Abstract：
:Opinions about the therapeutic efficacy of medicinal herbs differ significantly. Some reported herbal efficacies at low doses of active ingredients suggest a need for investigating whether these are because of placebo or multi-ingredient synergistic effects. This review discusses the opinions, methods and outcomes of herbal synergism investigations and analyzes indications from 48 in vivo tests and 106 rigorous clinical trials. Analyses of ingredient-mediated interactions at molecular and pathway levels indicate multi-ingredient synergism in 27 of the 39 reported cases of herbal synergism with available ingredient information. Synergistic actions may be responsible for the therapeutic efficacy of a substantial number of herbal products and their mechanisms may be studied by analyzing ingredient-mediated molecular interactions and network regulation.
journal_name
Drug Discov Todayjournal_title
Drug discovery todayauthors
Ma XH,Zheng CJ,Han LY,Xie B,Jia J,Cao ZW,Li YX,Chen YZdoi
10.1016/j.drudis.2009.03.012subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-06-01 00:00:00pages
579-88issue
11-12eissn
1359-6446issn
1878-5832pii
S1359-6446(09)00113-5journal_volume
14pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:Chemokines are proinflammatory mediators that primarily control leukocyte migration into selected tissues and upregulation of adhesion receptors. They also have a role in pathological conditions that require neovascularization and are implicated in the suppression of viral replication. By interaction with their respec...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s1359-6446(98)01280-x
更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:For a fortunate subset of pharmaceutical companies, a regulatory approval is the culmination of massive investment in time, work and money. What happens next? Some companies proceed to build a pipeline and obtain additional approvals. Others do not. In this present report, post-approval fate is evaluated and it was fo...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2014.10.013
更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Various animal models are used to study pharmacokinetics (PK) of drugs in development. Human renal clearance (CLr) should be predictable through interpolation from animal data by allometric scaling. Based on this premise, we quantified interspecies differences in CLr, and related them to drug properties. Using PubMed ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2020.01.018
更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD), threaten the health of an ever-growing number of older people worldwide; so far, there are no effective cures. Significant efforts have been devoted to developing new drugs for NDs in recent years, and some small molecul...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2018.11.001
更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Metabolic determinations are an integral part of every drug-discovery and drug-development program. Recent emphasis has been to increase sample throughput while, at the same time, increase information content within assays. To this end, screening for potential drug-drug interactions, overall metabolic stability and me...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2007.01.007
更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:For drug discovery, historical experience is always of significance. Through examining the history of traditional medicines, we find that these medicines have more implications for drug discovery than just providing new chemical entities. The history of traditional medicines indicates that they depended more on the co...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 历史文章,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2008.07.002
更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2014.09.001
更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common and disabling form of arthritic disease, is characterized by a slow and progressive degeneration of articular cartilage. Its etiology is multifactorial and includes genetic predisposition, obesity and aging. In addition to the cartilage itself, OA also involves the surrounding tiss...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2011.01.004
更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Hydrocarbon stapling could enable peptides from the key domains of natural proteins to be used therapeutically. Using the technique on a peptide involved in apoptosis, researchers have succeeded in destroying cancer cells in a mouse model of leukaemia. ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 新闻
doi：10.1016/S1359-6446(04)03268-4
更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The concept of drug-target residence time has been in focus in recent drug discovery literature. However, few studies consider the combined effect of pharmacokinetics (PK) and binding kinetics (BK) on the duration of effect of a drug. Using a simple model that takes both PK and BK into account, we found that prolongat...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2013.02.010
更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is one of the most complex motor neuron diseases. Even though scientific discoveries are accelerating with an unprecedented pace, to date more than 30 clinical trials have ended with failure and staggering frustration. There are too many compounds that increase life span in mice, bu...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2013.10.014
更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The identification of two biologically active fatty acid amides, N-arachidonoylethanolamine (anandamide) and oleamide, has generated a great deal of excitement and stimulated considerable research. However, anandamide and oleamide are merely the best-known and best-understood members of a much larger family of biologi...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2008.02.006
更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Polo-like kinases (PLKs) have been investigated as oncology targets for several years; however, only recently have potent inhibitors been described. Here, we report on progress in the clinical validation of the PLKs as antitumor drug targets as well as recent understanding gained regarding their synergistic roles ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2011.05.002
更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:High-information screening formats, using more physiologically relevant cellular models and readout approaches, are slowly replacing traditional, target-orientated approaches in drug discovery programs. With improved access to primary cells, as well as label-free, non-intrusive methods of compound interrogation (such ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2010.02.010
