The impact of traditional plants and their secondary metabolites in the discovery of COVID-19 treatment.

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：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a vital role in the onset and development of many diseases, including cancers. Emerging evidence shows that numerous miRNAs have the potential to be used as diagnostic biomarkers for cancers, and miRNA-based therapy may be a promising therapy for the treatment of malignant neoplasm. MicroRNA-14...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ma Y,Cao X,Shi G,Shi T

更新日期：2020-10-28 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：:The development of radioligands to image beta-amyloid (A beta) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in vivo in the aging human brain is an important and active area of radiopharmaceutical design. When used in combination with positron emission tomography (Pet) or single photon emission computed tomography (spect...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mathis CA,Wang Y,Klunk WE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood flow assessment is essential to fully understand cardiovascular function in disease pathologies and for identification of individuals at long-term risk of cardiovascular disease development. Qualitative and quantitative assessments of blood flow by imaging modalities have been limited, and much of the ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lewandowski AJ,Raman B,Banerjee R,Milanesi M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head and neck cancer refers to a group of malignancies that affects the epithelium of the upper aereodigestive tract, primarily the lip and mouth, pharynx and larynx. Head and neck cancer is strongly associated with tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and betel nut chewing, and indeed a reduction in the exposure to t...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Forster M,Mendes R,Fedele S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last two decades since the identification and characterization of T cell potassium channels great advances have been made in the understanding of the role of these channels in T cell functions, especially in antigen-induced activation. Their limited tissue distribution and the recent discovery that differen...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Panyi G,Possani LD,Rodríguez de la Vega RC,Gáspár R,Varga Z

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiopurines are widely used in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, in clinical practice azathioprine (AZA) or 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) are not effective in one-third of patients and up to one-fifth of patients discontinue thiopurine therapy due to adverse reactions. The observed interindividual ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Derijks LJ,Wong DR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing novel treatments to help cancer patients live longer and have better lives remains one of the biggest challenges of the pharmaceutical industry. Today much is known about the molecular and genetic causes of cancers thus facilitating the development of novel targeted cancer drugs with improved risk-benefit ra...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Frieden M,Ørum H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High molecular weight kininogen (HK) is a plasma protein that is cleaved by plasma kallikrein in the clinical settings of sepsis and chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease. This proteolytic event results in a nonapeptide, bradykinin (BK), and a kinin-free derivative of HK, namel...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Colman RW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection has significantly improved the life expectancy of HIV positive patients. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection is common in HIV infected patients and is now a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Fabris P,Barnes E,Tositti G,Giordani MT,Grasso A,De Lalla F

