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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
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::In the last decade much attention has been paid to the development of metabolically non-reversible dimeric or hybrid compounds, which combine two structural units of one or two lead compounds of interest for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. As a consequence of their capability to simultaneously interact with two ...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706775527974
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::In healthy individuals, natural and adaptive immune responses are able to control virus entry into the host. In particular, CD8(+)-mediated cytotoxicity, sustained by the intervention of CD4+ cells, represents the major key event leading to virus eradication. On the other hand, viruses are able to evade from host immu...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706775476106
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The therapeutical use of drugs involves the application of dosage forms, serving as carrier systems together with several excipients to deliver the active ingredient to the site of action. Drug delivery technology combines an understanding of medicinal chemistry and pharmacology with the skill of formulation, aiming t...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706778201648
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Breakdown of glucose under physiological conditions gives rise to glucose degradation products (GDPs). GDPs are also formed during heat sterilization of glucose-containing peritoneal dialysis fluids (PD-fluids). In PD-fluids GDPs have been shown in many different in vitro assays to be responsible for adverse effects s...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706778201576
更新日期:2006-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706776055643
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Within the pharmaceutical industry, the ultimate source of continuing profitability is the unremitting process of drug discovery. To be profitable, drugs must be marketable: legally novel, safe and relatively free of side effects, efficacious, and ideally inexpensive to produce. While drug discovery was once typified ...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706776873005
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Nature continues to be the main source of inspiration for synthetic chemists in their quest to make novel conjugates, which can have different physical, biological and medicinal properties. Nature makes these conjugates from mixed biosynthesis and some of these chimeras are found to exhibit unusual biological properti...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706776055562
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Epidemiological studies demonstrated that even in the absence of other risk factors (e.g. diabetes, hypertension, hyperhomocysteinemia, hypercholesterolemia), advanced age itself significantly increases cardiovascular morbidity by enhancing vascular oxidative stress and inflammation. Because the population in the West...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706776360987
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Heparanase is an endo-beta-D-glucuronidase that degrades heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycan side chains of the proteoglycans in extracellular matrix and basement membrane. Heparanase enzymatic activity is important in the promotion of tumor angiogenesis, primary tumor growth, invasion, and metastasis. Expression of hep...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706777935230
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::There is a need for novel drugs for the treatment of infectious diseases, autoimmunity and cancer. Cyclic peptides constitute a class of compounds that have made crucial contributions to the treatment of certain diseases. Penicillin, Vancomycin, Cyclosporin, the Echinocandins and Bleomycin are well-known cyclic peptid...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706777935113
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mammalian terminal deoxyribonucleotidyl transferase (TDT) catalyzes the non-template-directed polymerization of deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates and has a key role in V(D)J recombination during lymphocyte and repertoire development. Over 90% of leukemic cells in acute lymphocytic leukemia and approximately 30% of leu...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706777935087
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::This investigation aims to evaluate strategies for an efficient selection of bioactive compounds from the multitude and biodiversity of the plant kingdom. Statistics prove natural products (NPs) as a source leading most consistently to successful development of new drugs. However, there are several reasons why the int...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706777442075
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Atrial fibrillation represents a major clinical, social and economical matter, and its importance is expected to increase even more in the near future. The progressive ageing of population is associated with an inevitable rising in incidence and prevalence of this rhythm disorder, which limits functional capability, f...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706777441940
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Diabetic patients have a two- to four-fold increased risk for the development of microvascular (renal, neuronal and retinal) and macrovascular complications. Unfortunately, these complications may develop in both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetic patients even with careful glycaemic, blood pressure and lipid control. With th...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706777452515
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::This update covers the literature for 2002 and 2003 dealing with the main topic of the previous review entitled Heterocyclic nucleosides. Chemical synthesis and biological properties and published in Curr. Med. Chem.-AIA, 2002, 1, 389. As in the first review, the papers in this survey are grouped by the type of the he...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706776055779
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Existence of residual cancers and recurrence of cancers are two major limitations of conventional therapies against cancers. A naturally-occurring defense system against tumor may be established in cancer patients by induction of antitumor immunity. Both polyvalent and tumor antigen-defined vaccines have been administ...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706778742882
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Gum resin extracts of Boswellia species have been traditionally applied in folk medicine for centuries to treat various chronic inflammatory diseases, and experimental data from animal models and studies with human subjects confirmed the potential of B. spec extracts for the treatment of not only inflammation but also...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706779010333
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Galectins form a family of carbohydrate-binding proteins defined by their affinity for beta-galactosides containing glycoconjugates. The carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD) is responsible for the specificity of galectins for saccharides. This binding may result in modulated cell proliferation, cell death and cell mi...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706779026219
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Phosphonated nucleosides represent a promising alternative in the improvement of the biological activity of nucleoside analogues in antiviral and anticancer chemotherapy. The basic concept, the chemistry, the different structural modifications and their effects on the antiviral potency will be discussed in this review...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706779026110
