Current Therapeutic Alternatives and New Perspectives in Glioblastoma Multiforme.

abstract：:Osteoporosis is characterized by reduced bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue leading to enhanced bone fragility and a consequent increase in fracture risk. Bone loss further increases in postmenopausal women when the ovaries stop making estrogens. Women undergoing treatment for osteoporosis require l...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bitto A,Polito F,Squadrito F,Marini H,D'Anna R,Irrera N,Minutoli L,Granese R,Altavilla D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) nowadays represent most promising anti-AIDS drugs that specifically inhibit HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT). They have a unique antiviral potency, high specificity and low cytotoxicity. However, to a great extent, the efficacy of HIV-1 NNRTIs is compounde...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Chen X,Zhan P,Li D,De Clercq E,Liu X

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase inhibitors have generated significant interest as anti-cancer agents due to their ability to cause growth arrest, terminal differentiation and/ or apoptosis in carcinoma cells. Abbott entered this area after the serendipitous discovery of the biaryl hydroxamate A-161906 in a TGF beta mimetic screen...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Curtin M,Glaser K

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functioning of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is tightly linked to the membrane environment, but a molecular level understanding of the modulation of GPCR by membrane lipids is not available. However, specific receptor-lipid interactions as well as unspecific effects mediated by the bulk properties of the membran...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Sadiq SK,Guixa-Gonzalez R,Dainese E,Pastor M,De Fabritiis G,Selent J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal somatic stem cells (SC) are naturally resistant to chemotherapeutic agents due to their expression of various membrane transporter molecules (such as MDR-1), detoxifying enzymes and DNA repair proteins. In addition, they also have a slow rate of cell turnover and therefore escape from chemotherapeutic agents th...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gangemi R,Paleari L,Orengo AM,Cesario A,Chessa L,Ferrini S,Russo P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), frequently delivered to the patient in the solid-state as part of an approved dosage form, can exist in such diverse solid forms as polymorphs, pseudopolymorphs, salts, co-crystals and amorphous solids. Various solid forms often display different mechanical, thermal, physical ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lu J,Rohani S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammation is one of the most misunderstood aspects of human health. People have been encouraged to eat foods that have a high antioxidant capacity, and in vitro tests for total antioxidant capacity emerged. They were based on measuring the destruction of oxidized test compounds in direct reactions with th...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Smith RE

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sweat is an alternative biological matrix useful to detect drugs of abuse intake. It is produced by eccrine and apocrine glands originating in the skin dermis and terminating in secretory canals that flow into the skin surface and hair follicles. Since many years it has been demonstrated that endogenous and exogenous ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： De Giovanni N,Fucci N

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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

abstract：:Cellular resistance to anthracyclines is a major limitation of their clinical use in the treatment of human tumors. Resistance to doxorubicin is described as a multifactorial phenomenon involving the overexpression of defense factors and alterations in drug-target interactions. Such changes do not account for all mani...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Perego P,Corna E,De Cesare M,Gatti L,Polizzi D,Pratesi G,Supino R,Zunino F

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers the compounds isolated from marine sponges with neuroprotective activities during the period between 1999 and 2014 based on their chemical structures, collections sites, sponge taxonomy and neuroprotective effects. These compounds were isolated from marine sponges collected from 18 countries, most o...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Alghazwi M,Kan YQ,Zhang W,Gai WP,Yan XX

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance is an ever-increasing problem throughout the world and has already reached severe proportions. Two very common neglected tropical diseases are Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis. Chagas' disease is a severe health problem, mainly in Latin America, causing approximately 50000 deaths a year and m...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bandyopadhyay D,Samano S,Villalobos-Rocha JC,Sanchez-Torres LE,Nogueda-Torres B,Rivera G,Banik BK

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focus of this review is the cellular internalisation mechanism of nanostructured systems (NSs) and their endosomal escape for targeted drug delivery. Endocytosis is a cellular process of internalisation of different molecules and foreign microorganisms. It is currently being studied for drug delivery through nanos...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Voltan AR,Alarcon KM,Fusco-Almeida AM,Soares CP,Mendes-Giannini MJS,Chorilli M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxime formation reaction of therapeutical progestogen (levonorgestrel, levonorgestrel acetate, norethisterone), androgen (methyltestosterone, testosterone phenylpropionate) and anabolic (nortestosterone phenylpropionate) Delta(4)-3-ketosteroids has been investigated. The ketosteroid-hydroxylamine reaction was moni...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Szentesi A,Gergely A,Horváth P,Mahó S,Mátyus P,Szász G

