Therapeutic options and emerging alternatives for multidrug resistant staphylococcal infections.

abstract：:Most heterosexual women want to reduce the risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted infection; many also want to control their fertility. Several chemical agents have been proposed to dramatically slow the spread of HIV infections. Ideally, vaginal microbicides, with or without contraceptive properties, should be safe...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gandour RD

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of radioligands to image beta-amyloid (A beta) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in vivo in the aging human brain is an important and active area of radiopharmaceutical design. When used in combination with positron emission tomography (Pet) or single photon emission computed tomography (spect...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mathis CA,Wang Y,Klunk WE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new controlled delivery system has been developed for ropinirole (RP) for the treatment of Parkinson´s Disease (PD) consisting in PLGA microparticles (MPs) which exhibited in vitro constant release of RP (78.23 µg/day/10 mg MPs) for 19 days. The neuroprotective effects of RP released from MPs were evaluated in SKN-A...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Negro S,Boeva L,Slowing K,Fernandez-Carballido A,Garcia-García L,Barcia E

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) were first isolated more than 50 years ago from the bone marrow. Currently MSCs may also be isolated from several alternative sources and they have been used in more than a hundred clinical trials worldwide to treat a wide variety of diseases. The MSCs mechanism of action is undefined and...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： de Girolamo L,Lucarelli E,Alessandri G,Avanzini MA,Bernardo ME,Biagi E,Brini AT,D'Amico G,Fagioli F,Ferrero I,Locatelli F,Maccario R,Marazzi M,Parolini O,Pessina A,Torre ML,Italian Mesenchymal Stem Cell Group

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the most lethal subtype of stroke, a leading cause of death and disability in developed countries. Therapeutic options are notably limited. There is no specific pharmacological treatment, and early surgery has few indications that represent only a small clinically relevant s...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Pías-Peleteiro J,Campos F,Perez-Mato M,Lopez-Arias E,Rodriguez-Yanez M,Castillo J,Sobrino T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune complexes are major pathogenic factors contributing to tissue injury in a number of autoimmune diseases. Immune complexes consist of autoantibodies to self-antigens, which initiate an inflammatory response through binding to immunoglobulin Fc receptors (FcRs) or via complement components. The significance of Fc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kleinau S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Release of acetylcholine from parasympathetic nerves in the airways activates postjunctional muscarinic receptors present on smooth muscle, submucosal glands and blood vessels. This triggers bronchoconstriction, muscle hypertrophy, mucus secretion, and vasodilatation, respectively. The release of acetylcholine from pa...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Quizon A,Colin AA,Pelosi U,Rossi GA

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：:Angiogenesis is regulated by stimulators and inhibitors and involve multiple biological processes including endothelial cell proliferation, migration, cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion, assembly into tube structures as well as apoptosis. Designing and developing peptides for therapeutic application to inhibit angioge...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sulochana KN,Ge R

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Serotonin (5-HT) is one of the main transmitters in the nervous system. Serotonergic neurons in the raphe nuclei in the brainstem innervate most parts of the central nervous system including motoneurons in the spinal cord and brainstem. This review will focus on the modulatory role that 5-HT exerts on motoneurons and ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Perrier JF,Rasmussen HB,Christensen RK,Petersen AV

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is one of the most common endocrine non-communicable metabolic disorders which is mainly caused either due to insufficient insulin or inefficient insulin or both together and is characterized by hyperglycemia. Diabetes emerged as a serious health issue in the industrialized and developing country especially i...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Prabhakar PK,Sivakumar PM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneuploidy is a pathological condition that affects 35% of human spontaneous abortions and 0.3% of livebirths. In spite of the increasing knowledge about molecular mechanisms of meiosis and chromosome segregation, maternal age remains the only ascertained aetiological factor. Genetically modified mouse models have bee...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Pacchierotti F,Ranaldi R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nanodelivery of therapeutics into the brain will require a step-change in thinking; overcoming the blood brain barrier is one of the major challenges to any neural therapy. The promise of nanotechnology is that the selective delivery of therapeutics can be delivered through to the brain without causing secondary d...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ellis-Behnke RG,Teather LA,Schneider GE,So KF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanogels are nanosized hydrogel particles formed by physical or chemical cross-linked polymer networks. The advantageous properties of nanogels related to the ability of retaining considerable amount of water, the biocompatibility of the polymers used, the ability to encapsulate and protect a large quantity of payload...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Maya S,Sarmento B,Nair A,Rejinold NS,Nair SV,Jayakumar R

