MAP kinase p38 inhibitors: clinical results and an intimate look at their interactions with p38alpha protein.

abstract：:Natural products from symbiotic or commensal associations between marine invertebrate and microbial organisms show exceptional promise as pharmaceuticals in many therapeutic areas. An economic and sustainable global market supply due to difficulty of synthesis is cited as the main obstacle for exploitation of these ot...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Dunlap WC,Jaspars M,Hranueli D,Battershill CN,Perić-Concha N,Zucko J,Wright SH,Long PF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Aryl-β-amino acids constitute very useful scaffolds able to lead, via various intra-molecular cyclisation reactions, to a great diversity of cyclic derivatives with numerous biological and therapeutic properties. The present article aims at reporting an exhaustive overview of these ring-closure sequences and their a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Rochais C,Rault S,Dallemagne P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epinephrine and Norepinephrine, typically released during stress bind to nine different adrenoceptors (AR) which classically control the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. New targets were described for the many agonists and antagonists developed for these AR, as the central nervous system. During the last three ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lüthy IA,Bruzzone A,Piñero CP,Castillo LF,Chiesa IJ,Vázquez SM,Sarappa MG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium is essential for many metabolic process, including nerve function, muscle contraction, and blood clotting. The metabolic pathways that contribute to maintain serum calcium levels are bone remodeling processes, intestinal absorption and secretion, and renal handling, but hypercalcemia occurs when at least 2 of ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lumachi F,Motta R,Cecchin D,Ave S,Camozzi V,Basso SM,Luisetto G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine protease thrombin is a key enzyme in the control of blood coagulation and displays numerous other effects on platelet, endothelial and smooth muscle cell function. The pre-eminence of thrombin in the coagulation cascade has made the enzyme a popular drug target in the search for more clinically acceptable a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Menear K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statins are inhibitors of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMG-CoA reductase), the rate-limiting enzyme of cholesterol synthesis. In recent years, statins have become the major choice of treatment for hypercholesterolemia. Emerging evidence from both animal and human studies indicates that mechanisms i...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Luo JD,Chen AF

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Giving a glance to the report of Wound Care Market by Product updated in 2017, we can see that wound care market is expected to reach USD 22.01 billion by 2022 from USD 18.35 billion at a CAGR of 3.7%. Numerous factors are driving the growth of this market, including the increasing prevalence of chronic wounds and acu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Polerà N,Badolato M,Perri F,Carullo G,Aiello F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug resistance is one of the major obstacles limiting the success of cancer chemotherapy. Biological mechanisms contributing to drug resistance may be present de novo and related to inherent features or may be raised after exposure to anticancer drugs. In recent years, both clinical observations and experimental stud...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Sui M,Zhang H,Fan W

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The large increase in epidemiological studies on night shift work is due to the important effects of night shift work on workers' health and psychophysical wellbeing. The short-term effects-insomnia, difficulties in managing work and private life, lower work performance, and more work and extra-work accident...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ferri GM,Cavone D,Intranuovo G,Macinagrossa L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains a fatal disease: the majority of patients are diagnosed as having metastases or advanced inoperable tumors. The activity of chemotherapy in NSCLC patients is low with objective response rarely complete and sustained. Cisplatin-based combinations are considered as the standard...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gridelli C,De Vivo R

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resveratrol, a natural polyphenol product, is used in plant defense from fungal and microbial aggression. It is found naturally, especially in plants such as grapes, peanuts, and berries. It has the highest concentrations in blueberries, mulberries, blackberries, and the skin of red grapes. Resveratrol has v...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kumar S,Chang YC,Lai KH,Hwang TL

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation therapy of acute promyelocytic leukemia with all-trans retinoic acid represents the most successful pharmacological therapy of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Numerous studies demonstrate that drugs that inhibit mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) and activate AMP-kinase (AMPK) have beneficial effects...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Visnjic D,Dembitz V,Lalic H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary amyloidogenic transthyretin (TTR) (ATTR) amyloidosis is an autosomal dominant form of fatal hereditary amyloidosis. Owing to progress in biochemical and molecular genetic analyses, this disease is now believed to occur worldwide. As of today, reports of about 120 different points of single or double mutatio...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ando Y,Ueda M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies demonstrated that even in the absence of other risk factors (e.g. diabetes, hypertension, hyperhomocysteinemia, hypercholesterolemia), advanced age itself significantly increases cardiovascular morbidity by enhancing vascular oxidative stress and inflammation. Because the population in the West...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Labinskyy N,Csiszar A,Veress G,Stef G,Pacher P,Oroszi G,Wu J,Ungvari Z

