New Horizons in the Pathogenesis, Pathophysiology and Treatment of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia.

abstract：:Sulphur mustard (SM; (2, 2'-dichloroethylsulfide)) was used for the first time in 1917, during the World War I. SM mainly induces DNA damage, oxidative stress, and inflammation. This compound injures the respiratory system, eyes, skin and the endocrine, gastrointestinal, and hematopoietic systems. However, due to the ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Panahi Y,Shahbazi A,Naderi M,Jadidi K,Sahebkar A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrins alpha(1)beta(1) and alpha(2)beta(1) are highly expressed on the microvascular endothelial cells, and blocking of their adhesive properties significantly reduced the VEGF-driven neovascularization ratio and tumor growth in animal models. Hence, inhibitors of the alpha(1)beta(1) and alpha(2) beta(1) integrins,...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Calvete JJ,Marcinkiewicz C,Sanz L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The so-called hygiene hypothesis is, at least in part, accountable for the increase in allergic diseases in the developed countries. Although there is support for one of its primary predictions that host-microbe interactions in early life have longterm effects on the development of disease across populations, the theo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Jeurink PV,Rijnierse A,Martin R,Garssen J,Knippels LM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The typical way of judging about either the efficacy of a new treatment or, on the contrary, the damage of a pollutant agent is through a test of hypothesis having its ineffectiveness as null hypothesis. This is the typical operational field of Kolmogorov's statistical framework where wastes of data (for instance non ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Apolloni B,Bassis S,Gaito S,Malchiodi D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polyphenols widely distributed in plants, fruits and vegetables have received considerable attention on account of their physiological functions, including their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Some antioxidant components of cacao liquor prepared from fermented and roasted cacao beans, which is...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Natsume M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease featured by insulin deprivation caused by pancreatic β-cell loss, followed by hyperglycaemia. OBJECTIVE:Currently, there is no cure for this disease in clinical treatment, and patients have to accept a lifelong injection of insulin. The exploration of potentia...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wang R,Zhou Y,Zhang Y,Li S,Pan R,Zhao Y

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are considered a major health problem worldwide, being the main cause of mortality in developing and developed countries. Endothelial dysfunction, characterized by a decline in nitric oxide production and/or bioavailability, increased oxidative stress, decreased prostacyclin levels, and a...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Blanco-Rivero J,Xavier FE

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade, the number of health economic evaluations has increased substantially in the field of child psychiatry. The objective of the present paper is to offer an overview of economic evaluations of child psychiatric drug treatment. Major electronic databases, as well as abstract booklets from international cl...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Schlander M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exosomes are phospholipid bilayer-enclosed membrane vesicles derived and constitutively secreted by various metabolically active cells. They are capable of mediating hetero- and homotypic intercellular communication by transferring multiple cargos from donor cells to recipient cells. Nowadays, non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs)...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tu C,He J,Chen R,Li Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is a specialized enzymatic complex responsible for the synthesis of telomeric repeats 5'-TTAGGG-3' localized at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes. This mechanism prevents shortening of telomeres after each cell division. The enzyme is detected in about 85% of human tumors, but it is not expressed in normal...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Romaniuk A,Kopczynski P,Ksiazek K,Rubis B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food proteins contain latent biofunctional peptide sequences within their primary structures which may have the ability to exert a physiological response in vivo. A large range of biofunctional peptides have been isolated from food proteins including opioid, immunomodulatory, antimicrobial, mineral binding, growth and...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Murray BA,FitzGerald RJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plants of the Colchicum family were known during the archaic period in Greece for their deleterious properties. Later on, they were used for the treatment of podagra. The treatment was introduced by the ancient Greek physicians and passed on to the Byzantine and Arabian physicians to endure until nowadays. The fir...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tsoucalas G,Papaioannou T,Panayiotakopoulos G,Saridaki Z,Vrachatis DA,Karamanou M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Ultrasound contrast agents involving a therapeutic drug applied during enhanced imaging can be used for targeted therapy. The preparation of contrast agents is a precondition and basis for the use of multifunctional contrast agents in molecular imaging. METHODS:This study uses thin-film hydration-mechanical vi...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Yang F,Li Y,Liufu C,Wang Y,Chen Z

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrine (RST), known as FangJi (Pinyin name) in Chinese, is the dried root of Stephania tetrandra S.Moore, and has been prescribed in combination with other herbs to treat cardiovascular diseases and breast cancer in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinical trials. OBJECTIVE:The aim ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Guo Y,Chen B,Pei X,Zhang D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased visceral adiposity, is an emerging cardiovascular risk factor. There is now a compelling need to quantify visceral adipose tissue not only for diagnostic purposes, but also for therapeutic interventions with weight reduction drugs or pharmaceuticals targeted to adipose tissue, as well as anti-obesity medicat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Iacobellis G,Sharma AM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing novel treatments to help cancer patients live longer and have better lives remains one of the biggest challenges of the pharmaceutical industry. Today much is known about the molecular and genetic causes of cancers thus facilitating the development of novel targeted cancer drugs with improved risk-benefit ra...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Frieden M,Ørum H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most heterosexual women want to reduce the risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted infection; many also want to control their fertility. Several chemical agents have been proposed to dramatically slow the spread of HIV infections. Ideally, vaginal microbicides, with or without contraceptive properties, should be safe...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gandour RD

