abstract：:Pyoverdine is the generic name given to a vast family of fluorescent green-yellowish pigments produced by Pseudomonas species. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen, particularly infecting humans with compromised natural defenses. These infections result in significantly higher morbidity, longer hospital...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cézard C,Farvacques N,Sonnet P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-Prenyl secondary metabolites (3,3-dimethylallyl, geranyl-, farnesyl- and related biosynthetic derivatives) represent a class of rarely occurring natural products. In the last two decades such compounds have been found to exert promising and effective pharmacological activities, mainly in terms of anti-cancer propert...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Genovese S,Fiorito S,Epifano F,Taddeo VA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral-derived microorganisms have been a major focus of many research efforts on marine ecology in recent decades. Importantly, research on bioactive compounds from these diverse microorganisms, which include fungi and bacteria, has experienced an explosive growth during the past five years. This has unveiled the ecol...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Hou XM,Xu RF,Gu YC,Wang CY,Shao CL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few years, use of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) has made it possible to identify the primary genetic mechanisms of essential hypertension. GWAS results have helped identify many loci in or near genes that generally were not expected to be associated with blood pressure or essential hypertensio...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Pan S,Naruse H,Nakayama T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are organelles which play an important role not only in cellular metabolism but also in controlling pathways related with cell death, ionic and redox regulation. Alterations in mitochondrial metabolism are implicated in a variety of diseases, including cancer. Cellular and mitochondrial metabolism are bot...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Deus CM,Santos GL,Loureiro R,Vega-Naredo I,Faneca H,Oliveira PJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rising emergence of antibiotic resistance urges the search for new strategies to defeat microorganisms that lead to persistent infections of the host. Tolerant to antibiotics, slowly replicating bacteria often cause latent and persistent infections that are the most challenging for pharmacological treatment. Persi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Campanini B,Pieroni M,Raboni S,Bettati S,Benoni R,Pecchini C,Costantino G,Mozzarelli A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Aminoisoquinolin-1-one (5-AIQ) is a water-soluble inhibitor of the poly(ADPribose) polymerases (PARPs), lacking isoform-selectivity. Although of only moderate potency in vitro against PARP-1, it is highly active in many assays in cells and in models in vivo, indicating excellent uptake. Optimisation of the several s...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Threadgill MD

