Current and investigational drugs for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The addition of monoclonal antibody (mAb) epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors to classic chemotherapy doublet backbones has improved survival of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). However, the role of triple-drug chemotherapy regimens in combination with an anti-EGFR mAb inhibitor is not y...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Matos I,Noguerido A,Ros J,Mulet N,Argilés G,Elez É,Tabernero J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main cause of illness and death after the first year of heart transplantation is vasculopathy of the cardiac allograft, probably initiated by early immunological and non-immunological endothelial damage. The incidence of multiple episodes of grade 3A rejection 6 months after primary heart transplantation was lower...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Doggrell SA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carvedilol is a beta-blocker with ancillary properties. Pilot clinical studies with carvedilol, added to the standard therapy of digoxin, diuretics and ACE inhibitors, showed beneficial effects in mild, moderate and severe heart failure. Patients consistently showed improvement in LV ejection fraction and NYHA functio...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Doggrell SA

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Inhibitors against the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway are revolutionizing the treatment and management of malignancies. AREAS COVERED:We summarize our current understanding of the function of PD-1, its role in immune evasion, the clinical data available that support the use of PD-1 antagonist in Hodgkin and non-Hodgk...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Chang A,Schlafer D,Flowers CR,Allen PB

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Crizotinib is a first-in-class ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), which has proven its superiority over standard platinum-based chemotherapy for the first-line therapy of ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. The development of acquired resistance to crizotinib represents an ongoing...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Karachaliou N,Santarpia M,Gonzalez Cao M,Teixido C,Sosa AE,Berenguer J,Rodriguez Capote A,Altavilla G,Rosell R

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the past years the bone seeking radiopharmaceutical samarium lexidronam ((153)Sm-EDTMP) has been increasingly used alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy and/or bisphosphonates for the treatment of painful bone metastasis. OBJECTIVE:Its use has been explored in different solid tumours. In this report ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Abruzzese E,Iuliano F,Trawinska MM,Di Maio M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Aberrant regulation of platelet-derived growth factors (PDGFs) and their receptors (PDGFR) has been shown to be involved in many solid tumors, including breast cancer. PDGFR-α and PDGFR-β expressions were documented in breast cancer and are correlated with tumor aggressiveness and metastasis. Preclinical e...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Criscitiello C,Gelao L,Viale G,Esposito A,Curigliano G

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:the search for effective inhibitors to multiple infectious agents including influenza, smallpox and hemorrhagic fever viruses is an area of active research as many of these agents pose dramatic health and economic challenges to the human population. Many of these infectious agents are not only endemic thre...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Narayanan A,Bailey C,Kashanchi F,Kehn-Hall K

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer leads to more fatalities than any other form of gynaecological cancer in North America and Europe. Over the last 30 years survival figures have improved somewhat due to improvements in diagnosis, surgery and chemotherapy. Despite these advances, the majority of patients will die from their disease, with...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Harries M,Kaye SB

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Despite recent advances, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) remains a devastating disease which harbors a poor prognosis. Novel therapeutic approaches directly targeting pulmonary vascular remodeling are warranted. AREAS COVERED:This review delineates the current limitations in the management of PAH an...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： ten Freyhaus H,Dumitrescu D,Berghausen E,Vantler M,Caglayan E,Rosenkranz S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effectiveness of the influenza vaccine in persons with high-risk conditions needs to be improved. In this paper, the authors review various vaccination strategies, including repeated doses of the vaccine or the use of higher hemagglutinin (HA) content vaccines that have been shown to result in improved immunogenicity....

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Safdar A,Cox MM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Axial spondyloarthritis (AxS pA) is a chronic inflammatory disease for which, until recently, there were no valid therapeutic alternatives to TNF-α blocking agents. This unmet clinical need led to explore several therapeutic targets, from proinflammatory cytokines to intracellular signaling systems. The re...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Clavel G,Boissier MC,Sigaux J,Semerano L

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper gives an overview of the available pharmacological and clinical data of a new class of anticancer drugs which act by binding DNA in the minor groove, comprising cyclopropylpyrrolo-indole (CC-1065) derivatives and Distamycin derivatives. The emphasis of this review is placed on the distinctive mode of action...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： D'Incalci M,Sessa C

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All of the glucose-lowering agents available today for the treatment of diabetes resulted from the in vivo antidiabetic drug discovery approach. This is not surprising given the limited understanding of the biochemical basis of diabetes. With new developments in the elucidation of the biochemistry and physiology of di...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Luo J

