Involvement of the P2X7 purinergic receptor in inflammation: an update of antagonists series since 2009 and their promising therapeutic potential.

abstract：:In the human brain several cell types are capable of initiating and amplifying a brain specific inflammatory response involving the synthesis of cytokines, prostaglandins and oxygen free radicals. In Alzheimer's disease (AD), signs of an inflammatory activation of microglia and astroglia are present inside and outside...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Hüll M,Lieb K,Fiebich BL

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive outline for understanding and recommending the therapeutic use of ozone in combination with established therapy in diseases characterized by a chronic oxidative stress is currently available. The view of the absolute ozone toxicity is incorrect, because it has been based either on lung or on studies pe...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Zanardi I,Borrelli E,Valacchi G,Travagli V,Bocci V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The therapeutic properties of cannabinoids are well-known since ancient years. Growing evidence exist on endocannabinoid system (ECS) modulation related with human tumorigenesis. OBJECTIVE:Taking into account the substantial role of ECS on immune cell regulation, the present review is aimed to summarize the...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Giaginis C,Lakiotaki E,Korkolopoulou P,Konstantopoulos K,Patsouris E,Theocharis S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers recent literature from 2012-2019 concerning 170 marine natural products and their semisynthetic analogues with strong anticancer biological activities. Reports that shed light on cellular and molecular mechanisms and biological functions of these compounds, thus advancing the understanding in cancer...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Matulja D,Wittine K,Malatesti N,Laclef S,Turks M,Markovic MK,Ambrožić G,Marković D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of click chemistry represented by the formation of the 1,2,3-triazole core has found wide application in drug discovery, particularly in the early discovery phases and the lead optimization process. 1,2,3-Triazoles ha ve attracted considerable attention in recent years because of their wide range of biolog...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Raic-Malic S,Mescic A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many non-cardiovascular drugs of common clinical use cause, as an unwanted accessory property, the prolongation of the cardiac repolarisation process, due to the block of the HERG (Human Ether-a-go-go Related Gene) potassium channel, responsible for the repolarising I(Kr) current. This delayed cardiac repolarisation p...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Testai L,Bianucci AM,Massarelli I,Breschi MC,Martinotti E,Calderone V

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than 20 years there has been increasing interest in the development of novel therapies to raise levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). However, well publicized failures of recent clinical trials of agents that raise HDL-C levels have stimulated considerable controversy with regard to the pote...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Duong M,Nicholls SJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolic disorders comprise a set of different disorders varying from epidemic diseases such as diabetes mellitus to inborn metabolic orphan diseases such as phenylketonuria. Despite considerable evidence showing the importance of the computational methods in discovery and development of new pharmaceuticals...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Janardhan S,Dubovskaja V,Lagunin A,Rao BV,Sastry GN,Poroikov V

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ozkan SA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Poplawski T

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A BRAF somatic mutation at residue 600 of the BRAF protein (BRAFV600E) is highly prevalent in papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC). This mutation occurs in approximately 44% (from 29% to 83%) of PTC depending on the different studies. BRAFV600E is almost always found in PTC with a papillary or a mixed follicular/papilla...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lassalle S,Hofman V,Ilie M,Butori C,Bozec A,Santini J,Vielh P,Hofman P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme is an essential molecule with contradictory biological functions. In hemoproteins such as hemoglobin and cytochromes protein-bound heme is a prosthetic group serving physiological functions as a transporter for oxygen and electrons. On the other hand free heme can have deleterious effects by generating reactive o...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wijayanti N,Katz N,Immenschuh S

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparins are used in "therapeutic doses" for systemic anticoagulation to treat patients who have confirmed venous thromboembolism, or in "prophylactic doses "for the prevention of venous thromboembolism: they are generally lower doses and are employed once a day. Structure-function relationships are strongly influence...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Stratta P,Karvela E,Canavese C,Quaglia M,Lazzarich E,Fenoglio R,Pergolini P,Bellomo G,Cena T,Magnani C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although resin-based chemistry offers many practical advantages over conventional solution phase for the synthesis of combinatorial libraries, effective monitoring of reactions conducted on the support remains a challenge. A number of techniques have been developed to enable the analysis of solid phase organic synthes...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Scicinski JJ,Congreveb MS,Kay C,Ley SV

