Adhesion molecules and kinases involved in gammadelta T cells migratory pathways: implications for viral and autoimmune diseases.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We report herein the synthesis of a novel dicationic boron dipyrromethene derivative (compound 3) which is symmetrically substituted with two trimethylammonium styryl groups. METHODS:The antibacterial photodynamic activity of compound 3 was determined against sixteen methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aur...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Dharmaratne P,Yu L,Wong RC,Chan BC,Lau KM,Wang B,Lau CB,Fung KP,Ng DK,Ip M

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs) like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease are a heterogeneous group of disorders with the progressive and severe loss of neurons. There are no full proof cures for these diseases, and only medicines are available that can alleviate some of the symptoms. D...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Volcho KP,Laev SS,Ashraf GM,Aliev G,Salakhutdinov NF

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Chronic Liver Disorders (CLD), caused by the lifestyle patterns like alcoholism or by non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or because of virus-mediated hepatitis, affect a large population fraction across the world. CLD progresses into end-stage diseases with a high mortality rate. Liver transplant is the only ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Mahmood A,Seetharaman R,Kshatriya P,Patel D,Srivastava AS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric Oxide (NO) is a signaling radical, highly diffusible pleiotropic regulator of a large set of different molecular and biological pathways, including, neurotransmission, vasodilatation and macrophagemediated responses against infections. It is produced from the amino acid L-Arginine and oxygen by the enzymatic ac...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fionda C,Abruzzese MP,Santoni A,Cippitelli M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1), a member of the interleukin (IL)-6 family, is reported to exhibit a plethora of pleiotropic effects in the heart such as cytoprotective, pro-proliferative and pro-fibrotic ones. An extensive research has been devoted on proliferative and profibrotic effects of CT-1 on the heart. Thus the presen...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： García-Cenador MB,Lopez-Novoa JM,Díez J,García-Criado FJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Artificial intelligence methods, in particular, machine learning, has been playing a pivotal role in drug development, from structural design to clinical trial. This approach is harnessing the impact of computer-aided drug discovery thanks to large available data sets for drug candidates and its new and complex manner...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Musella S,Verna G,Fasano A,Di Micco S

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticotropin releasing factor (CRF), originally isolated from the mammalian hypothalamus, is a 41 amino acid peptide that plays an important physiological role and is implicated in the pathophysiology of various diseases. In addition to CRF and its related peptides, a large number of small non-peptide CRF analogs hav...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Liapakis G,Venihaki M,Margioris A,Grigoriadis D,Gkountelias K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal phytotoxins are natural secondary metabolites produced by plant pathogenic fungi during host-pathogen interactions. They have received considerable particular attention for elucidating disease etiology, and consequently to design strategies for disease control. Due to wide differences in their chemical structur...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Vurro M,Boari A,Casella F,Zonno MC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, fast and sensitive methods for biomarkers detection exist, but the performance of most of them still rely centralized laboratory testing. The development of small, fast and simple to use medical devices that can help in making diagnosis accurate and with low-invasiveness is now a major challenge for nanotech...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bedin C,Crotti S,Tasciotti E,Agostini M

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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：:The biological relevance of sulfur containing carbohydrates is gaining substantial attention. Thus the new developments, especially in the synthetic and medicinal chemistry of thio-sugars are critically important for carbohydrate drug design. New studies of biological processes including biosynthetic reactions and enz...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Witczak ZJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of MRI in the armory of diagnostic modalities for the medicine of the forthcoming years largely depends on how chemistry will provide advanced tools to meet the medical needs. This review aims at outlining the most innovative approaches that have been undertaken in the recent history of MRI contrast agents fo...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Terreno E,Dastrù W,Delli Castelli D,Gianolio E,Geninatti Crich S,Longo D,Aime S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoxetine is an antidepressant drug, a potent and specific inhibitor of serotonin reuptake (SSRI). Evidence suggests that being compared with tricyclic antidepressants, fluoxetine may cause significantly fewer anticholinergic, antihistaminergic and cardiotoxic side effects in the treatment of major depressive disorde...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Pacher P,Ungvari Z,Kecskemeti V,Furst S

