In-situ hybridization as a molecular tool in cancer diagnosis and treatment.

abstract：:Among naturally occurring isoflavones, soy isoflavones are an important class with various biological activities. Due to their phytoestrogenic structure, their effects on the brain are profound thus making the neurobiological effects of these compounds an active area of research. One such compound is daidzein, which h...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ahmed T,Javed S,Tariq A,Budzyńska B,D'Onofrio G,Daglia M,Nabavi SF,Nabavi SM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid innovations in nanomedicine have increased the likelihood that engineered nanomaterials will eventually come in contact with humans and the environment. The advent of nanotechnology has created strong interest in many fields such as biomedical sciences and engineering field. Central to any significant advances i...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Subbiah R,Veerapandian M,Yun KS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existence of residual cancers and recurrence of cancers are two major limitations of conventional therapies against cancers. A naturally-occurring defense system against tumor may be established in cancer patients by induction of antitumor immunity. Both polyvalent and tumor antigen-defined vaccines have been administ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fazle Akbar SM,Abe M,Yoshida O,Murakami H,Onji M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polyphenols are probably the most known and investigated molecules of nutritional interest as micronutrients present in abundance in our diet. Some of the most important food sources of polyphenols in the Mediterranean diet are olives and olive oil. A growing body of evidence from animal models to clinical s...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Carito V,Ceccanti M,Tarani L,Ferraguti G,Chaldakov GN,Fiore M

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Coumarins are of many different structures. They constitute an important class of pharmacological agents possessing a range of different physiological activities including anti-cancer, anti-oxidant, anti- inflammation, anti-HIV, anti-coagulant, anti-bacterial, analgesic and comparative immune-modulation. Recently, cou...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wu L,Wang X,Xu W,Farzaneh F,Xu R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX3 is a well-known host factor that inhibits hepatitis B viral proliferation and boosts innate immune responses via TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1)/IKKε-mediated and/or interferon (IFN)-β promoter stimulator-1 (IPS-1)-mediated IFN-β induction. Previously, we demonstrated the anti-hepatitis B activ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Choi YJ,Kang LJ,Lee SG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Salvianolic acid B (Sal B), one of the most active components of Danshen extracts, has beneficial roles in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. However, the precise mechanism by which Sal B exerts its effects on vascular cells is unclear. We aimed to elucidate the effects of Sal B on vascular c...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lee HJ,Seo M,Lee EJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with diabetes mellitus have an increased risk of mortality due to cardiovascular complications. Supplementation with specific sulphur-containing amino acids is rapidly emerging as a possible therapeutic adjuvant for diabetes and associated cardiovascular complications. OBSERVATIONS:It is well-known...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Tappia PS,Adameova A,Dhalla NS

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has become acceptable that neuroretinal cells are also affected in diabetes, vascular lesions continue to be considered as the hallmarks of diabetic retinopathy. Animal models are essential for the understanding and treatment of human diabetic retinopathy, and the mouse is intensively used as a model becau...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ramos D,Carretero A,Navarro M,Mendes-Jorge L,Nacher V,Rodriguez-Baeza A,Ruberte J

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4), a substrate-specific serine protease, has been validated as a promising drug target for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. DPP-4 inhibitors significantly lowered blood glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes without common body weight gain, hypoglycemia and gastrointestinal distu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Liu Y,Hu Y,Liu T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various human tumors preferentially metastasize by lymphatic route and lymphovascular invasion predicts lymph node metastasis. In this review article, we will summarize recent literature data concerning lymphangiogenesis, focusing on tumor lymphangiogenesis. In detail, we try to answer some important questions related...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Raica M,Ribatti D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dose-limiting toxicity to healthy tissues is among the major hurdles in anticancer treatment along with intrinsic or acquired multi-drug resistance. Development of small molecule inhibitors (SMI) specific for antiapoptotic Bcl-2 proteins is a novel approach in a way that these antagonists are aimed to interfere with s...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bodur C,Basaga H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme is an essential molecule with contradictory biological functions. In hemoproteins such as hemoglobin and cytochromes protein-bound heme is a prosthetic group serving physiological functions as a transporter for oxygen and electrons. On the other hand free heme can have deleterious effects by generating reactive o...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wijayanti N,Katz N,Immenschuh S

