Natural Cytotoxic Diterpenoids, a Potential Source of Drug Leads for Melanoma Therapy.

abstract：:Pro-rich antimicrobial peptides are a group of linear peptides of innate immunity isolated from mammals and invertebrates, and characterised by a high content of proline residues (up to 50%). Members of this group are predominantly active against Gram-negative bacterial species which they kill by a non-lytic mechanism...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gennaro R,Zanetti M,Benincasa M,Podda E,Miani M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxynitrite, the product of the reaction between nitric oxide and superoxide, is spontaneouly formed within most mammalian cells under physiological conditions. Initial work addressing the pathophysiology of peroxynitrite afforded the generally accepted notion that this compound would be the long-term neurotoxic nit...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bolanos JP,García-Nogales P,Almeida A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtual screening, especially the structure-based virtual screening, has emerged as a reliable, cost-effective and time-saving technique for the discovery of lead compounds. Here, the basic ideas and computational tools for virtual screening have been briefly introduced, and emphasis is placed on aspects of recent dev...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Hou T,Xu X

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical biomarkers are important candidates for the diagnosis and prognosis of neurological diseases of autoimmune etiology, since they may reflect the presence, nature and intensity of certain immune responses caused by both genetic and environmental processes. Different body fluids such as cerebrospinal fluid (C...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tumani H,Brettschneider J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These are exciting times for bioinformaticians, computational biologists and drug designers with the genome and proteome sequences and related structural databases growing at an accelerated pace. The post-genomic era has triggered high expectations for a rapid and successful treatment of diseases. However, in this bio...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Soni A,Pandey KM,Ray P,Jayaram B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now a large body of evidence that weight loss in older persons not only increases mortality, but also increases the incidence of hip fracture, functional deterioration and institutionalization. Weight loss is a central component of frailty. There is evidence that it is not only muscle, but also fat loss that ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Morley JE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes gene therapy strategies that take advantage of defective signal transduction pathways to selectively kill cancer cells without adversely affecting normal cells. The distinctive features of cancer cells currently exploited by gene therapy include mitosis, cell permissiveness to infection, specific...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Westphal EM,Melchner Hv Hv

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is an important metabolic disease affecting many organs and systems in the body. The nervous system is one of the body systems affected by diabetes and neuropathic complications are troublesome in diabetic patients with many consequences. As diabetes has deleterious influences almost on bodily systems, an int...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Öztürk Y,Öztürk N

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rising at an alarming rate worldwide. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the diabetic population. Future CAD risk should be routinely assessed in patients with diabetes as specific subgroups might benefit from information derived from c...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Karastergiou K,Kaski JC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colchicine is a lipophilic alkaloid drug, which exhibits ant-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic properties. Cardinal mechanisms of action of colchicine are the disruption of the microtubule system and the inhibition of neutrophil adhesion and recruitment. Colchicine is indicated in the prevention and treatment of gouty ar...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Marinaki S,Skalioti C,Boletis JN

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The integrin family receptors stimulate the cellular proliferation and migration through the focal adhesion pathway by the activation of PTK2, VASP and TSP1 proteins. The purpose of this study was to investigate the integrin-ligated motifs through the activation of focal adhesion pathway. METHODS:A chimeric...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Khosravi M,Kakavandi N,Rezaee S,Shabani M,Najafi M

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Large doses of omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are used to treat several diseases including hypertriglyceridemia in humans. Modest levels of EPA and DHA may be obtained from food, particularly from fatty fish. This review presents the literature examining the differences ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Abete P,Testa G,Galizia G,Della-Morte D,Cacciatore F,Rengo F

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinic resting heart rate (RHR), is one of the cardiovascular parameters more easily measurable. In the general population RHR has been associated with total and cardiovascular mortality and higher rate of vascular events. OBJECTIVE:The case of essential hypertension is in some ways peculiar: in the past de...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Di Raimondo D,Musiari G,Grova M,Miceli G,Tuttolomondo A,Pinto A

