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Pharmaceuticals, Volume 11, Issue 2

June 2018 - 30 articles

Cover Story: Over the past few years, drug repositioning has become a relevant strategy for drug discovery, being a time and money saving process. Neurodegenerative diseases are particularly well suited for this approach, as these diseases are age-related and popular treatments of co-morbidities in these kind of pathologies can exhibit beneficial side effects. Our review “Old Drugs as New Treatments for Neurodegenerative Diseases” shows that, in this area of research, the key to the future can be found in the past, and old drugs can become effective new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. View the paper here.
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,235 Views
20 Pages

Mitoxantrone is More Toxic than Doxorubicin in SH-SY5Y Human Cells: A ‘Chemobrain’ In Vitro Study

  • Daniela Almeida,
  • Rita Pinho,
  • Verónica Correia,
  • Jorge Soares,
  • Maria De Lourdes Bastos,
  • Félix Carvalho,
  • João Paulo Capela and
  • Vera Marisa Costa

The potential neurotoxic effects of anticancer drugs, like doxorubicin (DOX) and mitoxantrone (MTX; also used in multiple sclerosis), are presently important reasons for concern, following epidemiological data indicating that cancer survivors submitt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,208 Views
10 Pages

Iron Release from Soybean Seed Ferritin Induced by Cinnamic Acid Derivatives

  • Xuejiao Sha,
  • Hai Chen,
  • Jingsheng Zhang and
  • Guanghua Zhao

Plant ferritin represents a novel class of iron supplement, which widely co-exists with phenolic acids in a plant diet. However, there are few reports on the effect of these phenolic acids on function of ferritin. In this study, we demonstrated that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,844 Views
13 Pages

Current screening tests for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) identify less than 50% of undiagnosed T2DM patients and provide no information about how the disease will develop in prediabetic patients. Here, twenty-nine protein glycation sites were quan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
17,217 Views
24 Pages

Mechanism of the Dual Activities of Human CYP17A1 and Binding to Anti-Prostate Cancer Drug Abiraterone Revealed by a Novel V366M Mutation Causing 17,20 Lyase Deficiency

  • Mónica Fernández-Cancio,
  • Núria Camats,
  • Christa E. Flück,
  • Adam Zalewski,
  • Bernhard Dick,
  • Brigitte M. Frey,
  • Raquel Monné,
  • Núria Torán,
  • Laura Audí and
  • Amit V. Pandey

The CYP17A1 gene regulates sex steroid biosynthesis in humans through 17α-hydroxylase/17,20 lyase activities and is a target of anti-prostate cancer drug abiraterone. In a 46, XY patient with female external genitalia, together with a loss of f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,352 Views
15 Pages

5-aza-2′,2′-difluorodeoxycytidine (NUC013) has been shown to be significantly safer and more effective than decitabine in xenograft models of human leukemia and colon cancer. However, it suffers from a similar short half-life as other DNA...

  • Review
  • Open Access
90 Citations
18,252 Views
19 Pages

Research Progress on Rolling Circle Amplification (RCA)-Based Biomedical Sensing

  • Lide Gu,
  • Wanli Yan,
  • Le Liu,
  • Shujun Wang,
  • Xu Zhang and
  • Mingsheng Lyu

Enhancing the limit of detection (LOD) is significant for crucial diseases. Cancer development could take more than 10 years, from one mutant cell to a visible tumor. Early diagnosis facilitates more effective treatment and leads to higher survival r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,573 Views
14 Pages

Phytochemical Study of the Ecuadorian Species Lepechinia mutica (Benth.) Epling and High Antifungal Activity of Carnosol against Pyricularia oryzae

  • Jorge Ramírez,
  • Gianluca Gilardoni,
  • Erika Ramón,
  • Solveig Tosi,
  • Anna Maria Picco,
  • Carlo Bicchi and
  • Giovanni Vidari

The plant Lepechinia mutica (Benth.) Epling (family Lamiaceae) is endemic to Ecuador. In the present study, we report some major non-volatile secondary metabolites from the leaves and the chemistry of the essential oil distilled from the flowers. The...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,536 Views
25 Pages

The resurgence of research into phage biology and therapy is, in part, due to the increasing need for novel agents to treat multidrug-resistant infections. Despite a long clinical history in Eastern Europe and initial success within the food industry...

  • Review
  • Open Access
205 Citations
21,494 Views
22 Pages

Antibody-Drug Conjugates for Cancer Therapy: Chemistry to Clinical Implications

  • Nirnoy Dan,
  • Saini Setua,
  • Vivek K. Kashyap,
  • Sheema Khan,
  • Meena Jaggi,
  • Murali M. Yallapu and
  • Subhash C. Chauhan

Chemotherapy is one of the major therapeutic options for cancer treatment. Chemotherapy is often associated with a low therapeutic window due to its poor specificity towards tumor cells/tissues. Antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) technology may provide a...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,395 Views
14 Pages

Computational Modelling of Large Scale Phage Production Using a Two-Stage Batch Process

  • Konrad Krysiak-Baltyn,
  • Gregory J. O. Martin and
  • Sally L. Gras

Cost effective and scalable methods for phage production are required to meet an increasing demand for phage, as an alternative to antibiotics. Computational models can assist the optimization of such production processes. A model is developed here t...

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