Resveratrol and ischemic preconditioning in the brain.

abstract：:In healthy individuals, natural and adaptive immune responses are able to control virus entry into the host. In particular, CD8(+)-mediated cytotoxicity, sustained by the intervention of CD4+ cells, represents the major key event leading to virus eradication. On the other hand, viruses are able to evade from host immu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Amati L,Passeri ME,Lippolis A,Lio D,Caruso C,Jirillo E,Covelli V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive outline for understanding and recommending the therapeutic use of ozone in combination with established therapy in diseases characterized by a chronic oxidative stress is currently available. The view of the absolute ozone toxicity is incorrect, because it has been based either on lung or on studies pe...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Zanardi I,Borrelli E,Valacchi G,Travagli V,Bocci V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the years, natural products have shown success as antidiabetics in in vitro, in vivo studies and clinical trials. Because natural product-derived drugs are more affordable and effective with fewer side-effects compared to conventional therapies, pharmaceutical research is increasingly leaning towards the discover...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Alam F,Islam MA,Kamal MA,Gan SH

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term Lewy body diseases (LBDs) refers to a subset of neurodegenerative disorders that share the accumulation of the so-called Lewy bodies (LB) including: Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and PD later characterized by the occurrence of dementia (PDD). Moreover, multiple system atrophy (MSA...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bauckneht M,Arnaldi D,Nobili F,Aarsland D,Morbelli S

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：BACKGROUND:N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) has shown widespread utility in different psychiatric disorders, including a beneficial role in schizophrenic patients. Although the replenishment of glutathione and the antioxidant activity of NAC have been suggested as the mechanisms that improve such a wide range of disorders, none...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Martínez-Banaclocha M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine and metabolic disorder affecting women in reproductive age. Although the etiology of PCOS remains unclear, it is believed to result from genetic, environmental and behavioral interactions. Women with PCOS have higher lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Vélez LM,Motta AB

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in the establishment of tolerance/immunity, because they activate naïve T cells (TCs). Therefore, the pharmacological modulation of DCs has become a major field of interest in immunology. A large body of literature has arisen from the studies of DC biology during immunosuppres...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Schlichting CL,Schareck WD,Nickel T,Weis M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palmitoylethanolamide (PEA) and oleamide are two fatty acid amides which 1) share some cannabimimetic actions with delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol, anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol, and 2) may interact with proteins involved in the biosynthesis, action and inactivation of endocannabinoids. Due to its pharmacological ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lambert DM,Di Marzo V

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for innovation in research is leading to an increased use of imaging biomarkers, which have shown to reduce timings and increase productivity, thus saving costs. PET and SPECT neurotransmission imaging has shown usefulness in the discovery and development of drugs for the central nervous system, providing uni...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Catafau AM,Bullich S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation is the most common disorder of cardiac rhythm. In spite of diagnosis simplicity, patients with atrial fibrillation are difficult to treat. In the recent years with the description of the phenomenon called remodelling, it has been possible to better define the principle mechanisms responsible for in...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lombardi F,Terranova P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alphavbeta3 receptor, which are members of the group of the cellular adhesion molecules (CAM), are heterodimeric transmembrane glycoprotein receptors involved in processes such as cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion, cell migration and signaling. Integrin alphavbeta3 receptor is expressed on almost all cells origin...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cacciari B,Spalluto G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible phosphorylation is a key mechanism for regulating the biological activity of many human proteins that affect a diverse array of cellular processes, including protein-protein interactions, gene transcription, cell-cycle progression and apoptosis. Once viewed as simple house keeping enzymes, recent studies ha...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Honkanen RE,Golden T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With many advantages over other therapeutic agents such as monoclonal antibodies, aptamers have recently emerged as a novel and powerful class of ligands with excellent potential for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Typically generated through Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment (SELEX), ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang P,Yang Y,Hong H,Zhang Y,Cai W,Fang D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) which is caused by the resilient pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) has re-emerged to become a leading public health problem in the world. The growing number of multi-drug resistant MTB strains and the more recently emerging problem with the extensively drug resistant strains of the pathogen a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Viganor L,Skerry C,McCann M,Devereux M

