NAD in skin: therapeutic approaches for niacin.

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：:Helicobacter pylori infection causes progressive damage to gastric mucosa and results in serious disease such as peptic ulcer disease, MALT lymphoma, or gastric adenocarcinoma in 20% to 30% of patients. The current approach is to make a firm diagnosis, give combination antibiotic and antisecretory therapy, and confirm...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Graham DY,Qureshi WA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Approximately 10-15% of patients on DOACs have to interrupt their anticoagulant before an invasive procedure every year. The perioperative management and monitoring of DOACs have proved to be challenging, as differences in patients' status and in the invasiveness of each procedure develop different situation...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kouvelos G,Matsagkas M,Rousas N,Nana P,Mpatzalexis K,Stamoulis K,Giannoukas A,Arnaoutoglou E

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protozoan parasites, such as those responsible for malaria and African Sleeping Sickness, represent a huge burden to the developing world. Current chemotherapy to combat these diseases is inadequate: antiquated, toxic and increasingly ineffective due to drug resistance. In this article, the potential usefulness of tar...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Grant KM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperglycemia is a common feature of the critically ill in general and of patients with sepsis in particular. Even a moderate degree of hyperglycemia appears detrimental for the outcome of critically ill patients, since maintenance of normoglycemia (blood glucose levels

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Van Cromphaut SJ,Vanhorebeek I,Van den Berghe G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute kidney injury (AKI) is relatively common in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and has been associated with increased mortality and worse outcomes. The administration of iodinated contrast media in an elderly population with increased rates of chronic kidney injury and heart failu...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kampaktsis PN,Feldman DN,Charitakis K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of polyphenols in the cardiovascular diseases prevention is still a matter of scientific discussion. However, recent clinical studies indicate that intake of anthocyanins and in a lesser extent procyanidins can participate in prevention of hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Fruits of Aronia melanocarpa (chokeb...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Parzonko A,Naruszewicz M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial agents used in the treatment of mycobacterial infections have remained largely unchanged for several decades. Primary treatment of tuberculosis relies on four drugs, isoniazid, a rifamycin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol (or streptomycin), and generally results in >95% cure in uncomplicated tuberculosi...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Jacobs MR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines and their receptors play critical roles in leukocyte trafficking during inflammatory processes. Although the role of chemokine receptors (CKRs) in cancer biology is a relatively new field of study, a growing body of data suggest that a number of CKRs, including CXCR4, CCR4, CCR7, and CCR10, may play diverse...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wu X,Lee VC,Chevalier E,Hwang ST

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last two decades, the studies on ubiquitination in regulating transcription factor NF-κB activation have elucidated the expanding role of ubiquitination in modulating cellular events by non-proteolytic mechanisms, as well as by proteasomal degradation. The significance of ubiquitination has also been recogn...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wu ZH,Shi Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine fungi with their successful pharmacological effects were considered to be the treasure of ocean medicines concerning the striking ability of their secondary metabolites. Literature over literature has been published on fungi derived bioactive molecules to probe its therapeutic potential. Marine fungi have an im...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Shams Ul Hassan S,Ishaq M,Zhang WD,Jin HZ

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH) is at the centre of the scientific debate for the treatment of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Sexual maturation and reproductive function depend on the pulsatile secretion of GnRH are mainly congenital and may or may not be associated with other genetic anomalies or syndromes. Cli...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bettocchi C,Rinaldi M,Sebastiani F

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring abietane diterpenoids have been studied over the years and have shown to display a wide range of biological activities. This review covers three main aspects of the abietane-type diterpenoids with hydroxy-p-quinone C ring, designated as royleanones. An overview of 1) the naturally occurrence, 2) ch...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ladeiras D,Monteiro CM,Pereira F,Reis CP,Afonso CA,Rijo P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of protein 3D structures without function annotation in Protein Data Bank (PDB) has been steadily increased. Many of these proteins are relevant for Pharmaceutical Design because they may be enzymes of different classes that could become drug targets. This fact has led in turn to an increment of demand for ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Concu R,Podda G,Ubeira FM,González-Díaz H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of the delicate role of endogenous nitric oxide in the homeostasis of various cellular functions and the dynamic behaviour of the airways, has led to a new, rapidly progressing area of physiological science, that has direct bearing for our understanding of multiple airway diseases. The potentially protec...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Folkerts G,Nijkamp FP

