FDA-approved drugs selected using virtual screening bind specifically to G-quadruplex DNA.

abstract：:Aspirin is the cornerstone of treatment in patients with coronary artery disease. However, several studies investigating the in vitro response of platelets to the administration of aspirin showed this response to be variable, with some patients exhibiting non-responsiveness or resistance. Aspirin resistance may be cat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Papathanasiou A,Goudevenos J,Tselepis AD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diterpenes present complex structure and due to their unique carbon skeleton and interesting biological activities, have been the focus of continuous studies for the development of new anticancer agents. Phorbol esters have been known for their activity against skin malignancies since ancient times. Taxol was first st...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Prieto JM,Silveira D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large conduit arteries of the thorax and abdomen are elastic while those in the arms and legs are muscular. Alterations in wall properties of elastic arteries occur over time and are usually permanent in nature; acute changes can, however, occur is response to a change in transmural pressure. Chronic alterations i...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Nichols WW,Epstein BJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although somewhat controversial, there is good evidence that long-distance travel in general is a risk factor for venous thromboembolism, even in the absence of other risk factors. This is probably due to effects consequent to prolonged sitting but air travel in particular may be associated with risk factors other tha...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bradford A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes gene therapy strategies that take advantage of defective signal transduction pathways to selectively kill cancer cells without adversely affecting normal cells. The distinctive features of cancer cells currently exploited by gene therapy include mitosis, cell permissiveness to infection, specific...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Westphal EM,Melchner Hv Hv

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discovery and development of BCS class 1 drugs through high throughput screening is one of the biggest challenge faced by formulation scientist. METHODS:There are a number of approaches that have been exploited to enhance the solubility and permeability of drugs. Among them, development of nanosuspension ha...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Arora D,Khurana B,Rath G,Nanda S,Goyal AK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacophore concept is central to the rational drug design and discovery process. Traditionally, a pharmacophore is defined as a specific three-dimensional (3D) arrangement of chemical functional groups found in active molecules, which are characteristic of a certain pharmacological class of compounds. Herein, b...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tropsha A,Zheng W

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is an allergic disease that affects approximately 300 million people worldwide. Two of its phenotypes routinely assessed at the clinic include airway hyperresponsiveness and IgE production. They can be measured in a non-invasive manner and have been used for genetic studies. The genetic complexity of asthma and...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kanagaratham C,Radzioch D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to answer the following question: What are the typical features of abnormal bodily experiences (ABEs) in persons affected by acute first-episode schizophrenia? Our overall objective is to contribute to enhance early diagnosis of schizophrenia, and providing supplementary diagnostic criteri...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Stanghellini G,Ballerini M,Fusar Poli P,Cutting J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodegradable particles have important applications in Drug Delivery Systems (DDS) of protein/peptide drugs. And recently, particle systems have also showed to be powerful for vaccine delivery (adjuvant) in order to solve the difficulties when conventional Alum adjuvant was used. However, in above applications, the pr...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wang L,Yang T,Ma G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in the fabrication, characterization and application of micro- and nano-particles that possess a non-uniform internal structure are reviewed. The particle structures include core-shell particles, particles with multiple cores or a multi-layered structure, porous particles with both regular and random p...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Čejková J,Štêpánek F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increased use of oral anticoagulants for the prevention of venous and arterial thrombosis. Vitamin-K antagonists have been used for decades as the main oral anticoagulants but they have the draback a complex therapeutic management, slow onset of action and by a different oral intake caused by dietary vitam...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lamperti M,Khozenko A,Kumar A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of peptides and polypeptides can be appended to either the N- or C-terminus of G protein-coupled receptors without disrupting substantially ligand binding and signal transduction. Following fusion of fluorescent proteins, reporter gene constructs or G protein alpha subunits to the C-terminal tail of a rec...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Milligan G,Feng GJ,Ward RJ,Sartania N,Ramsay D,McLean AJ,Carrillo JJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of evidence on brain development and ageing has revealed that inflammatory processes profoundly affect brain functions during life span of mammalians, including humans. Activation of innate immune mechanisms leading to pro-inflammatory cytokine up-regulation is involved in devastating and disabling human ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bossù P,Ciaramella A,Salani F,Vanni D,Palladino I,Caltagirone C,Scapigliati G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy in women worldwide. Breast cancer tends to metastasize to bone. Around 70% of the breast cancer patients eventually develop bone metastasis. After the bone invasion, metastatic cells disrupt the balance between osteoblastic and osteoclastic activities...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Irshad I,Varamini P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circumstantial evidence has been provided of a role of the plasminogen/plasmin system in a variety of biological phenomena, including thrombolysis, vascular stenosis, reproduction, embryogenesis, cell invasion, angiogenesis, brain function and chronic lung or kidney inflammatory disorders. Inhibition of the system occ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Matsuno H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nuts have been an indispensable component of the human diet for hundreds because of their unique nutrient composition and are thought to play a beneficial part in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the extent, validity and presence of evidence for studies investigating the impa...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Schwingshackl L,Hoffmann G,Missbach B,Stelmach-Mardas M,Boeing H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromuscular blocking agents are the leading drugs responsible for immediate hypersensitivity reactions during anaesthesia. Most hypersensitivity reactions represent IgE-mediated allergic reactions. Their incidence is estimated to be between 1 in 3,000 to 1 in 110,000 general anaesthetics. However striking variations...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mertes PM,Aimone-Gastin I,Guéant-Rodriguez RM,Mouton-Faivre C,Audibert G,O'Brien J,Frendt D,Brezeanu M,Bouaziz H,Guéant JL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADAM (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase) proteins have a predominant role in the protein ectodomain shedding of membrane-bound molecules. ADAMs have emerged as critical regulators of cell-cell signaling during development and homeostasis, and are believed to contribute to pathologies, such as cancer, where their reg...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Peduto L