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Since the outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in November 2002 in Southern China's Guangdong Province, considerable progress has been made in the development of drugs for SARS therapy. The present mini review is focused on the area of computer-aided drug discovery, i.e., the advances achieved mainly f...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986706778773077
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Breast cancer arises in about 48% of patients older than 65 years and more than 30% occurs in those over 70 years being the leading cause of cancer-related death in women older than 65. Elderly patients tolerate chemotherapy poorly compared to their younger counterpart because of progressive reduction of organ functio...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867053363261
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The use of antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutic agents has generated considerable enthusiasm in the research and medical community. Antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutic agents were proposed as far back as in the 1970s when the antisense strategy was initially developed. Nonetheless, it has taken almost a qua...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867054864859
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Gene expression profiles are unveiling a wealth of new potential drug targets for a wide range of diseases, offering new opportunities for drug discoveries. The emerging challenge, however, is the effective selection of the myriad of targets to identify those with the most therapeutic utility. Numerical clustering has...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867053764626
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::A number of amine-boranes and related derivatives possess a wide range of biological activities including antineoplastic, antiviral, hypolipidemic, anti-inflammatory activities, anti-osteoporotic and dopamine receptor antagonist activities. The compounds include borane complexes of alpha-amino acids, aromatic, aliphat...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867054546573
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in the establishment of tolerance/immunity, because they activate naïve T cells (TCs). Therefore, the pharmacological modulation of DCs has become a major field of interest in immunology. A large body of literature has arisen from the studies of DC biology during immunosuppres...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867054546627
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Analytical chemists have increasingly turned their attention to drug discovery and drug analysis and to solve fundamental questions of biological significance in physiology and genetics. New technologies have been developed, and a variety of instruments have been redesigned for biomedical applications. The development...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867310504050501
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The mitotic cell cycle is a tightly regulated process that ensures the correct division of one cell into two daughter cells. Progress along the different phases of the cell cycle is positively regulated by the sequential activation of a family of serine-threonine kinases called CDKs (Cyclin Dependent Kinases). Their a...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867054367149
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Since the beginning of the 20th century, important medicinal progress has led medical doctors to think that the end of devastating epidemics has arrived. In 1930, the discovery of sulfamides and penicillin opened a wide area of applications able to fight against bacterial infections. However, almost all antibiotics we...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986705774933470
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Both zinc and copper are essential minerals that are required for various cellular functions. Although these metals are essential, they can be toxic at excess amounts, especially in certain genetic disorders. Zinc and copper homeostasis results from a coordinated regulation by different proteins involved in uptake, ex...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986705774462950
更新日期:2005-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867054039062
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Ten years elapsed since the discovery by Sanofi of SR141716A the first selective CB(1) cannabinoid receptor antagonist. Shortly after, Sanofi also reported the synthesis of the first selective CB(2) cannabinoid receptor antagonist, SR144528. Since these two milestones in the cannabinoid field, many other compounds, mo...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867054020891
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Atrial fibrillation is the most common disorder of cardiac rhythm. In spite of diagnosis simplicity, patients with atrial fibrillation are difficult to treat. In the recent years with the description of the phenomenon called remodelling, it has been possible to better define the principle mechanisms responsible for in...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867054020954
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mitogen-activated protein kinase p38 is a serine/threonine kinase originally isolated from lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulated monocytes. There are four isoforms p38alpha p38beta, p38gamma, and p38delta. The most thoroughly studied isoform is p38alpha, whose activation has been observed in many hematopoietic and non-h...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986705774462914
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The aminocoumarin antibiotics novobiocin, clorobiocin and coumermycin A(1) are produced by different Streptomyces strains and are potent inhibitors of DNA gyrase. The biosynthetic gene clusters of all three antibiotics have been cloned and sequenced, and the function of most genes contained therein has been elucidated...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867053363063
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The alphavbeta3 receptor, which are members of the group of the cellular adhesion molecules (CAM), are heterodimeric transmembrane glycoprotein receptors involved in processes such as cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion, cell migration and signaling. Integrin alphavbeta3 receptor is expressed on almost all cells origin...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867053363522
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents are utilized adjunctively to enhance the contrast between normal and abnormal structures on MRI scans. Along with the rapid evolution of the field has come a new appreciation for the medicinal chemistry of this unique class of metallopharmaceuticals. The efficacy of MRI...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867053507379
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Dendrotoxins are small proteins isolated from mamba (Dendroaspis) snakes. The original dendrotoxin was found in venom of the Eastern green mamba, Dendroaspis angusticeps, and related proteins were subsequently found in other mamba venoms. The dendrotoxins contain 57-60 amino acid residues cross-linked by three disulph...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867043363820
更新日期:2004-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867043363749
更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Osteogenic peptides are, or have potential to be, therapies for the treatment of osteoporosis, fracture repair, and repair of loosened bone implants. Human parathyroid hormone has been approved for the treatment of post-menopausal osteoporosis. Constrained analogs of PTH and the parathyroid-hormone related peptide (PT...
journal_title:Current medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929867043364153
更新日期:2004-11-01 00:00:00