abstract：:The beneficial effect of antihypertensive treatment on the risk of major vascular events is well established. Several trials comparing older and newer drugs in the treatment of primary hypertension suggested that it is the blood pressure achieved, rather than choice of the drug that determines most of the primary outc...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Karagiannis A,Mikhailidis DP,Kakafika AI,Tziomalos K,Athyros VG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors represent one of the most commonly used categories of drugs in canine and feline medicine. ACE inhibitors currently approved for use in veterinary medicine are benazepril, enalapril, imidapril and ramipril. They are all pro-drugs administered by oral route. A physiologica...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lefebvre HP,Brown SA,Chetboul V,King JN,Pouchelon JL,Toutain PL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human herpesviruses herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) can cause severe recurrent disease in humans and establish lifelong infection in their hosts. Several antiviral therapies are available to control disease and spread, but these are not completely effective and do not affect latent virus. The ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ramachandran S,Kinchington PR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is regulated by stimulators and inhibitors and involve multiple biological processes including endothelial cell proliferation, migration, cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion, assembly into tube structures as well as apoptosis. Designing and developing peptides for therapeutic application to inhibit angioge...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Sulochana KN,Ge R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased visceral adiposity, is an emerging cardiovascular risk factor. There is now a compelling need to quantify visceral adipose tissue not only for diagnostic purposes, but also for therapeutic interventions with weight reduction drugs or pharmaceuticals targeted to adipose tissue, as well as anti-obesity medicat...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Iacobellis G,Sharma AM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by excessive deposition of amyloid beta-peptides (Abeta peptides) in the form of senile plaques as well as neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in the brain. In the amyloidogenic pathway, the amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP) is cleaved by beta-secretase first, followed by gamma-se...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ziani-Cherif C,Mostefa-Kara B,Brixi-Gormat FZ

更新日期：2006-01-01 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 performance- and alertness-sustaining/restoring effects of modafinil during sleep deprivation in normal, healthy adults were reviewed. Results indicate that modafinil is efficacious for sustaining/restoring objective performance and alertness during sleep deprivation with few adverse effects. At appropriate dosage...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Wesensten NJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders associated with conformational conversion of the cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) into an isoform designated PrP(Sc). The pathogenic mechanism that links this conformational distortion with the development of prion diseases is unknown. PrP(C) is a GPI-anchored cell s...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Varela-Nallar L,González A,Inestrosa NC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is a complex pathological condition associated with exaggerated human immune system involving various activated immune cells and bio-molecules. Treatment of inflammatory diseases particularly chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease etc. has been a big challen...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Kulkarni RG,Achaiah G,Sastry GN

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors mediate diverse physiological functions. At present, five receptor subtypes (M(1) - M(5)) have been identified. The odd-numbered receptors (M(1), M(3), and M(5)) are preferentially coupled to G(q/11) and activate phospholipase C, which initiates the phosphatidylinositol trisphosphate...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Ishii M,Kurachi Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete DNA sequence of the human genome and of several related mammals are now available, due to the investments of enormous resources and advances in sequencing technology. Novel technologies have been developed to compare multiple genomes with each other, thus specifying regions of sequence similarity among ma...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Möller S,Zettl UK,Serrano-Fernández P,Goertsches R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electropulsation (electroporation) is a physical method for delivery of various molecules into the cells in vitro and in vivo. It is an expanding field due to its applicability in cancer therapy, where combined application of electric pulses and chemotherapeutic drugs is used for treatment of cutaneous and subcutaneou...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Cemazar M,Golzio M,Sersa G,Rols MP,Teissié J

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:During the last decade immunomodulatory treatments have been shown to influence the natural course of multiple sclerosis (MS). However, demyelination in the central nervous system (CNS) still occurs and repair mechanisms are incomplete leading to neurological deficits. Currently, there is no therapy available to promo...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Trebst C,Stangel M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent developments in the field of recombinant DNA, protein engineering and cancer biology, have let us gain insight into many cancer-related mechanisms. Moreover, novel techniques have facilitated tools allowing unique distinction between malignantly transformed cells, to regular ones. This understanding has pav...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Schaedel O,Reiter Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloride channels play important roles in vital cellular signalling processes contributing to homeostasis in both excitable and non-excitable cells. Since 1987, more than ten ion channel genes have been identified as causing human hereditary diseases among them the genes for the voltage-dependent chloride channel ClC-...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Becq F

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary surfactant, a complex of lipids and proteins, functions to keep alveoli from collapsing at expiration. Surfactant proteins A (SP-A) and D (SP-D) belong to the collectin family and play pivotal roles in the innate immunity of the lung. Pulmonary collectins directly bind with broad specificities to a variety o...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Takahashi H,Sano H,Chiba H,Kuroki Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive age-related neurodegenerative disorder with distinct neuropathological features. Extracellular plaques, consisting of aggregated amyloid peptides of 39-43 amino acids are one of the most prominent pathological hallmarks of this disease. Although the exact neurochemical effecto...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Hajieva P,Behl C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A correct representation of intermolecular interaction energies is necessary for reliable drug-receptor docking studies. While ab initio quantum chemistry with extended basis sets is the most accurate tool for that purpose, its use is precluded for very large molecular complexes. This constitutes the incentive for the...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gresh N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 resistance to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors such as 3'-azido-2', 3'-dideoxythymidine (AZT) can arise through mutations in the coding region of reverse transcriptase (RT) that enhance the enzyme's ability to remove the drug after it has been incorporated. This excision ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Smith AJ,Scott WA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse reactions after iodinate contrast media (ICM) administration have been observed, which can be classified as immediate (i.e., occurring within one hour after administration) and delayed or non-immediate (i.e., occurring more than one hour after administration). Even though the incidence of ICM adverse reactions...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Guéant-Rodriguez RM,Romano A,Barbaud A,Brockow K,Guéant JL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erectile dysfunction (ED) has multifactor pathogenesis, with neurological, vascular, endocrinological and psychogenic components described. However, about 50-85% of ED population report the presence of one or more comorbidities i.e. hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia which all impair endothel...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Aversa A,Bruzziches R,Pili M,Spera G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population studies have identified diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for cardiac and vascular events, with a common association with hypertension. Observational studies have consistently demonstrated blood glucose as a continuous cardiovascular risk factor. Experimental studies suggest that elevated blood glucose, th...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Lim HS,MacFadyen RJ,Bakris G,Lip GY

