Updates on Managing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with Natural Products: Towards Antidiabetic Drug Development.

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein kinase p38 is a serine/threonine kinase originally isolated from lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulated monocytes. There are four isoforms p38alpha p38beta, p38gamma, and p38delta. The most thoroughly studied isoform is p38alpha, whose activation has been observed in many hematopoietic and non-h...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lee MR,Dominguez C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex common diseases are a significant burden for our societies and demand not only preventive measures but also more effective, safer, and more affordable treatments. The whole process of the current model of drug discovery and development implies a high investment by the pharmaceutical industry, which ultimately ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Schcolnik-Cabrera A,Juárez-López D,Duenas-Gonzalez A

更新日期：2020-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites comprise a group of protozoans responsible for human diseases, with a serious impact on human health and the socioeconomic growth of developing countries. Chemotherapy is the main option to control these pathogenic organisms and nucleotide metabolism is considered a promising a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Valente M,Vidal AE,González-Pacanowska D

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Balance between excitatory glutamate and inhibitory GABA neurotransmitter is essential and critical for proper development and functioning of brain. GABAergic (gamma aminobutyric acid) and glutamatergic interneurons maintain excitability, integrity and synaptic plasticity. Several evidences implicated relative loss of...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Purkayastha P,Malapati A,Yogeeswari P,Sriram D

更新日期：2015-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) (also known as seven-transmembrane domain receptor) superfamily represents the largest protein family in the human genome. These receptors respond to various physiological ligands such as photons, odors, pheromones, hormones, ions, and small molecules including amines, amino acids to ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Yonezawa T,Kurata R,Yoshida K,Murayama MA,Cui X,Hasegawa A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10) family, identified in 1999, is mainly expressed in the brain, particularly in the striatum, within the medium spiny neurons, nucleus accumbens, and olfactory tubercle. Inhibitors of PDE10 (PDE10-Is) are a conceptually rational subject for medicinal chemistry with potential us...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Zagorska A,Partyka A,Bucki A,Gawalskax A,Czopek A,Pawlowski M

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Thymosin Beta-4 (Tβ4) is known as a major pleiotropic actin-sequestering protein that is involved in tumorigenesis. Tβ4 is a water-soluble protein that has different promising clinical applications in the remodeling and ulcerated tissues repair following myocardial infarction, stroke, plasticity and neurovascular remo...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bjørklund G,Dadar M,Aaseth J,Chirumbolo S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has had catastrophic Global effects on financial markets, jobs and peoples' lives. Future prevention/therapy of COVID-19 will rely heavily on vaccine development and attempts to repurpose drugs previously used for other microbial diseases. Little attention, however, has been paid to possible diff...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ratcliffe NA,Castro HC,Paixão IC,Mello CB

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The resin of Pistacia lentiscus (L.) var. chia (Duham), an evergreen shrub belonging to the family Anacardiaceae and uniquely cultivated in southern Chios, is known as mastic. It has been used for more than 2500 years in traditional Greek medicine for treating several diseases such as gastralgia and peptic ulcers, whi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Paraschos S,Mitakou S,Skaltsounis AL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:APN is an important zinc dependent metallo-exopeptidase; it has been considered as a suitable target for anti-cancer drug design. In this review we focus on the most effective and the most promising inhibitors of aminopeptidase N. Their binding modes to the enzyme, the attempt to explain the origin of the inhibitory a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhang X,Xu W

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ionotropic P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) has become the focus of intense research interest for a number of reasons: i) it is a cation selective ion channel that is modulated by extracellular ATP. Upon stimulation by high concentrations of ATP it generates a non-selective membrane pore which is permeable to hydrophilic mol...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gunosewoyo H,Coster MJ,Kassiou M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on enzyme inhibition remain an important area of pharmaceutical research since these studies have led to the discoveries of drugs useful in a variety of physiological conditions. The enzyme inhibitors can interact with enzymes and block their activity towards natural substrates. Urease inhibitors have recently...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Amtul Z,Rahman AU,Siddiqui RA,Choudhary MI

