Mobile Health Applications for Prenatal Assessment and Monitoring.

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：:The chemical structure of polyphenols consisting of aromatic rings, capable of quenching free radicals, makes them ideal candidates to protect against oxidation. Polyphenols are present in a variety of foods including grapes, berries, dark chocolate, coffee and tea to mention a few. A number of studies have shown that...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Murillo AG,Fernandez ML

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Bevacizumab (BVZ) is a recombinant humanized antibody that inhibits the vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) and is used for the treatment of various types of cancer. BVZ is primarily given by the intravenous drip (I.V.), which often leads to low efficacy and various side effects. There...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Jiang X,Zhang QL,Liu TG,Zhao WP,Yang M,Wang LN,Sun WL,Pan L,Luo AP,Huang JC,Gu XH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Molecular recognition" is one of the most important molecular processes for living systems in order to maintain their life, since most of the biological functions are initiated with the process. Understanding of the process is also important for designing a new drug. Firstly, it is important to find a target of a dru...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Phongphanphanee S,Yoshida N,Hirata F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioids remain the standard of care in the provision of analgesia in the patient undergoing cancer surgery preoperatively. The effects of opioids on tumor growth and metastasis have been discussed for many years. In recent years their use as part of the perioperative pain management bundle in the patients undergoing c...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sekandarzad MW,Doornebal C,Hollmann MW

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heart is a sophisticated endocrine gland synthesizing a family of peptide hormones by three different genes. These cardiac hormones are stored as 3 prohormones, i.e. atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) prohormones. Within the ANP prohormones are 4 ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Vesely DL

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Since their proposal in 1976, sigma (σ) receptors have been increasingly implicated in the pathophysiology of virtually all major central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and drug addiction. Due to their involvement in motor function and higher cognitive function,σ recepto...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Banister SD,Kassiou M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell therapy heralds a new chapter in cardiovascular regenerative medicine. Cardiovascular implants are often used in both surgery and interventional cardiology. Cardiovascular stents are utilized in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), and are classified as either bare metal stents (BMS) or drug-eluting st...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tan A,Sumpio BE,Lee S,Seifalian AM

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:Most proteoglycans are heterogeneous molecules composed of a protein core with glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) attached. GAGs are highly negatively charged molecules that readily bind to enzymes, growth factors, cytokines etc. and as such have many functions. The role played by proteoglycans in diabetes has only r...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Hiebert LM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma concentrations of phytosterols and non-cholesterol sterol precursors of cholesterol synthesis have been used as markers of intestinal cholesterol absorption and synthesis in inherited and secondary dyslipidemias and in population-based investigations to evaluate the risk for cardiovascular disease, respectively...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Quintão ECR

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), termed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization, is a newly emerging zoonotic agent that emerged in China in December 2019. No specific treatment for COVID-19 is currently available. Usual palliative treatment includes ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lovato ECW,Barboza LN,Wietzikoski S,de Souza ANV,Auth PA,Junior AG,Dos Reis Lívero FA

更新日期：2020-07-07 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：:In the last two decades the development of efficient plant-based expression strategies and new concepts for the purification of recombinant proteins prompted the application of plant-derived vaccines for veterinary purposes. The expression of recombinant proteins in plants possesses advantages over conventional eukary...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Phan HT,Floss DM,Conrad U

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Diabetic patients are considered as high risk for development of atherosclerotic disease. Cholesterol treatment is of paramount importance in order to optimise cardiovascular outcomes in this subset of patients. Although statins are regarded as the mainstay of treatment, these may not be tolerated or as efficacious as...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Felekos I,Karamasis GV,Pavlidis AN

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preterm birth is the major cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity worldwide. Attempts to reduce the burden may be proactive using biochemical or biophysical prediction and preventative measures. If these efforts fail, then the approach may have to be reactive using tocolytics to inhibit spontaneous prete...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lamont RF,Jørgensen JS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, new strategies in cancer therapy have been developed targeting key signaling molecules in the receptor tyrosine kinase signal transduction pathway. In contrast, most therapeutical concepts to manipulate G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)-mediated disorders are still limited to the use of receptor-spec...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Liebmann C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancers which damage the human skeleton include multiple myeloma, where the primary tumour colonises bone directly, or breast and prostate cancer, where malignant cells travel from the primary tumour to form clonal outgrowths within the bone. Owing to the interaction of tumour cells with those normally found in the bo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Buckle CH,Neville-Webbe HL,Croucher PI,Lawson MA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drugs acting on the cardiovascular and central nervous system often display relatively fast clinical responses, which may differ in neonates compared to children and adults. Introduction of bedside monitoring tools might be of additional value in the pharmacodynamic (PD) assessment of such drugs in neonates....

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Smits A,Thewissen L,Dereymaeker A,Dempsey E,Caicedo A,Naulaers G

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Non-enzymatic modification of proteins by reducing sugars, a process that is also known as Maillard reaction, leads to the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in vivo. There is a growing body of evidence that formation and accumulation of AGEs progress during normal aging, and at an extremely accelerat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Unoki H,Yamagishi S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kv7.x channels are a family of six transmembrane domain, single pore-loop, voltage-gated K(+) channels. Five members of the family have been identified to date, including the cardiac channel Kv7.1 (formerly known as KvLQT1) and four neuronal Kv7.x channels, Kv7.2-5. Heteromeric channels containing Kv7.3 and either Kv7...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wickenden AD,McNaughton-Smith G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized a novel series of N-substituted sarcosines, analogues of NFPS (N-[3-(biphenyl-4- yloxy)-3-(4-fluorophenyl)propyl]-N-methylglycine), as type-1 glycine transporter (GlyT-1) inhibitors. Several compounds incorporated a diazine ring inhibited recombinant hGlyT-1b expressed permanently in CHO cells and ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Harsing LG Jr,Timar J,Szabo G,Udvari S,Nagy KM,Marko B,Zsilla G,Czompa A,Tapolcsanyi P,Kocsis A,Matyus P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a multifactorial and long-lasting process in humans. Therefore, animal models where more rapid changes occur can be useful for the study of this process. Among such models are the apolipoprotein (apo) E knock out mice. Apo E deficient mice show impaired clearing of plasma lipoproteins and they devel...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kolovou G,Anagnostopoulou K,Mikhailidis DP,Cokkinos DV

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00