Cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 receptor ligand specificity and the development of CB2-selective agonists.

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：: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：BACKGROUND:Pollutants are diverse chemical entities, including gases such as ozone and particulate matter PM. PM contains toxic chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Some PAHs can induce strong oxidative stress under UVA exposure. Pollution aggravates some skin diseases such as atopy or eczema, but...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Marrot L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis is characterized by reduced bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue leading to enhanced bone fragility and a consequent increase in fracture risk. Bone loss further increases in postmenopausal women when the ovaries stop making estrogens. Women undergoing treatment for osteoporosis require l...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bitto A,Polito F,Squadrito F,Marini H,D'Anna R,Irrera N,Minutoli L,Granese R,Altavilla D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the most common chronic liver disease, is the leading cause of cryptogenic cirrhosis and has consistently been implicated in related metabolic disorders, such as dyslipidemia and type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, the pathogenesis of NAFLD remains to be elucidated, and ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Xu G,Huang K,Zhou J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sweat is an alternative biological matrix useful to detect drugs of abuse intake. It is produced by eccrine and apocrine glands originating in the skin dermis and terminating in secretory canals that flow into the skin surface and hair follicles. Since many years it has been demonstrated that endogenous and exogenous ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： De Giovanni N,Fucci N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of new drugs with potential therapeutic applications is one of the most complex and difficult process in the pharmaceutical industry. Millions of dollars and man-hours are devoted to the discovery of new therapeutical agents. As, the activity of a drug is the result of a multitude of factors such as bi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ooms F

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether the increased atrial fibrillation (AF) risk in metabolic syndrome (MetS) patients is due to the syndrome as a whole or simply the sum of the risks of its individual component parts is still obscure. These two clinical entities share many pathophysiological links and thus distinction between a casual observatio...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Georgakopoulos C,Vlachopoulos C,Lazaros G,Tousoulis D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the understanding the pathophysiology of atherogenesis and atherosclerosis progression has been one of the major goals of cardiovascular research during the last decades, the precise mechanisms underlying plaque destabilization are still unknown. The disruption of the plaque and the thrombosis in the lumen th...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cominacini L,Garbin U,Mozzini C,Stranieri C,Pasini A,Solani E,Tinelli IA,Pasini AF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein Kinase Inhibitors (PKIs) and Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors (HDACIs) are two important classes of anticancer agents and have provided a variety of small molecule drugs for the treatment of various types of human cancers. However, malignant tumors are of a multifactorial nature that can hardly be "cured" by tar...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ling Y,Liu J,Qian J,Meng C,Guo J,Gao W,Xiong B,Ling C,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), such as intercellular cell adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), vascular endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), E-selectin, and P-selectin, has been studied extensively in the process of inflammation. These molecules are responsible for recruiting leukocytes onto the vascul...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kobayashi H,Boelte KC,Lin PC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Universal stress proteins are ubiquitously expressed in bacteria, archaea and plants and other eukaryotes. A general property of USPs is their role in adaptation of bacteria to oxidative stress, high temperature, low pH and/or hypoxia. There is increasing evidence that these proteins facilitate the adaption of bacteri...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： O'Connor A,McClean S

更新日期：2017-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:More than five decades since the Discovery of Penicillin, the chemistry and biological activity of b-lactams continue to attract the wide spread attention of research workers. Owing to high efficacy and extremely safe toxicological profile, they are agents of choice in the current therapeutic index for the bacterial i...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kidwai M,Sapra P,Bhushan KR

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendrotoxins are small proteins isolated from mamba (Dendroaspis) snakes. The original dendrotoxin was found in venom of the Eastern green mamba, Dendroaspis angusticeps, and related proteins were subsequently found in other mamba venoms. The dendrotoxins contain 57-60 amino acid residues cross-linked by three disulph...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Harvey AL,Robertson B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) nowadays represent most promising anti-AIDS drugs that specifically inhibit HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT). They have a unique antiviral potency, high specificity and low cytotoxicity. However, to a great extent, the efficacy of HIV-1 NNRTIs is compounde...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Chen X,Zhan P,Li D,De Clercq E,Liu X

