Targeting ROS1 Rearrangements in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Crizotinib and Newer Generation Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors.

abstract：:Insulin degludec (Tresiba(®)) is an ultra-long-acting insulin analogue that is also available as a coformulation with rapid-acting insulin aspart (insulin degludec/insulin aspart) [Ryzodeg(®)]. Insulin degludec has a flat, stable glucose-lowering profile with a duration of action of >42 h, and less within-patient day-...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Keating GM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of enalapril on clinical well-being, treadmill exercise performance, haemodynamic measurements, hormone levels, and plasma biochemistry in patients with moderate heart failure, were assessed in a 12-week placebo-controlled, double-blind study. Maintenance frusemide and digoxin treatment was continued throu...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Webster MW,Fitzpatrick MA,Hamilton EJ,Nicholls MG,Ikram H,Espiner EA,Wells JE

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimetrexate is a folinic acid analogue structurally related to methotrexate, whose primary mechanism of action is believed to be inhibition of dihydrofolate reductase. This reduces the production of DNA and RNA precursors and leads to cell death. Trimetrexate is lipophilic and can passively diffuse across cell membra...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Fulton B,Wagstaff AJ,McTavish D

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brodalumab (Lumicef(®)) is a human monoclonal immunoglobulin G antibody that is being developed by Kyowa Hakko Kirin in Japan, where it has been approved for the treatment of psoriasis vulgaris, psoriatic arthritis, pustular psoriasis and psoriatic erythroderma. Brodalumab binds with high affinity to interleukin (IL)-...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Greig SL

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine agonists (DAs) represent an excellent treatment option for patients with Parkinson's disease, in both the early and advanced stages of the disease, improving motor symptoms, lowering the incidence of motor complications, and addressing several non-motor symptoms. Indeed, each of these compounds have different...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Torti M,Bravi D,Vacca L,Stocchi F

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rupatadine (Rupafin, Rinialer, Rupax, Alergoliber) is a selective oral histamine H(1)-receptor antagonist that has also been shown to have platelet-activating factor (PAF) antagonist activity in vitro. It is indicated for use in seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR), perennial allergic rhinitis (PAR) and chronic idiopathic...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Keam SJ,Plosker GL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis is a systemic bone disease characterized by low bone mass and bone mineral density, and deterioration of the underlying structure of bone tissue. These changes lead to an increase in bone fragility and an increased risk for fracture, which are the clinical consequences of osteoporosis. The classical triad...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Reginster JY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite advances in the understanding of the mechanism of cerebral injury during focal ischaemia, the best treatment of cerebral ischaemia is still prevention. The pathophysiological mechanisms that contribute to cerebral ischaemia are discussed relative to the many therapeutic interventions that have been attempted. ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Sila CA,Furlan AJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain is associated with emotional and physical suffering that severely impacts quality of life. Many guidelines for the treatment of moderate to severe cancer pain indicate the use of opioids. For a small proportion of the global population, opioids are readily accessible, but are consequently also subject to risk of ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Marchetti Calônego MA,Sikandar S,Ferris FD,Moreira de Barros GA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxatomide is an orally active H1-histamine receptor antagonist which, as appears to occur with some other antihistamines, also inhibits mast cell degranulation. Oxatomide has demonstrated response rates similar to those with other more established members of its drug class in a few studies of chronic urticaria and all...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Richards DM,Brogden RN,Heel RC,Speight TM,Avery GS

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous dalbavancin (Dalvance®, Xydalba®), first approved as a two-dose regimen for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI), has now been additionally approved as a single-dose regimen. This narrative review discusses the pharmacological properties of intravenous dalbavancin an...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Garnock-Jones KP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of drugs are available that act fairly specifically as "mild" analgesics, although this description by no means implies that their clinical effectiveness is limited to the relief of slight pain and trivial disability. They are effective by mouth and their action is mediated peripherally. Among the possible me...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Parkhouse J

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trifluridine (trifluorothymidine) is an antiviral agent for topical use in the eye, and is structurally related to idoxuridine. In vitro studies have shown that it effectively inhibits the replication of herpes simplex virus type 1, which causes primary keratoconjunctivitis and recurrent epithelial keratitis in man. I...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Carmine AA,Brogden RN,Heel RC,Speight TM,Avery GS

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diuretics are used in first-step antihypertensive monotherapy or in combination with adrenergic-inhibiting agents in the majority of hypertensive patients in the United States. A 30-year experience has demonstrated that blood pressure is lowered to as great or greater a degree with diuretics than when many of the pres...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Moser M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin glargine 300 U/mL (Toujeo(®)) is a long-acting basal insulin analogue approved for the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Insulin glargine 300 U/mL has a more stable and prolonged pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic profile than insulin glargine 100 U/mL (Lantus(®)), with a duration of glucose-lowering activity excee...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Blair HA,Keating GM

