Novel therapeutic strategies targeting vascular endothelium in essential hypertension.

abstract：:Diminished efficacy in terms of clinical relapses and lesion load on magnetic resonance images for patients developing neutralising antibodies (NAbs) to recombinant IFN-beta may be found in multiple sclerosis. NAbs become detectable over the first few years of therapy, disappearing during the treatment course in some ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Bagnato F,Pozzilli C

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Through well-designed clinical trials, advances have been made in the treatment of localised and advanced colorectal cancer. It has been established that 6 months of 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy will improve overall survival in patients with stage III...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Mulcahy MF,Benson AB 3rd

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Obesity is a major health threat in the Western world because of its high incidence and prevalence, and its association with metabolic and cardiovascular disease as well as cancer. The reduction of food intake in obese patients can be achieved only transiently (generally for no longer than 6 months), in th...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Folli F,Guardado Mendoza R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Gut-specific homing is mainly mediated by the expression of MAdCAM-1 on endothelial cells. An increase in MAdCAM-1 expression has been shown in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Areas covered: PF-00547659 is a fully human monoclonal antibody (mAb) toward MAdCAM-1 on endothelial cells, blockin...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Allocca M,Gilardi D,Fiorino G,Furfaro F,Argollo M,Peyrin-Biroulet L,Danese S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of tremendous efforts to control cancer, the mortality associated with this disease has been increasing in developed countries in the recent decades. Inadequate efficiency of existing therapeutic regimens and the rise of multi-drug resistant cancer cells are the main factors which require a broadening of inve...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Pasechnik V

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD:Contrasting with the broad activation of the PI3K/AKT/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) survival pathway in most cancer, activity of rapalogues appears to be restricted to a few tumor types. AREAS COVERED IN THIS REVIEW:The analysis of molecular activity of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway and resi...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Albert S,Serova M,Dreyer C,Sablin MP,Faivre S,Raymond E

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriasis is a common skin disease which is characterised by the proliferation and abnormal differentiation of keratinocytes, coupled with complex immune disturbances. The beneficial effects of vitamin D derivatives in this disease are due to their capacity to inhibit proliferation, their ability to induce normal diff...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Guilhou JJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:There has been a striking increase in the emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens in recent times. Delafloxacin is a novel, broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone with antimicrobial activity against resistant Gram-positive, Gram-negative and anaerobic organisms. It has the potential to treat a variety of infect...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Bassetti M,Della Siega P,Pecori D,Scarparo C,Righi E

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Cyclin-dependent kinase 7 (CDK7) is a part of the CDK-activating kinase family (CAK) which has a key role in the cell cycle and transcriptional regulation. Several lines of evidence suggest that CDK7 is a promising therapeutic target for cancer. CDK7 selective inhibitors such as SY-5609 and CT7001 are in...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Liang H,Du J,Elhassan RM,Hou X,Fang H

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness among elderly individuals in industrialized countries. New drugs and advanced concepts for the treatment of dry AMD (dAMD) are needed. A new approach is the application of intravenous infusions of prostaglandin E1. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Augustin AJ,Diehm C,Grieger F,Bentz J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between the urokinase receptor (uPAR) and its ligand urokinase (uPA) mediates phenomena such as tissue remodelling, chemotaxis, tumour invasion, dissemination, proliferation, and angiogenesis. The broad-spectrum of biological processes that the uPA/uPAR interaction plays a role in has led researchers t...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Weidle UH,König B

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable advances have been made on compounds that are active as inhibitors of HIV entry and fusion. The discovery of chemokines a few years ago focused the attention on coreceptor inhibitors in addition to fusion and attachment blockers. During the last 5 years, there has been an intense research activity from bo...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Citterio P,Rusconi S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In the last decade, concerns have been raised around the use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) and intravenous iron in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, especially when given at high doses. Moreover, treatment with ESA is expensive. AREAS COVERED:We searched PubMed for original articles, re...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Del Vecchio L,Locatelli F

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable progress has been made with tyrosine kinase inhibitors. After long and sustained efforts, several tyrosine kinase inhibitors with convincing in vivo experimental antitumour properties such as CP-358,774, ZD 1839, CEP-751 are entering Phase I clinical trials. Significant in vivo experimental antitumour act...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Lavelle F

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We carried out a screen for small molecule selective inhibitors of eukaryotic DNA polymerases (pols). Dehydroaltenusin, isolated from a fungus (Alternaria tenuis), was found to be a specific inhibitor of pol α. AREAS COVERED:We succeeded in chemically synthesizing dehydroaltenusin along with five analogs....

