Signal Transduction Pathways as Therapeutic Target for Chagas Disease.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the serendipitous discovery of the antitumor activity of cisplatin there has been a continuous surge in studies aimed at the development of new cytotoxic metal complexes. While the majority of these complexes have been designed to interact with nuclear DNA, other targets for anticancer metallodrugs att...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Erxleben A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existence of residual cancers and recurrence of cancers are two major limitations of conventional therapies against cancers. A naturally-occurring defense system against tumor may be established in cancer patients by induction of antitumor immunity. Both polyvalent and tumor antigen-defined vaccines have been administ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fazle Akbar SM,Abe M,Yoshida O,Murakami H,Onji M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represents a heightened inflammatory response in the lung generally resulting from tobacco smoking-induced recruitment and activation of inflammatory cells and/or activation of lower airway structural cells. Several mediators can modulate activation and recruitment of these...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Nucera F,Lo Bello F,Shen SS,Ruggeri P,Coppolino I,Di Stefano A,Stellato C,Casolaro V,Hansbro PM,Adcock IM,Caramori G

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for innovation in research is leading to an increased use of imaging biomarkers, which have shown to reduce timings and increase productivity, thus saving costs. PET and SPECT neurotransmission imaging has shown usefulness in the discovery and development of drugs for the central nervous system, providing uni...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Catafau AM,Bullich S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), such as intercellular cell adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), vascular endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), E-selectin, and P-selectin, has been studied extensively in the process of inflammation. These molecules are responsible for recruiting leukocytes onto the vascul...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kobayashi H,Boelte KC,Lin PC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which constitutes the lipid portion of the outer leaflet of Gram-negative bacteria, is essential for growth. It is also responsible for the variety of biological effects associated with Gram-negative sepsis. Recent advances have elucidated the exact chemical structure of this highly complex m...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cipolla L,Polissi A,Airoldi C,Gabrielli L,Merlo S,Nicotra F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques in the parenchymal and cortical brain is accepted as the main pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, the Aβ deposition in the brain appears to be a good diagnostic biomarker for AD and may also be a good predictive biomar...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cui M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First described by Alois Alzheimer in 1907, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common dementia type, affecting approximately 20 million people worldwide. As the population is getting older, AD is a growing health problem. AD is currently treated by symptomatic drugs, the acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, based on the...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Francotte P,Graindorge E,Boverie S,de Tullio P,Pirotte B

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lipids are essential components of cells that participate in metabolic and endocrine regulation and reproductive functions. The main organs where lipid regulation takes place are the liver and adipose tissue. Besides, when each tissue specific action cannot be exerted, it could lead to several endocrine-meta...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ferrer MJ,Silva AF,Abruzzese GA,Velázquez ME,Motta AB

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smac mimetics (also known as IAP antagonist) are a new class of targeted drugs having a goal to suppress the IAPs, reestablishing the apoptotic pathways and inducing cancer cell death. Therefore, development of Smac mimetics was considered an attractive strategy for the development of new anticancer drugs. L...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Ali R,Singh S,Haq W

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a universal analytical tool. It can provide detailed information on chemical shifts, J coupling constants, multiplet patterns, and relative peak areas. It plays an important role in the fields of chemistry, biology, medicine, and pharmacy. A highly homog...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lin Y,Zeng Q,Lin L,Chen Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demyelination occurs in several central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including multiple sclerosis, viral infection and spinal cord injury and can result in severe functional impairment. Therefore there is great interest in developing therapies promoting repair in CNS demyelinating diseases and trauma. Cell replacem...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lavdas AA,Papastefanaki F,Thomaidou D,Matsas R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug repositioning is an important area of biomedical research. The drug repositioning studies have shifted to computational approaches. Large-scale perturbation databases, such as the Connectivity Map and the Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures, contain a number of chemical-induced gene expression...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang F,Lei X,Wu FX

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) involves the administration of a photosensitizer (PS) followed by illumination with visible light, leading to generation of reactive oxygen species. The mechanisms of resistance to PDT ascribed to the PS may be shared with the general mechanisms of drug resistance, and are related to altered...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Casas A,Di Venosa G,Hasan T,Al Batlle

