abstract：:Histone deacetylases (HDACs) have recently emerged as key elements in epigenetic control of gene expression. Due to the implication of HDACs in a variety of diseases ranging from cancer to neurodegenerative disorder, HDAC inhibitors have received increased attention in recent years. Over the last few decades, a myriad...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Kim B,Hong J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoic acid (LA) is an antioxidant able to produce its effects in aqueous or lipophilic environments. Lipoate is the conjugate base of lipoic acid, and the most prevalent form of LA under physiological conditions. It presents a highly negative reduction potential, increases the expression of antioxidant enzymes and pa...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Moura FA,de Andrade KQ,dos Santos JC,Goulart MO

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is an important basic metabolic mechanism by engulfing and degrading the unnecessary or dysfunctional cellular components within double-membered autolysosomes to maintain cellular homeostasis. Autophagy has sparkled great interest for its complicated functions in different stages of cancer, and is regarded a...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Li S,Wang L,Hu Y,Sheng R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apatamer technology has been around for a quarter of a century and the field had matured enough to start seeing real applications, especially in the medical field. Since their discovery, aptamers rapidly emerged as key players in many fields, such as diagnostics, drug discovery, food science, drug delivery and therape...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Hernandez LI,Machado I,Schafer T,Hernandez FJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aptamers- short nucleic acid or peptide ligands- attracted considerable attention across various disciplines as target specific therapeutic, delivery vehicle and diagnostic tools. The applicability of aptamers - often termed as 'chemical antibodies' - continues to grow and possess certain edge over the antibody counte...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Veedu RN

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialorrhea or excessive drooling is a significant medical issue in Parkinson's disease (PD) and neurodegenerative disorders, although it is often underreported by patients. Sialorrhea affects a large proportion of PD patients, ranging up to 78% in advanced stages, with many PD patients considering drooling as their wo...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Farber NM,Perez-Lloret S,Gamzu ER

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In last decades, diet and dietary components have been regarded as important strategies to prevent the development or mitigate numerous chronic diseases, including inflammation, cardiovascular pathologies, cancer, etc. One of the most common dietary components of Asian population is soy. A plethora of research shows t...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Nabavi SF,Daglia M,Tundis R,Loizzo MR,Sobarzo-Sanchez E,Orhan IE,Nabavi SM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of functionally important biological processes are regulated by allosteric communication within individual proteins and across protein complexes. The proteins controlling these communication networks respond to changes in the cellular environment by switching between different conformational states. Targe...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Persico M,Di Dato A,Orteca N,Fattorusso C,Novellino E,Andreoli M,Ferlini C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogens control a wide number of aspects of human physiology and play a key role in multiple diseases, including cancer. Estrogens act by binding to and activating the cognate receptor (ER), however numerous studies have revealed that the G protein-coupled receptor named GPR30/GPER mediates also estrogen signals. As...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sinicropi MS,Lappano R,Caruso A,Santolla MF,Pisano A,Rosano C,Capasso A,Panno A,Lancelot JC,Rault S,Saturnino C,Maggiolini M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proper balance between oxidants and antioxidants is necessary in maintaining health and longevity. Alterations in this balance may result in oxidative stress causing functional disorders and diseases. Oxidative stress is considered to play a vital role in the pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications. Flavanone...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sharma M,Akhtar N,Sambhav K,Shete G,Bansal AK,Sharma SS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotechnology is revolutionizing the development of different branches of science. The investigation of nanomaterials in the battle against cancer is not an exception. The main goal of this contribution is to bring an overview about the types of organic and inorganic nanomaterials that are under investigation for its...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sanchez-Dominguez CN,Gallardo-Blanco HL,Rodriguez-Rodriguez AA,Vela-Gonzalez AV,Sanchez-Dominguez M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choline kinase (CK) is a homodimeric enzyme that catalyses the transfer of the ATP γ-phosphate to choline, generating phosphocholine and ADP in the presence of magnesium. Several isoforms of CK are present in humans but only the HsCKα has been associated with cancer and validated as a drug target to treat this disease...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Serran-Aguilera L,Nuti R,López-Cara LC,Ríos-Marco P,Carrasco MP,Marco C,Entrena A,Macchiarulo A,Hurtado-Guerrero R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tyrosinase enzyme (EC 1.14.18.1) is an oxidoreductase inside the general enzyme classification and is involved in the oxidation and reduction process in the epidermis. These chemical reactions that the enzyme catalyzes are of principal importance in the melanogenesis process. This process of melanogenesis is relat...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Casanola-Martin GM,Le-Thi-Thu H,Marrero-Ponce Y,Castillo-Garit JA,Torrens F,Rescigno A,Abad C,Khan MT