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Mizushina Y,Maeda N,Kuriyama I,Yoshida H

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Diabetic macular edema (DME) and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) are the two complications of diabetes that cause visual loss and blindness. Laser photo-coagulation in the past was used to prevent progression of disease to these advanced stages. Advances in pathophysiologic understanding of DME an...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Tolentino MS,Tolentino AJ,Tolentino MJ

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the past years the bone seeking radiopharmaceutical samarium lexidronam ((153)Sm-EDTMP) has been increasingly used alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy and/or bisphosphonates for the treatment of painful bone metastasis. OBJECTIVE:Its use has been explored in different solid tumours. In this report ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Abruzzese E,Iuliano F,Trawinska MM,Di Maio M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Khan A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylphenidate (MPH) is one of the most commonly prescribed medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Despite the elevated rates of ADHD in children with epilepsy, few studies have examined the use of MPH in this population. Case reports have warned about new-onset seizures in patients tre...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Baptista-Neto L,Dodds A,Rao S,Whitney J,Torres A,Gonzalez-Heydrich J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel classes of antibiotics that are useful against resistant bacteria are a major need in human medicine. Cationic antimicrobial peptides are utilised as nature's antibiotics, being produced constitutively or in response to infection in virtually every type of organism from plants and insects to man. Thus, these pep...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Hancock RE

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major health problem that is responsible for < or = 1 million deaths and 500,000 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide each year. Drugs that are currently approved by the FDA for the treatment of chronic HBV consist of two groups: the immunomodulators, such as conve...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Hui CK,Lau GK

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Dasatinib is a novel tyrosine kinase inhibitor with activity against the Src family kinases. The Src pathway is active in breast cancer and has been shown to promote cell proliferation, invasiveness, and metastases. Preclinical data support the use of dasatinib to inhibit breast cancer cell growth, modulat...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Scher KS,Somlo G

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main cause of illness and death after the first year of heart transplantation is vasculopathy of the cardiac allograft, probably initiated by early immunological and non-immunological endothelial damage. The incidence of multiple episodes of grade 3A rejection 6 months after primary heart transplantation was lower...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Doggrell SA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials of several platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors have demonstrated an unequivocal benefit of this potent antithrombotic therapy in high-risk patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) as well as in those undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. In all of these major trials, ho...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Salam AM

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent protein kinases (CDKs) are key regulators of the cell division cycle, whose various checkpoints proliferating cells must traverse. Since CDK deregulation, either through direct or indirect means, is found in most cancer cells, pharmacological CDK inhibition has become an attractive strategy towards me...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Fischer PM,Gianella-Borradori A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aripiprazole has made a significant contribution to the treatment of schizophrenia and related disorders with an improved safety and tolerability profile, which has been attributed to its unique pharmacological profile. It has been claimed that partial agonism of the dopamine D(2) and 5-HT(1A) receptors and antagonism...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Wood M,Reavill C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Since the discovery of the activating V617F mutation in Janus kinase 2 (JAK2), a number of pharmacologic inhibitors of JAK2 have entered clinical trials for patients with myelofibrosis. However, ruxolitinib, approved in 2011, remains the only one currently available for treatment of myelofibrosis, with man...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Bose P,Abou Zahr A,Verstovsek S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kunitz-type proteinase inhibitor, tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI), is the only endogenous inhibitor of the tissue factor (TF)-mediated coagulation pathway that plays a dominant role in normal haemostasis. TFPI exerts its action by binding to factor Xa (FXa) forming a TFPI-FXa complex that then, in a second ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Kaiser B,Hoppensteadt DH,Fareed J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marfan syndrome is the most common genetic disorder of the connective tissue with an estimated prevalence of 1:10,000. The disease is characterised by manifestations in the cardiovascular, skeletal and ocular systems. The most severe manifestations are those of the cardiovascular system: mitral valve prolapse and dila...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Phylactou LA,Kilpatrick MW

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has undergone significant changes over the past 3 years after a long period of relative stagnation. A better understanding of the biology of the tumor led to the discovery of molecular targeted therapies resulting in significant improvement in outcome for this...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Vakkalanka BK,Bukowski RM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00