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Hyperlipidemia is characterized by abnormally increased plasma of any or all lipids and /or lipoproteins and is a confirmed risk factor for the formation of atherosclerosis. Inflammation plays a crucial role in the formation and progression of atherosclerosis and consequently on cardiovascular diseases. Nowadays, the ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Papapanagiotou A,Siasos G,Kassi E,Gargalionis AN,Papavassiliou AG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the hit to lead process, a drug candidate is selected from a set of potential leads by screening its binding with potential targets. This review focuses on the lead identification assays that employ a bio-chemical or bio-physical test to detect molecular recognition events between proteins and small molecules in a ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bergese P,Cretich M,Oldani C,Oliviero G,Di Carlo G,Depero LE,Chiari M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, the long-term usage of non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) in HIVAIDS patients eventually leads to the development of drug resistance and severe side effect. Therefore, it is imperative to look for the novel NNRTIs with potent and broad spectrum anti-mutant activity that are also safe a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhan P,Liu X,Li Z

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Targeted therapy has been recently highlighted due to the reduction of side effects and improvement in overall efficacy and survival to different types of cancers. Considering the approval of many monoclonal antibodies in the last twenty years, cancer treatment can be accomplished by the combination of monoclonal anti...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Petrilli R,Pinheiro DP,de Cássia Evangelista de Oliveira F,Galvão GF,Marques LGA,Lopez RFV,Pessoa C,Eloy JO

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cu(I)-catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition (CuAAC) is often utilized in medicinal chemistry to make the triazole moiety as it acts as a non-classical bioisostere of the peptide bond. This useful technique can also be applied in the fragment-based assembly of molecular libraries for high-throughput screening. This mini...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fabbrizzi P,Menchi G,Guarna A,Trabocchi A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present review is intended to bring together the main advances in the field of nanostructured biomaterials with antimicrobial properties. It is generally accepted that the discovery of antibiotics was of great importance but, nowadays new antimicrobial agents are needed and/or their better administration routes. T...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Sahin YM,Yetmez M,Oktar FN,Gunduz O,Agathopoulos S,Andronescu E,Ficai D,Sonmez M,Ficai A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is known to be essential for the development and progression of cancer. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a critical mediator in tumor angiogenesis for many solid malignancies, including breast cancer. Increased levels of VEGF have been associated with poor clinical outcomes, including reduced ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bareschino MA,Schettino C,Colantuoni G,Rossi E,Rossi A,Maione P,Ciardiello F,Gridelli C

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:TB drug development pipeline represents varied structural classes of molecules. Oxazolidinones represent synthetic anti-bacterial agents with unique mechanism of action having wide spectrum of activity, oral bioavailability and well established SAR. They act by inhibiting translation at the initiation phase of protein...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Jadhavar PS,Vaja MD,Dhameliya TM,Chakraborti AK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in November 2002 in Southern China's Guangdong Province, considerable progress has been made in the development of drugs for SARS therapy. The present mini review is focused on the area of computer-aided drug discovery, i.e., the advances achieved mainly f...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Chou KC,Wei DQ,Du QS,Sirois S,Zhong WZ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase B/AKT plays a central role in cancer. The serine/threonine kinase is overexpressed or constitutively active in many cancers and has been validated as a therapeutic target for cancer treatment. However, targeting the kinase activity has revealed itself to be a challenge due to non-selectivity of the comp...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Meuillet EJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Onychomycosis (fungal nail infections) is very common worldwide but is fortunately not often lethal. Several powerful drugs have been introduced into clinical practice in recent years, but these infections remain difficult to cure primarily due to the difficulty of penetration of drug to the site of the infection in t...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Basha A,Basha F,Ali SK,Hanson PR,Oakley BR,Hajovsky H,Mitscher LA

更新日期：2016-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive degeneration of motor neurons which brings to muscular atrophy, paralysis and death in 3-5 years from starting symptoms. In about 10% of cases ALS is familiar and in a relevant percent of these cases, mutations of the...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Contestabile A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00