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid progress has recently been encountered in pharmacologically treating the unborn baby. This unique area of drug therapy raises new methodological and ethical questions. This article is a systematic review of known modalities of fetal pharmacotherapy, and aims to highlight essential principles, difficulties and co...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Koren G,Klinger G,Ohlsson A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) is on the rise in the US despite a drop in cigarette smoking rates. Much of this rise is due to the increasing incidence of SCCHN attributable to human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV-related SCCHN has a high cure rate, which contributes to the stable dea...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Brockstein BE

更新日期：2011-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled mometasone furoate (Asmanex) is a synthetic corticosteroid indicated for the first-line maintenance prophylactic therapy of persistent asthma in adults and adolescents. It is formulated for delivery via a breath-actuated dry powder inhaler (DPI) [Twisthaler].Inhaled mometasone furoate delivered by DPI is effec...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： McCormack PL,Plosker GL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral zonisamide (Zonegran(®)) is a benzisoxazole derivative chemically unrelated to other antiepileptic agents. It is indicated in the EU as monotherapy in the treatment of partial seizures, with or without secondary generalization, in adults with newly diagnosed epilepsy and as adjunctive therapy to other antiepilept...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Hoy SM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'funny' (pacemaker, I(f)) current, first described almost 30 years ago in sinoatrial node (SAN) myocytes, is a mixed sodium/potassium inward current, activated on hyperpolarisation in the diastolic range of voltages. 'Funny' (f) channels are activated by intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) concentr...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： DiFrancesco D,Borer JS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid agonist which interacts primarily with the mu-opioid receptor. The low molecular weight, high potency and lipid solubility of fentanyl make it suitable for delivery by the transdermal therapeutic system. These patches are designed to deliver fentanyl at a constant rate (25, 50,...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Muijsers RB,Wagstaff AJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind, crossover study we have investigated the effect of nedocromil sodium on neurokinin A (NKA)-induced bronchoconstriction in asthmatics. 12 patients with mild asthma inhaled either nedocromil sodium 4mg or placebo, on 2 separate days, as 2 puffs from a metered-dose aerosol 30 minutes before challenge w...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Joos GF,Pauwels RA,Van der Straeten ME

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal treatment of pain requires an understanding of the mechanisms involved. Pain is a sensory end-point that can be generated by a number of dissimilar processes. Consequently, the concept of treating pain as a unitary symptom is obsolete. The mechanisms responsible for specific types of pain need to be unders...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Woolf CJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciclesonide nasal spray delivers the corticosteroid ciclesonide as a hypotonic spray via a metered-dose manual pump. Systemic exposure to ciclesonide and its active metabolite desisobutyryl-ciclesonide is low after intranasal administration. High protein binding (approximately 99%) and rapid first-pass clearance furth...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Dhillon S,Wagstaff AJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is a potent stimulator of inflammation, and the inhibition of its synthesis is one possible mechanism of action of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). We have investigated patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis to determine how synovial fluid levels of PGE2 are affected by tia...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Daymond TJ,Rowell FJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Patients with beta-thalassaemia and other transfusion-dependent diseases develop iron overload from chronic blood transfusions and require regular iron chelation to prevent potentially fatal iron-related complications. The only iron chelator currently widely available is deferoxamine, which is expensive and ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Barman Balfour JA,Foster RH

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of patients with chronic pain is a common clinical challenge. Indeed, chronic pain is often inadequately controlled in patients with cancer and in those with non-cancer chronic pain. Because of the complex nature of chronic pain, successful long-term treatment is more difficult than for acute pain. Most...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Nicholson B

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of cefoperazone in normal subjects, and in patients with hepatic and renal dysfunction are reviewed. After intravenous administration of 2 g of cefoperazone, levels in serum ranged from 202 to 375 microgram/ml depending on the period of drug administration. After intramuscular injection of 2 g of ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Craig WA,Gerber AU

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:5-Methoxypsoralen, a naturally occurring linear furocoumarin, has been successfully used in combination with ultraviolet (UV) A irradiation [psoralen plus UV (PUVA)] to manage psoriasis and vitiligo. In patients and volunteers, PUVA 5-methoxypsoralen causes a dose-related increase in cutaneous photosensitivi...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： McNeely W,Goa KL

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E accounts for the major part of enterally transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis worldwide. Its agent, the hepatitis E virus (HEV), is a small, single-stranded RNA virus. Only one serotype of HEV is recognised. Infection results in protective immunity with long-lived neutralising antibodies. In developing count...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Worm HC,Wirnsberger G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00