Insights on Nutrients as Analgesics in Chronic Pain.

abstract：:Characterization of liver-specific autoantigens has given a fresh impetus to research in the pathogenesis of autoimmune liver diseases, viral-triggered and drug-induced autoimmunity affecting the liver. Intriguing is the fact that most of the liver-specific autoantigens are enzymes of key importance for cell's homeost...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bogdanos DP,Dalekos GN

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-recognized that the majority of cancer-related deaths is attributed to metastasis, which can arise from virtually any type of tumor. Metastasis is a complex multistep process wherein cancer cells must break away from the primary tumor, intravasate into the circulatory or lymphatic systems, extravasate, prol...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wong KM,Song J,Saini V,Wong YH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Orhan IE

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosaminoglycans, highly charged polycarboxylated, polysulfated polysaccharides, are an important class of therapeutic agents and investigational drug candidates. Heparin has been widely used as a clinical anticoagulant for over 60 years. Low molecular weight heparins have begun to displace heparin and recently a sy...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Karst NA,Linhardt RJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade, drug resistant invasive mycoses have become significantly more common and new antifungal drugs and ways to specifically deliver them to the fungal cell are being looked for. One of the biggest obstacles in finding such comes from the fact that fungi share essential metabolic pathways with humans. O...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Walencik PK,Watly J,Rowinska-Zyrek M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced enteropancreatic (EP) neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) can be treated with several different therapies, including chemotherapy, biotherapy, and locoregional treatments. Over the last few decades, impressive progress has been made in the biotherapy field. Three main druggable molecular targets have been studied an...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fazio N,Scarpa A,Falconi M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-based polymers are some of the most promising candidates for a new generation of innovative biomaterials as recent advances in genetic-engineering and biotechnological techniques mean that protein-based biomaterials can be designed and constructed with a higher degree of complexity and accuracy. Moreover, thei...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Santos M,Serrano-Dúcar S,González-Valdivieso J,Vallejo R,Girotti A,Cuadrado P,Arias FJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:From the discovery of Endothelial Progenitor Cells (EPC), these bone marrowderived precursors have been placed as crucial mediators of the endothelial repair. Accordingly, altered levels and function of EPC have been found in different scenarios of CV risk. Despite the fact that EPC exhibit important characteristics w...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Rodríguez-Carrio J,López P,Suárez A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) 2 is a homologue of ACE that catalyzes the conversion of Angiotensin (Ang) II into Ang1-7, which induces vasodilation, anti-fibrotic, anti-proliferative and anti-inflammatory effects. Given that ACE2 counterbalances the effects of Ang II, it has been proposed as a biomarker in kidne...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Anguiano L,Riera M,Pascual J,Soler MJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products from symbiotic or commensal associations between marine invertebrate and microbial organisms show exceptional promise as pharmaceuticals in many therapeutic areas. An economic and sustainable global market supply due to difficulty of synthesis is cited as the main obstacle for exploitation of these ot...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Dunlap WC,Jaspars M,Hranueli D,Battershill CN,Perić-Concha N,Zucko J,Wright SH,Long PF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poisoning of DNA topoisomerase I is the mechanism by which camptothecins interfere with tumor growth. Although the clinical use of camptothecins has had a significant impact on cancer therapy, de novo or acquired clinical resistance to these drugs is common. Clinical resistance to camptothecins is still a poorly under...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Beretta GL,Gatti L,Perego P,Zaffaroni N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the strategies that can lead to the discovery of new drugs, the identification and use of privileged structures, molecular fragments that are able to interact with more than one target, gained particular attention, in an attempt to find new drugs in a shorter time with respect to other strategies. These structur...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Costantino L,Barlocco D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress or heat shock proteins (Hsps) Hsp90, Hsp70 and Hsp27 are chaperones that assist the proteins in their folding, stability, assembly into multi-protein complexes and transport across cellular membranes. The expression of some of them is highly induced in response to a wide variety of physiological and environment...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Didelot C,Lanneau D,Brunet M,Joly AL,De Thonel A,Chiosis G,Garrido C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is a member of the CC chemokine family that plays a key role in the inflammatory process. It has been broadly studied in the aspect of its role in obesity and diabetes related diseases. MCP-1 causes the infiltration of macrophages into obese adipose tissue via bindi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Czemplik M,Kulma A,Wang YF,Szopa J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To this point, efforts to develop therapeutic peptides for intracellular applications were guided by the perception that unmodified linear peptides are highly unstable and therefore structural modifications are required to reduce proteolytic breakdown. Largely, this concept is a consequence of the fact that most resea...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Zuconelli CR,Brock R,Adjobo-Hermans MJW

