abstract：:Unlike other neuroinflammatory disorders, like Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and multiple sclerosis, little is still known of the role of the endocannabinoid system in Alzheimer's disease (AD). This is partly due to the poor availability of animal models that are really relevant to the human disease, and t...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bisogno T,Di Marzo V

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiolabelled peptides and monoclonal antibodies are an emerging class of radiopharmaceuticals for imaging inflammation with clinical implications for several chronic inflammatory disorders for diagnosis, therapy decision making and follow up. In the last decades, a number of novel monoclonal antibodies and peptides h...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Malviya G,Signore A,Laganà B,Dierckx RA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperglycemia is a common feature of the critically ill in general and of patients with sepsis in particular. Even a moderate degree of hyperglycemia appears detrimental for the outcome of critically ill patients, since maintenance of normoglycemia (blood glucose levels

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Van Cromphaut SJ,Vanhorebeek I,Van den Berghe G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral infections are important causes of morbidity and mortality in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients. Some viruses, such as the respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, are acquired from the healthcare or community in the midst of or after HSCT. Other viruses, such as the herpes-virus family, esta...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Anderson EJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two morphological features may be seen as a main result of the cardiovascular cell damage caused by cigarette smoking: myocardial cell necrosis and smoke cardiomyopathy that, however, can lead to cell necrosis in case of chronic prolonged exposure to tobacco smoke. Both these pathological patterns recognise hypoxia as...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Leone A,Landini L Jr,Biadi O,Balbarini A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present review discusses the mechanism of late stent thrombosis and its distinction from restenosis and summarizes the advisory note issued by FDA on the proper usage of different treatments available for atherosclerosis. In light of the latest developments, a plethora of new stents have been and continue to be de...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Rastogi A,Stavchansky S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

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：:From a complications standpoint, diabetes mellitus is a disease of the vasculature. Diabetics face a considerably higher risk of developing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Both large and small blood vessels are susceptible to alterations from diabetes. Endothelial cell dysfunction associated with small ve...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Huber JD

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protozoan parasites, such as those responsible for malaria and African Sleeping Sickness, represent a huge burden to the developing world. Current chemotherapy to combat these diseases is inadequate: antiquated, toxic and increasingly ineffective due to drug resistance. In this article, the potential usefulness of tar...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Grant KM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-enzymatic modification of proteins by reducing sugars, a process that is also known as Maillard reaction, leads to the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in vivo. There is a growing body of evidence that formation and accumulation of AGEs progress during normal aging, and at an extremely accelerat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Unoki H,Yamagishi S

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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：:Fibrate derivatives have a 40-year history in the management of dyslipidemia. Although this class of drugs is generally well tolerated, several safety issues have arisen from their use. In the present article we review the literature describing side effects associated with the use of fibrates except for those that are...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Florentin M,Liberopoulos EN,Mikhailidis DP,Elisaf MS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2.1.1) isoforms present in the eyes (CA I, II, IV and XII), with sulfonamides such as acetazolamide, methazolamide, ethoxzolamide and dichlorophenamide, is still widely used for the systemic treatment of glaucoma. The mechanism of action of these drugs consists in inhibition ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Mincione F,Scozzafava A,Supuran CT

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a heterogeneous and progressive neurodegenerative disease which in Western society mainly accounts for clinical dementia. Inflammation plays a key role in AD and dissecting the genetics of inflammation may provide an answer to the possible treatment. Hence, the better understanding of diffe...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Balistreri CR,Grimaldi MP,Chiappelli M,Licastro F,Castiglia L,Listì F,Vasto S,Lio D,Caruso C,Candore G

