abstract：:Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD), is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by cognitive loss. Most researchers believe that aggregation and accumulation of β-amyloid peptides (Aβ) in brain cells are the central pathological hallmark of this disease. Methods: Based on the amyloid hypothesis,...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Liu W,Sun F,Wan M,Jiang F,Bo X,Lin L,Tang H,Xu S

更新日期：2018-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Orientin is a flavonoid extracted from Chinese traditional herb, Polygonum orientale L. Previous study has reported that orientin protected myocardial from ischemia reperfusion injury. However, whether orientin could protect against cardiac remodeling after myocardial injury remains unclear. The aim of our study is to...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Li F,Zong J,Zhang H,Zhang P,Xu L,Liang K,Yang L,Yong H,Qian W

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lung injury (ALI) is a complex syndrome with sepsis occurring in critical patients, who usually lack effective therapy. Nuciferine is a primary bioactive component extracted from the lotus leaf, and it displays extensive pharmacological functions, including anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant propert...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Wu H,Yang Y,Guo S,Yang J,Jiang K,Zhao G,Qiu C,Deng G

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 648 in vol. 8, PMID: 28959205.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Zhong ZF,Yu HB,Wang CM,Qiang WA,Wang SP,Zhang JM,Yu H,Cui L,Wu T,Li DQ,Wang YT

更新日期：2017-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein allosteric modulation is a pillar of metabolic regulatory mechanisms; this concept has been extended to include ion channel regulation. P2XRs are ligand-gated channels activated by extracellular ATP, sensitive to trace metals and other chemicals. By combining in silico calculations with electrophysiological re...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Latapiat V,Rodríguez FE,Godoy F,Montenegro FA,Barrera NP,Huidobro-Toro JP

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in fluorescent ligand technology have enabled the study of G protein-coupled receptors in their native environment without the need for genetic modification such as addition of N-terminal fluorescent or bioluminescent tags. Here, we have used a non-imaging plate reader (PHERAstar FS) to monitor the bin...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Arruda MA,Stoddart LA,Gherbi K,Briddon SJ,Kellam B,Hill SJ

更新日期：2017-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Clopidogrel is an essential antiplatelet drug used to prevent thrombosis complications associated with atherosclerosis. However, hepatotoxicity is a potential adverse effect related to clopidogrel therapy. Exosome-derived miRNAs may be useful for improved monitoring of drug response and hepatotoxicity risk. In the pre...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： de Freitas RCC,Bortolin RH,Lopes MB,Tamborlin L,Meneguello L,Silbiger VN,Hirata RDC,Hirata MH,Luchessi AD,Luchessi AD

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids is an intensively studied group of natural compounds with antioxidant, antineoplastic, antihyperglycemic, cardioprotective, and neuroprotective properties. The present study intends to investigate the geroprotective action of three selected flavonoids (naringin, luteolin, chrysin) in two model organisms, Ca...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lashmanova E,Zemskaya N,Proshkina E,Kudryavtseva A,Volosnikova M,Marusich E,Leonov S,Zhavoronkov A,Moskalev A

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To assess the validity of a treatments- and tests-based Case-Finding Algorithm for identifying patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) from claims databases. Data sources: Primary data from the HealthCore Integrated Research Environment (HIRE)-Oncology database and the HealthCore Integrated Researc...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Turner RM,Chen YW,Fernandes AW

更新日期：2017-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of apoptosis is therapeutically effective in cardiomyocytes damage. Calenduloside E (CE), a naturally occurring triterpenoid saponin, is a potent anti-apoptotic agent. However, little is known about its synthetic analogues on the protective effects in apoptosis of cardiomyocytes. The present research was pe...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Tian Y,Du YY,Shang H,Wang M,Sun ZH,Wang BQ,Deng D,Wang S,Xu XD,Sun GB,Sun XB

更新日期：2017-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and Objectives: Limited research focuses on the risk of ischemic cerebrovascular disease associated with use of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP-4 inhibitors) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Taiwan. This study aimed to investigate the association between DPP-4 inhibitors use and the first...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lai SW,Liao KF,Lin CL,Lin HF

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Low solubility, tissue accumulation, and toxicity are chief obstacles to developing triptolide derivatives, so a better understanding of the pharmacokinetics and toxicity of triptolide derivatives will help with these limitations. To address this, we studied pharmacokinetics and toxicity of (5R)-5-hydroxytriptolide (L...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Yu C,Li Y,Liu M,Gao M,Li C,Yan H,Li C,Sun L,Mo L,Wu C,Qi X,Ren J

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hachimijiogan (HJG) is a traditional herbal medicine that improves anxiety disorders in patients with dementia. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that HJG exerts neurotrophic factor-like effects to ameliorate memory impairment in Alzheimer disease (AD) model rats. First, we describe that HJG acts to induce neuri...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Kubota K,Fukue H,Sato H,Hashimoto K,Fujikane A,Moriyama H,Watanabe T,Katsurabayashi S,Kainuma M,Iwasaki K