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence has shown that chemokine receptors may form functional dimers with unique pharmacological profiles. A common practice to characterize such G protein-coupled receptor dimerization processes is to apply bivalent ligands as chemical probes which can interact with both receptors simultaneously. Current...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Arnatt CK,Zhang Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several non-cardiovascular drugs have been withdrawn from the market due to their inhibition of hERG K+ channels that can potentially lead to severe heart arrhythmia and death. As hERG safety testing is a mandatory FDArequired procedure, there is a considerable interest for developing predictive computational tools to...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Braga RC,Alves VM,Silva MF,Muratov E,Fourches D,Tropsha A,Andrade CH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Machine learning (ML) computational methods for predicting compounds with pharmacological activity, specific pharmacodynamic and ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity) properties are being increasingly applied in drug discovery and evaluation. Recently, machine learning techniques such as...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Dobchev DA,Pillai GG,Karelson M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2010, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program within the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), which was created to stimulate drug discovery and development for rare and neglected tropical diseases through a collabor...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Ottinger EA,Kao ML,Carrillo-Carrasco N,Yanjanin N,Shankar RK,Janssen M,Brewster M,Scott I,Xu X,Cradock J,Terse P,Dehdashti SJ,Marugan J,Zheng W,Portilla L,Hubbs A,Pavan WJ,Heiss J,Vite CH,Walkley SU,Ory DS,Silbe

