Adhesion Molecules as Potential Novel Biomarkers for Opioid Dependence.

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects an estimated 170 million people globally and persistent infection within the liver is the usual outcome of infection. The resulting liver disease leads to substantial morbidity and to date no vaccine exists. Furthermore the treatments available are frequently ineffective. A minority of ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Fitzmaurice K,Klenerman P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine plants, animals and microorganisms display steady growth in the ocean and are abundant carbohydrate resources. Specifically, natural polysaccharides obtained from brown algae have been drawing increasing attention owing to their great potential in pharmaceutical applications. This review describes the structura...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Li J,Cai C,Yang C,Li J,Sun T,Yu G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes some of the published attempts to incorporate protein and NMR structures in the design of new antibiotics that specifically target Cell Wall biosynthesis. Most of the steps involved in peptidglycan synthesis have been investigated as potential strategies against cell wall inhibition. Structural ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Katz AH,Caufield CE

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen receptor (AR) is a steroid hormone receptor that is activated by endogenous androgens, mainly testosterone and 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone (5alpha-DHT). AR is also an important drug target, and AR antagonists (antiandrogens) have been widely used for prostate cancer therapy. Antiandrogens currently available o...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gao W

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A positive relationship between stress tolerance and longevity has been observed in several model systems. That the same correlation is applicable in humans and that it may be open to experimental manipulation for extending human lifespan requires studies on association of stress genes with longevity. The involvement ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Singh R,Kølvraa S,Bross P,Christensen K,Bathum L,Gregersen N,Tan Q,Rattan SI

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review presents a comprehensive attempt to conclude and discuss various glucose biosensors based on core@shell magnetic nanomaterials. Owing to good biocompatibility and stability, the core@shell magnetic nanomaterials have found widespread applications in many fields and draw extensive attention. Most magnetic n...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Liu L,Lv H,Teng Z,Wang C,Wang G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:650 millions of adults are obese worldwide - in the US alone, forty percent of the adults are obese. Although the obesity pandemic is constantly expanding at very high costs for health care systems, the currently available options of pharmacotherapy for obesity are rather limited. Despite intensive research efforts, t...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gouni-Berthold I,Berthold HK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endothelial dysfunction is commonly present in estrogen-deficient states, e.g., after menopause. In the search for alternatives to hormone replacement therapy (HRT), treatments based on phytoestrogens or in non-hormonal mechanisms have been under evaluation. OBJECTIVE:Here we aim to present an overview of i...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Oliveira PWC,Couto MR,de Sousa GJ,Peixoto P,Moraes FSA,de Andrade TU,Bissoli NS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2 have a high prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD), as diabetes is implicated in the formation of atherosclerotic plaque. Hyperglycemia, elevated free fatty acid, increased amount of circulating end-glucosylated serum products and insulin resistance are the main mechani...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tousoulis D,Kampoli AM,Papageorgiou N,Papaoikonomou S,Antoniades C,Stefanadis C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combinations of different technologies are at the heart of the development and implementation of new, innovative processes and approaches for Industry 4.0 in the field of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. Process intensification and advances in high-throughput synthetic techniques can dramatically improve reacti...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tagliapietra S,Binello A,Bucciol F,Trukhan V,Colia M,Cravotto G

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our clinical observations proved that the the duodenal ulcer in patients healed without any inhibition of gastric acid secretion (1965), and the healing rates of atropine vs cimetidine vs Carbenoxolone were equal and superior to that of placebo in randomized, prospective and multiclinical study of DU patients (1978). ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mózsik G,Szabó IL,Czimmer J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transpeptidation reactions result in the formation of new peptide bonds and this can occur between two separate peptides or within the one peptide. These reactions are catalyzed by enzymes and when the N- and C-terminus of the one peptide are joined it results in the formation of cyclic proteins. Cyclization via head-...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Conlan BF,Anderson MA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation, a major regulator of epigenetic modifications has been shown to alter the expression of genes that are involved in aspects of glucose metabolism such as glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, β-cell dysfunction and other conditions, and it ultimately leads to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mell...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Alam F,Islam MA,Gan SH,Mohamed M,Sasongko TH

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity was first described as a low-grade inflammatory condition more than a decade ago. However, it is only relatively recently that obese individuals have been described with increased macrophage infiltration of adipose tissue, as well as an increase in the number of "M1" or "classically activated" macrophages. Fur...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Heilbronn LK,Campbell LV