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral ischemia is one of the major causes of disability worldwide. In cerebral ischemic stroke, occlusion of a major cerebral artery by an embolus or local thrombosis can result in transient or permanent reduction of cerebral blood flow to a portion of the brain, resulting in deprivation of glucose and oxygen. Sinc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Shah K,Abbruscato T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery disease (CAD) ranks as the leading cause of death in the Western world. The most widely used therapeutics utilized for the treatment of CAD are the lipid-lowering drugs, which lower plasma cholesterol. However lowering cholesterol alone may not be sufficient to provide benefit to all patient population...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Arad Y,Saxena U

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are a serious viral health problem globally, causing liver cirrhosis and inflammation that can develop to hepatocellular carcinoma and death. Since the HCV NS3/4A protease complex cleaves the scissile peptide bond in the viral encoded polypeptide to release the non-structural protein...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Meeprasert A,Rungrotmongkol T,Li MS,Hannongbua S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) transduces stress signals from the plasma membrane to the nucleus but has recently also been identified in mitochondria. Inhibition of cardiomyocyte mitochondrial STAT3 with the STAT3-specific inhibitor Stattic decreases ADP-stimulated respiration and enha...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Boengler K,Ungefug E,Heusch G,Schulz R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oncoproteins MDM2 and MDMX negatively regulate the activity and stability of the p53 tumor suppressor, directly contributing to the development and progression of many tumors harboring wild type p53. Antagonizing MDM2 and MDMX to activate the p53 pathway has thus become an attractive new strategy for anticancer dr...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Zhan C,Lu W

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm birth is the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality. Pathological processes that have been linked with preterm birth infection and / or intrauterine inflammation are most frequently found associated with their induction. Studies in animal models and human research showed prior infections to the ind...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Burdet J,Rubio AP,Salazar AI,Ribeiro ML,Ibarra C,Franchi AM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plants of the Colchicum family were known during the archaic period in Greece for their deleterious properties. Later on, they were used for the treatment of podagra. The treatment was introduced by the ancient Greek physicians and passed on to the Byzantine and Arabian physicians to endure until nowadays. The fir...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tsoucalas G,Papaioannou T,Panayiotakopoulos G,Saridaki Z,Vrachatis DA,Karamanou M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All common contributing factors to epilepsy such as trauma, malignancies and infections are accompanied by different levels of central nervous system inflammation that in turn have been associated with the occurrence of seizure. Emerging data from human brain tissue and experimental models of epilepsy support the prop...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lorigados Pedre L,Morales Chacón LM,Orozco Suárez S,Pavón Fuentes N,Estupiñán Díaz B,Serrano Sánchez T,García Maeso I,Rocha Arrieta L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protective effect of pretreatment with ghrelin against different forms of acute pancreatitis (AP) has been recently reported. Moreover, the healing properties of this peptide have been proved in AP evoked by cerulein. However, no studies have investigated whether the administration of ghrelin affects the cou...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bukowczan J,Warzecha Z,Ceranowicz P,Kusnierz-Cabala B,Tomaszewska R,Dembinski A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute kidney injury (AKI) is relatively common in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and has been associated with increased mortality and worse outcomes. The administration of iodinated contrast media in an elderly population with increased rates of chronic kidney injury and heart failu...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kampaktsis PN,Feldman DN,Charitakis K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasopressin (AVP) secretion and release are regulated by a number of central nervous system sites that receive peripheral signals from the osmoreceptors and baroreceptors. Aim of this paper is to review anatomical pathways and neurotransmitters involved as well as drugs affecting AVP secretion. ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Iovino M,Guastamacchia E,Giagulli VA,Licchelli B,Triggiani V

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00