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Despite the significant progresses made in antiretroviral therapy, current drugs still cannot cure or prevent HIV infection. And all drugs continue to select for drug-resistant HIV strains. Consequently, new antiretroviral drugs are constantly being developed. To ensure safety, these drugs are usually designed to inhi...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Provencher VM,Coccaro E,Lacasse JJ,Schang LM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Diabetic retinopathy remains the most common microvascular complication suffered by diabetic patients and is the leading cause of registerable blindness in the working population of developed countries. The clinicopathological lesions of diabetic retinopathy have been well characterised and although a multitude of pat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Stitt AW,Frizzell N,Thorpe SR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) was first discovered as a caspase-independent apoptosis effector that promoted cell death upon release from the mitochondria (triggered by pro-apoptotic stimuli) and relocalization into the nucleus, where it promotes chromatin condensation and DNA fragmentation. AIF is a mammalian m...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ferreira P,Villanueva R,Cabon L,Susín SA,Medina M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuregulin1 proteins (NRG1s) are epidermal growth factor (EGF) family members which are ligands for the ErbB receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs). A decade of research has revealed that the NRG1-ErbB signaling is essential for the cardiac development and pivotal for maintaining the physiological function of the adult hear...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Yan X,Morgan JP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most important glycoproteins of trypanosomatids are anchored by glycoinositolphospholipids (GIPLs) to their plasma membrane. In addition, free GIPLs have been described, for instance the lipopeptidophosphoglycan (LPPG) which is a major component of the surface of T. cruzi epimastigotes. An inositolphosphoceramide ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lederkremer RM,Bertello LE

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is the process by which new blood vessels are formed from preexisting microvasculature. To ensure an adequate blood supply, tumor cells release angiogenic factors that are capable of promoting nearby blood vessels to extend vascular branches to the tumor. In addition, larger tumors have been shown to rele...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gourley M,Williamson JS

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human heart has endogenous regenerative capability; however, the intrinsic repair mechanism is not sufficient to overcome the impact placed by adverse pathological conditions, such as myocardial infarction (MI). In such circumstances, the damaged tissue initiates a series of remodeling process which results in the det...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Joshi J,Kothapalli CR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron oxide (Fe₃O₄) nanoparticles (IONPs) have received much attention for their utility in biomedical applications such as magnetic resonance imaging, drug delivery and hyperthermia. Recent studies reported that IONPs induced cytotoxicity in mammalian cells. However, little is known about the genotoxicity of IONPs fol...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ahamed M,Alhadlaq HA,Alam J,Khan MA,Ali D,Alarafi S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New biopharmaceutical molecules, potentially able to provide more personalized and effective treatments, are being identified through the advent of advanced synthetic biology strategies, sophisticated chemical synthesis approaches, and new analytical methods to assess biological potency. However, translation of many o...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Munsell EV,Ross NL,Sullivan MO

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This paper reviews literary evidence on antithrombotic therapies currently employed in TAVR to assess validity and efficacy; duration and modality are also considered. In the absence of firm guidelines and reliable trial results, we analyze current knowledge of interaction between PPI and antithrombotic drug...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Fusari M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Runx2/Cbfa/AML3 is a member of the runt homology domain family of transcription factors, essential for osteoblast differentiation and bone formation. Defining the molecular mechanisms by which Runx2 can function as a master regulatory gene for activating the program of osteoblastogenesis has provided novel insights fo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lian JB,Stein GS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diabetic dyslipidemia has specifics that differ from dyslipidemia in patients without diabetes, which contributes to accelerated atherosclerosis equally as dysglycemia. The aim of this study was to deduce the interdependence of diabetic dyslipidemia and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), therapeutic strategies a...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Vavlukis M,Kedev S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells, traditionally regarded as effector cells of the immune system, have more recently been demonstrated to be key figures in initiating, developing and sustaining complex pathophysiological processes underlying asthma and other allergic diseases. Asthma is characterised by airway inflammation alongside a distu...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Carter RJ,Bradding P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00