Whole cell biocatalysts for the preparation of nucleosides and their derivatives.

abstract：:The state-of-the-art in the investigation of drugs release from Silica-based ordered Mesoporous Materials (SMMs) is reviewed. First, the SMM systems used like host matrixes are described. Then, the model drugs studied until now, including their pharmacological action, structure and the mesoporous matrix employed for e...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Doadrio AL,Salinas AJ,Sánchez-Montero JM,Vallet-Regí M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is characterized by complicated combination of positive (e.g., hyperalgesia and allodynia) and negative (e.g., hypoesthesia and hypoalgesia) symptoms, and is often refractory to conventional pharmacological agents, including morphine. Although the molecular mechanisms for positive symptoms are extensi...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ueda H,Uchida H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cumulative recent evidence from clinical trials, observational studies and case reports has shown that subcutaneous administration of immunoglobulin (SCIg) exerts similar immunomodulatory capacity than intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) in autoimmune neurological diseases. Besides the beneficial clinical effects, the p...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sanchez-Ramon S,Corbi AL,Fidalgo AG,Dominguez-Soto A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder that affects the elderly. The increase of life-expectancy is transforming AD into a major health-care problem. AD is characterized by a progressive impairment of memory and other cognitive skills leading to dementia. The major pathogenic factor ass...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Agostinho P,Cunha RA,Oliveira C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of blood serum atherogenicity was described as the ability of human serum to induce lipid accumulation in cultured cells. The results of recent two-year prospective study in asymptomatic men provided the evidence for association between the changes in serum atherogenicity and dynamics of carotid intima-...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sobenin IA,Myasoedova VA,Anisimova EV,Pavlova XN,Möhlenkamp S,Schmermund A,Seibel R,Berenbein S,Lehmann N,Moebus S,Jöckel K,Orekhov AN,Erbel R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual emotional stimulation is supposed to elicit psycho-vegetative reactions, which are similar to as the ones elicited by exposure to actual experience. Visual stimulation paradigms have been widely used in studies on agoraphobia with and without panic disorder. However, the applied imagery has hardly ever been dis...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Engel KR,Bandelow B,Neumann C,Obst K,Wedekind D

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Conventional treatment has a limitation of very narrow therapeutic time window and its devastating nature necessitate a novel regenerative approach. Transplanted stem cells resulted in functional recovery through multiple mechanisms including neuroprotection...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kwak KA,Kwon HB,Lee JW,Park YS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane disrupting lytic peptides are abundant in nature and serve insects, invertebrates, vertebrates and humans as defense molecules. Initially, these peptides attracted attention as antimicrobial agents; later, the sensitivity of tumor cells to lytic peptides was discovered. In the last decade intensive research h...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Leuschner C,Hansel W

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of appropriate pharmaceutical formulations for routine neonatal practice is challenging because of the developmental characteristics and the need for it to be specifically ageappropriate. This has led to wide use of extemporaneous formulations, which lack standardized procedures that can resu...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kogermann K,Lass J,Nellis G,Metsvaht T,Lutsar I

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glioma is the most common human central nervous system tumour with a high degree of malignancy. Some Rab GTPases have significant effects on glioma. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to investigate the effect of Rab3b (Rab GTPase3b) on human glioma cell proliferation and apoptosis by silencing Rab3b and to initial...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Luo Q,Liu Y,Yuan Z,Huang L,Diao B

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth differentiation factor 5 (GDF5) is a member of the bone morphogenic protein (BMP) family and plays critical roles in organ development processes including bone, cartilage, ligament, and joint formation. GDF5 is expressed in the cartilage primordium in the early limb development, and in the interzone of joint fo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Jin L,Li X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinases are potential targets of drugs to treat many human diseases. Intensive efforts have been made to develop protein kinase inhibitors, but a major challenge is achieving specificity. Exploiting regulatory elements outside the ATP binding pocket, such as the substrate binding site, may provide an alternati...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Licht-Murava A,Eldar-Finkelman H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pivotal role of leptin in regulating body weight and energy homeostasis is very well established. More recently, leptin also emerged as an important regulator of T-cell-dependent immunity. Reduced leptin levels, as observed during periods of starvation, correlate with an impaired cellular immune response, whereby ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Peelman F,Iserentant H,Eyckerman S,Zabeau L,Tavernier J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enkephalins play a great role in management of pain, blood pressure, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Enkephalins are short-lived molecules being rapidly hydrolyzed following their synaptic release by enkephalin degrading enzymes. The inhibitors of enkephalin degrading enzymes are able to prolong the duration...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Khaket TP,Singh J,Attri P,Dhanda S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that heat shock proteins (HSPs) are induced by various stressors in order to confer protection against such stressors. Since stressor-induced tissue damage is involved in various diseases, especially gastrointestinal diseases, such as gastric ulcer, it has been thought that HSPs are protective against...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mizushima T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS), as well as reactive nitrogen species (RNS) play either harmful or beneficial role in biological systems. Beneficial effects of ROS include physiological roles in cellular responses against infectious agents and in several cellular signalling pathways. Harmful effects are due to high conc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Balsano C,Alisi A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke remains a major cause of death in the US and around the world. Despite major scientific advances in our understanding of stroke pathology, the only FDA-approved drug for ischemic stroke is tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). Moreover, the therapeutic window for tPA is confined to the acute phase of stroke, ther...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tajiri N,Lau T,Glover LE,Shinozuka K,Kaneko Y,van Loveren H,Borlongan CV