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenesis results from the long-term accumulation of genetic and epigenetic aberrations at the molecular level, which are under constant selection pressure for growth advantage. Recognizing that cancer is the result of this long-term, multi-step process provides opportunities for molecularly targeted cancer preve...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Anderson WF,Umar A,Viner JL,Hawk ET

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first description of putative progenitor endothelial cells mobilized from bone marrow by stimuli like ischemia and cytokines, several studies in animals have confirmed their role in neovascularization of ischemic organs. In ischemic myocardium endothelial progenitor cells can prevent cardiomyocyte apoptosis,...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Balbarini A,Barsotti MC,Di Stefano R,Leone A,Santoni T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In spite of considerable efforts of researchers the cancer deseases remain to be incurable and a percentage of cancer deseases in the structure of mortality increases every year. At that, high systemic toxicity of antitumor drugs hampers their effective use. Because of this fact, the development of nanosyste...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Grushevskaya HV,Krylova NG

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone lysine methylation can be modified by various writers and erasers. Different from other epigenetic modifications, mono-, di, and tri- methylation distinctly modulate chromatin structure and thereby contribute to the regulation of DNA-based nuclear processes such as transcription, replication and repair on thei...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Zheng YC,Ma JL,Liu Y,Liu HM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug hypersensitivity reactions (DHRs) represent a major burden on the healthcare system since their diagnostic and management are complex. As they can be influenced by individual genetic background, it is conceivable that the identification of variants in genes potentially involved could be used in genetic testing fo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mayorga C,Montañez MI,Jurado-Escobar R,Gil-Ocaña V,Cornejo-García JA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiota plays significant roles in the human body during all spheres' of life and influences innate immunity, promotes granulocyte signaling and provides resistance during pathogenic colonization of the gut; crucial for a healthy life. Antibiotics directly affect the gut microbiota that consequently alters ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Paul D,Manna S,Mandal SM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the Electron-Conformational (EC) method of pharmacophore (Pha) identification and quantitative bioactivity prediction in drug design and toxicology is presented, which includes the latest advances and improvements of the method as a whole and details of its realization with illustration of results. In the ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bersuker IB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic retinopathy remains the most common microvascular complication suffered by diabetic patients and is the leading cause of registerable blindness in the working population of developed countries. The clinicopathological lesions of diabetic retinopathy have been well characterised and although a multitude of pat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Stitt AW,Frizzell N,Thorpe SR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine plants, animals and microorganisms display steady growth in the ocean and are abundant carbohydrate resources. Specifically, natural polysaccharides obtained from brown algae have been drawing increasing attention owing to their great potential in pharmaceutical applications. This review describes the structura...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Li J,Cai C,Yang C,Li J,Sun T,Yu G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ablation has become an important treatment for many pediatric patients with common supraventricular tachycardias (SVTs). Many multicenter studies have documented that radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation is a safe and effective procedure for treatment of a large variety of SVTs in children and adults with a high succ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： De Santis A,Fazio G,Silvetti MS,Drago F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Molecular recognition" is one of the most important molecular processes for living systems in order to maintain their life, since most of the biological functions are initiated with the process. Understanding of the process is also important for designing a new drug. Firstly, it is important to find a target of a dru...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Phongphanphanee S,Yoshida N,Hirata F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last three decades, neoplasms have become the largest cause of human mortality due to both high tumor incidence and mortality. Chemotherapy is one of the main therapies employed to treat neoplasms. Although classical genotoxic drugs, such as cyclophosphamide, 5-FU, cisplatin and doxorubicin have been applied ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Quan C,Xiao J,Liu L,Duan Q,Yuan P,Zhu F

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Low density lipoproteins (LDL) and high density lipoproteins (HDL) are independent risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD); decreasing LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) levels with statin therapy represents the primary goal in the management of cardiovascular disease. However, despite the efficacy of statins in reducing c...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Pirillo A,Norata GD,Catapano AL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) includes liver diseases ranging from simple steatosis to progressive forms characterized by high rates of complications and mortality, namely fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Identification of patients with simple steatosis who will evolve to a more severe liv...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lombardi R,Fargion S,Fracanzani AL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

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