In vitro and in vivo models for analysis of resistance to anticancer molecular therapies.

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 role of cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), such as intercellular cell adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), vascular endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), E-selectin, and P-selectin, has been studied extensively in the process of inflammation. These molecules are responsible for recruiting leukocytes onto the vascul...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kobayashi H,Boelte KC,Lin PC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) involves the administration of a photosensitizer (PS) followed by illumination with visible light, leading to generation of reactive oxygen species. The mechanisms of resistance to PDT ascribed to the PS may be shared with the general mechanisms of drug resistance, and are related to altered...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Casas A,Di Venosa G,Hasan T,Al Batlle

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The large increase in epidemiological studies on night shift work is due to the important effects of night shift work on workers' health and psychophysical wellbeing. The short-term effects-insomnia, difficulties in managing work and private life, lower work performance, and more work and extra-work accident...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ferri GM,Cavone D,Intranuovo G,Macinagrossa L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity, associated with a series of complications such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, is a great threat to human health and leads to increased morbidity and mortality. Despite the presence of anti-obesity agents on the market, the application of these drugs is limited because of their typical side effe...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Qiu Y,Yu H,Zeng R,Guo S,Daniyal M,Deng Z,Wang A,Wang W

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Amino butyric acid is an extremely important inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system and is essential for the overall balance between neuronal excitation and inhibition. It is well documented that GABA deficiency is associated with several important neurological disorders such as Hunt...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gajcy K,Lochyński S,Librowski T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fulvestrant is a novel endocrine therapy for breast cancer, with a unique structure and mode of action. It binds competitively to the oestrogen receptor (ER), with high affinity, and downregulates ER by functional blockade and increased turnover. Fulvestrant has reached the clinic via extensive pre-clinical and clinic...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Johnston SJ,Cheung KL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic compounds with a tri- and tetra-substituted imidazole scaffold are known as selective inhibitors of the p38 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase responsible for proinflammatory cytokine release. The scope is to review the literature describing their design, synthesis and activity studies. To date a great p...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Scior T,Domeyer DM,Cuanalo-Contreras K,Laufer SA

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:In this review, we report the functionalization of textiles composed of nanoscale reactive materials in the treatment of wounds and skin diseases such as acne. In view of the growing demand for high-quality textiles, much research is focused on the creation of antimicrobial finishings for fabrics, in order to protect ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gedanken A,Perkas N,Perelshtein I,Lipovsky A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of protein degradation through the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway is a recently developed approach to cancer treatment which extends the range of cellular targets for chemotherapy. This therapeutic strategy is very interesting since the proteasomes carry out the regulated degradation of unnecessary or dam...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gilardini A,Marmiroli P,Cavaletti G

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Many of the currently available treatments for obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs) such as pharmacotherapy augmentation strategies, partial hospitalization programs, deep brain stimulation, and neurosurgery are efficacious for individuals suffering from more severe forms of these conditions. Unfortunate...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fontenelle LF,Zeni-Graiff M,Quintas JN,Yücel M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) which is caused by the resilient pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) has re-emerged to become a leading public health problem in the world. The growing number of multi-drug resistant MTB strains and the more recently emerging problem with the extensively drug resistant strains of the pathogen a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Viganor L,Skerry C,McCann M,Devereux M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is a member of the CC chemokine family that plays a key role in the inflammatory process. It has been broadly studied in the aspect of its role in obesity and diabetes related diseases. MCP-1 causes the infiltration of macrophages into obese adipose tissue via bindi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Czemplik M,Kulma A,Wang YF,Szopa J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platinum complex-based chemotherapy is one of the major treatment options of many malignancies. Although severe side effects occur, and only a limited spectrum of tumors can be cured, Pt compounds are used in every second therapy scheme. Thus, many different drug design strategies have been employed for improving the ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Hartinger CG,Nazarov AA,Ashraf SM,Dyson PJ,Keppler BK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, enzymatic therapy is a very promising line of treatment for many different diseases. There is a group of disorders and conditions, caused by fibrotic and scar processes and associated with the excessive accumulation of collagen that needs to be catabolized to normalize the connective tissue content. The huma...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Shekhter AB,Balakireva AV,Kuznetsova NV,Vukolova MN,Litvitsky PF,Zamyatnin AA Jr

