Apoptosis pathways and neuroblastoma therapy.

abstract：:Drug development for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a challenge, not only due to the cellular molecular mechanisms involved, but also because of the inherent difficulty of most molecules to cross the blood-brain-barrier (BBB). A promising approach to overcome these drawbacks is developi...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gomes B,Loureiro JA,Coelho MA,Pereira Mdo C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comorbid prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) with obesity and type II diabetes mellitus reflects the existence of a subset of individuals with a complex common pathophysiology and overlapping risk factors. Such comorbid disease presentations imply a number of difficulties, including: decreased treatment ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Slyepchenko A,Maes M,Machado-Vieira R,Anderson G,Solmi M,Sanz Y,Berk M,Köhler CA,Carvalho AF

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head and neck cancer refers to a group of malignancies that affects the epithelium of the upper aereodigestive tract, primarily the lip and mouth, pharynx and larynx. Head and neck cancer is strongly associated with tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and betel nut chewing, and indeed a reduction in the exposure to t...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Forster M,Mendes R,Fedele S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes is associated with substantially increased cardiovascular mortality. The need to reduce the progression of atherosclerosis alongside lowering blood glucose levels is now well established. Ideally, pharmaceutical treatment should address both of these needs. This review summarises current evidence of th...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Papanas N,Maltezos E

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Packaging small-molecule drugs into nanoparticles improves their bio-availability, bio-compatibility and safety profiles. Multifunctional particles carrying large drug payloads for targeted transport, immune evasion and favourable drug release kinetics at the target site, require a certain minimum size usually 30-300 ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Debbage P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kv7.x channels are a family of six transmembrane domain, single pore-loop, voltage-gated K(+) channels. Five members of the family have been identified to date, including the cardiac channel Kv7.1 (formerly known as KvLQT1) and four neuronal Kv7.x channels, Kv7.2-5. Heteromeric channels containing Kv7.3 and either Kv7...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wickenden AD,McNaughton-Smith G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opiates lack potent analgesic efficacy in neuropathic pain although it is now generally accepted that the poor effect of these drugs reflects a reduction in their potency. Reduction of morphine antinociceptive potency was postulated to be due to the fact that nerve injury altered the activity of opioid systems or opio...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Przewlocki R,Przewlocka B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxorubicin has been a constituent of antitumor drug protocols for a broad spectrum of cancers for more than two decades. Side effects and resistance continue to be important limitations. Drug targets responsible for both side effects and anti-tumor activity are cell membrane receptors, cell membrane lipids, nucleic a...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Taatjes DJ,Fenick DJ,Gaudiano G,Koch TH

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new controlled delivery system has been developed for ropinirole (RP) for the treatment of Parkinson´s Disease (PD) consisting in PLGA microparticles (MPs) which exhibited in vitro constant release of RP (78.23 µg/day/10 mg MPs) for 19 days. The neuroprotective effects of RP released from MPs were evaluated in SKN-A...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Negro S,Boeva L,Slowing K,Fernandez-Carballido A,Garcia-García L,Barcia E

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Runx2/Cbfa/AML3 is a member of the runt homology domain family of transcription factors, essential for osteoblast differentiation and bone formation. Defining the molecular mechanisms by which Runx2 can function as a master regulatory gene for activating the program of osteoblastogenesis has provided novel insights fo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lian JB,Stein GS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compounds and extracts derived from natural sources continue to stand in the spotlight of drug design owing to their versatile interaction with enzymes, receptors and metabolic pathways. Nanomedicine offers an operative tool for the efficient delivery of natural products, in terms of increased bioavailabilit...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Simona AD,Florina A,Rodica CA,Evelyne O,Maria-Corina S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-rich antimicrobial peptides are a group of linear peptides of innate immunity isolated from mammals and invertebrates, and characterised by a high content of proline residues (up to 50%). Members of this group are predominantly active against Gram-negative bacterial species which they kill by a non-lytic mechanism...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gennaro R,Zanetti M,Benincasa M,Podda E,Miani M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The derangement of the cardiac energy substrate metabolism plays a key role in the pathogenesis of heart failure. The utilization of non-carbohydrate substrates, such as fatty acids, is the predominant metabolic pathway in the normal heart, because this provides the highest energy yield per molecule of substrate metab...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Nagoshi T,Yoshimura M,Rosano GM,Lopaschuk GD,Mochizuki S