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Stability of traditional Chinese medicine injection (TCMI) is an important issue related with its clinical application. TCMI is composed of multi-components, therefore, when evaluating TCMI stability, several marker compounds cannot represent global components or biological activities of TCMI. Till now, when evaluatin...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Li JP,Liu Y,Guo JM,Shang EX,Zhu ZH,Zhu KY,Tang YP,Zhao BC,Tang ZS,Duan JA

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-calmodulin/dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) plays an essential role in LTP induction, but since it has the capacity to remain persistently activated even after the decay of external stimuli it has been proposed that it can also be necessary for LTP maintenance and therefore for memory persistence. It has b...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Juárez-Muñoz Y,Ramos-Languren LE,Escobar ML

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptor 5 is involved in neuroinflammation and has been shown to mediate reduced inflammation and neurotoxicity and to modify microglia polarization. On the other hand, blockade of mGlu5 receptor results in inhibition of microglia activation. To dissect this controversy, we investigated ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Beneventano M,Spampinato SF,Merlo S,Chisari M,Platania P,Ragusa M,Purrello M,Nicoletti F,Sortino MA

更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Medication with neuroleptics has been associated with adipose tissue dysfunctions and, in particular, with increased visceral fat amount. However, several studies suggested that antipsychotic treatment might not be the main responsible of fat mass accumulation, as this has been also described in not treated psychotic ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Schiavone S,Camerino GM,Mhillaj E,Zotti M,Colaianna M,De Giorgi A,Trotta A,Cantatore FP,Conte E,Bove M,Tucci P,Morgese MG,Trabace L

更新日期：2017-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the prevalence of and risk factors for hypersensitivity reactions related to carboplatin, which is commonly used to treat gynecological malignancies. All women with pathologically documented ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer treated with carboplatin alone or a carboplatin-based combina...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Tai YH,Tai YJ,Hsu HC,Lee SP,Chen YY,Chiang YC,Chen YL,Chen CA,Cheng WF

更新日期：2017-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug discovery field has tremendously progressed during last few decades, however, an effective radiation countermeasure agent for the safe administration to the victims of radiation exposure is still unavailable. This multi-model study is aimed at elucidating the mechanistic aspects of a novel podophyllotoxin and rut...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Yashavarddhan MH,Shukla SK,Chaudhary P,Srivastava NN,Joshi J,Suar M,Gupta ML

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal dialysis (PD)-associated peritoneal fibrosis is a chronic progress which induces ultrafiltration failure. It remains a challenge to prevent the progression of PD-associated fibrosis in clinic practice. Wnt/β-catenin pathway plays important role in many severe fibrotic diseases, here we investigated its cont...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Guo Y,Sun L,Xiao L,Gou R,Fang Y,Liang Y,Wang R,Li N,Liu F,Tang L

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoniazid (INH), a widely used first-line antitubercular drug, has been noted to be associated with hepatotoxicity. In spite of extensive researches over many decades, the mechanism of INH-induced hepatotoxicity still remains poorly understood. Recently, mitochondrial toxicity has been emerging as a new paradigm for I...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Zhang T,Ikejima T,Li L,Wu R,Yuan X,Zhao J,Wang Y,Peng S

更新日期：2017-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Although endothelin (ET)-1 is a highly potent vasoconstrictor with considerable efficacy in numerous vascular beds, the role of endogenous ET-1 in the regulation of vascular tone remains unclear. The perspective that ET-1 plays little role in the on-going regulation of vascular tone at least under physiologic conditio...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Rapoport RM,Merkus D

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells are involved in cancer establishment, progression, and resistance to current treatments. We demonstrated the in vitro and in vivo anti-breast cancer effect of bakuchiol in a previous study. However, the ability of bakuchiol to target breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) and inhibit breast cancer metastas...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Li L,Liu CC,Chen X,Xu S,Hernandez Cortes-Manno S,Cheng SH

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish oil (FO) is the main source of long chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω-3 PUFAs), which display relevant analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. Peripheral nerve injury is driven by degeneration, neuroinflammation, and neuronal plasticity which results in neuropathic pain (NP) symptoms such as allody...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Silva RV,Oliveira JT,Santos BLR,Dias FC,Martinez AMB,Lima CKF,Miranda ALP

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of histamine H3 receptors (H3Rs) in memory is well known, and the potential of H3R antagonists in therapeutic management of neuropsychiatric diseases, e.g., Alzheimer disease (AD) is well established. Therefore, the effects of histamine H3 receptor (H3R) antagonist E159 (2.5-10 mg/kg, i.p.) in adult ma...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Alachkar A,Łażewska D,Kieć-Kononowicz K,Sadek B

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hupresin is a new affinity resin that binds butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) in human plasma and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) solubilized from red blood cells (RBC). Hupresin is available from the CHEMFORASE company. BChE in human plasma binds to Hupresin and is released with 0.1 M trimethylammonium bromide (TMA) with full...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Onder S,David E,Tacal O,Schopfer LM,Lockridge O

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Over the past decades, early awareness and alert (EAA) activities and systems have gained importance and become a key early health technology assessment (HTA) tool. While a pioneer in HTA, Sweden had no national level EAA activities until 2010. We describe the evolution and current status of the Swedish ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Eriksson I,Wettermark B,Persson M,Edström M,Godman B,Lindhé A,Malmström RE,Ramström H,von Euler M,Bergkvist Christensen A

