Novel Inflammatory Indices in Aortic Disease.

abstract：:Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (Type 1 diabetes, T1D) is a chronic autoimmune disorder characterized by the destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells by proinflammatory autoreactive T cells. In the past, several therapeutic approaches have been exploited by immunologists aiming to regulate the autoim...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fierabracci A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sufficient organ blood flow of healthy newborn babies is maintained by relatively low systemic blood pressure. Premature infants are at an increased risk of systemic hypotension, often but not obviously, resulting in hypoperfusion of the cerebral, renal and intestinal vascular beds. Maintaining a stable blood pressure...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Toth-Heyn P,Cataldi L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection commonly results in a myriad of comorbid conditions secondary to immune deficiency. Infection also affects broad organ system function. Although current antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces disease morbidity and mortality through effective control of peripheral viral load, ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Edagwa BJ,Zhou T,McMillan JM,Liu XM,Gendelman HE

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

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：:In situ hybridization (ISH) is a type of hybridization that uses a labeled complementary DNA or RNA strand to localize a specific DNA or RNA sequence on a chromosome or section of tissue (in-situ) fixed on a slide. Flourescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) technique facilitates the localization of genes to different c...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Jehan Z,Uddin S,Al-Kuraya KS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a major complication of diabetes and the leading cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Approximately, one third of diabetic patients develop diabetic nephropathy. As diabetes and its associated metabolic diseases are becoming epidemic, DN is emerging as a major health threat to humans. ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lin X,Tao L,Tang D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Amino butyric acid is an extremely important inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system and is essential for the overall balance between neuronal excitation and inhibition. It is well documented that GABA deficiency is associated with several important neurological disorders such as Hunt...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gajcy K,Lochyński S,Librowski T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of cysteine (Cys) residues in proteins, due to (i) the participation of the thiol moiety of this amino acid in oxido-reductions reactions; (ii) its ability to strongly coordinate transition metal ions; or (iii) its nucleophilic nature and facile reaction with electrophiles, may be of critical importance f...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Scozzafava A,Casini A,Supuran CT

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystokinin (CCK) is an important neuro-intestinal peptide hormone produced by the enteroendocrine I-cells in the upper part of small intestine. Protein- and fat-enriched food plays an important role in triggering CCK secretion from the intestine. Carbohydrates stimulate only small amounts of CCK release. The CCK-...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang HH,Portincasa P,Wang DQ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First described by Alois Alzheimer in 1907, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common dementia type, affecting approximately 20 million people worldwide. As the population is getting older, AD is a growing health problem. AD is currently treated by symptomatic drugs, the acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, based on the...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Francotte P,Graindorge E,Boverie S,de Tullio P,Pirotte B

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The story of antimalarials as antinflammatory drugs dates back several centuries. Chinin, the extract of the Cinchona bark, has been exploited since the 18th century for its antimalarial and antifebrile properties. Later, during the Second World War, the broad use of antimalarials allowed arguing their antirheumatic e...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Piscianz E,Cuzzoni E,Sharma R,Tesser A,Sapra P,Tommasini A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzamide riboside (BR) after anabolism to an analogue of NAD, was shown to inhibit the activity of NAD-dependent enzymes such as inosine 5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH), the rate limiting enzyme in de novo guanylate biosynthesis, and malate dehydrogenase which is involved in the citric cycle and respiratory ch...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Polgar D,Gfatter S,Uhl M,Kassie F,Leisser C,Krupitza G,Grusch M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glioma is a heterogeneous, highly complicated central nervous system (CNS) tumor with uncertain mechanism of initiation and progression, resulting in an unfavorable outcome. An extended network of cytokines is recognized as a major regulator of glioma pathogenesis, either promoting or inhibiting glioma progr...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kosmopoulos M,Christofides A,Drekolias D,Zavras PD,Gargalionis AN,Piperi C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity and metabolic syndrome represent major public health problems, and are the biggest preventable causes of death worldwide. Obesity is the leading risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), cardiovascular diseases and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Obesity-associated insulin resistance, which is charac...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Panzhinskiy E,Ren J,Nair S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which constitutes the lipid portion of the outer leaflet of Gram-negative bacteria, is essential for growth. It is also responsible for the variety of biological effects associated with Gram-negative sepsis. Recent advances have elucidated the exact chemical structure of this highly complex m...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cipolla L,Polissi A,Airoldi C,Gabrielli L,Merlo S,Nicotra F