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the main aetiological agent of tuberculosis (TB) in humans, is estimated to cause nearly two million deaths every year. Despite their huge therapeutic value, existing antitubercular drugs have several shortcomings, such as for instance the insurgence of drug resistance, which is mostl...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fanzani L,Porta F,Meneghetti F,Villa S,Gelain A,Lucarelli AP,Parisini E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) which is caused by the resilient pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) has re-emerged to become a leading public health problem in the world. The growing number of multi-drug resistant MTB strains and the more recently emerging problem with the extensively drug resistant strains of the pathogen a...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Viganor L,Skerry C,McCann M,Devereux M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperlipidemia is characterized by abnormally increased plasma of any or all lipids and /or lipoproteins and is a confirmed risk factor for the formation of atherosclerosis. Inflammation plays a crucial role in the formation and progression of atherosclerosis and consequently on cardiovascular diseases. Nowadays, the ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Papapanagiotou A,Siasos G,Kassi E,Gargalionis AN,Papavassiliou AG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia in tumor cells is characterized by a lack of oxygen resulting from reduced blood supply to the surrounding tissue, and is a common characteristic of solid tumors as a consequence of rapid cell growth. Hypoxia in tumors is a predictor of both resistance to chemotherapy and of a metastatic/aggressive form of can...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Liang D,Miller GH,Tranmer GK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia is a life threatening disease that has become increasingly common. Many categories of anti-leukemic agents have been developed by probing into the nature of leukemia. Nevertheless, the needs for potent molecules with few side effects are still not satisfied in the current anti-leukemic therapy. Targeted thera...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Bian J,Zhang L,Han Y,Wang C,Zhang L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays a critical role in the atherosclerotic process in various vascular beds, starting from endothelial dysfunction and counting all stages of plaque development. The significant contribution of inflammation in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis has been documented over many years but its ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Vavuranakis M,Kariori M,Vrachatis D,Siasos G,Kalogeras K,Bei E,Moldovan C,Lavda M,Aznaouridis K,Oikonomou E,Tousoulis D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purinergic receptor P2X7 is highly expressed in immune peripheral and central cells suggesting its important role in numerous diseases characterized by inflammatory processes like cancer, or neurodegenerative pathologies in relation with modulation of the immune system. Thereby, antagonization of this receptor may...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Baudelet D,Lipka E,Millet R,Ghinet A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of click chemistry represented by the formation of the 1,2,3-triazole core has found wide application in drug discovery, particularly in the early discovery phases and the lead optimization process. 1,2,3-Triazoles ha ve attracted considerable attention in recent years because of their wide range of biolog...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Raic-Malic S,Mescic A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whilst knowledge of basic biology, diagnosis and prognosis of glioblastoma (GB - WHO grade IV) are steadily improving, advancements of therapy are discouragingly slow, with the only significant novelty during last ten years represented by introduction of temozolomide in chemotherapy. In order to analyze the current st...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Frosina G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low molecular weight oligonucleotides have been discovered to have potential use for gene therapy by selectively inhibiting the expression of certain genes. Chemical conjugation of functional peptides to oligonucleotides can introduce desired properties to the oligonucleotides, such as cell-specific delivery, cellular...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang CF,Auriola S,Hirvonen J,Santos HA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined a large number of sudden infant death syndrome victims in order to point out a possible causal relationship between a previous hexavalent vaccination and the sudden infant death. We selected 110 cases submitted to in-depth histological examination of the autonomic nervous system and provided with detailed ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Matturri L,Del Corno G,Lavezzi AM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX3 is a well-known host factor that inhibits hepatitis B viral proliferation and boosts innate immune responses via TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1)/IKKε-mediated and/or interferon (IFN)-β promoter stimulator-1 (IPS-1)-mediated IFN-β induction. Previously, we demonstrated the anti-hepatitis B activ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Choi YJ,Kang LJ,Lee SG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a novel medical technique involving three key components: light, a photosensitizer molecule and molecular oxygen, which are essential to achieve the therapeutic effect. There has been great interest in the use of PDT in the treatment of many cancers and skin disorders. Upon irradiation wi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Skupin-Mrugalska P,Sobotta L,Kucinska M,Murias M,Mielcarek J,Düzgüneş N

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection commonly results in a myriad of comorbid conditions secondary to immune deficiency. Infection also affects broad organ system function. Although current antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces disease morbidity and mortality through effective control of peripheral viral load, ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Edagwa BJ,Zhou T,McMillan JM,Liu XM,Gendelman HE

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cu(I)-catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition (CuAAC) is often utilized in medicinal chemistry to make the triazole moiety as it acts as a non-classical bioisostere of the peptide bond. This useful technique can also be applied in the fragment-based assembly of molecular libraries for high-throughput screening. This mini...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fabbrizzi P,Menchi G,Guarna A,Trabocchi A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine and metabolic disorder affecting women in reproductive age. Although the etiology of PCOS remains unclear, it is believed to result from genetic, environmental and behavioral interactions. Women with PCOS have higher lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Vélez LM,Motta AB