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells are potent effectors playing a key role in IgE-associated hypersensitivity reactions, allergic disorders, inflammation and protective immune responses. Mast cell development in vivo occurs mainly in non-hematopoietic microenvironments and increased mast cell numbers can be seen in various inflammatory disea...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Hu ZQ,Zhao WH,Shimamura T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are considered potentially carcinogenic. Substituted PAH derivatives, in contrast, may serve as anticancer agents, and as chemotherapeutics. This article presents a review of their use. Particular emphasis is placed on the synthesis of these new compounds, electrophilic substitut...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Banik BK,Becker FF

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：:Nowadays, the use of synthetic carriers as biochemical reagents and immunogens is entering a new phase. The multimeric nature of these constructs, the unambiguous composition and the ease, reliability and versatility of their production, make this type of carriers well-suited to various biotechnological and biochemica...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Alexopoulos Ch,Sakarellos-Daitsiotis M,Sakarellos C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low molecular weight oligonucleotides have been discovered to have potential use for gene therapy by selectively inhibiting the expression of certain genes. Chemical conjugation of functional peptides to oligonucleotides can introduce desired properties to the oligonucleotides, such as cell-specific delivery, cellular...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang CF,Auriola S,Hirvonen J,Santos HA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four different types of small RNAs functionally associated with gene silencing have been discovered in animals including small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), microRNAs (miRNAs), and Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs). Experimental evidence suggests that miRNAs regulate the expression of more than 30% of protein-coding genes. ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Shah AA,Leidinger P,Blin N,Meese E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimitotics binding at the colchicine site of tubulin are important antitumour and vascular disrupting agents. Pyridines and azines are privileged scaffolds in medicinal chemistry and in recent years many colchicine site ligands (CSL) have incorporated them into their structures with the aim of improving their pharma...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Álvarez R,Aramburu L,Puebla P,Caballero E,González M,Vicente A,Medarde M,Peláez R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoprevention is based on the use of non-toxic, pharmacologically active agents to prevent tumor progression. In this regard, natural dietary agents have been described by the most recent literature as promising tools for controlling onset and progression of malignancies. Extensive research has been so far performed...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Raimondi L,De Luca A,Giavaresi G,Barone A,Tagliaferri P,Tassone P,Amodio N

更新日期：2020-01-01 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

abstract：:In recent years several mutations and sequence polymorphisms of the glucocorticoid receptor gene have been described. The majority of mutations have been found in patients with a rare endocrinological abnormality, the glucocorticoid resistance syndrome. In addition, some sequence polymorphisms have been considered to ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Likó I,Igaz P,Patócs A,Tóth S,Pázmány T,Tóth M,Rácz K

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine is an important autocoid, exerting its physiological effects on the human body by activation of four different G-protein-coupled-receptors (GPCRs) classified as A(1), A(2A), A(2B), and A(3). These receptors are coupled to secondary messenger systems including adenylate cyclase, inositol phosphate metabolism,...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Romagnoli R,Baraldi PG,Tabrizi MA,Gessi S,Borea PA,Merighi S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The story of antimalarials as antinflammatory drugs dates back several centuries. Chinin, the extract of the Cinchona bark, has been exploited since the 18th century for its antimalarial and antifebrile properties. Later, during the Second World War, the broad use of antimalarials allowed arguing their antirheumatic e...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Piscianz E,Cuzzoni E,Sharma R,Tesser A,Sapra P,Tommasini A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multitarget-directed ligands (MTDLs), an emerging and appealing drug discovery strategy, utilizing a single chemical entity to inhibit multitargets, was confirmed to be effective in reducing the likelihood of drug resistance, diminishing problems of dosing complexity, drug-drug interactions and toxicities, as well as ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhan P,Liu X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is a public health burden and its co-existence with hypertension is long established in the context of the metabolic syndrome. Both DM and hypertension are major risk factors, for end-stage renal disease, cardiovascular events and mortality. Strict blood pressure (BP) control in diabetics...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Loutradis C,Papadopoulou E,Angeloudi E,Karagiannis A,Sarafidis P

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00