The cell type-specific signal proteins (pheromones) of protozoan ciliates.

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are key regulators of the cell cycle and RNA polymerase II transcription. Several pharmacological CDK inhibitors (PCIs) are currently in clinical trials as potential cancer therapeutics since CDK hyperactivation is detected in the majority of neoplasias. Within the last few years, the a...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Pumfery A,de la Fuente C,Berro R,Nekhai S,Kashanchi F,Chao SH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a strong rationale for usage of anti-angiogenic agents in epithelial ovarian cancer. Bevacizumab is the most widely investigated anti-VEGF agent and has shown promising results in recent clinical trials. OBJECTIVE:To review the rationale and usage of bevacizumab in advanced epithelial ovarian cance...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kroep JR,Nortier JW

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for methods to control physiological levels of carbon monoxide (CO), a vasoactive molecule, and bilibrubin, an antioxidant, have improved our understanding of the protective role of heme oxygenase (HO) against oxidative injury. HO activity can assist other antioxidant systems in diminishing the overall prod...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Abraham NG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinically most relevant medications for lipid management are the statins, which constitute in the majority of the cases the basis of any lipid-modulating therapy. However, other agents are often needed to either reduce low-density cholesterol to target levels and/or to treat residual serum lipoprotein abnormaliti...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gouni-Berthold I,Berthold HK

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) are now widely receiving attention. There are many reasons why people get IBD; for example, environment, smoking, family heredity, intestinal microbiota and so on. Antibiotics have not been proven effective and those suffering from IBD have begun to look for other effective drugs to t...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ma Y,Yan W,Ding S,Fei Y,Liu G,Fang J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), hypertension is common. The type of ACS and severity of hypertension would determine the treatment algorithm. In ST elevation myocardial infarction (MI), time to reperfusion is essential whereas in malignant hypertension the reduction of blood pressure to prevent end or...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kühl M,Lip GY,Varma C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) can self-renew indefinitely, while maintaining the capacity to differentiate into useful somatic cell types, including cardiomyocytes. As such, these stem cell types represent an essentially inexhaustible source of committed human cardiomyo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Shiba Y,Hauch KD,Laflamme MA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multi-drug resistant infections are a growing worldwide health concern. There is an urgent need to produce alternative antimicrobial agents. OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to design a new hybrid antimicrobial peptide, and to evaluate its antimicrobial activity alone and in combination with traditional antibiotic...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tall YA,Al-Rawashdeh B,Abualhaijaa A,Almaaytah A,Masadeh M,Alzoubi KH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In drug development, in vitro human model systems are absolutely essential prior to the clinical trials, considering the increasing number of chemical compounds in need of testing, and, keeping in mind that animals cannot predict all the adverse human health effects and reactions, due to the species-specific differenc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Salerno S,Bartolo L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naoxintong (NXT), a Chinese Materia Medica standardized product, extracted from 16 various kinds of Chinese traditional herbal medicines including Salvia miltiorrhiza, Angelica sinennsis, Astragali Radix, is clinically effective in treating atherosclerosisrelated diseases. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the anti-...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Zhao J,Zhu H,Wang S,Ma X,Liu X,Wang C,Zhao H,Fan S,Jin X,Zhao B,Zhao T,Jia L,Wang K,Zou Y,Hu K,Sun A,Ge J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS:Targeted therapy is the foundation of personalized medicine in cancer, which is often understood as the right patient using the right drug. Thinking from the viewpoint of determinants during personalized drug treatment, the genetics, epigenetics and metagenomics would provide individual-specific biological ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wang L,Yu X,Zhang C,Zeng T

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriasis is an immune-mediated, chronic and recurrent inflammatory skin disease, prevalent worldwide, and represents an important burden in life quality of patients. The most common clinical variant is termed as psoriasis vulgaris or plaque psoriasis, which with an individualized and carefully monitored therapy can d...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bruschi ML,da Silva JB,Rosseto HC

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular disorders, resulting from endothelial cell dysfunction, may be caused by various stimuli, including infectious pathogens, cytotoxic reagents, and pathophysiological mechanisms mediated by immune responses. Endothelial cell dysfunction characterized by apoptosis and abnormal immune activation is, at least in p...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lin YS,Lin CF,Lei HY,Liu HS,Yeh TM,Chen SH,Liu CC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial cellulose (BC) has recently attained greater interest in various research fields, including drug delivery for biomedical applications. BC has been studied in the field of drug delivery, such as tablet coating, controlled release systems and prodrug design. OBJECTIVE:In the current work, we tested ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ullah H,Badshah M,Correia A,Wahid F,Santos HA,Khan T