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an age-related neurodegenerative disorder that is believed to have complex genetic and environmental influences in the pathogenesis, but etiologies are unidentified for most patients. Until the major causes are better defined, drug development is directed at downstream pathophysi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Blasco H,Mavel S,Corcia P,Gordon PH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic cell death has been reported in human oocytes and preimplantation embryos under in vivo and in vitro conditions. BCL-2 family proteins comprise both anti- and pro-apoptotic members, which are likely to play a key role in controlling oocyte and early embryo survival. However, very limited data are available o...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Boumela I,Assou S,Haouzi D,Déchaud H,Aït-Ahmed O,Hamamah S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reprogramming technologies have been developed to revert somatic differentiated cells into pluripotent stem cells that can be differentiated into different lineages potentially useful in stem cell therapy. Reprogramming methods have been progressively refined to increase their efficiency, to obtain a cell population s...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Tafani M,Perrone GA,Pucci B,Russo A,Bizzarri M,Mechanick JI,Carpi A,Russo MA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically significant antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century. Yet new antibiotics are currently being developed at a much slower pace than our growing need for such drugs. Instead of focusing on conventional therapeutics that target in vitro bacterial viability, an alterna...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang Y,Ma S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombomodulin (TM) is a membrane protein mainly expressed by endothelial cells. It is part of the anticoagulant protein C system but recently several effects were discovered which occur independently of protein C activation. TM binds thrombin and promotes the cleavage of protein C and the thrombin activatable fibrino...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Wenzel J,Assmann JC,Schwaninger M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular system distributes oxygen and nutrients to all tissues in the body. Additionally, the vascular system also functions in hosting and instructing tissue-specific stem and progenitor cells. Both cell- or blood-derived signals from the vascular system regulate stem cell properties in health and disease. Studi...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Schildge S,Bohrer C,Pfurr S,Mammadzada K,Schachtrup K,Schachtrup C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than 20 years there has been increasing interest in the development of novel therapies to raise levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). However, well publicized failures of recent clinical trials of agents that raise HDL-C levels have stimulated considerable controversy with regard to the pote...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Duong M,Nicholls SJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of penicillin, natural and synthetic β-lactams have aroused great interest not only as sources of effective antibacterial agents but also as specific inhibitors of proteases responsible for various non-bacterial pathological processes. This interest was reflected in our review published in Current ...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Veinberg G,Potorocina I,Vorona M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated sodium channels are large transmembrane protein complexes responsible for the propagation and transmission of electrical impulses through nerve, muscle and endocrine cells and cell systems. Dysregulated expression and/or functional changes of ion channel isoforms are found in many associated pathological...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Jukič M,Kikelj D,Anderluh M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although glial proliferation of the epileptic loci is recognized for more than a century in certain focal epilepsies, the role of astrocytes in epileptic conditions is receiving significant attention only in recent years. The present review will highlight current knowledge about the various ways astrocytes control neu...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Héja L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced enteropancreatic (EP) neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) can be treated with several different therapies, including chemotherapy, biotherapy, and locoregional treatments. Over the last few decades, impressive progress has been made in the biotherapy field. Three main druggable molecular targets have been studied an...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Fazio N,Scarpa A,Falconi M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of classical and molecular therapies in cancer is hampered by the occurrence of primary (intrinsic) and secondary (acquired) refractoriness of tumours to selected therapeutic regimens. Nevertheless, the increased knowledge of the genetic, molecular and metabolic mechanisms underlying cancer results in the...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Rosa R,Monteleone F,Zambrano N,Bianco R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques in the parenchymal and cortical brain is accepted as the main pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, the Aβ deposition in the brain appears to be a good diagnostic biomarker for AD and may also be a good predictive biomar...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Cui M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This invited review on the beneficial effects of nutraceuticals in the gastrointestinal tract reports previous work conducted by the authors as well as the work by other researchers in this expanding field. The text of our article on several occasions reports sentences very similar or identical to those which appear i...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Romano M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last centuries, there were many important discoveries in medicine that were crucial for gaining a better understanding of several physiological processes. Molecular modelling techniques are powerful tools that have been successfully used to analyse and interface medicinal chemistry studies with electrochemica...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Almeida MO,Maltarollo VG,de Toledo RA,Shim H,Santos MC,Honorio KM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-based nanoparticles (pep-NPs) are emerging as promising imaging and therapeutic agents against cancer due to their biocompatibility and tunability. Optimized design of the peptide sequence and moderate conjugation of the sequence with extraneous molecules are crucial to the performance of the inherent properti...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： An L,Shah Gilani MR,Liang G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Salvianolic acid B (Sal B), one of the most active components of Danshen extracts, has beneficial roles in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. However, the precise mechanism by which Sal B exerts its effects on vascular cells is unclear. We aimed to elucidate the effects of Sal B on vascular c...

journal_title：Current medicinal chemistry

authors： Lee HJ,Seo M,Lee EJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00