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxypyridinones (HPs) are a family of N-heterocyclic metal chelators, which have been an attractive target in the development of a variety of new pharmaceutical drugs, due to their high metal chelating efficacy/specificity and easy derivatization to tune the desired biological properties. In fact, along the last de...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Chaves S,Piemontese L,Hiremathad A,Santos MA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid innovations in nanomedicine have increased the likelihood that engineered nanomaterials will eventually come in contact with humans and the environment. The advent of nanotechnology has created strong interest in many fields such as biomedical sciences and engineering field. Central to any significant advances i...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Subbiah R,Veerapandian M,Yun KS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reductive conversion of ribonucleotides to deoxyribonucleotides by ribonucleotide reductase (RR) is a crucial and rate-controlling step in the pathway leading to the biosynthesis of DNA, since deoxyribonucleotides are present in extremely low levels in mammalian cells. Mammalian ribonucleotide reductase (RR) is co...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Li J,Zheng LM,King I,Doyle TW,Chen SH

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamins are dietary components which are necessary for life. They play a major role in health and their deficiency may be linked to symptoms of psychiatric disorders. B vitamins are required for proper functioning of the methylation cycle, monoamine oxidase production, DNA synthesis and the repair and maintenance of ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Mikkelsen K,Stojanovska L,Apostolopoulos V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphonated nucleosides represent a promising alternative in the improvement of the biological activity of nucleoside analogues in antiviral and anticancer chemotherapy. The basic concept, the chemistry, the different structural modifications and their effects on the antiviral potency will be discussed in this review...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Piperno A,Chiacchio MA,Iannazzo D,Romeo R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are diverse group of compounds used for the treatment of inflammation, since the introduction of acetylsalicylic acid in 1899. Traditional (first generation) NSAIDs exert antiinflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic effects through the blockade of prostaglandin synthe...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Chakraborti AK,Garg SK,Kumar R,Motiwala HF,Jadhavar PS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor receptor-4 (FGFR4) is a tyrosine kinase with a range of important physiological functions. However, it is also frequently mutated in various cancers and is now generating significant interest as a potential therapeutic target. Unfortunately, biochemical characterization of its role in disease,...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ho HK,Németh G,Ng YR,Pang E,Szántai-Kis C,Zsákai L,Breza N,Greff Z,Horváth Z,Pató J,Szabadkai I,Szokol B,Baska F,Őrfî L,Ullrich A,Kéri G,Chua BT

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Polyphenolic molecules produced by higher plants in response to biotic and abiotic stresses exert numerous effects on tumorigenic cell transformation, and on tumor cells in vitro and in vivo, and may interact with conventional anti-tumor therapies. In the present review, we collected and critically discussed data on: ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Korkina LG,De Luca C,Kostyuk VA,Pastore S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein p53 is a key player in mitochondrial mediated apoptotic cell death and excess p53 activity has been implicated in many disease states such athrosclerosis, diabetes, osteoarthritis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, AIDS, P. falciparum and S. typhimurium infections. Thus, chemical ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Nayak SK,Panesar PS,Kumar H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress or heat shock proteins (Hsps) Hsp90, Hsp70 and Hsp27 are chaperones that assist the proteins in their folding, stability, assembly into multi-protein complexes and transport across cellular membranes. The expression of some of them is highly induced in response to a wide variety of physiological and environment...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Didelot C,Lanneau D,Brunet M,Joly AL,De Thonel A,Chiosis G,Garrido C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanomedicine is certainly one of the scientific and technological challenges of the coming years. In particular, biodegradable nanoparticles formulated from poly (D,L-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) have been extensively investigated for sustained and targeted delivery of different agents, including recombinant proteins,...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Tosi G,Bortot B,Ruozi B,Dolcetta D,Vandelli MA,Forni F,Severini GM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(aminoester) dendrimers are expected to hold great promise as biodegradable nanocarriers for drug delivery due to their advantageous properties allowing their biodegradability, potentially lower toxicity and possibility of diverse chemical conjugations. The synthetic strategies for constructing such dendrimers inc...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang Y,Quelever G,Peng L

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:COX-2, a key enzyme that catalyzed the rate-limiting steps in the conversion of arachidonic acid to prostaglandins, played a pivotal role in inflammatory process. Different from other family members, COX-2 was barely detectable in normal physiological conditions and highly inducible during acute inflammatory response ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cui J,Jia J

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00