Histone deacetylase inhibitors: potent anti-leukemic agents.

abstract：:This investigation aims to evaluate strategies for an efficient selection of bioactive compounds from the multitude and biodiversity of the plant kingdom. Statistics prove natural products (NPs) as a source leading most consistently to successful development of new drugs. However, there are several reasons why the int...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Rollinger JM,Langer T,Stuppner H

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:In the last decade much attention has been paid to the development of metabolically non-reversible dimeric or hybrid compounds, which combine two structural units of one or two lead compounds of interest for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. As a consequence of their capability to simultaneously interact with two ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Muñoz-Torrero D,Camps P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among naturally occurring isoflavones, soy isoflavones are an important class with various biological activities. Due to their phytoestrogenic structure, their effects on the brain are profound thus making the neurobiological effects of these compounds an active area of research. One such compound is daidzein, which h...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ahmed T,Javed S,Tariq A,Budzyńska B,D'Onofrio G,Daglia M,Nabavi SF,Nabavi SM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Orhan IE

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Glutamate carboxypeptidase II (GCPII) and its splice variants, paralogs and human homologs represent a family of proteins with diverse tissue distribution, cellular localization and largely unknown function which have been explored only recently. While GCPII itself has been thoroughly studied from different perspectiv...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Hlouchová K,Navrátil V,Tykvart J,Sácha P,Konvalinka J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A great effort has been made to develop efficacious antiviral drugs, but many viral infections are still lack of efficient antiviral therapies so far. The related exploration of natural products to fight viruses has been raised in recent years. Natural compounds with structural diversity and complexity offer...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wu YH,Zhang BY,Qiu LP,Guan RF,Ye ZH,Yu XP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paediatric Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a life-threatening and infectious disease in which the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is mainly transmitted through Mother-To- Child Transmission (MTCT) during pregnancy, labour and delivery, or breastfeeding. This review provides an overview of the distinct ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Melo R,Lemos A,Preto AJ,Bueschbell B,Matos-Filipe P,Barreto C,Almeida JG,Silva RDM,Correia JDG,Moreira IS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-based electrochemical biosensors have contributed tremendously to the fields of biology, medicine, chemistry, pharmacology, and environmental science. With electrochemical transducers and whole cells as the recognition elements, these biosensors provide new horizons for biosensing and life science research. This ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ding L,Du D,Zhang X,Ju H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the pharmaceutical industry, the ultimate source of continuing profitability is the unremitting process of drug discovery. To be profitable, drugs must be marketable: legally novel, safe and relatively free of side effects, efficacious, and ideally inexpensive to produce. While drug discovery was once typified ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Hattotuwagama CK,Davies MN,Flower DR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombomodulin (TM) is a membrane protein mainly expressed by endothelial cells. It is part of the anticoagulant protein C system but recently several effects were discovered which occur independently of protein C activation. TM binds thrombin and promotes the cleavage of protein C and the thrombin activatable fibrino...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wenzel J,Assmann JC,Schwaninger M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement plays a vital role in our innate immune defense against invasive microorganisms. Excessive complement activation or insufficient control of activation on host cells, however, is associated with several chronic disorders. Essential to the activation and amplification of the Alternative Pathway (AP) of comple...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wiles JA,Galvan MD,Podos SD,Geffner M,Huang M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains a fatal disease: the majority of patients are diagnosed as having metastases or advanced inoperable tumors. The activity of chemotherapy in NSCLC patients is low with objective response rarely complete and sustained. Cisplatin-based combinations are considered as the standard...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gridelli C,De Vivo R

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TB drug development pipeline represents varied structural classes of molecules. Oxazolidinones represent synthetic anti-bacterial agents with unique mechanism of action having wide spectrum of activity, oral bioavailability and well established SAR. They act by inhibiting translation at the initiation phase of protein...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Jadhavar PS,Vaja MD,Dhameliya TM,Chakraborti AK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Snakes are fascinating creatures and have been residents of this planet well before ancient humans dwelled the earth. Venomous snakes have been a figure of fear, and cause notable mortality throughout the world. The venom constitutes families of proteins and peptides with various isoforms that make it a cocktail of di...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Waheed H,Moin SF,Choudhary MI

