GHB, GBL and 1,4-BD addiction.

abstract：:Insight is provided herein into the novel mechanisms of cardiometabolic risk. Previous reports, including the epidemiological work of the Turkish Adult Risk Factor study, indicated that proinflammatory state and oxidative stress are crucial for evaluating cardiometabolic risk. Autoimmune pathways in the course of oxid...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Onat A,Can G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS), as well as reactive nitrogen species (RNS) play either harmful or beneficial role in biological systems. Beneficial effects of ROS include physiological roles in cellular responses against infectious agents and in several cellular signalling pathways. Harmful effects are due to high conc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Balsano C,Alisi A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of β-adrenergic receptors in the heart is the most effective endogenous way to increase the mechanical performance of cardiac tissues to meet the requirements of a fight-or-flight situation or stress. On the other hand, sustained activation of cardiac β-receptors initiates maladaptive remodeling of the myo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Szentmiklosi AJ,Szentandrássy N,Hegyi B,Horvath B,Magyar J,Bányász T,Nanasi PP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human heart has endogenous regenerative capability; however, the intrinsic repair mechanism is not sufficient to overcome the impact placed by adverse pathological conditions, such as myocardial infarction (MI). In such circumstances, the damaged tissue initiates a series of remodeling process which results in the det...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Joshi J,Kothapalli CR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained rhythm disturbance, increasing prevalence with age, in particular in patients with cardiovascular disease. On the other hand, a subset of patients with AF being <60 years old and no evidence of underlying cardiovascular disease, and laboratory tests including thyro...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tello-Montoliu A,Hernández-Romero D,Sanchez-Martínez M,Valdes M,Marín F

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is a novel member of the secretin/glucagon/vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) superfamily. In vertebrates, including avians, it occurs in two forms: PACAP(38) and PACAP(27). PACAP structure is well conserved during evolution, being identical in mammals, and s...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Nowak JZ,Zawilska JB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enhancing a compound's biological activity is the central task for lead optimization in small molecules drug discovery. However, it is laborious to perform many iterative rounds of compound synthesis and bioactivity tests. To address the issue, it is highly demanding to develop high quality in silico bioacti...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ding X,Cui C,Wang D,Zhao J,Zheng M,Luo X,Jiang H,Chen K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytes are leading component of the mononuclear phagocytic system that play a key role in phagocytosis and removal of several kinds of microbes from the body. Monocytes are bone marrow precursor cells that stay in the blood for a few days and migrate towards tissues where they differentiate into macrophages. Monocy...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sabir F,Farooq RK,Asim Ur Rehman,Ahmed N

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotaviruses are an important cause of human morbidity and mortality, representing the primary pathogens responsible for acute dehydrating diarrhea in children under the age of 3. The infectious rotavirus particle is made up of three concentric layers of protein, and contains a genome consisting of eleven segments of d...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Patton JT,Vasquez-Del Carpio R,Spencer E

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are considered a major health problem worldwide, being the main cause of mortality in developing and developed countries. Endothelial dysfunction, characterized by a decline in nitric oxide production and/or bioavailability, increased oxidative stress, decreased prostacyclin levels, and a...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Blanco-Rivero J,Xavier FE

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kv7.x channels are a family of six transmembrane domain, single pore-loop, voltage-gated K(+) channels. Five members of the family have been identified to date, including the cardiac channel Kv7.1 (formerly known as KvLQT1) and four neuronal Kv7.x channels, Kv7.2-5. Heteromeric channels containing Kv7.3 and either Kv7...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wickenden AD,McNaughton-Smith G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer and tumor have been major reasons for numerous deaths in this century across the world. Many strategies have been designed to treat, diagnose, or prevent cancer. The success of chemotherapy largely depends on drug targeting. The advent of nanotechnology has vastly improved drug delivery for targeting and diagno...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ansari MT,Ramlan TA,Jamaluddin NN,Zamri N,Salfi R,Khan A,Sami F,Majeed S,Hasnain MS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the most debilitating symptoms for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia remain poorly treated. As such, the development of novel treatments is urgently needed. Unfortunately, the costs associated with high failure rates for investigational compounds as they enter clinical trials has led to pharmaceutica...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wylie KP,Smucny J,Legget KT,Tregellas JR