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, the nucleoside reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors and protease inhibitors (PI) have dominated the therapeutic options for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. From the initial monotherapeutic strategies, to the widely accepted multi-drug cocktails of today, the use of these two...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Buckheit RW

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in molecular medicine have revealed a key role for altered gene expression in the aetiology of many inflammatory diseases, including asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and sepsis. Until recently, however, modulation of gene transcription has not been the subject of directed pharmaceutica...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Manning AM,Mercurio F

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin glargine (HOE 901) appears to be the first clinically useful extended-acting insulin preparation for 50 years. A combination of a di-arginine addition to the C-terminal of the insulin B-chain, and a glycine substitution in the A-chain, produce an insulin which is soluble at acid pH, but precipitates in sc. tis...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Home P

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Neuropathic pain is a chronic condition that significantly affects the quality of life of millions of people globally. Most of the pharmacologic treatments currently in use demonstrate modest efficacy and over half of all patients do not respond to medical management. Hence, there is a need for new, effi...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Kushnarev M,Pirvulescu IP,Candido KD,Knezevic NN

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of the immune system is of indispensable importance for graft acceptance and function. Immunological changes in the graft before and after organ harvesting, the transplantation procedure itself and the organ recipients clinical state contribute to the immune response. Leukocyte trafficking [1] into a graft is ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Behrend M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials of several platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors have demonstrated an unequivocal benefit of this potent antithrombotic therapy in high-risk patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) as well as in those undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. In all of these major trials, ho...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Salam AM

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early breast carcinoma is defined as pathological stage 1 (pT1N0M0) tumour and its incidence has recently increased possibly due to the advent of mammography based mass screening. Overall survival of these patients is in general excellent, but more than 20% of them will eventually develop distant metastasis and die. T...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Sasano H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) plays a key role in DNA repair mechanisms by detecting and initiating repair after DNA strand breaks. Inhibition of PARP in DNA repair-defective tumors (like those with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations) can lead to gross genomic instability and cell death. Likewise, combining PARP inhibitio...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Rodon J,Iniesta MD,Papadopoulos K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: The armamentarium of antileishmanial drugs is small. It is further being threatened by the development of resistance and decreasing sensitivity to the available drugs. The development of newer drugs is sorely needed. Areas covered: The authors have based their review on a literature search performed usin...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Sundar S,Chakravarty J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This perspective is the second in a series discussing drugs dropped from development in 2006, with a focus on pulmonary-allergy, dermatological, gastrointestinal and arthritis drugs. A survey of discontinued drugs from 2006 is provided, based on data from the Pharmaprojects database, along with an analysis of biology,...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Ozdemir C,Akdis CA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) are secreted by the heart and play important roles in the compensation of congestive heart failure with their vasodilating, natriuretic, antiproliferative, lusitropic and neurohumoral-modulating properties. Based on these beneficial properties, exog...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Boerrigter G,Burnett JC Jr

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor-ionophore complex plays a key role in learning and memory and has efficacy in animals and humans with affective disorders. GLYX-13 is an N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) glycine-site functional partial agonist and cognitive enhancer that also shows rapid antidepressan...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Moskal JR,Burch R,Burgdorf JS,Kroes RA,Stanton PK,Disterhoft JF,Leander JD

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Philadelphia chromosome negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) mainly comprise polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET) and myelofibrosis (MF, primary or post-PV/ET). Therapy in PV and ET focuses on minimizing thrombosis and bleeding risk, while in MF, prolongation of survival is an ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Bose P,Verstovsek S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term 'blood substitute' is commonly used to describe products which can carry and deliver oxygen. These products are also referred to as 'oxygen carriers' or 'oxygen therapeutics'. Blood substitutes are a new generation of oxygen therapeutics and their introduction will redefine treatment approaches in a wide rang...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Gulati A

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sitagliptin is a once-daily, orally active, competitive and fully reversible inhibitor of dipeptidyl peptidase 4, the enzyme that is responsible for the rapid degradation of the incretin hormone glucagon-like peptide-1. It is the first in this new class of antihyperglycaemic agents to gain regulatory approval for the ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Deacon CF

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects > 14 million individuals worldwide. Although 90% of patients with AMD have the dry form, neovascular AMD accounts for the vast majority of patients who develop legal blindness. Until recently, few treatment options existed for treatment of neovascular AMD. The a...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Dixon JA,Oliver SC,Olson JL,Mandava N

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00