STAT-3 inhibitors: state of the art and new horizons for cancer treatment.

abstract：:The neuropeptide substance P (SP) shows a widespread distribution in both the central and peripheral nervous systems and it is known that after binding to the neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptors, SP regulates many biological functions in the central nervous system such as emotional behaviour, stress, depression, anxiety, em...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Muñoz M,Coveñas R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) based mapping and imaging is a fast emerging technology which is being increasingly applied to investigate tissues in the high-throughput mode. The high resolution close to the cellular level, the possibility to determine the bio-distribution of molecules of interest (proteins, pepti...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Petter CH,Heigl N,Rainer M,Bakry R,Pallua J,Bonn GK,Huck CW

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-based nanoparticles (pep-NPs) are emerging as promising imaging and therapeutic agents against cancer due to their biocompatibility and tunability. Optimized design of the peptide sequence and moderate conjugation of the sequence with extraneous molecules are crucial to the performance of the inherent properti...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： An L,Shah Gilani MR,Liang G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are the most powerful antigen-presenting cells which link the innate and adaptive immune responses. Depending on the context DCs initiate the immune responses or contribute to immune tolerance. Any disturbance in their phenotypes and functions may initiate inflammatory or autoimmune diseases. Hen...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Rahimi K,Hassanzadeh K,Khanbabaei H,Haftcheshmeh SM,Ahmadi A,Izadpanah E,Mohammadi A,Sahebkar A

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of amine-boranes and related derivatives possess a wide range of biological activities including antineoplastic, antiviral, hypolipidemic, anti-inflammatory activities, anti-osteoporotic and dopamine receptor antagonist activities. The compounds include borane complexes of alpha-amino acids, aromatic, aliphat...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Burnham BS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Mandraffino G,Saitta A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive norepinephrine (NE) release in the ischemic heart elicits severe and often lethal arrhythmias. Resident cardiac mast cells synthesize and store active renin, which is released upon degranulation, causing the activation of a local cardiac renin-angiotensin system (RAS) responsible for NE release and...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Marino A,Levi R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine organisms are abundant sources of bioactive natural products. Among metabolites produced by sponges and their associated microbial communities, halogenated natural compounds accounted for an important part due to their potent biological activities. The present review updates and compiles a total of 258 halogena...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Li C,Shi D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia in tumor cells is characterized by a lack of oxygen resulting from reduced blood supply to the surrounding tissue, and is a common characteristic of solid tumors as a consequence of rapid cell growth. Hypoxia in tumors is a predictor of both resistance to chemotherapy and of a metastatic/aggressive form of can...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Liang D,Miller GH,Tranmer GK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since photodynamic therapy emerged as a promising cancer treatment, the development of photosensitizers has gained great interest. In this context, the photosynthetic pigments, chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls, as excellent natural photosensitizers, attracted much attention. In effect, several (bacterio) chloroph...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Staron J,Boron B,Karcz D,Szczygieł M,Fiedor L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Post-exercise cardiac troponin T (cTnT) release has been widely reported in adult athletes but limited data is available for adolescents. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and magnitude of cTnT appearance in a large group of adolescent runners, and to determine any association between cTnT...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Nie J,George KP,Tong TK,Gaze D,Tian Y,Lin H,Shi Q

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last two decades, there have been significant technological advances in the early detection of brain tumors. However, no notable improvements have been observed in the treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), the most common brain neoplasm coupled with the worst prognosis. GBM is characterized by a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Arévalo ÁST,Erices JI,Uribe DA,Howden J,Niechi I,Muñoz S,Martín RS,Monrás CAQ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the serendipitous discovery of the antitumor activity of cisplatin there has been a continuous surge in studies aimed at the development of new cytotoxic metal complexes. While the majority of these complexes have been designed to interact with nuclear DNA, other targets for anticancer metallodrugs att...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Erxleben A

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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

abstract：:Rubus species (family Rosaceae) have been cultivated for centuries for their fruits. These and other parts of the plants have been used traditionally for therapeutic purposes. This article highlights these and the potential they can offer. The constituents reported in the various species and those demonstrated to exhi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Patel AV,Rojas-Vera J,Dacke CG

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Onychomycosis (fungal nail infections) is very common worldwide but is fortunately not often lethal. Several powerful drugs have been introduced into clinical practice in recent years, but these infections remain difficult to cure primarily due to the difficulty of penetration of drug to the site of the infection in t...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Basha A,Basha F,Ali SK,Hanson PR,Oakley BR,Hajovsky H,Mitscher LA

