Expression of defensins in gingiva and their role in periodontal health and disease.

abstract：:The complete DNA sequence of the human genome and of several related mammals are now available, due to the investments of enormous resources and advances in sequencing technology. Novel technologies have been developed to compare multiple genomes with each other, thus specifying regions of sequence similarity among ma...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Möller S,Zettl UK,Serrano-Fernández P,Goertsches R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The global burden of gastrointestinal cancers, including colorectal, stomach, and esophageal cancers is rising steadily. Several therapeutic approaches have been considered for the treatment of GI carcinomas. However, none showed to halt or cure the disease. There is a need to develop effective targeted mole...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mahmood MQ,Shukla SD,Dua K,Shastri MD

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-agent therapy with molecularly targeted agents has shown limited success in tumor growth control, mainly because escape or resistance mechanisms are activated once a signalling molecule is inhibited. Rational combinations of target-specific agents could counteract this response providing a useful strategy in ca...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Porcelli L,Quatrale AE,Mantuano P,Silvestris N,Rolland JF,Biancolillo L,Paradiso A,Azzariti A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Nowadays, the world is facing a common problem that the population aging process is accelerating. How to delay metabolic disorders in middle-aged and elderly people, has become a hot scientific and social issue worthy of attention. The liver plays an important role in lipid metabolism, and abnormal li...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Su H,Liu D,Shao J,Li Y,Wang X,Gao Q

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last years, mass spectrometry has revolutionised protein biochemistry and has advanced to a superior tool for the identification and detailed analysis of peptides and proteins. The high throughput allowed by some mass spectrometry platforms has enabled the important step from analysis of individual proteins...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Pusch W,Kostrzewa M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combinations of different technologies are at the heart of the development and implementation of new, innovative processes and approaches for Industry 4.0 in the field of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. Process intensification and advances in high-throughput synthetic techniques can dramatically improve reacti...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tagliapietra S,Binello A,Bucciol F,Trukhan V,Colia M,Cravotto G

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive age-related neurodegenerative disorder with distinct neuropathological features. Extracellular plaques, consisting of aggregated amyloid peptides of 39-43 amino acids are one of the most prominent pathological hallmarks of this disease. Although the exact neurochemical effecto...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Hajieva P,Behl C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotaviruses are an important cause of human morbidity and mortality, representing the primary pathogens responsible for acute dehydrating diarrhea in children under the age of 3. The infectious rotavirus particle is made up of three concentric layers of protein, and contains a genome consisting of eleven segments of d...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Patton JT,Vasquez-Del Carpio R,Spencer E

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that heat shock proteins (HSPs) are induced by various stressors in order to confer protection against such stressors. Since stressor-induced tissue damage is involved in various diseases, especially gastrointestinal diseases, such as gastric ulcer, it has been thought that HSPs are protective against...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mizushima T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal agents for systemic mycoses are only a few in number. Among them amphotericin-B is still the most widely used drug, but substantial side effects including nephrotoxicity limits its clinical usefulness. Efforts to lower the toxicity are synthesis of AMPH-B analogues such as AMPH-B esters and encapsulatio...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Maesaki S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative disorders are one of the most critical public health concerns of our times. Regrettably, therapeutic interventions currently available have shown only partial benefits to patients affected by one of these disorders. Although the important advances made during the last decades, several questions regar...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bastias-Candia S,Garrido A N,Zolezzi JM,Inestrosa NC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin is a tetradeca peptide hormone produced by many different endocrine cells throughout the body. It is also present in both the central and peripheral nervous system. The peptide has many different moods of action including inhibition of hormone secretion and influence on gastrointestinal motility. Somatost...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Janson ET,Oberg K

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The drug discovery process in general is a very resource intensive undertaking that has existed for a very long time. In the last two decades, performing molecular simulations that determine the level of interaction between a protein and ligand have been refined to the point where they are now an essential part of the...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Haga JH,Ichikawa K,Date S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among pediatric patients, preterm neonates and newborns are the most vulnerable subpopulation. Rapid developmental changes of physiological factors affecting the pharmacokinetics of drug substances in newborns require extreme care in dose and dose regimen decisions. These decisions could be supported by in silico meth...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Claassen K,Thelen K,Coboeken K,Gaub T,Lippert J,Allegaert K,Willmann S

