Melatonin receptor agonist agomelatine: a new drug for treating unipolar depression.

abstract：:The present review discusses the mechanism of late stent thrombosis and its distinction from restenosis and summarizes the advisory note issued by FDA on the proper usage of different treatments available for atherosclerosis. In light of the latest developments, a plethora of new stents have been and continue to be de...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Rastogi A,Stavchansky S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive fungal infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunosuppressed patients with fatality rates ranging from 30 % to 80 % in neutropenic patients. This results at least partly in difficulties obtaining a reliable and early diagnosis, followed by the fact that clinical symptoms are unspecific a...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lackner M,Lass-Flörl C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondria are cellular organelles responsible for energy production, calcium handling, controlled synthesis of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and regulation of apoptosis. All these functions are crucial for cardiac homeostasis, and may be impaired in chronic heart failure (CHF). Therefore, mitochondrial d...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Aimo A,Borrelli C,Vergaro G,Piepoli MF,Caterina AR,Mirizzi G,Valleggi A,Raglianti V,Passino C,Emdin M,Giannoni A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombotic events occurring in either arteries or veins are the primary causes of fatal perioperative cardiovascular events. Risk factors for deep vein thrombosis, several of which are evidently associated with specific surgical procedures, are quite different from those for arterial thrombosis (e.g., aging or atheros...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Azma T,Tuluc F,Ito T,Aoyama-Mani C,Kawahito S,Kinoshita H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While pharmacological blockade of dopamine D2 receptor can effectively suppress the psychotic or positive symptoms of schizophrenia, there is no satisfactory medication for the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia in spite of the proliferation of second generation antipsychotic drugs. Excitements over a ne...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Singer P,Dubroqua S,Yee BK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-induced photosensitivity of the skin is drawing increasing attention. In past few decades, photosensitivity has been reported with an array of drugs, and is now recognized as a noteworthy medical problem by clinicians, regulatory authorities and pharmaceutical industry. The photosensitivity is of two types i.e., ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Zaheer MR,Gupta A,Iqbal J,Zia Q,Ahmad A,Roohi,Owais M,Hashlamon A,Mohd Setapar SH,Ashraf GM,Aliev G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human herpesviruses herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) can cause severe recurrent disease in humans and establish lifelong infection in their hosts. Several antiviral therapies are available to control disease and spread, but these are not completely effective and do not affect latent virus. The ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ramachandran S,Kinchington PR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Curcumin is a natural polyphenol product derived from the rhizome of the Curcuma longa. In vivo and in vitro studies have uncovered many important bioactivities of curcumin, such as antioxidant activity, inducing cell apoptosis, inhibiting cell proliferation, anti-cell adhesion and motility, anti-angiogenesis and anti...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Fan X,Zhang C,Liu DB,Yan J,Liang HP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rising at an alarming rate worldwide. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the diabetic population. Future CAD risk should be routinely assessed in patients with diabetes as specific subgroups might benefit from information derived from c...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Karastergiou K,Kaski JC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor for urokinase plasminogen activator (uPAR) is required in hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSC, HPC) mobilization in the mouse. Indeed, uPAR Ko mice are deficient both in retention and mobilization of HSC and HPC, because uPAR causes their retention in the BM through its interaction with the α4β1 inte...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Blasi F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal ions that leach into biotherapeutic drug product solution during manufacturing and storage, result in contamination that can cause physico-chemical degradation of the active molecule. In this review, we describe various mechanisms by which metal ion leachates can interact with therapeutic proteins and antibodies...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kumar S,Zhou S,Singh SK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many, if not all, chronic medical, neurodegenerative and neuroprogressive illnesses are characterised by chronic immune activation, oxidative and nitrosative stress (O&NS) and systemic inflammation. These factors, notably elevated pro-inflammatory cytokines, activate indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) leading to an upr...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Morris G,Carvalho AF,Anderson G,Galecki P,Maes M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circumstantial evidence has been provided of a role of the plasminogen/plasmin system in a variety of biological phenomena, including thrombolysis, vascular stenosis, reproduction, embryogenesis, cell invasion, angiogenesis, brain function and chronic lung or kidney inflammatory disorders. Inhibition of the system occ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Matsuno H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The targeting of drugs to skeletal muscle is an emerging area of research. Driven by the need for new therapies to treat a range of muscle-associated diseases, these strategies aim to provide improved drug exposure at the site of action in skeletal muscle with reduced concentration in other tissues where unwanted side...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ebner DC,Bialek P,El-Kattan AF,Ambler CM,Tu M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplexes have found increasing potential in applications such as molecular therapeutics, diagnostics, and sensing. As a consequence, small molecules capable of selectively detecting G-quadruplexes have received significant attention in recent literature. Our review here addresses representative advances in the d...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ma DL,Shiu-Hin Chan D,Yang H,He HZ,Leung CH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This manuscript provides an overview for analysts, medical and scientific investigators, and laboratory administrators, the range of factors that should be considered to implement best practice forensic toxicology. These include laboratory influence over the collection of specimens, their proper transport and chain-of...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Drummer OH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive age-related neurodegenerative disorder with distinct neuropathological features. Extracellular plaques, consisting of aggregated amyloid peptides of 39-43 amino acids are one of the most prominent pathological hallmarks of this disease. Although the exact neurochemical effecto...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Hajieva P,Behl C