更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The choroid plexus (CP) is a highly vascularized organ located in the brain ventricles and contains a single epithelial cell layer forming the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB). This barrier is crucial for immune surveillance in health and is an underestimated gate for entry of immune cells during numerous inf...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2015.05.003
更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:With the recent explosion of interest in microarray technology, massive amounts of microarray images are currently being produced. The storage and transmission of these types of data are becoming increasingly challenging. This article reviews the latest technologies that allow for the compression and storage of microa...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/S1359-6446(05)03647-0
更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Immunoinformatics has recently emerged as a critical field for accelerating immunology research. Although still an evolving process, computational models now play instrumental roles, not only in directing the selection of key experiments, but also in the formulation of new testable hypotheses through detailed analysis...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2009.04.001
更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Biomedical scientists tend to focus on only a small fraction of the proteins encoded by the human genome despite overwhelming genetic evidence that many understudied proteins are important for human disease. One of the best ways to interrogate the function of a protein and to determine its relevance as a drug target i...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2019.06.020
更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:'The climate is perfect for a proactive search for partners between industry and academia.' ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s1359-6446(00)01543-9
更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Our understanding of the detailed recognition and processing of clinically useful therapeutic agents has grown rapidly in recent years, and we are now able to begin to apply this knowledge to the rational treatment of disease. Mammalian carboxylesterases (CEs) are enzymes with broad substrate specificities that have k...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/S1359-6446(05)03383-0
更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The concept of drug-likeness helps to optimise pharmacokinetic and pharmaceutical properties, for example, solubility, chemical stability, bioavailability and distribution profile. A number of molecular descriptors have emerged as reasonably informative and predictive, for example, the Rule-of-Five. Here, we review so...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2007.11.007
更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2016.05.017
更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Depending on the timing of market entry, radical innovations can be distinguished from incremental innovations. Whereas a radical innovation typically is the first available derivative of a drug class, incremental innovations are launched later and show a certain benefit compared with the radical innovation. Here, we ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2017.09.009
更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Pharmacological modulation of intracellular cyclic AMP (cAMP) signalling could provide new therapeutic and experimental tools. Although drugs interfering with this pathway have traditionally targeted membrane receptors, the effector enzyme adenylyl cyclase (AC), which functions as a signalling catalyst, also presents ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2009.07.007
更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Neuropathic pain research remains a challenging undertaking owing to: (i) the lack of understanding about the underlying disease processes; and (ii) poor predictive validity of the current models of evoked pain used for the screening of novel compounds. Common consensus is that experimental models replicate symptoms (...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2012.02.010
更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune skin disorder triggered by either genetic factors, environmental factors, life style, or a combination thereof. Clinical investigations have identified pathogenesis, such as T cell and cytokine-mediated, genetic disposition, antimicrobial peptides, lipocalin-2, galectin-3, vaspin, fra...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2020.09.023
更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Monitor provides an insight into the latest developments in drug discovery through brief synopses of recent presentations and publications together with expert commentaries on the latest technologies. There are two sections: Molecules summarizes the chemistry and the pharmacological significance and biological relevan...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s1359-6446(01)02006-2
更新日期：2001-11-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Carcinomas overexpressing EGFR family receptors are of high clinical importance, because the receptors have prognostic value and are used as molecular targets for anticancer therapy. Insufficient drug efficacy necessitates further in-depth research of the receptor biology and improvement in preclinical stages of drug ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2018.09.003
更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Mice have been excellent surrogates for studying neutrophil biology and, furthermore, murine models of human disease have provided fundamental insights into the roles of human neutrophils in innate immunity. The emergence of novel humanized mice and high-diversity mouse populations offers the research community innova...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2020.03.018
更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Drugs that covalently bond to their biological targets have a long history in drug discovery. A look at drug approvals in recent years suggests that covalent drugs will continue to make impacts on human health for years to come. Although fraught with concerns about toxicity, the high potencies and prolonged effects ac...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2015.05.005
更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00