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature continues to be the main source of inspiration for synthetic chemists in their quest to make novel conjugates, which can have different physical, biological and medicinal properties. Nature makes these conjugates from mixed biosynthesis and some of these chimeras are found to exhibit unusual biological properti...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Salunke DB,Hazra BG,Pore VS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-recognized that the majority of cancer-related deaths is attributed to metastasis, which can arise from virtually any type of tumor. Metastasis is a complex multistep process wherein cancer cells must break away from the primary tumor, intravasate into the circulatory or lymphatic systems, extravasate, prol...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wong KM,Song J,Saini V,Wong YH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In view of many current mosquito-borne diseases there is a need for the design of novel repellents. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this article is to review the results of the researches carried out by the authors in the computer-assisted design of novel mosquito repellents. METHODS:Two methods in the computat...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Basak SC,Bhattacharjee AK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate carboxypeptidase II (GCPII) is a membrane-bound binuclear zinc metallopeptidase with the highest expression levels found in the nervous and prostatic tissue. Throughout the nervous system, glia-bound GCPII is intimately involved in the neuron-neuron and neuron-glia signaling via the hydrolysis of N-acetylasp...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bařinka C,Rojas C,Slusher B,Pomper M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:COVID-19 has brought the world to its knees and there is an urgent need for new strategies to identify molecules capable of fighting the pandemic. During the last few decades NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy has emerged as an intriguing structural biology instrument in the antiviral drug discove...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Vincenzi M,Leone M

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the currently available treatments for obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs) such as pharmacotherapy augmentation strategies, partial hospitalization programs, deep brain stimulation, and neurosurgery are efficacious for individuals suffering from more severe forms of these conditions. Unfortunate...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fontenelle LF,Zeni-Graiff M,Quintas JN,Yücel M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ageing is an aggravating factor leading to alterations in the biotransformation of drugs, and therefore their therapeutic efficacy and safety. In this review we discuss the influence of ageing on drug metabolizing enzymes in male Wistar rats. We report that drug metabolizing enzymes can be affected by ageing either by...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wauthier V,Verbeeck RK,Calderon PB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer arises in about 48% of patients older than 65 years and more than 30% occurs in those over 70 years being the leading cause of cancer-related death in women older than 65. Elderly patients tolerate chemotherapy poorly compared to their younger counterpart because of progressive reduction of organ functio...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Rossi A,Colantuoni G,Maione P,Ferrara C,Airoma G,Barzelloni ML,Castaldo V,Gridelli C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity, associated with a series of complications such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, is a great threat to human health and leads to increased morbidity and mortality. Despite the presence of anti-obesity agents on the market, the application of these drugs is limited because of their typical side effe...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Qiu Y,Yu H,Zeng R,Guo S,Daniyal M,Deng Z,Wang A,Wang W

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are zinc-endopeptidases responsible for degradation of the extracellular matrix (ECM) components including basement membrane collagen, interstitial collagen, fibronectin, and various proteoglycans, during normal remodeling and repair processes. The turnover and remodeling of ECM must b...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Oikonomidi S,Kostikas K,Tsilioni I,Tanou K,Gourgoulianis KI,Kiropoulos TS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symmetry plays a crucial role in a variety of biological processes. For instance, many protein receptors, upon activation, dimerize to its active form and subsequently produce its biological action. Hence, there is a renewal of curiosity for the synthesis of dimeric molecules (or bivalent ligands) capable, not only to...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bérubé G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to quinolones and fluoroquinolones has been increasingly reported among human and veterinary isolates during the last three decades related to their wide clinical use. Until recently, the mechanisms of resistance to quinolones in Enterobacteriaceae were believed to be only chromosome-encoded, i.e. related t...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cattoir V,Nordmann P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence has shown that oxidative stress may be involved in the development of vascular complications associated with diabetes. However, the molecular mechanism for increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in diabetes remains uncertain. Among various possible mechanisms, attention have incr...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Inoguchi T,Tsubouchi H,Etoh T,Kakimoto M,Sonta T,Utsumi H,Sumimoto H,Yu HY,Sonoda N,Inuo M,Sato N,Sekiguchi N,Kobayashi K,Nawata H

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19, a type of infection that emerged in Wuhan, has become a pandemic affecting people worldwide and is rapidly spreading and evolving. Day by day, the confirmed cases and deaths are increasing many folds. SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus; therefore, limited data are available to curb the disease. Epidemiological appr...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kumar R,Harilal S,Al-Sehemi AG,Mathew GE,Carradori S,Mathew B

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00