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 resistance to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors such as 3'-azido-2', 3'-dideoxythymidine (AZT) can arise through mutations in the coding region of reverse transcriptase (RT) that enhance the enzyme's ability to remove the drug after it has been incorporated. This excision ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Smith AJ,Scott WA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years several new drugs (oxcarbazepine, lamotrigine, topiramate, gabapentin, zonisamide, tiagabine, fosphenytoin, vigabatrin and felbamate) have been added to the therapeutic armamentarium against epilepsy. Some of these represent structural modifications of pre-existing compounds, others were developed with...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gatti G,Bonomi I,Jannuzzi G,Perucca E

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the early 1980s, an "atypical" beta-adrenergic receptor was discovered and subsequently called the beta (3)-adrenoceptor (beta(3)-AR). Agonists of the beta(3)-AR were observed to simultaneously increase lipolysis, fat oxidation, energy expenditure and insulin action leading to the belief that this receptor might se...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： de Souza CJ,Burkey BF

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since antibiotics use is currently limited due to undesired side effects and the increasing antibiotic resistance of various bacteria strains, there is a pressing need to develop new strategies and methods preventing epidemic outbreaks. The virulent potency of bacteria relies on a number of different extracellularly s...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Burchacka E,Sieńczyk M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most proteoglycans are heterogeneous molecules composed of a protein core with glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) attached. GAGs are highly negatively charged molecules that readily bind to enzymes, growth factors, cytokines etc. and as such have many functions. The role played by proteoglycans in diabetes has only r...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Hiebert LM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:From the evidence of failed injection-based growth factor therapies, it has been proposed that a naturally triggered uninterrupted blood circulation of the growth factors would be superior. OBJECTIVE:We seek to stimulate discussions and more research about the possibility of using the already available grow...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Muresanu C,Somasundaram SG,Vissarionov SV,Gavryushova LV,Nikolenko VN,Mikhaleva LM,Kirkland CE,Aliev G

更新日期：2020-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuregulin1 proteins (NRG1s) are epidermal growth factor (EGF) family members which are ligands for the ErbB receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs). A decade of research has revealed that the NRG1-ErbB signaling is essential for the cardiac development and pivotal for maintaining the physiological function of the adult hear...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Yan X,Morgan JP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor metastasis is an important prognostic factor regarding long-term survival rate of cancer patients. At present, no imaging modality or technique is ideal for diagnosis of metastases. Molecular imaging has provided a fantastic tool for tumor metastases imaging. Based on the current medical imaging tools such as ma...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Qiao R,Zhu R,Gao M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with premature mortality, severe morbidity, and functional impairment leading to considerable financial burden for both patients and society. Since disease progression and complications can differ from one patient to another, genetic markers are of...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Rodriguez-Rodriguez L,López-Mejias R,Fernández-Gutiérrez B,Balsa A,González-Gay MA,Martín J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Casein kinase II (CK2) is a pro-oncogenic protein, which is emerging as a promising therapeutic target in cancer. Recent studies have revealed an important role for CK2 in tumorigenesis. High levels of CK2 are noted in many malignancies including leukemia. Use of CK2 inhibitors in various malignancies includ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gowda C,Sachdev M,Muthusami S,Kapadia M,Petrovic-Dovat L,Hartman M,Ding Y,Song C,Payne JL,Tan BH,Dovat S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19 virus) is a worldwide pandemic pathogen infecting 210 territories. It belongs to the family coronaviriadae and the order Nidovirales. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA enveloped virus that includes spike proteins projecti...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ahmed H,Sayed A,Munir M,Elberry MH,Sayed IM,Kamal MA,Negida A,Ebada MA,Bahbah EI

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last two decades, SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) and especially PET (positron emission tomography) have proven increasingly effective imaging modalities in the study of human psychopharmacology. Abusing populations can be studied at multiple times after abstinence begins, to give informati...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gatley SJ,Volkow ND,Wang GJ,Fowler JS,Logan J,Ding YS,Gerasimov M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last two decades a tremendous development has been noticed in our understanding of the purinergic system, consisting of heterogeneously expressed purinoceptor subtypes and its classical agonists: e.g., adenosine triphosphate, uridine triphosphate or complex dinucleoside polyphosphates. These agonists exert mult...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Schuchardt M,Tölle M,van der Giet M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endothelial dysfunction is commonly present in estrogen-deficient states, e.g., after menopause. In the search for alternatives to hormone replacement therapy (HRT), treatments based on phytoestrogens or in non-hormonal mechanisms have been under evaluation. OBJECTIVE:Here we aim to present an overview of i...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Oliveira PWC,Couto MR,de Sousa GJ,Peixoto P,Moraes FSA,de Andrade TU,Bissoli NS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00