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanosine (GUO) is a guanine-based purine nucleoside with important trophic functions and promising neuroprotective properties. Although the neuroprotective effects of GUO have been corroborated in cellular models of Parkinson's disease (PD), its efficacy as an antiparkinsonian agent has not been fully explored in PD ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Massari CM,López-Cano M,Núñez F,Fernández-Dueñas V,Tasca CI,Ciruela F

更新日期：2017-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Apoptosis of lung structural cells contributes to the process of lung damage and remodeling in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Our previous studies demonstrated that exogenous hydrogen sulfide (H2S) can reduce the lung tissue pathology score, anti-inflammation and anti-oxidation effects in CO...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lin F,Liao C,Sun Y,Zhang J,Lu W,Bai Y,Liao Y,Li M,Ni X,Hou Y,Qi Y,Chen Y

更新日期：2017-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and purpose: As an herbal medicine, adzuki bean has been practiced since the Tang Dynasty of China to maintain health and control weight; this practice is still very popular in China nowadays. However, it is still lack of sufficient scientific basis to explain scientific principle of this popular civil prac...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Liu R,Zheng Y,Cai Z,Xu B

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Aims and Hypothesis: This study aims to investigate the mechanism involved in intracellular regulation of EGFR degradation induced by EGF. Methods: Phosphorylation of proteins related to EGFR signaling was examined by western blot analysis. Activation, connection between Rab35 and folliculin (FLCN) were assessed by pu...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Zheng J,Duan B,Sun S,Cui J,Du J,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Choroid plexus carcinomas (CPCs) are rare, aggressive pediatric brain tumors with no established curative therapy for relapsed disease, and poor survival rates. TP53 Mutation or dysfunction correlates with poor or no survival outcome in CPCs. Here, we report the case of a 4 month-old female who presented with dissemin...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Cornelius A,Foley J,Bond J,Nagulapally AB,Steinbrecher J,Hendricks WPD,Rich M,Yendrembam S,Bergendahl G,Trent JM,Sholler GS

更新日期：2017-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of emotional arousal can impair spatial memory mediated by the hippocampus, and enhance stimulus-response (S-R) habit memory mediated by the dorsolateral striatum (DLS). The present study was conducted to determine whether these memory systems may be similarly affected in an animal model of post-traumatic ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Goodman J,McIntyre CK

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD), characterized with bradykinesia, static tremor, rigidity and disturbances in balance, is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. Along with the largely aging population in the world, the incidence is increasing year by year, which imposes the negative impacts on patients, their fam...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Li X,Zhang Y,Wang Y,Xu J,Xin P,Meng Y,Wang Q,Kuang H

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a major clinical problem where natural compounds hold promise for its abrogation. Khaya grandifoliola (Meliaceae) is used in Cameroonian traditional medicine for the treatment of liver related diseases and has been studied for its hepatoprotective properties. Till date, reports show...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Kouam AF,Yuan F,Njayou FN,He H,Tsayem RF,Oladejo BO,Song F,Moundipa PF,Gao GF

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The study under investigation focuses on in vitro antiproliferative efficacy of the flavonoid morin and the mechanisms by which it inhibits the growth of colon cancer using SW480 colon cancer cells with emphasis on Warburg effect. It was found that the cell proliferation was significantly inhibited by morin in a dose ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Sithara T,Arun KB,Syama HP,Reshmitha TR,Nisha P

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim: Little is known regarding the relationship between use of oral corticosteroids and hip fracture in the elderly in Taiwan. The aim of the study was to examine this issue. Methods: A retrospective population-based case-control study using the database of the Taiwan National Health Insurance Program (2000-2013) was ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Lai SW,Lin CL,Liao KF

更新日期：2017-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:At present there is no effective treatment of pathologies associated with the death of neurons and glial cells which take place as a result of physical trauma or ischemic lesions of the nervous system. Thus, researchers have high hopes for a treatment based on the use of stem cells (SC), which are potentially able to ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Galieva LR,Mukhamedshina YO,Arkhipova SS,Rizvanov AA

更新日期：2017-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of recent therapeutic advances, multiple myeloma (MM) remains a malignancy with very low curability. This has been partly attributed to the existence of a drug-resistant subpopulation known as cancer stem cells (CSCs). MM-CSCs are equipped with the necessary tools that render them highly resistant to virtuall...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Issa ME,Wijeratne EMK,Gunatilaka AAL,Cuendet M

更新日期：2017-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:"RenqingMangjue" pill (RMP), as an effective prescription of Traditional Tibetan Medicine (TTM), has been widely used in treating digestive diseases and ulcerative colitis for over a thousand years. In certain classical Tibetan Medicine, heavy metal may add as an active ingredient, but it may cause contamination unint...

journal_title：Frontiers in pharmacology

authors： Xu C,Rezeng C,Li J,Zhang L,Yan Y,Gao J,Wang Y,Li Z,Chen J

更新日期：2017-09-04 00:00:00