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the first stable tachysterol analogs, 14-epi-19-nortachysterol and its 2-substituted derivatives were synthesized using the Stille coupling reaction between the A-ring precursor (three vinylstannanes) and the CD-ring vinyl trifrate. Among them, the 2-methylidene group was hydrogenated with Wilkinson's catalyst regi...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sawada D,Kittaka A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in synthesis of functional poly-ε-caprolactone (PCL) and its self-assembly behavior, as well as application in drug delivery have been reviewed. Three strategies including end group functionalization, postpolymerization modification and new monomer preparation have been summarized to show possibilities...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Xiao Y,Yuan M,Zhang J,Yan J,Lang M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of syringeable cyclodextrin (CD) gels is a developing area in the drug delivery and tissue engineering fields, since they offer the possibility of being administered with minimally invasive maneuvers to form depots that can remain for prolonged time in the implantation site. Two different supramolecular sys...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Simões SM,Veiga F,Torres-Labandeira JJ,Ribeiro AC,Concheiro A,Alvarez-Lorenzo C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review highlights the biological importance of many polysubstituted nitro-prolines and -pyrrolidines. Their preparation using asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of azomethine ylides with nitroalkenes using diastereoselective and enantioselective strategies is described remarking the scope and main features of ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Nejera C,Sansano JM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent times, the novel concept of generating hybrid molecules by pharmacophoric hybridisation approach is fast becoming an alternative to other existing strategies of drug development. These hybrids also known as 'dual drugs' or 'double drugs' are especially found to be effective in overcoming drug resistance prob...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Manohar S,Tripathi M,Rawat DS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a common infectious disease with high mortality and morbidity. The increasing prevalence of drug-resistant strains of TB presents a major public health problem. Due to the lack of effective drugs to treat these drug-resistant strains, the d...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Koseki Y,Aoki S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical versatility of the indole nucleus still inspires the pharmaceutical research to develop innovative suitable indole based drugs. The present work is an overview of the use and application of indole molecule based derivatives, as possible treatment in the main Oxidative Stress related diseases, such as card...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Aiello F,Valacchi G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of new DNA sequencing technologies has allowed an exponential growth of genomic and transcriptomic data that ultimately yielded important results to several areas such as medicine and biology. This continuous technological progress presents several advantages and caveats that have to be considered for ea...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sanchez-Flores A,Abreu-Goodger C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the advent of high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies, the ever-increasing rate at which genomes have been published has generated new challenges notably at the level of genome annotation. Even if gene predictors and annotation softwares are more and more efficient, the ultimate validation is still in the ob...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Hernandez C,Waridel P,Quadroni M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intensive research effort during the last 25 years has generated an impressive number of alkaloids isolated from marine ascidians, which remain unique among marine invertebrates in that they overwhelmingly produce this kind of metabolites. The present review is focused on some major groups of ascidians' bioactive a...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Menna M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs with poor lipid and water solubility are some of the most challenging to formulate in nanocarriers, typically resulting in low encapsulation efficiencies and uncontrolled release profiles. PEGylated nanocapsules (PEG-NC) are known for their amenability to diverse modifications that allow the formation of domains...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Hervella P,Alonso-Sande M,Ledo F,Lucero ML,Alonso MJ,Garcia-Fuentes M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phyllanthus amarus is a medicinal herb used in traditional Indian medicine for liver disorders. Several researches also show that it acts primarily in the liver, but the molecules were unidentified for liver protective activity. This study was to determine whether the lignans isolated from P. amarus attenuates the D-g...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Bawankule DU,Trivedi P,Pal A,Shanker K,Singh M,Sharma P,Khan F,Maurya AK,Verma RK,Gupta MM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of novel derivatives of 1,3-oxazolidin-2-one 12a-12n has been synthesized starting from 4-nitro-(L)- phenylalanine by involving five-step reaction sequence. All the compounds were screened for their in vitro antibacterial activity against four pathogenic bacterial strains namely, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacill...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Chandna N,Kapoor JK,Goyal V,Aggarwal NK,Kumari KM,Vijjulatha M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of vaccines has led to tremendous decreases in disease burdens across the world. Many challenges remain in expanding vaccine coverage to new pathogens, however, a struggle further hampered by a lack of understanding into many of the fundamental processes through which vaccines elicit robust immunity. In this r...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Platt A,Wetzler L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, a limited number of strategies exist for diagnostic imaging of patients with bacterial infection. While radiolabeled probes and white blood cells provide robust solutions to detect bacteria in humans, they also give false positives in cases of sterile inflammation. With the onset of bacterial drug resistan...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sasser TA,Van Avermaete AE,White A,Chapman S,Johnson JR,Van Avermaete T,Gammon ST,Leevy WM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac fibrosis is associated with most cardiac diseases. Fibrosis is an accumulation of excessive extracellular matrix proteins (ECM) synthesized by cardiac fibroblasts and myofibroblasts. Fibroblasts are the most prevalent cell type in the heart, comprising 75% of cardiac cells. Myofibroblasts are hardly present in...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Yue Z,Zhang Y,Xie J,Jiang J,Yue L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a modern medical condition characterized by central obesity, hyperglycaemia, hypercholesterolemia and hypertension. The beneficial effects of mushrooms in lowering the symptoms of MS were known from both traditional and conventional medicine. Edible mushrooms, their extracts, polysaccharide ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Kundaković T,Kolundžić M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucuronidation has been recognized as an important clearance mechanism in humans. Therefore, knowledge about the contribution of glucuronidation to clearance of drug candidates is of great value in early drug development. In this article, we discuss the recent progress made to predict in vivo glucuronidation paramete...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Wu B,Dong D,Hu M,Zhang S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of biochemical biomarkers in the evaluation of patients with cardiovascular disease has led to practice-changing advancements in the way these patients are diagnosed and managed. Measurements of cardiac troponins or brain-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and its precursor, N-terminal brain-type natriure...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Giannopoulos G,Deftereos S,Panagopoulou V,Kossyvakis C,Kaoukis A,Bouras G,Pyrgakis V,Cleman MW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(18)F-labeled amino acids are an important class of imaging agents for positron emission tomography (PET) that target the increased rates of amino acid transport by many tumor cells. This class of tracers is structurally diverse, and the biological and imaging properties of a given (18)F-labeled amino acid depends lar...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Huang C,McConathy J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease that affects largely synovial joints. It has been postulated that activated autoreactive CD4 T cells play a key role in triggering and/or maintaining the chronic inflammatory process in RA. Dendritic cells (DCs) are antigen-presenting cells that ac...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Rodríguez-Fernández JL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is due to diffuse atherosclerosis. The pathological process is characterized mainly by the aberrant proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells and the formation of neointimal lesions. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are highly conserved non-coding small RNA molecules that regulate a large fract...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Imanishi T,Akasaka T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notwithstanding the functional role that the aggregates of some amyloidogenic proteins can play in different organisms, protein aggregation plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of a large number of human diseases. One of such diseases is Alzheimer's disease (AD), where the overproduction and aggregation of the β-a...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Viayna E,Sabate R,Muñoz-Torrero D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00