The roles of phosphodiesterase 2 in the central nervous and peripheral systems.

abstract：:A better knowledge of the mechanisms underlying hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) growth and spread is essential to improve the available treatment options. So far, the only therapies available for HCC are mainly based on tumor-destructive approaches, whereas no therapies are available to consolidate these invasive thera...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Antonaci S,Giannelli G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The integrin family receptors stimulate the cellular proliferation and migration through the focal adhesion pathway by the activation of PTK2, VASP and TSP1 proteins. The purpose of this study was to investigate the integrin-ligated motifs through the activation of focal adhesion pathway. METHODS:A chimeric...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Khosravi M,Kakavandi N,Rezaee S,Shabani M,Najafi M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tocotrienols, components belonging to vitamin E members, are used as potent therapeutics in the treatment of several diseases. Recent studies suggested tocotrienol to have better activity in many situations compared to tocopherols. Tocotrienols have been shown to lower the atherogenic apolipoprotein B and lipoprotein ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Catalgol B,Batirel S,Ozer NK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the brain, acetylcholine (ACh) is regarded as one of the major neurotransmitters. During the advancement of Alzheimer's disease (AD) cholinergic deficits occur and this can lead to extensive cognitive dysfunction and decline. Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) remains a highly feasible target for the symptomatic improveme...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kabir MT,Uddin MS,Begum MM,Thangapandiyan S,Rahman MS,Aleya L,Mathew B,Ahmed M,Barreto GE,Ashraf GM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), termed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization, is a newly emerging zoonotic agent that emerged in China in December 2019. No specific treatment for COVID-19 is currently available. Usual palliative treatment includes ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lovato ECW,Barboza LN,Wietzikoski S,de Souza ANV,Auth PA,Junior AG,Dos Reis Lívero FA

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in particle engineering techniques, such as spray drying, freeze drying and supercritical fluid precipitation, have greatly enhanced the ability to control the structure, morphology, and solid state phase of inhalable sized particles (1 - 5 µm) for formulation in pressurized metered dose inhalers (pMDI). To o...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： D'Sa D,Chan HK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last decade, the development of anti-inflammatory strategies emerged as new trend in cardiovascular (CV) pharmacotherapy. Anti-inflammatory properties have been previously identified in different classes of drugs used in primary CV prevention. However, the extent to which the modification of inflammat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Carbone F,Liberale L,Bonaventura A,Cea M,Montecucco F

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polyphenols are a family of natural antioxidants that in recent years have been studied and tested for their potential benefits towards cardiovascular diseases. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this review is to focus the attention on the presumed lipid-lowering and atheroprotective effects of polyphenols, administered...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Cicero AFG,Colletti A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skin remains an attractive area for drug delivery. The skin, however, often limits the ingress of drugs, because of its very low permeability. Much research, focusing on employing a variety of physical and chemical methods, aimed at reversibly altering skin permeability in favour of compounds, has been reported. O...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kilian D,Shahzad Y,Fox L,Gerber M,Du Plessis J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing need to rapidly determine the specificity of proteases that potentially play a role in human and animal disease. Substrates for novel proteases can be discovered by testing standard protease substrates such as oxidized insulin B-chain, by screening commercially available substrates for other pro...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Richardson PL

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Conventional treatment has a limitation of very narrow therapeutic time window and its devastating nature necessitate a novel regenerative approach. Transplanted stem cells resulted in functional recovery through multiple mechanisms including neuroprotection...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kwak KA,Kwon HB,Lee JW,Park YS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant tumors aberrantly overexpress various embryonic genes and proto-oncogenes, including a variety of cancer-testis antigens (CTAs). CTAs belong to a class of testis-derived proteins which are only expressed in germ cells in the male testis, and the expression of CTA genes is entirely silenced in the adult somat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Yang P,Huo Z,Liao H,Zhou Q

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The effect of endovascular aneurysm repair in patients treated for abdominal aortic aneurysm has not been clearly defined. The objective of the present article was to provide a contemporary literature review and perform an analysis to determine the effect of EVAR on renal function in the early post-operative period...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Nana P,Kouvelos G,Brotis A,Spanos K,Giannoukas A,Matsagkas M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current understanding of cancer suggests that every tumour has individual features. Approaches to cancer treatment require thorough comprehension of the mechanisms triggering genomic instability and protecting cancer cells from therapeutic treatments. Base excision repair (BER) is a frontline DNA repair system tha...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Poletto M,Legrand AJ,Dianov GL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The last few decades have witnessed enormous advancements in the field of Pharmaceutical drug, design and delivery. One of the recent developments is the advent of 3DP technology. It has earlier been successfully employed in fields like aerospace, architecture, tissue engineering, biomedical research, medica...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mirza MA,Iqbal Z