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the recent market approval of Pitolisant (Wakix®), the interest in clinical application for novel multifunctional histamine H3 receptor antagonists has clearly increased. Several combinations of different H3R pharmacophores with pharmacophoric elements of other G-protein coupled receptors, transporters or enzymes...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Szczepańska K,Kuder KJ,Kieć-Kononowicz K

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for novel drugs for the treatment of infectious diseases, autoimmunity and cancer. Cyclic peptides constitute a class of compounds that have made crucial contributions to the treatment of certain diseases. Penicillin, Vancomycin, Cyclosporin, the Echinocandins and Bleomycin are well-known cyclic peptid...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Katsara M,Tselios T,Deraos S,Deraos G,Matsoukas MT,Lazoura E,Matsoukas J,Apostolopoulos V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4), a substrate-specific serine protease, has been validated as a promising drug target for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. DPP-4 inhibitors significantly lowered blood glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes without common body weight gain, hypoglycemia and gastrointestinal distu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Liu Y,Hu Y,Liu T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Galactosylceramide (alpha-GalCer), is a glycolipid which has been identified as a ligand recognized by a special group of immune T cells, known as invariant NKT cells. alpha-GalCer can powerfully activate invariant NKT cells to produce immunoregulatory cytokines, including interferon-gamma and IL-4, and thereby ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Hayakawa Y,Godfrey DI,Smyth MJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some DNA or RNA sequences rich in guanine (G) nucleotides can adopt noncanonical conformations known as G-quadruplexes (G4). In the nuclear genome, G4 motifs have been associated with genome instability and gene expression defects, but they are increasingly recognized to be regulatory structures. Recent studies have r...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Falabella M,Fernandez RJ,Johnson FB,Kaufman BA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evidence seems to be growing in favor of the stem cell theory of cancer with the emergence of studies demonstrating the parallel mechanisms of self renewing pathways in stem cells and particular subsets of cancer cells. The finding of leukemia stem cells and subsequently breast cancer stem cells (BCSC) further sup...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Nahas GR,Patel SA,Bliss SA,Rameshwar P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:COVID-19 has brought the world to its knees and there is an urgent need for new strategies to identify molecules capable of fighting the pandemic. During the last few decades NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy has emerged as an intriguing structural biology instrument in the antiviral drug discove...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Vincenzi M,Leone M

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous studies have demonstrated that halogenated agents elicit myocardial conditioning effects when adminis-tered perioperatively in cardiac surgery. Recent evidence has been published of the benefits of maintaining exposure to halogenated agents during the early postoperative period. The enzymatic mechan...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Guerrero Orriach JL,Escalona Belmonte JJ,Ramirez Aliaga M,Ramirez Fernandez A,Rodriguez Capitan MJ,Quesada Muñoz G,Raigón Ponferrada A,Alcaide Torres J,Santiago-Fernandez C,Matute Gonzalez E,Rubio Navarro M,Bautista R,Gómez Maldo

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques in the parenchymal and cortical brain is accepted as the main pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, the Aβ deposition in the brain appears to be a good diagnostic biomarker for AD and may also be a good predictive biomar...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cui M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Stepnowski P,Paszkiewicz M

更新日期：2019-01-01 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

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journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Orhan IE

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of oxacephalotin and oxacephamandol, which are more active than natural, sulfur-containing congeners, and the isolation of clavulanic acid, a potent inhibitor of beta-lactamase enzymes, directed attention of many academic and industrial laboratories the synthesis of oxygen analogues of penicillins and ce...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Łysek R,Borsuk K,Furman B,Kałuza Z,Kazimierski A,Chmielewski M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reprogramming technologies have been developed to revert somatic differentiated cells into pluripotent stem cells that can be differentiated into different lineages potentially useful in stem cell therapy. Reprogramming methods have been progressively refined to increase their efficiency, to obtain a cell population s...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Tafani M,Perrone GA,Pucci B,Russo A,Bizzarri M,Mechanick JI,Carpi A,Russo MA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced enteropancreatic (EP) neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) can be treated with several different therapies, including chemotherapy, biotherapy, and locoregional treatments. Over the last few decades, impressive progress has been made in the biotherapy field. Three main druggable molecular targets have been studied an...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fazio N,Scarpa A,Falconi M

更新日期：2014-01-01 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