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:The use of aromatic plants to relief different illness is not a new therapy. Actually aromatic plants have been used for many centuries by different cultures around the world. Pharmacological studies provide scientific support to the traditional use of aromatic medicinal plants and aromatherapy; nevertheless...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Maggio A,Rosselli S,Bruno M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is one of the most common psychiatric conditions affecting numerous individuals in the world. However, the currently available antidepressant medication shows low response and remission rates. Thus, new antidepressants need to be discovered or developed. Aiming to describe the current neurobiological hypoth...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kern N,Sheldrick AJ,Schmidt FM,Minkwitz J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia among elderly. Currently, no effective treatment is available for AD. Analysis of transgenic mouse models of AD has facilitated our understanding of disease mechanisms and provided valuable tools for evaluating potential therapeutic strategies. In this review, we...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kitazawa M,Medeiros R,Laferla FM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common mechanism of action of aspirin and the chemically unrelated non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is the inhibition of prostaglandin (PG) production due to interference with the enzymatic activity of cyclooxygenase (COX). These agents have long been used as effective treatments for arthritis. The r...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Crofford LJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2.1.1) are metalloenzymes which catalyze CO(2) hydration to bicarbonate and protons. Five genetically distinct classes are known, which represent an excellent example of convergent evolution. Inhibition of α-CAs from vertebrates, including humans, with sulfonamides was exploited clinical...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Supuran CT

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pivotal role of leptin in regulating body weight and energy homeostasis is very well established. More recently, leptin also emerged as an important regulator of T-cell-dependent immunity. Reduced leptin levels, as observed during periods of starvation, correlate with an impaired cellular immune response, whereby ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Peelman F,Iserentant H,Eyckerman S,Zabeau L,Tavernier J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of mitochondrial dysfunction on pathological states involving inflammatory and/or oxidative stress in tissues that do not show frank cellular apoptosis or necrosis has been rather difficult to unravel, and the literature is replete with contradictory information. Although such discrepancies have many pot...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Suliman HB,Piantadosi CA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a valuable intracardiac device--based treatment option for a subgroup of patients with advanced heart failure (HF) and QRS prolongation. However, still a significant proportion of patients do not benefit from CRT implantation, labeled as non-responders. OBJECTIVES:...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Debska-Kozlowska A,Ksiazczyk M,Warchol I,Lubinski A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are important enzymes that effect post-translational modifications of proteins by altering the acetylation state of lysine residues. HDACs control epigenetic changes that trigger cell transformation and proliferation of transformed cells associated with many diseases. These enzymes are val...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Andrews KT,Tran TN,Fairlie DP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is still the principal cause of morbidity and mortality in Western countries and although a significant progress has been made in the understanding of its pathophysiology, the determinants of atherosclerotic plaque instability are still poorly understood. The endothelium plays a pivotal role for the de...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Versari D,Lerman LO,Lerman A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hydrogen gas (H2 ) has entered the world of experimental therapeutics approximately four and a half decades ago. Over the years, this simple molecule appears to drive more and more scientific attention perhaps due to a dualism of H2 affirmative features demonstrated in numerous in vitro, animal and human stu...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ostojic SM

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has recently undergone revolutionary changes. Two large randomized trials demonstrated superiority of chemoimmunotherapy combining fludarabine and cyclophosphamide with monoclonal anti-CD20 antibody rituximab (FCR) over fludarabine and cyclophosphamide (FC) alone in firs...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Smolej L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD1 molecules are a family of non-polymorphic, class I antigen-presenting glycoproteins, which bind and present amphiphilic lipid antigens for recognition to T cells. Two groups of CD1 molecules are involved in presentation of self and foreign lipid antigens: group 1 (CD1a, CD1b and CD1c) and group 2 (CD1d). Crystal s...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Schiefner A,Wilson IA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoparticles have gained ground in several fields. However, it is important to consider their potentially hazardous effects on humans, flora, and fauna. Human exposure to nanomaterials can occur unintentionally in daily life or in industrial settings, and the continuous exposure of the biological components (cells, r...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mitarotonda R,Giorgi E,Desimone MF,De Marzi MC

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-β family members, which include TGF-βs, activins and bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), play important roles in development and maintaining tissue homeostasis. The extracellular TGF-β family members signal across the plasmamembrane by activating type I and type II serine/threonine kinase re...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： de Gorter DJ,Jankipersadsing V,Ten Dijke P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00