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is characterized by vessel alterations such as dilatation of postcapillary venules and arterio-venous communications, which account for the major clinical manifestations of the disease. Two types of HHT have been characterized HHT-1 and HHT-2, respectively, depending the for...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Jirillo E,Amati L,Suppressa P,Cirimele D,Guastamacchia E,Covelli V,Tafaro E,Sabbà C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clopidogrel, in combination wih aspirin, is currently the drug of choice to prevent thrombosis after coronary stent implantation. Currently, clopidogrel is administered to the vast majority of patients without any assessment of platelet inhibition. Response variability and resistance, however, definitely occur to clop...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gurbel PA,Lau WC,Bliden KP,Tantry US

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 1950's, herpes simplex viruses (HSV) have played prominent roles in the development of antivirals. The first efficacious antivirals, as well as the first safe for systemic use, were developed against HSV. It was only in 1995 when the first antiviral against a target not validated first with HSV was approved ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Schang LM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneuploidy is a pathological condition that affects 35% of human spontaneous abortions and 0.3% of livebirths. In spite of the increasing knowledge about molecular mechanisms of meiosis and chromosome segregation, maternal age remains the only ascertained aetiological factor. Genetically modified mouse models have bee...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Pacchierotti F,Ranaldi R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of the delicate role of endogenous nitric oxide in the homeostasis of various cellular functions and the dynamic behaviour of the airways, has led to a new, rapidly progressing area of physiological science, that has direct bearing for our understanding of multiple airway diseases. The potentially protec...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Folkerts G,Nijkamp FP

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, Lymphocyte Function-Associated Antigen-1 (LFA-1, alphaLbeta2, CD11a/CD18) has emerged as an attractive therapeutic target for the treatment of multiple inflammatory diseases. Its established role in the trafficking and activation of leukocytes coupled with the recent elucidation of the global con...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Giblin PA,Lemieux RM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative and nitrosative stress triggers DNA strand breakage, which then activates the nuclear enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP). One of the key triggers of DNA single strand breakage in pathophysiological conditions is peroxynitrite, a reactive species produced from the reaction of nitric oxide and superoxid...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Gero D,Szabó C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of enantiorecognition processes involves the detection of enantiomeric species as well as the study of chiral discrimination mechanisms. In both fields Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy plays a fundamental role, providing several tools, based on the use of suitable chiral auxiliaries, for obse...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Uccello-Barretta G,Balzano F,Salvadori P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In association with their mechanisms of self/non-self recognition (known as mating type systems), ciliates synthesize and constitutively secrete cell type-specific proteins into their extracellular medium. These proteins, designated as pheromones, have been isolated from species of Euplotes and shown to be members of ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Luporini P,Vallesi A,Alimenti C,Ortenzi C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) have emerged as critical players in immunity. They are capable of sensing organisms ranging from protozoa to bacteria, fungi or viruses upon detection of the pathogen as well as recognizing endogenous ligands, and triggering transduction pathways. Following activation of the innate immune sy...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： de la Barrera S,Alemán M,Sasiain Mdel C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The so-called demographic transition has changed the age structure of the population worldwide, with profound effects on societal organization. The growing number and percentage of old and very old people has compelled the scientific community to focus on age related diseases and peculiar consequences of aging itself ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Paganelli R,Di Iorio A,Cherubini A,Lauretani F,Mussi C,Volpato S,Abate M,Abate G,Ferrucci L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are key regulators of the cell cycle and RNA polymerase II transcription. Several pharmacological CDK inhibitors (PCIs) are currently in clinical trials as potential cancer therapeutics since CDK hyperactivation is detected in the majority of neoplasias. Within the last few years, the a...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Pumfery A,de la Fuente C,Berro R,Nekhai S,Kashanchi F,Chao SH

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Current antiretroviral therapy has had a significant impact on HIV associated morbidity and mortality. Despite these positive outcomes current antiretroviral regimens have significant deficiencies which include multiple drug-drug interactions, high pill burdens, and considerable financial expense. Perhaps the greatest...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Romanelli F,Hoven AD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circumstantial evidence has been provided of a role of the plasminogen/plasmin system in a variety of biological phenomena, including thrombolysis, vascular stenosis, reproduction, embryogenesis, cell invasion, angiogenesis, brain function and chronic lung or kidney inflammatory disorders. Inhibition of the system occ...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Matsuno H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A severe atypical pneumonia designated as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) by The World Health Organization broke out in China and menaced to more than other 30 countries between the end of the year 2002 and June of the year 2003. A novel coronavirus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-C...

journal_title：Current pharmaceutical design

authors： Chen S,Luo H,Chen L,Chen J,Shen J,Zhu W,Chen K,Shen X,Jiang H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00