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain is a complex, regulated organ with a highly controlled access mechanism: The Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB). The selectivity of this barrier is a double-edged sword, being both its greatest strength and weakness. This weakness is evident when trying to target therapeutics against diseases within the brain. Diseas...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： McCully M,Sanchez-Navarro M,Teixido M,Giralt E

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urological cancer refers to cancer in organs of the urinary system and the male reproductive system. It mainly includes prostate cancer, bladder cancer, renal cancer, etc., seriously threatening patients' survival. Although there are many advances in the treatment of urological cancer, approved targeted therapies ofte...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Liu Q,Gu J,Zhang E,He L,Yuan ZX

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arterial hypertension (AH) and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) frequently coincide. While significant attention is paid to AH, PAD is often underestimated. It is known that both AH and PAD present high cardiovascular risks for ischemic events. To date, the use of the most common anti-hypertensive drugs in ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Signorelli SS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The substantial morbidity and mortality associated with invasive fungal infections constitute undisputed tokens of their severity. The continued expansion of susceptible population groups (such as immunocompromised individuals, patients undergoing extensive surgery, and those hospitalized with serious underlying disea...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Anastassopoulou CG,Fuchs BB,Mylonakis E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA-34a (miR-34a) promotes apoptosis via down-regulating many anti-apoptotic proteins. Aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) is an anti-apoptotic enzyme whose activity decline associates with myocardial injury. We tested hypothesis that miR-34a might play a pro-apoptotic role in myocardial infarction (MI) by down-regu...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Fan F,Sun A,Zhao H,Liu X,Zhang W,Jin X,Wang C,Ma X,Shen C,Zou Y,Hu K,Ge J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase (RT) is one of the most important targets for HIV drug discovery. However, the emergence of resistant mutants has become one of the biggest challenges in HIV-1 RT drug discovery/development and attracted great research interests worldwide. It is particularly important to develop novel anti-HIV-1 ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Hao GF,Yang SG,Yang GF

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aging phenomenon is intrinsically responsible for diseases and lifestyle-associated conditions afflicting the aging male. In particular, male infertility seems to result from deleterious lifestyle choices. However, the aging effect at the individual gene/protein level is poorly discussed and valuable information i...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bastos P,Freitas MJ,Gomes A,Vitorino R,Fardilha M

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:ADAM (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase) proteins have a predominant role in the protein ectodomain shedding of membrane-bound molecules. ADAMs have emerged as critical regulators of cell-cell signaling during development and homeostasis, and are believed to contribute to pathologies, such as cancer, where their reg...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Peduto L

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin is a tetradeca peptide hormone produced by many different endocrine cells throughout the body. It is also present in both the central and peripheral nervous system. The peptide has many different moods of action including inhibition of hormone secretion and influence on gastrointestinal motility. Somatost...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Janson ET,Oberg K

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring and chemically modified ribonucleosides have interesting bioactive effects. Dietary ribonucleosides are ingested mainly as nucleoproteins and are converted in the course of intestinal digestion to monomeric compounds. Different bioactive effects of dietary ribonucleosides have been described, inclu...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Martin D,Meisel H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension is closely related with right ventricular function. During the progression of right ventricular remodeling, energetic metabolism shifts from oxidative mitochondrial metabolism to glycolysis. In normal physiological conditions, cardiomyocytes use major sourc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Zhang R,Jing ZC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Nowadays, the world is facing a common problem that the population aging process is accelerating. How to delay metabolic disorders in middle-aged and elderly people, has become a hot scientific and social issue worthy of attention. The liver plays an important role in lipid metabolism, and abnormal li...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Su H,Liu D,Shao J,Li Y,Wang X,Gao Q

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancers, accounting for more than 80% of skin cancer mortality. Although melanoma was known very early in the history of medicine, treatment for this disease had remained largely the same until very recently. Previous treatment options, including removal surgery and systemic chem...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tran KB,Buchanan CM,Shepherd PR

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00