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is an example of a solid tumour which is well treated in the early stages of disease by surgical excision, but once metastatic spread has occurred, medical therapies (chemotherapy and radiotherapy) are highly toxic, expensive and palliative. It is known that certain tumours exhibit specific patterns of m...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Dowsland MH,Harvey JR,Lennard TW,Kirby JA,Ali S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the protective role of diets rich in fruit plant polyphenols against some cancers and chronic degenerative and inflammatory diseases, insufficient emphasis has been placed on oral health. Numerous studies have aimed to ascertain the role of polyphenols in the prevention and treatment of oral diseases; however,...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Varoni EM,Lodi G,Sardella A,Carrassi A,Iriti M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new drug class of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) inhibitors has been widely accepted in the daily management of type 2 diabetes since its strategic advantages with regard to body weight, risk of hypoglycaemia, and beta cell survival. We have previously evaluated the theoretical implications of DPP4 inhibition given...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Matteucci E,Giampietro O

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：:Vitamin D has been known for a long time as a major factor involved in the calcium- phosphate balance and homeostasis, along with parathyroid hormone (PTH). While vitamin D effects on calcium and phosphate are fully known, recent studies attempted to link vitamin D status and cardiovascular diseases. The involvement o...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Santoro D,Pellicanò V,Cernaro V,Lacava V,Lacquaniti A,Atteritano M,Buemi M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With many advantages over other therapeutic agents such as monoclonal antibodies, aptamers have recently emerged as a novel and powerful class of ligands with excellent potential for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Typically generated through Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment (SELEX), ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang P,Yang Y,Hong H,Zhang Y,Cai W,Fang D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maximum therapeutic potentials of pharmacologically active molecules are generally not attained due to their non specific delivery. Ligands associated with drug or delivery system through which it is delivered provide navigation and direction to the carrier system(s) so as to reach and release bioactive(s) at the ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Rai S,Paliwal R,Vaidya B,Gupta PN,Mahor S,Khatri K,Goyal AK,Rawat A,Vyas SP

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hyaluronidases (HAases) are a group of less extensively studied glycosidases distributed throughout the animal kingdom and are popularly known as 'spreading factors'. In recent years, HAases received much attention due to their ability to abruptly alter the hyaluronic acid (HA) homeostasis. HAases preferentially d...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Girish KS,Kemparaju K,Nagaraju S,Vishwanath BS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral-derived microorganisms have been a major focus of many research efforts on marine ecology in recent decades. Importantly, research on bioactive compounds from these diverse microorganisms, which include fungi and bacteria, has experienced an explosive growth during the past five years. This has unveiled the ecol...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Hou XM,Xu RF,Gu YC,Wang CY,Shao CL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the hit to lead process, a drug candidate is selected from a set of potential leads by screening its binding with potential targets. This review focuses on the lead identification assays that employ a bio-chemical or bio-physical test to detect molecular recognition events between proteins and small molecules in a ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bergese P,Cretich M,Oldani C,Oliviero G,Di Carlo G,Depero LE,Chiari M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite advances in cancer treatment, a large number of patients eventually develop metastatic disease that is generally incurable. Systemic chemotherapy remains the standard treatment for these patients. Several chemotherapeutic combinations have proven effective in the management of cancer. Paradoxically, although t...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Prados J,Alvarez PJ,Melguizo C,Rodriguez-Serrano F,Carrillo E,Boulaiz H,Vélez C,Marchal JA,Caba O,Ortiz R,Rama A,Aranega A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubus species (family Rosaceae) have been cultivated for centuries for their fruits. These and other parts of the plants have been used traditionally for therapeutic purposes. This article highlights these and the potential they can offer. The constituents reported in the various species and those demonstrated to exhi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Patel AV,Rojas-Vera J,Dacke CG

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Steroid hormones belong to a group of low-molecular weight compounds which are responsible for maintenance of various body functions, thus, their accurate assessment is crucial for evaluation of biosynthetic defects. The development of reliable methods allowing disease diagnosis is essential to improve early...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kotłowska A,Szefer P

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are zinc-endopeptidases responsible for degradation of the extracellular matrix (ECM) components including basement membrane collagen, interstitial collagen, fibronectin, and various proteoglycans, during normal remodeling and repair processes. The turnover and remodeling of ECM must b...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Oikonomidi S,Kostikas K,Tsilioni I,Tanou K,Gourgoulianis KI,Kiropoulos TS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamins are dietary components which are necessary for life. They play a major role in health and their deficiency may be linked to symptoms of psychiatric disorders. B vitamins are required for proper functioning of the methylation cycle, monoamine oxidase production, DNA synthesis and the repair and maintenance of ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Mikkelsen K,Stojanovska L,Apostolopoulos V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00