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19 virus) is a worldwide pandemic pathogen infecting 210 territories. It belongs to the family coronaviriadae and the order Nidovirales. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA enveloped virus that includes spike proteins projecti...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ahmed H,Sayed A,Munir M,Elberry MH,Sayed IM,Kamal MA,Negida A,Ebada MA,Bahbah EI

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) comprise a fundamental technology class within the emerging field of nanomedicine, and have been extensively researched for cancer imaging and therapy. This review article will discuss the chemistry and design considerations associated with the synthesis of SPIONs an...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Yoffe S,Leshuk T,Everett P,Gu F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skin remains an attractive area for drug delivery. The skin, however, often limits the ingress of drugs, because of its very low permeability. Much research, focusing on employing a variety of physical and chemical methods, aimed at reversibly altering skin permeability in favour of compounds, has been reported. O...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kilian D,Shahzad Y,Fox L,Gerber M,Du Plessis J

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Early life stress is considered a risk factor for the development of many diseases in both adolescence and adulthood. It has been reported that chronic stress (for instance, due to maternal separation during breast feeding), causes damage to the central nervous system at the level of neurons and glial cells, which are...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Duenas Z,Caicedo-Mera JC,Torner L

更新日期：2018-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity has become a serious epidemic and one of the leading global health problems. However, much of the current debate has been fractious, and etiologies of obesity have been attributed to eating behavior (i.e. fast food consumption), personality, depression, addiction or genetics. One of the interesting new hypothe...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Zhang Y,von Deneen KM,Tian J,Gold MS,Liu Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is a stage of life of all living organisms. According to the free-radical theory, aging cells gradually become unable to maintain cellular homeostasis due to the adverse effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS can cause irreversible DNA mutations, protein and lipid damage which are increasingly accumulated...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tezil T,Basaga H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of hypertension has evolved steadily through 25 years of major clinical trials results modifying both the definition of hypertension and clinical management strategies. Trials experience in heart failure is much less extensive given the far smaller therapeutic market and traditionally often followed on the ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： MacFadyen RJ,Lip GY,Davis R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder caused by degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta and the resultant deficiency in the neurotransmitter DA at the nerve terminals in the striatum. We and other investigators found increased levels of pro-inflammatory c...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Nagatsu T,Sawada M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Isenovic ER

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Oxidative stress and inflammation are key parameters in developing metabolic disorders. Hence, antioxidant intake might be an appropriate approach. Several studies have evaluated the effect of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) supplementation on lipid profile among patients with metabolic diseases, though f...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sharifi N,Tabrizi R,Moosazadeh M,Mirhosseini N,Lankarani KB,Akbari M,Chamani M,Kolahdooz F,Asemi Z

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytoestrogens are plant-derived compounds with estrogen-like activities. Certain foods such as soy-derived products are known to have high levels of phytoestrogens, and about 25% of commercial infant formulas used in the United States are soy-based. One of the most important phytoestrogens is the isoflavone genistein...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： You L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral infections are important causes of morbidity and mortality in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients. Some viruses, such as the respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, are acquired from the healthcare or community in the midst of or after HSCT. Other viruses, such as the herpes-virus family, esta...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Anderson EJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulphur mustard (SM; (2, 2'-dichloroethylsulfide)) was used for the first time in 1917, during the World War I. SM mainly induces DNA damage, oxidative stress, and inflammation. This compound injures the respiratory system, eyes, skin and the endocrine, gastrointestinal, and hematopoietic systems. However, due to the ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Panahi Y,Shahbazi A,Naderi M,Jadidi K,Sahebkar A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of pharmaceutical formulations for the treatment of ocular pathologies are for topical administration. However, this kind of ophthalmic formulations has disadvantages such as low bioavailability and, consequently, a reduced therapeutic effect. This happens due to the anatomical and physiological specifici...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Almeida H,Amaral MH,Lobao P,Frigerio C,Sousa Lobo JM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvements in our understanding of the intrinsic aberrancies in cancer cells have enabled the design and development of novel therapeutics that specifically target these changes. Among the many complex cellular pathways and mechanisms which have been unveiled by new molecular techniques, RAS-mediated signal transduc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Nottage M,Siu LL

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:From the evidence of failed injection-based growth factor therapies, it has been proposed that a naturally triggered uninterrupted blood circulation of the growth factors would be superior. OBJECTIVE:We seek to stimulate discussions and more research about the possibility of using the already available grow...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Muresanu C,Somasundaram SG,Vissarionov SV,Gavryushova LV,Nikolenko VN,Mikhaleva LM,Kirkland CE,Aliev G

更新日期：2020-10-18 00:00:00