更新日期：2016-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of pancreatic cancer (PC) is rising in parallel with the deaths caused by this malignant disease largely due to limited improvement in current treatment strategies. In spite of aggressive PC research, for the past three decades, there has been no significant improvement in the five-year surviva...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Mohammed A,Janakiram NB,Madka V,Li M,Asch AS,Rao CV

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion of fluorescent techniques for studying the ligand-receptor interaction resulted in a burst of the novel fluorescent ligands development. The discovery of the ligand, that is of high affinity to the receptor and whose localization could be easily visualized, even on the single cell level, gave the researc...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kuder K,Kieć-Kononowicz K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether the increased atrial fibrillation (AF) risk in metabolic syndrome (MetS) patients is due to the syndrome as a whole or simply the sum of the risks of its individual component parts is still obscure. These two clinical entities share many pathophysiological links and thus distinction between a casual observatio...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Georgakopoulos C,Vlachopoulos C,Lazaros G,Tousoulis D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low molecular weight oligonucleotides have been discovered to have potential use for gene therapy by selectively inhibiting the expression of certain genes. Chemical conjugation of functional peptides to oligonucleotides can introduce desired properties to the oligonucleotides, such as cell-specific delivery, cellular...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang CF,Auriola S,Hirvonen J,Santos HA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia is a life threatening disease that has become increasingly common. Many categories of anti-leukemic agents have been developed by probing into the nature of leukemia. Nevertheless, the needs for potent molecules with few side effects are still not satisfied in the current anti-leukemic therapy. Targeted thera...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bian J,Zhang L,Han Y,Wang C,Zhang L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radical induced oxidative damage is extremely harmful to tissues and organs due to molecular modifications brought to polyunsaturated membrane lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. Oxidative stress is believed to be one of the pathophysiological mechanisms that operate in neurodegenerative disorders such as cerebral isc...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Goldstein S,Lestage P

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal brain hemorrhage (NBH) of prematurity is an unfortunate consequence of preterm birth. Complications result in shunt dependence and long-term structural changes such as posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus, periventricular leukomalacia, gliosis, and neurological dysfunction. Several animal models are available to stu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lekic T,Klebe D,Poblete R,Krafft PR,Rolland WB,Tang J,Zhang JH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisynthetase syndrome is a group of closely related rare diseases which clinically manifest with inflammatory myopathies, interstitial lung disease, inflammatory arthritis, skin hyperkeratosis (mechanic’s hands) and Raynaud phenomenon. The pathophysiology of antisynthetase syndrome is not entirely understood, but ge...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Mirrakhimov AE

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell products are live cells that are given to patients in order to replace or modify the function of missing or dysfunctional cells. Progress in technology and in the understanding of pathobiology may lead to the use of cell products in many areas. This review outlines the use of cell products in the treatment of aut...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ernerudh J,Berlin G,Ekerfelt C

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Considerable evidence demonstrates the importance of dithiocarbamates especially disulfiram as anticancer drugs. However there are no systematic reviews outlining how their metal-binding ability is related to their anticancer activity. This review aims to summarize chemical features and metal-binding activit...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Viola-Rhenals M,Patel KR,Jaimes-Santamaria L,Wu G,Liu J,Dou QP

更新日期：2018-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to ascertain the role of dietary flavonoids as antioxidants in vivo it is necessary to understand the chemical nature of the absorbed forms in the circulation in vivo and how the multiplicity of research findings in vitro reflect the bioactivity of flavonoids in vivo. Only when we gain adequate information on...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Rice-Evans C

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During lead identification and optimization, the advancement criteria may be driven based on scientific principles, prior experiences, and/or by examining the path paved by approved drugs. However, accessing the discovery data on physicochemical and ADME properties of the approved kinase inhibitors is a monu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： O Brien Z,Moghaddam MF

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of iron chelators as anti-tumor agents is still in its infancy. Iron is important for cellular proliferation and this is demonstrated by observations that iron-depletion results in cell cycle arrest and also apoptosis. In addition, many iron chelators are known to inhibit ribonucleotide reductase, the iron-c...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Yu Y,Gutierrez E,Kovacevic Z,Saletta F,Obeidy P,Suryo Rahmanto Y,Richardson DR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00