Developmental regulated expression of anti- and pro-apoptotic BCL-2 family genes during human early embryonic development.

abstract：:Numerous compounds with a benzothiazole scaffold that have been described in the literature show promising activities against several Gram-positive and Gramnegative bacteria, and also against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Benzothiazole-based antibacterial compounds bind to different biological targets in bacterial cells...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gjorgjieva M,Tomašič T,Kikelj D,Mašič LP

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With global increase in elderly population, modern societies must find strategies to reduce the consequences of aging process; thereby decreasing the incidence of age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Oxidative stress and recently inflammation, have been pointed out as the leading causes of brain aging. Th...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Sarubbo F,Moranta D,Asensio VJ,Miralles A,Esteban S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymosin Beta-4 (Tβ4) is known as a major pleiotropic actin-sequestering protein that is involved in tumorigenesis. Tβ4 is a water-soluble protein that has different promising clinical applications in the remodeling and ulcerated tissues repair following myocardial infarction, stroke, plasticity and neurovascular remo...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bjørklund G,Dadar M,Aaseth J,Chirumbolo S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxime formation reaction of therapeutical progestogen (levonorgestrel, levonorgestrel acetate, norethisterone), androgen (methyltestosterone, testosterone phenylpropionate) and anabolic (nortestosterone phenylpropionate) Delta(4)-3-ketosteroids has been investigated. The ketosteroid-hydroxylamine reaction was moni...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Szentesi A,Gergely A,Horváth P,Mahó S,Mátyus P,Szász G

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural differentiation of embryonic stem cells (ESC) is considered a promising model to perform in vitro testing for neuroactive and neurotoxic compounds. We studied the potential of a dual reporter murine ESC line to identify bioactive and/or toxic compounds. This line expressed firefly luciferase under the control o...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kern I,Xu R,Julien S,Suter DM,Preynat-Seauve O,Baquié M,Poncet A,Combescure C,Stoppini L,Thriel CV,Krause KH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy (CBT) are first-line treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Since response is often inadequate, in recent years researchers investigated whether combining CBT and SRIs, either ab initio or sequentially, results in a grea...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Albert U,Di Salvo G,Solia F,Rosso G,Maina G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids (GC) play a fundamental role in controlling physiologic homeostasis and, when present in excess, can have a detrimental impact on glucose control, blood pressure and lipid levels. The oxidoreductase 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11beta-HSD1) mainly catalyzes the intracellular regeneration...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ge R,Huang Y,Liang G,Li X

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:In the course of studying human mucin MUC1, the attitude towards this molecule has been changing time and again. Initially, the list of presumable functions of MUC1 was restricted to protecting and lubricating epithelium. To date, it is assumed to play an important role in cell signaling as well as in all stages of on...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Syrkina MS,Vassetzky YS,Rubtsov MA

