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Future Pharmacology, Volume 3, Issue 1

2023 March - 21 articles

Cover Story: Ezrin (EZR), a member of the ERM (ezrin, radixin, moesin) protein family, is essential for linking the actin cytoskeleton to the cell membrane and participates in multiple key signal transduction pathways. Several clinical and preclinical studies on a wide variety of solid and hematological tumors indicate that EZR is highly expressed and predicts an unfavorable clinical outcome. Additionally, EZR inhibition reduces proliferation, migration, and invasion in experimental cancer models. The development of pharmacological inhibitors for EZR or the signaling pathways it mediates has sparked a new round of investigation. In this review, studies on EZR in cancer are compiled, providing proof of concept that targeting EZR has antineoplastic potential and could pave the way for therapeutic developments. View this paper
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Articles (21)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,476 Views
35 Pages

Systems Pharmacology and Network Analysis to Advance Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine Decisions in Type-2 Diabetes Therapy

  • Aikaterini Saiti,
  • Alexandros Giannopoulos-Dimitriou,
  • Ioannis Kazakos,
  • Eleftheria Galatou and
  • Ioannis S. Vizirianakis

Diabetes mellitus type-2 (DMT2) molecular pathophysiology is still challenging since the disease represents a complex, multifactorial metabolic disease caused by polygenic defects and environmental factors. In addition, the resulting secondary organ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,988 Views
12 Pages

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a chronic progressive ocular disease and the main cause of severe visual impairment in the elderly. Vitamin D deficiency may be a risk factor for AMD. Additionally, current evidence suggests dietary advice of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
23,757 Views
21 Pages

The proper drug choice determines the treatment quality for a disease. The pharmacotherapeutic strategy for respiratory diseases often involves the combination of different drugs with different mechanisms of action. Salbutamol is a short-acting &beta...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,636 Views
44 Pages

In the 21st century, plant-derived metal nanoparticles (PDMNPs) have gained considerable interest because of their tremendous and remarkable potential as therapeutic agents as well as development of less expensive, safer, and easier biomedical equipm...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,043 Views
14 Pages

Obeticholic Acid—A Pharmacological and Clinical Review

  • Caezaan Keshvani,
  • Jonathan Kopel and
  • Hemant Goyal

Obeticholic acid (OCA) or 6-alpha-ethyl-chenodeoxycholic acid is a semisynthetic modified bile acid derivative that acts on the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) as an agonist with a higher potency than bile acid. The FXR is a nuclear receptor highly expres...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,180 Views
9 Pages

Polyols Permeability on Caco-2 Cells and Their Effects on Transport of Low-Permeability Drugs

  • Damien Truffin,
  • Olaf Häusler,
  • Maryse Martin,
  • Sandrine Cotier,
  • Jerôme Laparre and
  • Manilduth Ramnath

Some pharmaceutical excipients are able to modify intestinal permeability, thus influencing drug absorption and bioavailability. The effect of four polyols (mannitol, maltitol, sorbitol and xylitol) on the permeability of seven active pharmaceutical...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,687 Views
16 Pages

Applications and Utility of Three-Dimensional In Vitro Cell Culture for Therapeutics

  • Suchitra Maheswari Ajjarapu,
  • Apoorv Tiwari and
  • Sundip Kumar

The field of 3D cell culture and its applications is rooted in the understanding of cell biology, tissue engineering, tissue morphology, disease mechanisms, and drug action. For many years, traditional 2D cell culture systems have been widely used bu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,094 Views
15 Pages

Role of Senescence-Resumed Proliferation in Keloid Pathogenesis

  • Ching-Yun Wang,
  • Chieh-Wen Wu and
  • Ting-Yi Lin

Senescence-resumed proliferation (SRP) is proposed to be a mechanism associated with the escape of p21-mediated senescence and the activation of Wnt/β-catenin pathways that enhance malignancy. The keloid genomic landscape shows heavy intersectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,814 Views
18 Pages

A Synergistic Antibacterial Platform Combining Low–Temperature Photothermal Therapy and Antibiotic Therapy

  • Qiming Zhang,
  • Lei Chang,
  • Caixia Sun,
  • Wanchao Zuo,
  • Shibo Zhang,
  • Cong Liu,
  • Shuyue Deng,
  • Pengcheng Wu,
  • Panpan Dai and
  • Yanmin Ju
  • + 1 author

Antimicrobial resistance has brought great burden to global public health. Alternative strategies are needed to reduce the development of drug resistance. Herein, we have developed an effective synergistic antibacterial strategy combining low–t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
15,646 Views
18 Pages

Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APL): A Review of the Classic and Emerging Target Therapies towards Molecular Heterogeneity

  • Tâmara Dauare de Almeida,
  • Fernanda Cristina Gontijo Evangelista and
  • Adriano de Paula Sabino

The occurrence of severe bleeding syndrome because of the PML-RARα fusion protein is a life-threatening event in APL. This protein destabilizes homeostasis, maturation, remodeling, and tissue regeneration in addition to hampering the maintenanc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
17,705 Views
18 Pages

Aspirin Therapy, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia—A Review

  • Elizabeth H. Thong,
  • Edward C. Y. Lee,
  • Choi-Ying Yun,
  • Tony Y. W. Li and
  • Ching-Hui Sia

Background: Dementia is associated with a greater burden of cardiovascular risk factors. There is a significant vascular contribution to dementia, and aspirin may play a role in targeting this vascular dysregulation via its anti-inflammatory and anti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,442 Views
10 Pages

Anxiolytic/Sedative Effect of Monoterpene (–)-Borneol in Mice and In Silico Molecular Interaction with GABAA Receptor

  • Maurício Pires de Moura do Amaral,
  • Marcelo Pereira da Silva Junior,
  • Francisco das Chagas Alves Lima,
  • Stanley Juan Chavez Gutierrez,
  • Daniel Dias Rufino Arcanjo and
  • Rita de Cássia Meneses Oliveira

Anxiety is a normal behavioral component. When it is too frequent or appears in inappropriate contexts, it can be considered pathological. Benzodiazepines (BDZs) are drugs with clinical success in anxiety treatment. BDZs act as allosteric modulators...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,427 Views
15 Pages

Migraine is ranked as the third most common disorder worldwide and is considered one of the most disabling neurological conditions. Its treatment has mostly relied on medications that were non-specifically developed for migraine, thus accompanied by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,291 Views
9 Pages

Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 5 Gene Deletion Enhances Nicotine-Conditioned Place Preference: Illuminating the Putative Gateway Mechanisms

  • Nicole Roeder,
  • Brittany Richardson,
  • Abrianna Mihalkovic,
  • Samantha Penman,
  • Olivia White,
  • John Hamilton,
  • Ashim Gupta,
  • Kenneth Blum,
  • Mark S. Gold and
  • Panayotis K. Thanos

Emerging evidence indicates that the endogenous cannabinoid system modulates the behavioral and physiological effects of nicotine. Fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs) are among the primary intracellular trafficking mechanisms of endogenous cannabinoi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,981 Views
28 Pages

While the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be on its decline, the unclear impacts of long-COVID cases, breakthrough infections in immunocompromised individuals, vaccine hesitancy, and inhomogeneous health-care accessibility constitute a not to be underesti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,713 Views
19 Pages

Perspectives for Targeting Ezrin in Cancer Development and Progression

  • Jean Carlos Lipreri da Silva,
  • Hugo Passos Vicari and
  • João Agostinho Machado-Neto

Recent advances have been made in understanding molecular markers involved in cancer malignancy, resulting in better tumor staging and identifying new potential therapeutic targets. Ezrin (EZR), a member of the ezrin, radixin, moesin (ERM) protein fa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,583 Views
13 Pages

Cells, the basic structures of all living organisms, reside in an extracellular matrix consisting of a complex three-dimensional architecture and interact with neighboring cells both mechanically and biochemically. Cell–cell and cell–extr...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,704 Views
10 Pages

Flustramine Q, a Novel Marine Origin Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitor from Flustra foliacea

  • Natalia M. Kowal,
  • Xiaxia Di,
  • Sesselja Omarsdottir and
  • Elin S. Olafsdottir

The bryozoan Flustra foliacea produces a range of indole alkaloids, and some have shown weak antibiotic, muscle-relaxant and cytotoxic properties; however, most of them have not been tested for bioactivity. Many of these alkaloids possess a physostig...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,963 Views
24 Pages

Obesity is associated with a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. Recently, a growing body of evidence shows that phytochemicals, especially many flavonoids, place an inhibitory regulatory e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,393 Views
13 Pages

Wound healing is the restorative process of skin or tissue injury, composed of the inflammatory, proliferative, maturation, and remodeling phases. The current study aimed to examine the efficacy of ASPP 092 (a well-characterized diarylheptanoid from...

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Future Pharmacol. - ISSN 2673-9879