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaporins (AQPs) are expressed in physiologically essential tissues and organs in which edema and fluid imbalances are of major concern. Potential roles in brain water homeostasis and edema, angiogenesis, cell migration, development, neuropathological diseases, and cancer suggest that this family of membrane proteins...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Yool AJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic syndrome (MetS) represents a cluster of medical disorders, such as hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and abdominal obesity that, when occurring together, increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The role of food and nutrients in the aetiology of chronic diseases has become clearer...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Grosso G,Mistretta A,Marventano S,Purrello A,Vitaglione P,Calabrese G,Drago F,Galvano F

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine released from T-cells and macrophages, and is a key molecule in inflammation. Although a detailed understanding of the biological functions of MIF has not yet been found, it is known that MIF catalyzes the tautomerization of phenylpyruvate and...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Orita M,Yamamoto S,Katayama N,Fujita S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosides constitute an extensive group of natural and chemically modified compounds that display a wide range of structures and activities. Different biocatalysts have been developed for their preparation, but the choice of commercially available enzymes is limited. Therefore, the search of new biocatalysts is part...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lewkowicz ES,Iribarren AM

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carbon dioxide (CO2) exists in nature around us. In the middle of the 20th century, the intraluminal injection of CO2 demonstrated similar results to those of Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) with an iodinated contrast agent (ICA). Since then, the technology behind CO2 DSA has developed significantly. ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Patelis N,Doulaptsis M,Kykalos S,Spartalis E,Maskanakis A,Georgopoulos S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-β family members, which include TGF-βs, activins and bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), play important roles in development and maintaining tissue homeostasis. The extracellular TGF-β family members signal across the plasmamembrane by activating type I and type II serine/threonine kinase re...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： de Gorter DJ,Jankipersadsing V,Ten Dijke P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines and their receptors play critical roles in leukocyte trafficking during inflammatory processes. Although the role of chemokine receptors (CKRs) in cancer biology is a relatively new field of study, a growing body of data suggest that a number of CKRs, including CXCR4, CCR4, CCR7, and CCR10, may play diverse...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wu X,Lee VC,Chevalier E,Hwang ST

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of the delicate role of endogenous nitric oxide in the homeostasis of various cellular functions and the dynamic behaviour of the airways, has led to a new, rapidly progressing area of physiological science, that has direct bearing for our understanding of multiple airway diseases. The potentially protec...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Folkerts G,Nijkamp FP

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Casein kinase II (CK2) is a pro-oncogenic protein, which is emerging as a promising therapeutic target in cancer. Recent studies have revealed an important role for CK2 in tumorigenesis. High levels of CK2 are noted in many malignancies including leukemia. Use of CK2 inhibitors in various malignancies includ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gowda C,Sachdev M,Muthusami S,Kapadia M,Petrovic-Dovat L,Hartman M,Ding Y,Song C,Payne JL,Tan BH,Dovat S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance- and alertness-sustaining/restoring effects of modafinil during sleep deprivation in normal, healthy adults were reviewed. Results indicate that modafinil is efficacious for sustaining/restoring objective performance and alertness during sleep deprivation with few adverse effects. At appropriate dosage...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wesensten NJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present review, associations between traditional vascular risk factors (VRFs) and carotid intimamedial thickness progression (C-IMTp) as well as the effects of therapies for VRFs control on C-IMTp were appraised to infer causality between each VRF and C-IMTp. Cohort studies indicate that smoking, binge drinking...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Frigerio B,Werba JP,Amato M,Ravani A,Sansaro D,Coggi D,Vigo L,Tremoli E,Baldassarre D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of β-adrenergic receptors in the heart is the most effective endogenous way to increase the mechanical performance of cardiac tissues to meet the requirements of a fight-or-flight situation or stress. On the other hand, sustained activation of cardiac β-receptors initiates maladaptive remodeling of the myo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Szentmiklosi AJ,Szentandrássy N,Hegyi B,Horvath B,Magyar J,Bányász T,Nanasi PP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical presentation of heart disease is different between men and women and this distinction is pivotal for a correct diagnosis and an adequate treatment. However, the definition of symptoms classically associated with heart disease is mainly based on the characteristics of those reported in men. Chest pain or c...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Collins P,Vitale C,Spoletini I,Barbaro G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00