are effective in the prevention of acute coronary events. Critical analysis of these studies suggests that the benefits of statin therapy cannot be fully explained on the basis of reductions in plasma cholesterol levels. Accumulating knowledge of the a...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Wheeler DC

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:Invasive candidiasis has emerged as an important cause of morbidity and mortality in intensive care unit patients. This short review focuses on many aspects of Candida infection in critically ill patients including epidemiology, impact on mortality, problems related to diagnosis, strategies to identify patients at ris...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Pennisi M,Antonelli M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several first choices for the treatment of mild and moderate hypertension. The selection of a drug may be influenced by concomitant pathology, with positive indications for particular drugs, e.g. coexistent angina, indicating use of a beta-receptor blocking drug or calcium antagonist; fluid retention indicat...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Prichard BN

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin A acid (retinoic acid: tretinoin) is a vitamin A derivative used in the topical treatment of acne. It acts by 'unseating' comedones, improvement developing slowly over a period of 2 to 3 or more months, and is also said to prevent the formation of new lesions. About three-quarters of patients with acne vulgari...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Heel RC,Brogden RN,Speight TM,Avery GS

更新日期：1977-12-01 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

abstract：:204 individuals from a rural community were given a single dose of oxantel-pyrantel at 15mg/kg bodyweight and if still infected, 20mg/kg bodyweight, with cure rates of 100%, 53% and 71% for ascariasis, trichuriasis and hookworm infection, respectively. From an urban community, 124 patients were given the same drug eit...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Cabrera BD,Sy FS

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empagliflozin/linagliptin (Glyxambi(®)) is a once-daily sodium glucose co-transporter type 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor and dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP)-4 inhibitor fixed-dose combination product that is approved in the USA as an adjunct to diet and exercise in adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D) when treatment with both empaglifl...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Kim ES,Deeks ED

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clascoterone (Winlevi®) is an androgen receptor inhibitor being developed as a topical cream and solution by Cassiopea (a spin-out company of Cosmo Pharmaceuticals) for the treatment of androgen-dependent skin disorders, including androgenetic alopecia and acne vulgaris. Although the exact mechanism of action of clasc...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Dhillon S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is thought to be a chronic inflammatory disorder of the CNS. The past decade has seen the introduction of the new immunomodulatory drugs, interferon (IFN)-beta and glatiramer acetate, that have considerably improved the therapeutic options for this often disabling disease. The efficacy of these...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Flachenecker P,Rieckmann P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00