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Drug-loaded nanoparticles have shown great potential in the study of carriers for disease-targeting drug delivery. Drug-loaded nanoparticles are excellent in keeping the drug in the systemic circulation for a prolonged period of time, introducing targeting molecules to improve targeting efficiency and to reduce side e...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Tu Q,Zhang Y,Liu R,Wang JC,Li L,Nie N,Liu A,Wang L,Liu W,Ren L,Wang X,Wang J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor-binding peptides have attracted an enormous interest in targeting molecules for the development of tumour specific radiopharmaceutical compounds. The overexpression of many receptors on human tumour makes such peptide-ligands attractive agents for diagnostic imaging and therapy of cancers. The use of solid-ph...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bolzati C,Refosco F,Marchiani A,Ruzza P

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Differentiation therapy of acute promyelocytic leukemia with all-trans retinoic acid represents the most successful pharmacological therapy of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Numerous studies demonstrate that drugs that inhibit mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) and activate AMP-kinase (AMPK) have beneficial effects...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Visnjic D,Dembitz V,Lalic H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has become acceptable that neuroretinal cells are also affected in diabetes, vascular lesions continue to be considered as the hallmarks of diabetic retinopathy. Animal models are essential for the understanding and treatment of human diabetic retinopathy, and the mouse is intensively used as a model becau...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ramos D,Carretero A,Navarro M,Mendes-Jorge L,Nacher V,Rodriguez-Baeza A,Ruberte J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive norepinephrine (NE) release in the ischemic heart elicits severe and often lethal arrhythmias. Resident cardiac mast cells synthesize and store active renin, which is released upon degranulation, causing the activation of a local cardiac renin-angiotensin system (RAS) responsible for NE release and...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Marino A,Levi R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticotropin releasing factor (CRF), originally isolated from the mammalian hypothalamus, is a 41 amino acid peptide that plays an important physiological role and is implicated in the pathophysiology of various diseases. In addition to CRF and its related peptides, a large number of small non-peptide CRF analogs hav...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Liapakis G,Venihaki M,Margioris A,Grigoriadis D,Gkountelias K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giving a glance to the report of Wound Care Market by Product updated in 2017, we can see that wound care market is expected to reach USD 22.01 billion by 2022 from USD 18.35 billion at a CAGR of 3.7%. Numerous factors are driving the growth of this market, including the increasing prevalence of chronic wounds and acu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Polerà N,Badolato M,Perri F,Carullo G,Aiello F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This invited review on the beneficial effects of nutraceuticals in the gastrointestinal tract reports previous work conducted by the authors as well as the work by other researchers in this expanding field. The text of our article on several occasions reports sentences very similar or identical to those which appear i...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Romano M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug repositioning is an important area of biomedical research. The drug repositioning studies have shifted to computational approaches. Large-scale perturbation databases, such as the Connectivity Map and the Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures, contain a number of chemical-induced gene expression...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang F,Lei X,Wu FX

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an age-related neurodegenerative disorder that is believed to have complex genetic and environmental influences in the pathogenesis, but etiologies are unidentified for most patients. Until the major causes are better defined, drug development is directed at downstream pathophysi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Blasco H,Mavel S,Corcia P,Gordon PH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fabry disease (FD) is an X-linked glycosphingolipid storage disorder caused by deficient activity of the lysosomal enzyme alpha-galactosidase A. This leads to a progressive accumulation of globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) in the lysosomes of different cells and tissues, causing principally ventricular hypertrophy, renal fa...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Caballero L,Climent V,Hernández-Romero D,Quintanilla MA,de la Morena G,Marín F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the development of nanoparticle systems for antimicrobial drug delivery. Numerous antimicrobial drugs have been prescribed to kill or inhibit the growth of microbes such as bacteria, fungi and viruses. Even though the therapeutic efficacy of these drugs has been well established, inefficient del...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhang L,Pornpattananangku D,Hu CM,Huang CM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase B/AKT plays a central role in cancer. The serine/threonine kinase is overexpressed or constitutively active in many cancers and has been validated as a therapeutic target for cancer treatment. However, targeting the kinase activity has revealed itself to be a challenge due to non-selectivity of the comp...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Meuillet EJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00