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in November 2002 in Southern China's Guangdong Province, considerable progress has been made in the development of drugs for SARS therapy. The present mini review is focused on the area of computer-aided drug discovery, i.e., the advances achieved mainly f...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Chou KC,Wei DQ,Du QS,Sirois S,Zhong WZ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last century, many studies have demonstrated that low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is a key risk factor of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) related to atherosclerosis. Thus, for these CVD patients, LDL lowering agents are commonly used in the clinic to reduce the risk for CVD. LDL, upon modification, will develop d...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Schnitzler JG,Dallinga-Thie GM,Kroon J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multitarget-directed ligands (MTDLs), an emerging and appealing drug discovery strategy, utilizing a single chemical entity to inhibit multitargets, was confirmed to be effective in reducing the likelihood of drug resistance, diminishing problems of dosing complexity, drug-drug interactions and toxicities, as well as ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhan P,Liu X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelium plays an essential role in human homeostasis by regulating arterial blood pressure, distributing nutrients and hormones as well as providing a smooth surface that modulates coagulation, fibrinolysis and inflammation. Endothelial dysfunction is present in Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and contributes to the develo...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Tentolouris A,Eleftheriadou I,Tzeravini E,Tsilingiris D,Paschou SA,Siasos G,Tentolouris N

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal somatic stem cells (SC) are naturally resistant to chemotherapeutic agents due to their expression of various membrane transporter molecules (such as MDR-1), detoxifying enzymes and DNA repair proteins. In addition, they also have a slow rate of cell turnover and therefore escape from chemotherapeutic agents th...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gangemi R,Paleari L,Orengo AM,Cesario A,Chessa L,Ferrini S,Russo P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper summarizes the possible roles of frequent and unfavourable genetic variants in cerebrovascular disorders, such as stroke and leukoaraiosis. It also approaches the topic theoretically from functional and mathematical points of view, which can help make the accumulating data on genetic variants more un...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Szolnoki Z

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular recognition and ligand binding involving proteins underlie the most important life processes within the cell, such as substrate transport, catalysis, signal transmission, receptor trafficking, gene regulation, switching on and off of biochemical pathways. Despite recent successes in predicting the structures...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Morra G,Genoni A,Neves MA,Merz KM Jr,Colombo G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and development of radiolabelled steroid derivatives has been an important area of research due to their wellknown value in breast cancer targeting. The estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) are important biomarkers in the diagnosis, prognosis and follow-up of the therapeutic response of bre...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Oliveira MC,Neto C,Ribeiro Morais G,Thiemann T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances have identified the podocyte as a key target in glomerular injury. The podocyte is a highly specialized cell which is responsible for the glomerular permselectivity for proteins in the kidney. Podocyte injury or loss leads to proteinuria. Apoptosis has been shown to contribute to renal cell loss, inclu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Moreno JA,Sanchez-Niño MD,Sanz AB,Lassila M,Holthofer H,Blanco-Colio LM,Egido J,Ruiz-Ortega M,Ortiz A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are cytoplasmic double-membraned organelles that are involved in a myriad of key cellular regulatory processes. The loss of mitochondrial function is related to the pathogenesis of several human diseases. Over the last decades, an increasing number of studies have shown that dietary polyphenols can regula...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Teixeira J,Chavarria D,Borges F,Wojtczak L,Wieckowski MR,Karkucinska-Wieckowska A,Oliveira PJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physalia physalis is a marine cnidarian from which high molecular weight toxins with hemolytic and neurotoxic effects have been isolated. In the present work, two novel toxins, PpV9.4 and PpV19.3 were purified from P. physalis by bioactive guideline isolation. It involved two steps of column chromatography, gel filtra...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Diaz-Garcia CM,Fuentes-Silva D,Sanchez-Soto C,Domínguez-Pérez D,García-Delgado N,Varela C,Mendoza-Hernández G,Rodriguez-Romero A,Castaneda O,Hiriart M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With many advantages over other therapeutic agents such as monoclonal antibodies, aptamers have recently emerged as a novel and powerful class of ligands with excellent potential for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Typically generated through Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment (SELEX), ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang P,Yang Y,Hong H,Zhang Y,Cai W,Fang D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Snake venoms are natural sources of biologically active molecules that are able to act selectively and specifically on different cellular targets, modulating physiological functions. Thus, these mixtures, composed mainly of proteins and peptides, provide ample and challenging opportunities and a diversified molecular ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Almeida JR,Resende LM,Watanabe RK,Carregari VC,Huancahuire-Vega S,da S Caldeira CA,Coutinho-Neto A,Soares AM,Vale N,de C Gomes PA,Marangoni S,de A Calderon L,Da Silva SL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00