Clinical impact of the detection of BRAF mutations in thyroid pathology: potential usefulness as diagnostic, prognostic and theragnostic applications.

abstract：:Patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) suffer from increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The ankle brachial index has been widely used as an easy tool to identify and stratify patients with PAD, however its predictive value remains limited. Higher levels of inflammatory and prothrombotic biomarker...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Charakida M,Masi S,Tousoulis D

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well accepted that inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, is one of high risk factors for colorectal cancer (CRC). This supports the notion that inflammation plays a key role in cancer development. Epidemiologic studies have shown that vitamin D (Vit D) deficiency is ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Luan Z,Ma Y,Xin Y,Qian J,Wang H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is already an old acquaintance, there are often exciting discoveries that improve our knowledge of it and open new therapeutic possibilities. Moreover, well-established drugs, such as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI), angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB), or be...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ramírez-Sánchez M,Prieto I,Wangensteen R,Banegas I,Segarra AB,Villarejo AB,Vives F,Cobo J,de Gasparo M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoprevention is based on the use of non-toxic, pharmacologically active agents to prevent tumor progression. In this regard, natural dietary agents have been described by the most recent literature as promising tools for controlling onset and progression of malignancies. Extensive research has been so far performed...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Raimondi L,De Luca A,Giavaresi G,Barone A,Tagliaferri P,Tassone P,Amodio N

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functioning of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is tightly linked to the membrane environment, but a molecular level understanding of the modulation of GPCR by membrane lipids is not available. However, specific receptor-lipid interactions as well as unspecific effects mediated by the bulk properties of the membran...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Sadiq SK,Guixa-Gonzalez R,Dainese E,Pastor M,De Fabritiis G,Selent J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are widely believed to cause or aggravate several human pathologies such as neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, stroke and many other ailments. Antioxidants are assumed to counteract the harmful effects of ROS and therefore prevent or treat oxidative stress-related diseases. In this repor...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Firuzi O,Miri R,Tavakkoli M,Saso L

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor Xa (fXa) is a critical serine protease situated at the confluence of the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways of the blood coagulation cascade. FXa catalyses the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin via the prothrombinase complex. Its singular role in thrombin generation, coupled with its potentiating effects on c...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Guertin KR,Choi YM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are diverse group of compounds used for the treatment of inflammation, since the introduction of acetylsalicylic acid in 1899. Traditional (first generation) NSAIDs exert antiinflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic effects through the blockade of prostaglandin synthe...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Chakraborti AK,Garg SK,Kumar R,Motiwala HF,Jadhavar PS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer arises in about 48% of patients older than 65 years and more than 30% occurs in those over 70 years being the leading cause of cancer-related death in women older than 65. Elderly patients tolerate chemotherapy poorly compared to their younger counterpart because of progressive reduction of organ functio...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Rossi A,Colantuoni G,Maione P,Ferrara C,Airoma G,Barzelloni ML,Castaldo V,Gridelli C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammation is one of the most misunderstood aspects of human health. People have been encouraged to eat foods that have a high antioxidant capacity, and in vitro tests for total antioxidant capacity emerged. They were based on measuring the destruction of oxidized test compounds in direct reactions with th...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Smith RE

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion channel dysfunction has been identified as a contributor to symptom development and neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS). The molecular insights have been translated into new lines of research, with ion channel modulation now representing a therapeutic approach in MS. Studies of Na+ channel function have d...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Arnold R,Huynh W,Kiernan MC,Krishnan AV

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone pain arising from secondary skeletal malignancy constitutes one of the most common types of chronic pain among patients with cancer which can lead to rapid deterioration of the quality of life. Radionuclide therapy using bone-seeking radiopharmaceuticals based on the concept of localization of the agent at bone m...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Dash A,Das T,Knapp FFR

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:The use of anti-diabetic drugs has been increasing worldwide and the evolution of therapeutics has been enormous. Still, the currently available anti-diabetic drugs do not present the desired efficacy and are generally associated with serious adverse effects. Thus, entirely new interventions, addressing the underlying...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Rocha S,Ribeiro D,Fernandes E,Freitas M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which constitutes the lipid portion of the outer leaflet of Gram-negative bacteria, is essential for growth. It is also responsible for the variety of biological effects associated with Gram-negative sepsis. Recent advances have elucidated the exact chemical structure of this highly complex m...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cipolla L,Polissi A,Airoldi C,Gabrielli L,Merlo S,Nicotra F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years there has been a growing interest in computer-based screening. One of the driving forces has been the increased efficiency of protein crystallography leading to the real possibility of using structure-based design as a significant contributor to the discovery of novel ligands. In 1957 after 22 years of...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Glen RC,Allen SC