更新日期：2008-01-01 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

abstract：:Dioxygen (O2) is an exogenously supplied gas with a number of properties that make it valuable as a biological source of energy and as a result much of life has become dependent on this molecule. Nitric oxide (NO), carbon dioxide (CO) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) are small molecules that are sometimes in a gaseous state...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Fukuto JM,Collins MD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral epithelium is a stratified squamous epithelium that functions as the barrier between the outside environment and the host. In the oral cavity, epithelial tissues are constantly exposed to a variety of bacteria, but most individuals maintain healthy homeostasis. Epithelial cells contribute to the innate host respo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Chung WO,Dommisch H,Yin L,Dale BA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), hypertension is common. The type of ACS and severity of hypertension would determine the treatment algorithm. In ST elevation myocardial infarction (MI), time to reperfusion is essential whereas in malignant hypertension the reduction of blood pressure to prevent end or...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kühl M,Lip GY,Varma C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although somewhat controversial, there is good evidence that long-distance travel in general is a risk factor for venous thromboembolism, even in the absence of other risk factors. This is probably due to effects consequent to prolonged sitting but air travel in particular may be associated with risk factors other tha...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bradford A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug design based on the structure of specific enzymes playing a role in carcinogenesis, e.g. tyrosine kinases, has been successful at identifying novel effective anticancer drugs. In contrast, no success has been achieved in drug design attempts, in which transcription factors or DNA-transcription factor complexes in...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： D'Incalci M,Brunelli D,Marangon E,Simone M,Tavecchio M,Gescher A,Mantovani R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first description of putative progenitor endothelial cells mobilized from bone marrow by stimuli like ischemia and cytokines, several studies in animals have confirmed their role in neovascularization of ischemic organs. In ischemic myocardium endothelial progenitor cells can prevent cardiomyocyte apoptosis,...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Balbarini A,Barsotti MC,Di Stefano R,Leone A,Santoni T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is still the principal cause of morbidity and mortality in Western countries and although a significant progress has been made in the understanding of its pathophysiology, the determinants of atherosclerotic plaque instability are still poorly understood. The endothelium plays a pivotal role for the de...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Versari D,Lerman LO,Lerman A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now a large body of evidence that weight loss in older persons not only increases mortality, but also increases the incidence of hip fracture, functional deterioration and institutionalization. Weight loss is a central component of frailty. There is evidence that it is not only muscle, but also fat loss that ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Morley JE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Donkey's milk is the best substitute of human milk for its content in lactose, proteins, minerals, and omega-3 fatty acids. Here, we have evaluated the effects of colostrum and milk from donkeys (Martina Franca breed) on the function of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) at different intervals from lacta...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Tafaro A,Magrone T,Jirillo F,Martemucci G,D'Alessandro AG,Amati L,Jirillo E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaporins (AQPs) are expressed in physiologically essential tissues and organs in which edema and fluid imbalances are of major concern. Potential roles in brain water homeostasis and edema, angiogenesis, cell migration, development, neuropathological diseases, and cancer suggest that this family of membrane proteins...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Yool AJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A better knowledge of the mechanisms underlying hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) growth and spread is essential to improve the available treatment options. So far, the only therapies available for HCC are mainly based on tumor-destructive approaches, whereas no therapies are available to consolidate these invasive thera...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Antonaci S,Giannelli G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has been widely used as a target for novel anticancer agents, such as blocking antibodies and small molecular weight tyrosine kinase compounds. In spite of recent advances in cancer cell biology, leading to the introduction of clinically active new drugs, such as cetuximab, ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Bianco R,Damiano V,Gelardi T,Daniele G,Ciardiello F,Tortora G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We illustrate the use of quantitative proteomics, namely isotope-coded affinity tag labelling and tandem mass spectrometry, to assess the targets and effects of the blockade of matrix metalloproteinases by an inhibitor drug in a breast cancer cell culture system. Treatment of MT1-MMP-transfected MDA-MB-231 cells with ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Butler GS,Overall CM

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Ever since pure molecular entities have been adapted as drug, varied manifestations other than elimination of infections are frequently been acknowledged as side effects. Contemporary drug research focuses on these issues besides developing new molecules for the restoration of unnatural functional deviations in variou...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Dutta RC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need to identify and characterize vulnerable atherosclerotic lesions in humans has lead to the development of various animal models of plaque vulnerability. In this review, current concepts of the vulnerable plaque as it leads to an acute coronary event are described, such as plaque rupture, erosion, intraplaque h...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Schapira K,Heeneman S,Daemen MJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food proteins contain latent biofunctional peptide sequences within their primary structures which may have the ability to exert a physiological response in vivo. A large range of biofunctional peptides have been isolated from food proteins including opioid, immunomodulatory, antimicrobial, mineral binding, growth and...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Murray BA,FitzGerald RJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring and chemically modified ribonucleosides have interesting bioactive effects. Dietary ribonucleosides are ingested mainly as nucleoproteins and are converted in the course of intestinal digestion to monomeric compounds. Different bioactive effects of dietary ribonucleosides have been described, inclu...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Martin D,Meisel H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the third millennium preventive medicine is becoming a corner stone in our concept of health. Colorectal cancer (CRC) fits the criteria of a disease suitable for prevention interventions. It is a prevalent disease that is associated with considerable mortality and morbidity rates, with more than 1,000,000 new cases...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Boursi B,Arber N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular hydric balance is an essential process of mammalian cells. The water movement across cell membranes is driven by osmotic and hydrostatic forces and the speed of this process is dependent on the presence of specific aquaporin water channels. Since the molecular identification of the first water channe...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Frigeri A,Nicchia GP,Svelto M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nanodelivery of therapeutics into the brain will require a step-change in thinking; overcoming the blood brain barrier is one of the major challenges to any neural therapy. The promise of nanotechnology is that the selective delivery of therapeutics can be delivered through to the brain without causing secondary d...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ellis-Behnke RG,Teather LA,Schneider GE,So KF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The final aim/target of Pharmaceutical Sciences is to design successful dosage forms for effective therapy, considering individual patient needs and compliance. Development of new drug entities, particularly using peptides and proteins, is growing in importance and attracting increased interest, as they are specifical...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Degim IT,Celebi N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The typical way of judging about either the efficacy of a new treatment or, on the contrary, the damage of a pollutant agent is through a test of hypothesis having its ineffectiveness as null hypothesis. This is the typical operational field of Kolmogorov's statistical framework where wastes of data (for instance non ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Apolloni B,Bassis S,Gaito S,Malchiodi D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective blood pressure control with a large arsenal of conventional antihypertensive drugs, such as diuretics, beta-adrenergic blockers, and calcium channel blockers, significantly reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular disease. However, blood pressure control with these drugs does not red...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Igic R,Behnia R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00