Trends in pioglitazone use among U.S. adults with type 2 diabetes and suspected nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

abstract：:Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common reasons people seek medical attention. There are > 50% of women who will have at least one UTI during their lifetime and most of these will require a physician visit and antibiotic treatment. The high prevalence continues to the in-patient setting where genito...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Hickerson AD,Carson CC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the main agent of chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in the western world. It affects more than 170 million people worldwide. HCV treatment, based on the combination of Peg-interferon and ribavirin, is effective in about 50% of treated pati...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Gentile I,Carleo MA,Borgia F,Castaldo G,Borgia G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial protection through pharmacological approaches represents a large therapeutic challenge and is an important therapeutic strategy in patients with coronary artery disease, particularly after myocardial infarction. Extensive animal experiments have repeatedly demonstrated the efficacy of sodium-hydrogen exchan...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Karmazyn M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent protein kinases (CDKs) are key regulators of the cell division cycle, whose various checkpoints proliferating cells must traverse. Since CDK deregulation, either through direct or indirect means, is found in most cancer cells, pharmacological CDK inhibition has become an attractive strategy towards me...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Fischer PM,Gianella-Borradori A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 30% of all deaths, with elevated blood pressure probably the most important modifiable risk factor. Worldwide, elevated blood pressure is estimated to cause 7.5 million deaths, about 12.8% of the total of all annual deaths. New ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Segura J,Salazar J,Ruilope LM

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive disorder caused by mutations in the dystrophin (DMD) gene. Most patients die from respiratory failure or cardiomyopathy. There are significant unmet needs for treatments for DMD as the standard of care is principally limited to symptom relief throu...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Sheikh O,Yokota T

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of transgenic animal bioreactors for the production of complex therapeutic proteins is based on lower production costs, higher production capacities and safer, pathogen free products. Until gene therapy becomes broadly efficacious, transgenic-derived therapeutics are the most attractive alternative for pro...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Van Cott KE,Velander WH

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) demands both more effective and less expensive biologically based treatments. Our understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease is increasing as new biochemical pathways are identified. Most reports emphasize proangiogenic stimuli, with the natural inhibitory elements rec...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Hernández C,Simó R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restenosis, the re-narrowing of the lumen of the coronary artery, in the months following a successful percutaneous balloon angioplasty or stenting, remains the main limitation to percutaneous coronary revascularisation. Serial intravascular ultrasound studies have shown that restenosis after conventional balloon angi...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Gruberg L,Waksman R,Satler LF,Pichard AD,Kent KM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:the search for effective inhibitors to multiple infectious agents including influenza, smallpox and hemorrhagic fever viruses is an area of active research as many of these agents pose dramatic health and economic challenges to the human population. Many of these infectious agents are not only endemic thre...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Narayanan A,Bailey C,Kashanchi F,Kehn-Hall K

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) has a dismal prognosis. With the emergence of monoclonal antibodies and tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), several drugs were developed and tested in HNSCC. To date, the monoclonal...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Elicin O,Ozsahin M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even established and effective antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) in atrial fibrillation (AF) are limited by their pro-arrhythmic and non-target organ side effects. Therefore the search continues for safer and effective new AADs. OBJECTIVE:This review will examine a novel AAD, tedisamil--a multichannel potassium c...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Krishnamoorthy S,Lip GY

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:IL-6 is a key cytokine in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The clinical efficacy of tocilizumab (TCZ), a humanized anti-IL6-receptor mAb, confirmed the value of IL-6 blockade in this disease. A number of new anti-IL-6 biologics are currently in Phase I - III of clinical development for RA. A...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Semerano L,Thiolat A,Minichiello E,Clavel G,Bessis N,Boissier MC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is a chronic, debilitating disease that afflicts millions of people worldwide and poor glycemic control in this disease leads to numerous microvascular and macrovascular complications. There is growing evidence that tight glycemic control prevents the development, and delays the progression, of microvascular ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Mudaliar S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Through well-designed clinical trials, advances have been made in the treatment of localised and advanced colorectal cancer. It has been established that 6 months of 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy will improve overall survival in patients with stage III...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Mulcahy MF,Benson AB 3rd