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper (Th) cells belong to the adaptive immune system and provide an effective and antigen-specific means of host protection. Th17 cells are a subset of Th cells, characterized by the production of the inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-17A (IL-17A) and IL-17F, which bind to a receptor complex comprised of IL-...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ghali JR,Holdsworth SR,Kitching AR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although glial proliferation of the epileptic loci is recognized for more than a century in certain focal epilepsies, the role of astrocytes in epileptic conditions is receiving significant attention only in recent years. The present review will highlight current knowledge about the various ways astrocytes control neu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Héja L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Andrographolide, the main bioactive component separated from Andrographis paniculata in 1951, have been scrutinized with modern drug discovery approach for anti-inflammatory properties since 1984. Identifying new uses for existing drugs can be facilitated by evidence linking them to known or yet undiscovered drug targ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ren X,Xu W,Sun J,Dong B,Awala H,Wang L

更新日期：2020-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pregnancy specific β1-glycoproteins (PSGs) have long been recognized as trophoblast quality and embryo viability markers. However, biological roles of PSGs remain obscure, and structure/function relationships to other feto-placental proteins as well as implications for drug design have not been reviewed. Thi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Moldogazieva NT,Mokhosoev IM,Terentiev AA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to quinolones and fluoroquinolones has been increasingly reported among human and veterinary isolates during the last three decades related to their wide clinical use. Until recently, the mechanisms of resistance to quinolones in Enterobacteriaceae were believed to be only chromosome-encoded, i.e. related t...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cattoir V,Nordmann P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutritional iron deficiency represents a relevant health problem mainly in developing countries. Children and pregnant women represent the main target of this disease, and the low amount of bio-available iron mostly depends on plant-based diets. Iron deficiency may have serious consequences, with severe impairment of ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lachowicz JI,Nurchi VM,Fanni D,Gerosa C,Peana M,Zoroddu MA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) family of nuclear receptors, a set of three receptor sub-types encoded by distinct genes, function as lipid sensors to regulate a broad range of genes in many metabolically active tissues. Synthetic PPAR agonists have exhibited therapeutic benefits in treating diab...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Shearer BG,Hoekstra WJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers the compounds isolated from marine sponges with neuroprotective activities during the period between 1999 and 2014 based on their chemical structures, collections sites, sponge taxonomy and neuroprotective effects. These compounds were isolated from marine sponges collected from 18 countries, most o...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Alghazwi M,Kan YQ,Zhang W,Gai WP,Yan XX

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, the use of synthetic carriers as biochemical reagents and immunogens is entering a new phase. The multimeric nature of these constructs, the unambiguous composition and the ease, reliability and versatility of their production, make this type of carriers well-suited to various biotechnological and biochemica...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Alexopoulos Ch,Sakarellos-Daitsiotis M,Sakarellos C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress or heat shock proteins (Hsps) Hsp90, Hsp70 and Hsp27 are chaperones that assist the proteins in their folding, stability, assembly into multi-protein complexes and transport across cellular membranes. The expression of some of them is highly induced in response to a wide variety of physiological and environment...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Didelot C,Lanneau D,Brunet M,Joly AL,De Thonel A,Chiosis G,Garrido C

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) translationally repressing their target messenger RNAs due to their gene-regulatory functions play an important but not unexpected role in a tumour development. More surprising are the findings that levels of various miRNAs are well correlated with presence of specific tumours and formation of metas...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Pekarik V,Gumulec J,Masarik M,Kizek R,Adam V

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a large family of calcium-dependent zinc- containing endopeptidases, which are responsible for the tissue remodeling and degradation of the extracellular matrix (ECM), including collagens, elastins, gelatin, matrix glycoproteins, and proteoglycan. The inappropriate expression of th...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Yadav RK,Gupta SP,Sharma PK,Patil VM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Orhan IE

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00