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of iron chelators as anti-tumor agents is still in its infancy. Iron is important for cellular proliferation and this is demonstrated by observations that iron-depletion results in cell cycle arrest and also apoptosis. In addition, many iron chelators are known to inhibit ribonucleotide reductase, the iron-c...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Yu Y,Gutierrez E,Kovacevic Z,Saletta F,Obeidy P,Suryo Rahmanto Y,Richardson DR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal phytotoxins are natural secondary metabolites produced by plant pathogenic fungi during host-pathogen interactions. They have received considerable particular attention for elucidating disease etiology, and consequently to design strategies for disease control. Due to wide differences in their chemical structur...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Vurro M,Boari A,Casella F,Zonno MC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19, a type of infection that emerged in Wuhan, has become a pandemic affecting people worldwide and is rapidly spreading and evolving. Day by day, the confirmed cases and deaths are increasing many folds. SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus; therefore, limited data are available to curb the disease. Epidemiological appr...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Kumar R,Harilal S,Al-Sehemi AG,Mathew GE,Carradori S,Mathew B

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) has shown widespread utility in different psychiatric disorders, including a beneficial role in schizophrenic patients. Although the replenishment of glutathione and the antioxidant activity of NAC have been suggested as the mechanisms that improve such a wide range of disorders, none...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Martínez-Banaclocha M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correct QSAR analysis requires reliable measured or calculated logP values, being logP the most frequently utilized and most important physico-chemical parameter in such studies. Since the publication of theoretical fundamentals of logP prediction, many commercial software solutions are available. These programs are a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Eros D,Kövesdi I,Orfi L,Takács-Novák K,Acsády G,Kéri G

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtual screening is an important means for lead compound discovery. The scoring function is the key to selecting hit compounds. Many scoring functions are currently available; however, there are no all-purpose scoring functions because different scoring functions tend to have conflicting results. Recently, neural net...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Shan W,Li X,Yao H,Lin K

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermosensitive hydrogels are very important biomaterials used in drug delivery systems (DDSs), which gained increasing attention of researchers. Thermosensitive hydrogels have great potential in various applications, such as drug delivery, cell encapsulation, tissue engineering, and etc. Especially, injectable thermo...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gong C,Qi T,Wei X,Qu Y,Wu Q,Luo F,Qian Z

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation represents a major clinical, social and economical matter, and its importance is expected to increase even more in the near future. The progressive ageing of population is associated with an inevitable rising in incidence and prevalence of this rhythm disorder, which limits functional capability, f...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lombardi F,Terranova P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthones (dibenzo-γ-pyrones) constitutes an important class of oxygenated heterocycles and occur as secondary metabolites in plants and microorganisms. They are known for various biological activities such as antioxidant, monoamine oxidase inhibitor, antihypertensive, hepatoprotective, antithrombotic, antifungal and ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Panda SS,Chand M,Sakhuja R,Jain SC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of classical and molecular therapies in cancer is hampered by the occurrence of primary (intrinsic) and secondary (acquired) refractoriness of tumours to selected therapeutic regimens. Nevertheless, the increased knowledge of the genetic, molecular and metabolic mechanisms underlying cancer results in the...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Rosa R,Monteleone F,Zambrano N,Bianco R

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Gene expression, both tissue specific or inducible, is controlled at the level of transcription by various transcription factors interacting with specific sequences of DNA. Anticancer drugs and other potential therapeutic agents alter interactions of regulatory proteins with DNA by a variety of different mechanisms. T...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Gniazdowski M,Denny WA,Nelson SM,Czyz M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ageing is an aggravating factor leading to alterations in the biotransformation of drugs, and therefore their therapeutic efficacy and safety. In this review we discuss the influence of ageing on drug metabolizing enzymes in male Wistar rats. We report that drug metabolizing enzymes can be affected by ageing either by...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wauthier V,Verbeeck RK,Calderon PB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of bacterial resistance is a significant problem in the treatment of infection, and the importance of research directed toward the discovery of novel agents to treat infections cannot be underestimated. In the past, discovery programs have focused on modification of natural products or existing classes...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Harris CR,Thorarensen A

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We report herein the synthesis of a novel dicationic boron dipyrromethene derivative (compound 3) which is symmetrically substituted with two trimethylammonium styryl groups. METHODS:The antibacterial photodynamic activity of compound 3 was determined against sixteen methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aur...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Dharmaratne P,Yu L,Wong RC,Chan BC,Lau KM,Wang B,Lau CB,Fung KP,Ng DK,Ip M

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Genito-urinary malignancies (prostate, bladder, renal and testicular cancers) rank high among human tumors with an incidence that varies with age and organ involvement. Prostate cancer is the most commonly detected male cancer followed by bladder and kidney cancers, less frequent in women. Testicular cancer, although ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cantile M,Franco R,Schiavo G,Procino A,Cindolo L,Botti G,Cillo C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00