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Pro-protein [corrected] convertase subtilisin kexin (PCSK)-9 is a newly discovered protein involved in intracellular and extracellular regulation of low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) expression. Autosomal dominant activating mutations in PCSK-9 cause familial hypercholesterolaemia whereas inactivatin...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Wierzbicki AS,Hardman TC,Viljoen A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the antiarrhythmic drugs in current use, amiodarone is one of the most effective and is associated with a comparatively low risk of drug-induced pro-arrhythmia, probably due to its multiple pharmacological actions on cardiac ion channels and receptors. However, amiodarone is associated with significant extra-cardia...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Doggrell SA,Hancox JC

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologically-based skin substitutes have developed as commercial products over the last 5 years. The first generation includes the collagen-based synthetic device, Integra, and Alloderm, which is based on devitalised and cross-linked human dermis. These are used as dermal replacements for third degree burns. Within th...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Mansbridge J

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: The armamentarium of antileishmanial drugs is small. It is further being threatened by the development of resistance and decreasing sensitivity to the available drugs. The development of newer drugs is sorely needed. Areas covered: The authors have based their review on a literature search performed usin...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Sundar S,Chakravarty J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is a challenging consequence of certain malignancies, associated with a poor prognosis and limited treatment options. Generally, PC has been treated similarly to metastatic cancers of the primary tumor, but associated with worse outcomes when compared to other sites of metastat...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Davies JM,O'Neil B

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A disintegrin and metalloproteases (ADAMs) are zinc-dependent trans-membrane metalloproteases that shed the extracellular domains of membrane-bound growth factors, cytokines and receptors. Key functions of ADAMs have emerged in ErbB signalling pathways as being sheddases for multiple ErbB ligands. As the ErbB pathway ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Zhou BB,Fridman JS,Liu X,Friedman SM,Newton RC,Scherle PA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of the immune system is of indispensable importance for graft acceptance and function. Immunological changes in the graft before and after organ harvesting, the transplantation procedure itself and the organ recipients clinical state contribute to the immune response. Leukocyte trafficking [1] into a graft is ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Behrend M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thienopyridines have a well-established role in the treatment of coronary artery disease, especially in the setting of acute coronary syndromes and percutaneous coronary interventions. Ticlopidine, the first FDA-approved thienopyridine, was shown to be effective in reducing coronary events in high risk patients, but t...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Porto I,Giubilato S,De Maria GL,Biasucci LM,Crea F

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dexamethasone cipecilate is a corticosteroid nasal spray whose local efficacy durability has been improved by introduction of a liposoluble functional group to its chemical structure. This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of once-daily treatment with this drug in patients with perennial allergic ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Gotoh M,Okubo K,Okuda M,Hamada C

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic infections are widespread in developing countries and frequently associated with immunocompromised patients in developed countries. Consequently, such infections are responsible for a significant amount of human mortality, morbidity and economic hardship. A growing consensus has identified the urgent need fo...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Soeiro MN,De Souza EM,Stephens CE,Boykin DW

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon-alpha (IFN-α) is the traditional therapeutic agent for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The molecular mechanism of IFN-α efficacy in the treatment of CML is not fully clear. OBJECTIVES:To identify the peptides and/or proteins that bind to the proteins specifically expressed on the surface of IFN-α...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Liu J,Chen HC,Rao ZZ,Khan MA,Wan XX,Xu AH,Zhang N,Zhang DZ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Due to improvements in our understanding of the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), several target drugs have been and are being developed. One of the possible targets in SLE is co-stimulation between antigen-presenting cells and T cells. Abatacept is a co-stimulation moderator approved for...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Pimentel-Quiroz VR,Ugarte-Gil MF,Alarcón GS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) consists of distinct clinical and biologic entities, with an urgent need for novel therapies targeting histology-specific molecular drivers of cancer growth. The MET pathway is now being targeted by multiple novel agents in clinical development. This review highlights the upcom...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Nandagopal L,Sonpavde GP,Agarwal N

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In asthma, most commonly, 'conventional' anti-inflammatory medications represented by inhaled corticosteroids and leukotriene inhibitors are effective. In some patients however additional inhibition of the airways inflammation is necessary. Such compounds might be molecules inhibiting specifically certain ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Antoniu SA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriasis is a common skin disease which is characterised by the proliferation and abnormal differentiation of keratinocytes, coupled with complex immune disturbances. The beneficial effects of vitamin D derivatives in this disease are due to their capacity to inhibit proliferation, their ability to induce normal diff...

journal_title：Expert opinion on investigational drugs

authors： Guilhou JJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00