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination therapy in the treatment of viral infections in which, for example, three different drugs against three different targets on three independent proteins are administered, has been highly successful clinically. However, it is only a matter of time before a virus will arise resistant to all three drugs, becau...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Mangel WF,McGrath WJ,Brown MT,Baniecki ML,Barnard DL,Pang YP

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poisoning of DNA topoisomerase I is the mechanism by which camptothecins interfere with tumor growth. Although the clinical use of camptothecins has had a significant impact on cancer therapy, de novo or acquired clinical resistance to these drugs is common. Clinical resistance to camptothecins is still a poorly under...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Beretta GL,Gatti L,Perego P,Zaffaroni N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring nonanolides (synonym decanolides) are a large family of secondary metabolites with an interesting 10- membered macrolide subunit. Metabolites of the nonanolide family have been found to have various biological activities, including cytotoxic, phytotoxic, antimalarial, antifungal, antibacterial, and...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Sun P,Lu S,Ree TV,Krohn K,Li L,Zhang W

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A challenging question in biology is how cells control their shape and volume. The relative abundance of organelles can be radically modified to comply with a new task, an example being the massive development of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in Ig-secreting plasma cells. The ER is the site where secretory proteins a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Otsu M,Sitia R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphonated nucleosides represent a promising alternative in the improvement of the biological activity of nucleoside analogues in antiviral and anticancer chemotherapy. The basic concept, the chemistry, the different structural modifications and their effects on the antiviral potency will be discussed in this review...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Piperno A,Chiacchio MA,Iannazzo D,Romeo R

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：:Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors are a relatively new class of anti-cancer agents that play important roles in epigenetic or non-epigenetic regulation, inducing death, apoptosis, and cell cycle arrest in cancer cells. Recently, their use has been clinically validated in cancer patients resulting in the approval b...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cappellacci L,Perinelli DR,Maggi F,Grifantini M,Petrelli R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we report the functionalization of textiles composed of nanoscale reactive materials in the treatment of wounds and skin diseases such as acne. In view of the growing demand for high-quality textiles, much research is focused on the creation of antimicrobial finishings for fabrics, in order to protect ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gedanken A,Perkas N,Perelshtein I,Lipovsky A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the currently available treatments for obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs) such as pharmacotherapy augmentation strategies, partial hospitalization programs, deep brain stimulation, and neurosurgery are efficacious for individuals suffering from more severe forms of these conditions. Unfortunate...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fontenelle LF,Zeni-Graiff M,Quintas JN,Yücel M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor Xa (fXa) is a critical serine protease situated at the confluence of the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways of the blood coagulation cascade. FXa catalyses the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin via the prothrombinase complex. Its singular role in thrombin generation, coupled with its potentiating effects on c...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Guertin KR,Choi YM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in November 2002 in Southern China's Guangdong Province, considerable progress has been made in the development of drugs for SARS therapy. The present mini review is focused on the area of computer-aided drug discovery, i.e., the advances achieved mainly f...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Chou KC,Wei DQ,Du QS,Sirois S,Zhong WZ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete DNA sequence information has now been obtained for several prokaryotic genomes, defining the entire genetic complement of these organisms. The collection of genomic data has provided new insights into the molecular architecture of bacterial cells, revealing the basic genetic and metabolic structures that supp...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Buysse JM

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunophilin ligands cyclosporin A, FK506 and rapamycin are best known for their immunosuppressive properties and their clinical use in transplantation medicine. These compounds or their analogs are also clinically used or investigated in various types of cancer, coronary angioplasty, dermatology, hepatitis C infe...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gaali S,Gopalakrishnan R,Wang Y,Kozany C,Hausch F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00