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncology remains an increasingly important focus of therapeutic development yet there remain many scientific and operational bottlenecks to deliver optimum treatments efficiently. Radiopharmaceuticals constitute a group of methodologies able to support the many stages of drug development. Methods such as [(18)F]-FDG-P...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Murphy PS,Bergström M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products have served humankind as drug leads for thousands of years. In the last century natural products have not only served as drugs but have inspired the generation of countless synthetic drugs and drug-leads around natural product pharmacophores. There are no disease targets for which natural products hav...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Hamann MT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All common contributing factors to epilepsy such as trauma, malignancies and infections are accompanied by different levels of central nervous system inflammation that in turn have been associated with the occurrence of seizure. Emerging data from human brain tissue and experimental models of epilepsy support the prop...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lorigados Pedre L,Morales Chacón LM,Orozco Suárez S,Pavón Fuentes N,Estupiñán Díaz B,Serrano Sánchez T,García Maeso I,Rocha Arrieta L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer and tumor have been major reasons for numerous deaths in this century across the world. Many strategies have been designed to treat, diagnose, or prevent cancer. The success of chemotherapy largely depends on drug targeting. The advent of nanotechnology has vastly improved drug delivery for targeting and diagno...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ansari MT,Ramlan TA,Jamaluddin NN,Zamri N,Salfi R,Khan A,Sami F,Majeed S,Hasnain MS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of β-adrenergic receptors in the heart is the most effective endogenous way to increase the mechanical performance of cardiac tissues to meet the requirements of a fight-or-flight situation or stress. On the other hand, sustained activation of cardiac β-receptors initiates maladaptive remodeling of the myo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Szentmiklosi AJ,Szentandrássy N,Hegyi B,Horvath B,Magyar J,Bányász T,Nanasi PP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The integrin family receptors stimulate the cellular proliferation and migration through the focal adhesion pathway by the activation of PTK2, VASP and TSP1 proteins. The purpose of this study was to investigate the integrin-ligated motifs through the activation of focal adhesion pathway. METHODS:A chimeric...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Khosravi M,Kakavandi N,Rezaee S,Shabani M,Najafi M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a frequent cardiac arrhythmia. It is a common major cause of serious diseases and is an increasing health-care burden. AF is associated with an excess amount of reactive oxygen species. In this review, we summarize several possible reactive oxygen species pathways that induce AF based on at...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ren X,Wang X,Yuan M,Tian C,Li H,Yang X,Li X,Li Y,Yang Y,Liu N,Shang H,Gao Y,Xing Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are important enzymes that effect post-translational modifications of proteins by altering the acetylation state of lysine residues. HDACs control epigenetic changes that trigger cell transformation and proliferation of transformed cells associated with many diseases. These enzymes are val...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Andrews KT,Tran TN,Fairlie DP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear medicine offers powerful noninvasive techniques for visualization of infectious and inflammatory disorders using whole body imaging enabling the determination of both localization and number of inflammatory foci. A wide variety of approaches depicting the different stages of the inflammatory response have been...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bleeker-Rovers CP,Boerman OC,Rennen HJ,Corstens FH,Oyen WJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the most lethal subtype of stroke, a leading cause of death and disability in developed countries. Therapeutic options are notably limited. There is no specific pharmacological treatment, and early surgery has few indications that represent only a small clinically relevant s...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Pías-Peleteiro J,Campos F,Perez-Mato M,Lopez-Arias E,Rodriguez-Yanez M,Castillo J,Sobrino T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines are glycoproteins that serve as chemical messengers between cells. They assist in the regulation of cell growth and repair and also have immune modulating properties. Cytokines play a role in diverse clinical processes and phenomena such as fatigue, fever, sleep, pain, stress and aching. A review of the fibr...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wallace DJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Conventional treatment has a limitation of very narrow therapeutic time window and its devastating nature necessitate a novel regenerative approach. Transplanted stem cells resulted in functional recovery through multiple mechanisms including neuroprotection...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kwak KA,Kwon HB,Lee JW,Park YS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The substantial morbidity and mortality associated with invasive fungal infections constitute undisputed tokens of their severity. The continued expansion of susceptible population groups (such as immunocompromised individuals, patients undergoing extensive surgery, and those hospitalized with serious underlying disea...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Anastassopoulou CG,Fuchs BB,Mylonakis E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aging phenomenon is intrinsically responsible for diseases and lifestyle-associated conditions afflicting the aging male. In particular, male infertility seems to result from deleterious lifestyle choices. However, the aging effect at the individual gene/protein level is poorly discussed and valuable information i...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bastos P,Freitas MJ,Gomes A,Vitorino R,Fardilha M

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells, traditionally regarded as effector cells of the immune system, have more recently been demonstrated to be key figures in initiating, developing and sustaining complex pathophysiological processes underlying asthma and other allergic diseases. Asthma is characterised by airway inflammation alongside a distu...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Carter RJ,Bradding P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nuts have been an indispensable component of the human diet for hundreds because of their unique nutrient composition and are thought to play a beneficial part in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the extent, validity and presence of evidence for studies investigating the impa...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Schwingshackl L,Hoffmann G,Missbach B,Stelmach-Mardas M,Boeing H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pivotal therapeutic role of myocardial metabolic modulation in ischemic heart disease (IHD) is increasingly recognized. Among the others, inhibitors of free fatty acids (FFA) oxidation have been consistently shown to play an important role in the therapeutic strategy of IHD patients. Additionally, abnormalities of...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Fragasso G,Salerno A,Spoladore R,Cera M,Montanaro C,Margonato A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrins alpha(1)beta(1) and alpha(2)beta(1) are highly expressed on the microvascular endothelial cells, and blocking of their adhesive properties significantly reduced the VEGF-driven neovascularization ratio and tumor growth in animal models. Hence, inhibitors of the alpha(1)beta(1) and alpha(2) beta(1) integrins,...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Calvete JJ,Marcinkiewicz C,Sanz L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00