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article reviews interesting cationic liposomes (cationic transfection lipids) with novel cationic cholesterol derivatives, a new strategy in gene transfection developed by our group and the presently accepted molecular mechanism of gene transfection. Use of confocal laser scanning microscopy and atomic for...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Nakanishi M

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers the compounds isolated from marine sponges with neuroprotective activities during the period between 1999 and 2014 based on their chemical structures, collections sites, sponge taxonomy and neuroprotective effects. These compounds were isolated from marine sponges collected from 18 countries, most o...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Alghazwi M,Kan YQ,Zhang W,Gai WP,Yan XX

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genito-urinary malignancies (prostate, bladder, renal and testicular cancers) rank high among human tumors with an incidence that varies with age and organ involvement. Prostate cancer is the most commonly detected male cancer followed by bladder and kidney cancers, less frequent in women. Testicular cancer, although ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cantile M,Franco R,Schiavo G,Procino A,Cindolo L,Botti G,Cillo C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral-derived microorganisms have been a major focus of many research efforts on marine ecology in recent decades. Importantly, research on bioactive compounds from these diverse microorganisms, which include fungi and bacteria, has experienced an explosive growth during the past five years. This has unveiled the ecol...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Hou XM,Xu RF,Gu YC,Wang CY,Shao CL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current strategies in pharmaceutical research comprise two methodologically different but complementary approaches for lead finding purposes, namely the random screening of compound libraries and the structure-based effort, commonly termed rational drug design. The structure-based approach is aimed to exploit 3D struc...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Müller G

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：:Cellular signaling is regulated by several biochemical reactions, whose dynamics depends on changes in the fluxes of specific ligands through the containment barriers that are the biological membranes. The regulation of this complex dynamic equilibrium is mainly due to the activity of border proteins, that must be abl...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Dainese E,Oddi S,Maccarrone M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfonyl group-containing compounds constitute an important class of therapeutical agents in medicinal chemistry presumably because of the tense chemical structure and functionality of the sulfonyl, which could not only form hydrogen bonding interactions with active site residues of biological targets but also, as inc...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Chen X,Hussain S,Parveen S,Zhang S,Yang Y,Zhu C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represents a heightened inflammatory response in the lung generally resulting from tobacco smoking-induced recruitment and activation of inflammatory cells and/or activation of lower airway structural cells. Several mediators can modulate activation and recruitment of these...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Nucera F,Lo Bello F,Shen SS,Ruggeri P,Coppolino I,Di Stefano A,Stellato C,Casolaro V,Hansbro PM,Adcock IM,Caramori G

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination therapy in the treatment of viral infections in which, for example, three different drugs against three different targets on three independent proteins are administered, has been highly successful clinically. However, it is only a matter of time before a virus will arise resistant to all three drugs, becau...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Mangel WF,McGrath WJ,Brown MT,Baniecki ML,Barnard DL,Pang YP

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes our knowledge of biochemical, biological and medical applications and properties of phosphinic acid compounds. Phosphinic acid compounds (phosphinates) are derivatives of phosphinic acid H2P(O)(OH). The major attention of this article is focused on applications of phosphinates of a pseudopeptide...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Collinsová M,Jirácek J

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentacyclic triterpenoids including the oleanane, ursane and lupane groups are widely distributed in many medicinal plants, such as Glycyrrhiza species, Gymnema species, Centella asiatica, Camellia sinensis, Crataegus species and Olea europaea, which are commonly used in traditional medicine for the treatment of diabe...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Alqahtani A,Hamid K,Kam A,Wong KH,Abdelhak Z,Razmovski-Naumovski V,Chan K,Li KM,Groundwater PW,Li GQ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade, drug resistant invasive mycoses have become significantly more common and new antifungal drugs and ways to specifically deliver them to the fungal cell are being looked for. One of the biggest obstacles in finding such comes from the fact that fungi share essential metabolic pathways with humans. O...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Walencik PK,Watly J,Rowinska-Zyrek M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raltegravir, the only drug targeting the integration step in HIV-1 life cycle, makes β-ketoenol integrase (IN) strand transfer inhibitor (STI) gain a definitive place in the treatment of HIV-1 infection. However, the emergence of viral strains resistant to β-ketoenol STI demands a continued effort toward the discovery...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Yu S,Zhao G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00