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：:On December 23rd, 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act and invested more than $ 100 million "to launch an intensive campaign to find a cure for cancer". Today, despite these considerable efforts, cancer still remains a very aggressive silent killer all over the world. Moreover, over the last de...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Orlikova B,Diederich M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lung is a unique organ in terms of its direct exposure to high levels of oxygen and reactive compounds. Several parenchymal lung diseases (e.g. emphysema associated with smoking and a number of fibrotic lung disorders) have been proposed to be due to the exposure of the lung to exogenous irritants leading to local...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kinnula VL,Vuorinen K,Ilumets H,Rytilä P,Myllärniemi M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper (Th) cells belong to the adaptive immune system and provide an effective and antigen-specific means of host protection. Th17 cells are a subset of Th cells, characterized by the production of the inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-17A (IL-17A) and IL-17F, which bind to a receptor complex comprised of IL-...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ghali JR,Holdsworth SR,Kitching AR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last centuries, there were many important discoveries in medicine that were crucial for gaining a better understanding of several physiological processes. Molecular modelling techniques are powerful tools that have been successfully used to analyse and interface medicinal chemistry studies with electrochemica...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Almeida MO,Maltarollo VG,de Toledo RA,Shim H,Santos MC,Honorio KM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays a critical role in the atherosclerotic process in various vascular beds, starting from endothelial dysfunction and counting all stages of plaque development. The significant contribution of inflammation in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis has been documented over many years but its ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Vavuranakis M,Kariori M,Vrachatis D,Siasos G,Kalogeras K,Bei E,Moldovan C,Lavda M,Aznaouridis K,Oikonomou E,Tousoulis D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of anandamide as an endogenous ligand for the cannabinoid receptors has led to a resurgence of interest in the fatty acid amides. However, N-palmitoylethanolamine (PEA), a shorter and fully saturated analogue of anandamide, has been known since the fifties. This endogenous compound is a member of the N-a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lambert DM,Vandevoorde S,Jonsson KO,Fowler CJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a highly complex and rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the systemic collapse of cognitive function and formation of dense amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. AD pathology is derived from the cholinergic, amyloid and tau hypotheses, respectively. Curren...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Mohamed T,Rao PP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids are natural plant-derived polyphenolic compounds with various biological properties particularly in the cardiovascular system, including antiatherogenic, antioxidant, vasodilation, antihypertensive, and antiplatelet activities. These biological properties have been evaluated in several experimental and clin...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Almeida Rezende B,Pereira AC,Cortes SF,Lemos VS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increasing production of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) exploited in many consumer products, a wider number of people is expected to be exposed to such materials in the near future, both in occupational and environmental settings. This has raised concerns about the possible implications on public health. In ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Campagnolo L,Massimiani M,Magrini A,Camaioni A,Pietroiusti A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purinergic receptor P2X7 is highly expressed in immune peripheral and central cells suggesting its important role in numerous diseases characterized by inflammatory processes like cancer, or neurodegenerative pathologies in relation with modulation of the immune system. Thereby, antagonization of this receptor may...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Baudelet D,Lipka E,Millet R,Ghinet A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in endoscopic techniques such as capsule endoscopy have revealed that aspirin and other nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) often cause mucosal lesions not only in the upper gastrointestinal tract, but also in the small intestine in humans. Gastric and duodenal lesions caused by NSAIDs can be ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Satoh H,Takeuchi K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a very common and debilitating disease; however, its underlying pathocellular process remains uncertain. Attempts have been made to reproduce CSM in experimental animal models in order to deepen the knowledge on the molecular pathobiology of this disease. The up-to-date observa...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Karadimas SK,Gialeli CH,Klironomos G,Tzanakakis GN,Panagiotopoulos E,Karamanos NK,Gatzounis G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signalling lipids are known to control a wide array of cellular processes, including cell proliferation, apoptosis, migration, and energy metabolism. Fatty acids and their derivatives, eicosanoids, phosphoinositides, sphingolipids, some cannabinoid-like molecules bind and activate nuclear receptors, including peroxiso...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fidaleo M,Fanelli F,Ceru MP,Moreno S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than five decades since the Discovery of Penicillin, the chemistry and biological activity of b-lactams continue to attract the wide spread attention of research workers. Owing to high efficacy and extremely safe toxicological profile, they are agents of choice in the current therapeutic index for the bacterial i...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kidwai M,Sapra P,Bhushan KR

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bile formation is an osmotic process driven by the vectorial transport of actively transferred biliary components across the basolateral (sinusoidal) and apical (canalicular) hepatocyte membranes, the latter being the rate-limiting step of the overall blood-to-bile transfer. The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Crocenzi FA,Mottino AD,Roma MG

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) 2 is a homologue of ACE that catalyzes the conversion of Angiotensin (Ang) II into Ang1-7, which induces vasodilation, anti-fibrotic, anti-proliferative and anti-inflammatory effects. Given that ACE2 counterbalances the effects of Ang II, it has been proposed as a biomarker in kidne...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Anguiano L,Riera M,Pascual J,Soler MJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimitotics binding at the colchicine site of tubulin are important antitumour and vascular disrupting agents. Pyridines and azines are privileged scaffolds in medicinal chemistry and in recent years many colchicine site ligands (CSL) have incorporated them into their structures with the aim of improving their pharma...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Álvarez R,Aramburu L,Puebla P,Caballero E,González M,Vicente A,Medarde M,Peláez R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtual screening is an important means for lead compound discovery. The scoring function is the key to selecting hit compounds. Many scoring functions are currently available; however, there are no all-purpose scoring functions because different scoring functions tend to have conflicting results. Recently, neural net...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Shan W,Li X,Yao H,Lin K

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Substituted 2-arylbenzothiazoles have emerged in recent years as an important pharmacophore in a number of diagnostic and therapeutic settings. Attractive features of drug candidates based on this benzothiazole scaffold include their synthetic accessibility, and synthetic approaches to 2-arylbenzothiazole-based compou...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Weekes AA,Westwell AD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has been exploited to study the metabolic characteristics (phenotype) of genetic disorders by taking advantage of some unique characteristics of the technique. The first application, metabolic profiling for diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring in vitro, demonstrates the exceptio...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Iles RA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00