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide is a ubiquitous molecule involved in a variety of biological processes. The specific action of NO depends on its enzymatic sources namely neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS), endothelial NOS (eNOS) and inducible NOS (iNOS) and all three isoforms have been localized in the gastrointestinal tract. Constit...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Barrachina MD,Panés J,Esplugues JV

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrin family of cell surface receptors were principally thought to be involved in cell adhesion. Intense study has shown that these glycoproteins also regulate a diverse range of physiological processes. Inappropriate activation of integrins has been implicated in many pathological processes. Recent studies hav...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Robertson JH,Iga AM,Sales KM,Winslet MC,Seifalian AM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the cause of Crohn's disease remains unknown considerable progress has been made in recent years to unravel the pathogenesis of the inflammatory processes seen in chronic idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Th-1 lymphocytes seem to orchestrate the inflammation through the production of pro-inflammat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： D'Haens G

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to evaluate the distribution of Tregs/Th17/Th1 cells in type 2 diabetic patients with foot disease before and after human umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cell (hUCB-MSCs) transplantation. Fifteen diabetic patients with foot disease under insulin therapy received hUCB-MSC transplantation. ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Li XY,Zheng ZH,Li XY,Guo J,Zhang Y,Li H,Wang YW,Ren J,Wu ZB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erectile function is determined by tight regulation of relaxation or contraction of corpus cavernosal smooth muscle, which is the result of a long and complex chain of molecular events. Control of erectile function resides in signaling pathways of the central and peripheral nervous system, as well as intracellular eve...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Seftel AD

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While pharmacological blockade of dopamine D2 receptor can effectively suppress the psychotic or positive symptoms of schizophrenia, there is no satisfactory medication for the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia in spite of the proliferation of second generation antipsychotic drugs. Excitements over a ne...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Singer P,Dubroqua S,Yee BK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although somewhat controversial, there is good evidence that long-distance travel in general is a risk factor for venous thromboembolism, even in the absence of other risk factors. This is probably due to effects consequent to prolonged sitting but air travel in particular may be associated with risk factors other tha...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bradford A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Absorption windows in particular segments of the small intestine can contribute to the development of orally administered drug formulations and can limit the bioavailability of released compounds. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate use of wireless capsule enteroscopy regarding the disintegratio...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kvetina J,Tacheci I,Nobilis M,Kopacova M,Kunes M,Bures J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dioxygen (O2) is an exogenously supplied gas with a number of properties that make it valuable as a biological source of energy and as a result much of life has become dependent on this molecule. Nitric oxide (NO), carbon dioxide (CO) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) are small molecules that are sometimes in a gaseous state...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Fukuto JM,Collins MD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skin is often introduced as the largest organ of the human body which - being uniquely exposed to external stress - faces several types of challenges, from physical, chemical, biological, and immunological origin. Therefore, the skin is also a site where inflammation, oxidative stress and cellular damage occurs re...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Szabo IL,Kenyeres A,Szegedi A,Szollosi AG

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, nanosuspensions have been accepted as a valuable drug delivery system for poorly water-soluble drugs. Topdown and bottom-up technologies are the two main approaches for generating nanosuspensions. Several products manufactured by the top-down technologies have been successfully commercialized demonstr...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Zhang X,Li LC,Mao S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras is a 21 kDa membrane-localized G protein that is coupled to receptor and non-receptor tyrosine kinase activation of downstream cytoplasmic and nuclear events. Mutated ras genes are common, and occur in a wide variety of human malignancies. These activating mutations result in constitutive signaling, thereby stimul...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Adjei AA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regeneration of bone requires the coordinated processes of angiogenesis and osteogenesis. These repair mechanisms are closely linked through both direct cell-cell contact and indirect paracrine signaling among osteoblasts, endothelial cells, and other cell types. The vasculature provides a source of nutrients, oxygen,...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Segar CE,Ogle ME,Botchwey EA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancers which damage the human skeleton include multiple myeloma, where the primary tumour colonises bone directly, or breast and prostate cancer, where malignant cells travel from the primary tumour to form clonal outgrowths within the bone. Owing to the interaction of tumour cells with those normally found in the bo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Buckle CH,Neville-Webbe HL,Croucher PI,Lawson MA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epicardial adipose tissue is not only a specific adipose tissue depot but also an active endocrine organ producing numerous substances with an important role in the development of obesity-related heart diseases. It is located between myocardium and visceral pericardium and consists predominantly of adipocytes, immunoc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Matloch Z,Cinkajzlova A,Mraz M,Haluzik M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension and insomnia are very common and often coexist. There is evidence to suggest that the increasing prevalence of arterial hypertension in the past decade might be related both to an increased prevalence of insomnia and to the decline of sleep duration due to modern lifestyle. The aim of this paper is to rec...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Palagini L,Bruno RM,Gemignani A,Baglioni C,Ghiadoni L,Riemann D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00