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) nowadays represent most promising anti-AIDS drugs that specifically inhibit HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT). They have a unique antiviral potency, high specificity and low cytotoxicity. However, to a great extent, the efficacy of HIV-1 NNRTIs is compounde...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Chen X,Zhan P,Li D,De Clercq E,Liu X

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that hyperglycemia results in the generation of reactive oxygen species, leading to oxidative stress in various tissues, including vascular system. An important link between oxidative stress, inflammatory response and insulin activity is now well established. The ability of antioxidants to protect ag...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Nicolle E,Souard F,Faure P,Boumendjel A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic, degenerative diseases are often characterized by inflammation and aberrant angiogenesis. For these pathologies, including rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases, cancer, diabetes, and obesity, current therapies have limited efficacy. OBJECTIVES:The validation of novel (chemo)p...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Albini A,Bassani B,Baci D,Dallaglio K,Gallazzi M,Corradino P,Bruno A,Noonan DM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few years, use of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) has made it possible to identify the primary genetic mechanisms of essential hypertension. GWAS results have helped identify many loci in or near genes that generally were not expected to be associated with blood pressure or essential hypertensio...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Pan S,Naruse H,Nakayama T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D has been known for a long time as a major factor involved in the calcium- phosphate balance and homeostasis, along with parathyroid hormone (PTH). While vitamin D effects on calcium and phosphate are fully known, recent studies attempted to link vitamin D status and cardiovascular diseases. The involvement o...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Santoro D,Pellicanò V,Cernaro V,Lacava V,Lacquaniti A,Atteritano M,Buemi M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) is one of the most attractive targets for medicinal chemists. Among 5-HTRs, the 5-HT(1A) subtype is the best studied and it is generally accepted that it is involved in psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and depression. Several structurally different compounds are known to bind...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： López-Rodríguez ML,Ayala D,Benhamú B,Morcillo MJ,Viso A

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:This research evaluated the effect of multiple-wave lasertherapy on the healing process of surgical wounds based on in vitro models denominated stem-dermal equivalents. These human skin models were obtained from a co-culture of dermal cells and bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. The experimental tests were carried ou...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Primo FL,de Paula LB,de Siqueira-Moura MP,Tedesco AC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenic peptides are, or have potential to be, therapies for the treatment of osteoporosis, fracture repair, and repair of loosened bone implants. Human parathyroid hormone has been approved for the treatment of post-menopausal osteoporosis. Constrained analogs of PTH and the parathyroid-hormone related peptide (PT...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Willick GE,Morley P,Whitfield JF

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetics is a field of biological sciences focused on the study of reversible, heritable changes in gene function not due to modifications of the genomic sequence. These changes are the result of a complex cross-talk between several molecular mechanisms, that is in turn orchestrated by genetic and environmental fac...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： De Riso G,Cocozza S

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary amyloidogenic transthyretin (TTR) (ATTR) amyloidosis is an autosomal dominant form of fatal hereditary amyloidosis. Owing to progress in biochemical and molecular genetic analyses, this disease is now believed to occur worldwide. As of today, reports of about 120 different points of single or double mutatio...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ando Y,Ueda M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its discovery in 1995 adiponectin has garnered considerable interest from the academic, clinical and biotech communities due to its proposed salutary anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, anti-atherogenic and cardioprotective properties. As a result our appreciation of adiponectin's structure and the importance of p...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Hickman IJ,Whitehead JP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitotic cell cycle is a tightly regulated process that ensures the correct division of one cell into two daughter cells. Progress along the different phases of the cell cycle is positively regulated by the sequential activation of a family of serine-threonine kinases called CDKs (Cyclin Dependent Kinases). Their a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Belletti B,Nicoloso MS,Schiappacassi M,Chimienti E,Berton S,Lovat F,Colombatti A,Baldassarre G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs) like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease are a heterogeneous group of disorders with the progressive and severe loss of neurons. There are no full proof cures for these diseases, and only medicines are available that can alleviate some of the symptoms. D...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Volcho KP,Laev SS,Ashraf GM,Aliev G,Salakhutdinov NF

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombomodulin (TM) is a membrane protein mainly expressed by endothelial cells. It is part of the anticoagulant protein C system but recently several effects were discovered which occur independently of protein C activation. TM binds thrombin and promotes the cleavage of protein C and the thrombin activatable fibrino...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wenzel J,Assmann JC,Schwaninger M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00