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heat shock proteins are powerful endogenous cytoprotective proteins which help cells to survive recurrent cellular stress events. Identifying the underlying molecular mechanisms and molecular targets is especially interesting since it may help to develop new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of diseas...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Golenhofen N,Bartelt-Kirbach B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ABO-incompatible (ABO-I) liver transplantation (LT) has been limited due to the increased rate of complications, including severe cellular and antibody-mediated rejection, hepatic necrosis, hepatic artery thrombosis, and biliary complications. However, several strategies for reducing preformed anti-donor ABO antibodie...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Cheng CH,Lee CF,Wang YC,Wu TH,Wu TJ,Chou HS,Chan KM,Lee WC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, combination of different types of therapies using nanoparticles has emerged as an advanced strategy for cancer treatment. Most of all, combination of chemotherapeutic drug and siRNA in nanoformulation has shown a great potential, because siRNA-mediated specific gene silencing can compensate for the in...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Yhee JY,Son S,Lee H,Kim K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human arylamine N-acetyltransferases 1 and 2 (NAT1 and NAT2) are polymorphic phase II xenobiotic-metabolising enzymes (XME) that acetylate arylamine compounds. They therefore play an important role in the detoxication and/or metabolic activation of certain therapeutic drugs, occupational chemicals and carcinogens. Alt...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Rodrigues-Lima F,Dupret JM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer therapies through ionizing radiation or chemotherapeutic treatment may result in DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) in cell. DNA-PK has emerged as an attractive target for drug discovery efforts toward DSBs repair and in V(D)J recombination. Hence, the search for potent and selective DNA-PK inhibitors has received...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Cao R,Zeng H,Zhang H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Senescence is defined as an irreversible growth arrest that is characterised by a changed morphology, gene expression pattern and chromatin structure as well as an activated DNA damage response. Senescence has a dual role for tumour development-it acts as a tumour suppressor to prevent the proliferation of seriously d...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Saretzki G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary surfactant, a complex of lipids and proteins, functions to keep alveoli from collapsing at expiration. Surfactant proteins A (SP-A) and D (SP-D) belong to the collectin family and play pivotal roles in the innate immunity of the lung. Pulmonary collectins directly bind with broad specificities to a variety o...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Takahashi H,Sano H,Chiba H,Kuroki Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Proper understanding of blood-brain barrier (BBB) regulation is crucial to reduce/prevent its disruption during injury. Since high brain complexity makes interpretation of in vivo data challenging BBB studies are frequently performed using simplified in vitro models. Although such models represent an important and fre...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ogunshola OO

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strontium ranelate is composed of an organic moiety (ranelic acid) and of two atoms of stable non-radioactive strontium. In vitro, strontium ranelate increases collagen and non-collagenic proteins synthesis by mature osteoblast enriched cells. The effects of strontium ranelate on bone formation were confirmed as stron...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Reginster JY

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a severe vascular complication of connective tissue diseases. In the context of systemic sclerosis (SSc), PAH is a devastating disease with a dramatic impact on prognosis and survival. Despite advances in early diagnosis and the development of new targeted treatments, SSc-relat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Dimitroulas T,Giannakoulas G,Karvounis H,Settas L,Kitas GD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common autoimmune demyelinating disorder in Western countries and can lead to permanent disability. Over the past decades remarkable progress has been made in providing new therapeutic strategies to tackle the burden of the disease. Oral drugs and monoclonal antibodies are the main ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sanvito L,Constantinescu CS,Gran B

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Apoptosis is a regulated process leading to cell death, which is implicated both in normal development and in various pathologies including heart failure, stroke and neurodegenerative diseases. Caspase-3, a key enzyme of the apoptotic pathway, is considered as a major target for the treatment of abnormal cell death. M...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Seaborn T,Masmoudi-Kouli O,Fournier A,Vaudry H,Vaudry D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction of flow cytometric technique to the research on basophil activation has led to significant achievements in allergy diagnosis in vitro. Most of the studies employing the flow cytometry used CD63 as a marker of basophil activation and only some of them used CD203c. Recently discovered basophil activation ma...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wolanczyk-Medrala A,Barg W,Medrala W

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00