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P2Y12 adenosine di-phosphate (ADP) receptor antagonists are critical to reduce thrombotic recurrences in acute coronary syndromes patients and for those undergoing percutaneous coronary revascularization. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that the level of on-treatment platelet reactivity inhibition with P2Y12 ADP re...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Laine M,Camoin-Jau L,Bessereau J,Sébastien A,Paganelli F,Bonello L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) is a multi-functional cytokine that regulates a variety of signaling pathways implicated in inflammation, immunity, cell death (apoptosis), cell survival (anti-apoptosis), and even tumorigenesis. TNF-α is predominantly produced by macrophages (or Kupffer cells within the liver), but...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Jang MK,Kim HS,Chung YH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of depression on physical disability is undisputed. There is convincing evidence that depression increases the subsequent risk for physical disability and, in turn, physical disability results in increased depressive symptoms. Moreover, depression affects also the earlier stages of the disablement process (...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Milaneschi Y,Penninx BW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cumulative scientific evidence gathered over the past ten years has confirmed the role of platelet GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors in reducing ischemic complications of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Recently, mortality data available on more than 20,000 patients enrolled in randomized clinical t...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Dery JP,Harrington RA,Tcheng JE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pivotal therapeutic role of myocardial metabolic modulation in ischemic heart disease (IHD) is increasingly recognized. Among the others, inhibitors of free fatty acids (FFA) oxidation have been consistently shown to play an important role in the therapeutic strategy of IHD patients. Additionally, abnormalities of...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Fragasso G,Salerno A,Spoladore R,Cera M,Montanaro C,Margonato A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) represent a serious problem in a number of countries around the world and especially in Africa and South America, affecting mostly the poor population which has limited access to the healthcare system. The drugs currently used for the treatment of NTDs are dated many decade...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Chazapi E,Magoulas GE,Prousis KC,Calogeropoulou T

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as a causative agent of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) various strategies were employed to counter its devastating actions. One such concept relies on the prevention of HIV entry into host's "competent" cells by means of compounds known as entry inh...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Micewicz ED,Ruchala P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic plasticity is now known to occur at glutamate synapses throughout the brain, including the neocortex, and to play a role in neurodevelopment as well as in a broad spectrum of adult neural functions. Here the hypothesis that synaptic plasticity, specifically long term depression, is the neural substrate that m...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Selemon LD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative processes exert a fundamental regulatory function during pregnancy. It depends on the influence of oxygen, nitric oxide, reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species metabolic pathways upon the vascular changes in the maternal organism, as well as on the regulation of uterine and cervical tone throu...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Biondi C,Pavan B,Lunghi L,Fiorini S,Vesce F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electropulsation (electroporation) is a physical method for delivery of various molecules into the cells in vitro and in vivo. It is an expanding field due to its applicability in cancer therapy, where combined application of electric pulses and chemotherapeutic drugs is used for treatment of cutaneous and subcutaneou...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Cemazar M,Golzio M,Sersa G,Rols MP,Teissié J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These are exciting times for bioinformaticians, computational biologists and drug designers with the genome and proteome sequences and related structural databases growing at an accelerated pace. The post-genomic era has triggered high expectations for a rapid and successful treatment of diseases. However, in this bio...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Soni A,Pandey KM,Ray P,Jayaram B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two morphological features may be seen as a main result of the cardiovascular cell damage caused by cigarette smoking: myocardial cell necrosis and smoke cardiomyopathy that, however, can lead to cell necrosis in case of chronic prolonged exposure to tobacco smoke. Both these pathological patterns recognise hypoxia as...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Leone A,Landini L Jr,Biadi O,Balbarini A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since their proposal in 1976, sigma (σ) receptors have been increasingly implicated in the pathophysiology of virtually all major central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and drug addiction. Due to their involvement in motor function and higher cognitive function,σ recepto...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Banister SD,Kassiou M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A wide class of human diseases and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, is due to the failure of a specific peptide or protein to keep its native functional conformational state and to undergo a conformational change into a misfolded state, triggering the formation of fibrillar cross-β s...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ruggeri FS,Habchi J,Cerreta A,Dietler G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH) is at the centre of the scientific debate for the treatment of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Sexual maturation and reproductive function depend on the pulsatile secretion of GnRH are mainly congenital and may or may not be associated with other genetic anomalies or syndromes. Cli...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bettocchi C,Rinaldi M,Sebastiani F

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept that the gut microbiota plays a major role in the development of pouchitis in ulcerative colitis patients after restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, is widely accepted and supported by a widespread use of some antibiotics (metronidazole and/or ciprofloxacin, rifaximin) to treat th...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Guslandi M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) includes liver diseases ranging from simple steatosis to progressive forms characterized by high rates of complications and mortality, namely fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Identification of patients with simple steatosis who will evolve to a more severe liv...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lombardi R,Fargion S,Fracanzani AL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00