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：BACKGROUND:In Alzheimer's disease (AD), modification of astrocytic properties is a well-known and documented fact, but their involvement in pathophysiology has only been examined in recent years. One distinct hallmark of AD is reactive gliosis which are represented in microglial and astrocytic phenotype changes. This r...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Yi C,Koulakoff A,Giaume C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-sensitive K+ channels, termed K(ATP) channels, provide a link between cellular metabolism and membrane electrical activity in a variety of tissues. Channel isoforms have been identified and are targets for compounds that both stimulate and inhibit their activity resulting in membrane hyperpolarization and depolari...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bryan J,Crane A,Vila-Carriles WH,Babenko AP,Aguilar-Bryan L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The emerging evidence has recently shown an evident dependence between recently identified salusin peptides and atherosclerosis, and their important roles as endogenous modulators of atherogenesis. It was reported that the development of atherosclerosis could also be affected by endogenous salusin- β overproduc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kołakowska U,Kuroczycka-Saniutycz E,Olański W,Wasilewska A

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Cancer and its treatment therapies, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, have negative effects on taste and smell functions. It is easy to explain smell and taste dysfunctions when a cancer involves the peripheric end organs or neurologic pathways of smell and taste. However, it is difficult to understand ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Altundag A,Cayonu M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncology remains an increasingly important focus of therapeutic development yet there remain many scientific and operational bottlenecks to deliver optimum treatments efficiently. Radiopharmaceuticals constitute a group of methodologies able to support the many stages of drug development. Methods such as [(18)F]-FDG-P...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Murphy PS,Bergström M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytes are leading component of the mononuclear phagocytic system that play a key role in phagocytosis and removal of several kinds of microbes from the body. Monocytes are bone marrow precursor cells that stay in the blood for a few days and migrate towards tissues where they differentiate into macrophages. Monocy...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sabir F,Farooq RK,Asim Ur Rehman,Ahmed N

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-associated cognitive decline and dementia are conditions in which there is deterioration in memory, thinking, and behavior, with profound effects on the ability to perform everyday activities and well-being. Even if dementia mainly affects older persons, it is not a normal part of aging. Alzheimer's disease accoun...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Dominguez LJ,Barbagallo M

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：:The so-called hygiene hypothesis is, at least in part, accountable for the increase in allergic diseases in the developed countries. Although there is support for one of its primary predictions that host-microbe interactions in early life have longterm effects on the development of disease across populations, the theo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Jeurink PV,Rijnierse A,Martin R,Garssen J,Knippels LM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among pediatric patients, preterm neonates and newborns are the most vulnerable subpopulation. Rapid developmental changes of physiological factors affecting the pharmacokinetics of drug substances in newborns require extreme care in dose and dose regimen decisions. These decisions could be supported by in silico meth...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Claassen K,Thelen K,Coboeken K,Gaub T,Lippert J,Allegaert K,Willmann S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00