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) translationally repressing their target messenger RNAs due to their gene-regulatory functions play an important but not unexpected role in a tumour development. More surprising are the findings that levels of various miRNAs are well correlated with presence of specific tumours and formation of metas...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Pekarik V,Gumulec J,Masarik M,Kizek R,Adam V

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gossypol, a disesquiterpene from cottonseed, exhibits multiple biological properties, including male antifertility activity and anticancer activity. Gossypol also inhibits the growth of numerous parasitic organisms and shows antiviral activity against a number of enveloped viruses, including the AIDS virus. Derivative...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Vander Jagt DL,Deck LM,Royer RE

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Orhan IE

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glomerulonephritides are a collection of separate diseases with differing pathogeneses that collectively are common and important causes of renal disease. Effective, non-toxic immunomodulatory treatments for glomerulonephritis are lacking. This review will focus on our understanding of the role of leukocytes in im...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kitching AR,Holdsworth SR,Hickey MJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant activation of the signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) 3 occurs in many human tumors. Constitutive STAT3 activity induces specific target genes that stimulate cell proliferation, prevent apoptosis, promote angiogenesis and facilitate tumor immune evasion. Thus, STAT3 is an attractive molecu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhao M,Jiang B,Gao FH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymyxins are polypeptide antibiotics, with a primary effect of membrane damaging due to their selective binding to the lipopolysaccharide of Gram-negative bacteria. Their nephro- and neurotoxic side effects limited their use, however, in the last decade the emergence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria led...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kadar B,Kocsis B,Nagy K,Szabo D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted therapy has been recently highlighted due to the reduction of side effects and improvement in overall efficacy and survival to different types of cancers. Considering the approval of many monoclonal antibodies in the last twenty years, cancer treatment can be accomplished by the combination of monoclonal anti...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Petrilli R,Pinheiro DP,de Cássia Evangelista de Oliveira F,Galvão GF,Marques LGA,Lopez RFV,Pessoa C,Eloy JO

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Gum resin extracts of Boswellia species have been traditionally applied in folk medicine for centuries to treat various chronic inflammatory diseases, and experimental data from animal models and studies with human subjects confirmed the potential of B. spec extracts for the treatment of not only inflammation but also...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Poeckel D,Werz O

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some DNA or RNA sequences rich in guanine (G) nucleotides can adopt noncanonical conformations known as G-quadruplexes (G4). In the nuclear genome, G4 motifs have been associated with genome instability and gene expression defects, but they are increasingly recognized to be regulatory structures. Recent studies have r...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Falabella M,Fernandez RJ,Johnson FB,Kaufman BA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than five decades since the Discovery of Penicillin, the chemistry and biological activity of b-lactams continue to attract the wide spread attention of research workers. Owing to high efficacy and extremely safe toxicological profile, they are agents of choice in the current therapeutic index for the bacterial i...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kidwai M,Sapra P,Bhushan KR

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically significant antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century. Yet new antibiotics are currently being developed at a much slower pace than our growing need for such drugs. Instead of focusing on conventional therapeutics that target in vitro bacterial viability, an alterna...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang Y,Ma S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcin J25 (MccJ25) is a plasmid-encoded peptide of 21 L-amino acids (G1-G-A-G-H5-V-P-E-Y-F10-V-G-I-G-T15-P-I-S-F-Y20-G), excreted to the medium by an Escherichia coli strain. MccJ25 is active on Gram-negative bacteria related to the producer strain, including some pathogenic strains. The four-plasmid genes mcjABCD,...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Vincent PA,Morero RD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analytical chemists have increasingly turned their attention to drug discovery and drug analysis and to solve fundamental questions of biological significance in physiology and genetics. New technologies have been developed, and a variety of instruments have been redesigned for biomedical applications. The development...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Hanai T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcopenia, or age-related muscle decline, occurs in most organisms and burdens both human health and the healthcare system. As our population ages, additional options for treating sarcopenia are needed. Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in the onset of sarcopenia, so therapies directed at improving mitochondria...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Waltz TB,Fivenson EM,Morevati M,Li C,Becker KG,Bohr VA,Fang EF

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1), a member of the interleukin (IL)-6 family, is reported to exhibit a plethora of pleiotropic effects in the heart such as cytoprotective, pro-proliferative and pro-fibrotic ones. An extensive research has been devoted on proliferative and profibrotic effects of CT-1 on the heart. Thus the presen...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： García-Cenador MB,Lopez-Novoa JM,Díez J,García-Criado FJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00