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs) are effective and widely used to prevent and treat thromboembolic diseases, but the response to NOACs differs according to ABCB1 genotypes. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the effects of ABCB1 genotypes on the pharmacokinetics and clinical outcomes of NOACs. METHODS:We searched Pu...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Xie Q,Xiang Q,Mu G,Ma L,Chen S,Zhou S,Hu K,Zhang Z,Cui Y,Jiang J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After years of pre-clinical and clinical testing monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) finally offer new therapeutic choices for patients with haematological and solid malignancies both as unconjugated antibody and as vectors to target radionuclides in radioimmunotherapy (RIT). In recent years some of the most exciting clinica...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Illidge TM,Brock S

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential nature of rapid radiotracer synthesis very early in drug discovery programs has driven the need for better and more varied tritium incorporation methods. This review presents a summary of recent advances for tritium introduction via tritiated water, tritium gas, complex tritides, and a range of recently ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Saljoughian M,Williams PG

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-topoisomerases, a family of DNA-processing enzymes, represent the pharmacological target of major clinically useful chemotherapeutic agents. These drugs essentially act by trapping a topoisomerase-DNA cleavable complex, an intermediate in the enzyme s catalytic cycle. Research activity in this field continues to g...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gatto B,Capranico G,Palumbo M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for methods to control physiological levels of carbon monoxide (CO), a vasoactive molecule, and bilibrubin, an antioxidant, have improved our understanding of the protective role of heme oxygenase (HO) against oxidative injury. HO activity can assist other antioxidant systems in diminishing the overall prod...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Abraham NG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the brain, acetylcholine (ACh) is regarded as one of the major neurotransmitters. During the advancement of Alzheimer's disease (AD) cholinergic deficits occur and this can lead to extensive cognitive dysfunction and decline. Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) remains a highly feasible target for the symptomatic improveme...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kabir MT,Uddin MS,Begum MM,Thangapandiyan S,Rahman MS,Aleya L,Mathew B,Ahmed M,Barreto GE,Ashraf GM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are involved in different physiological and pathological processes that are crucial for tumor cell physiology, growth and survival. Since cancer cells have frequently disrupted different cell death pathways that promote their survival, mitochondria may be key organelles to promote cell death in cancer cel...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ferrín G,Linares CI,Muntané J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine released from T-cells and macrophages, and is a key molecule in inflammation. Although a detailed understanding of the biological functions of MIF has not yet been found, it is known that MIF catalyzes the tautomerization of phenylpyruvate and...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Orita M,Yamamoto S,Katayama N,Fujita S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to answer the following question: What are the typical features of abnormal bodily experiences (ABEs) in persons affected by acute first-episode schizophrenia? Our overall objective is to contribute to enhance early diagnosis of schizophrenia, and providing supplementary diagnostic criteri...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Stanghellini G,Ballerini M,Fusar Poli P,Cutting J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an increasing interest from the pharmaceutical and food industry in natural antioxidant and bioactive compounds derived from plants as substitutes for synthetic compounds. The genus Allium is one of the largest genera, with more than 900 species, including important cultivated and wild species, havi...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Petropoulos SA,Di Gioia F,Polyzos N,Tzortzakis N

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues its spread at a rate of over 15,000 new infections every day. Sexual transmission of HIV-1 is the dominant mode of this pandemic spread. For the first time since the disease emerged in the early 1980s, about half the 42 million people now living with HIV/AIDS worldwide are women. Worldw...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： D'Cruz OJ,Uckun FM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicinal inorganic chemistry plays an important role in exploring the properties of metal ions for the designing of new drugs. The field has been stimulated by the success of cis-platin, the world best selling anticancer drug and platinum complexes with reduced toxicity, oral activity and activity against resistant t...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sirajuddin M,Ali S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid markers are well established predictors of vascular disease. The most frequently measured lipid variables are total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides. In this review we consider the predictive value of these variables and other more specialis...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Milionis HJ,Daskalopoulou SS,Elisaf M,Mikhailidis DP

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human brain is amongst the most complex organs in human body, and delivery of therapeutic agents across the brain is a tedious task. Existence of blood brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain from invasion of undesirable substances; therefore it hinders the transport of various drugs used for the treatment of...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mittal S,Ashhar MU,Qizilbash FF,Qamar Z,Narang JK,Kumar S,Ali J,Baboota S

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Erectile function is determined by tight regulation of relaxation or contraction of corpus cavernosal smooth muscle, which is the result of a long and complex chain of molecular events. Control of erectile function resides in signaling pathways of the central and peripheral nervous system, as well as intracellular eve...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Seftel AD

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00