Nitrogen containing heterocycles as anticancer agents: a medicinal chemistry perspective

A Kumar, AK Singh, H Singh, V Vijayan, D Kumar… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the major healthcare challenges across the globe. Several anticancer
drugs are available on the market but they either lack specificity or have poor safety, severe …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing autophagy in Alzheimer's disease through drug repositioning

M Eshraghi, M Ahmadi, S Afshar, S Lorzadeh… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the biggest human health threats due to increases in
aging of the global population. Unfortunately, drugs for treating AD have been largely …

Protein posttranslational modifications in health and diseases: Functions, regulatory mechanisms, and therapeutic implications

Q Zhong, X Xiao, Y Qiu, Z Xu, C Chen, B Chong… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) refer to the breaking or generation of covalent
bonds on the backbones or amino acid side chains of proteins and expand the diversity of …

Cardio-oncology: vascular and metabolic perspectives: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

U Campia, JJ Moslehi, L Amiri-Kordestani, A Barac… - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardio-oncology has organically developed as a new discipline within cardiovascular
medicine as a result of the cardiac and vascular adverse sequelae of the major advances in …

Diabetes and cancer

P Vigneri, F Frasca, L Sciacca… - Endocrine-related …, 2009 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Diabetes and cancer are two heterogeneous, multifactorial, severe, and chronic diseases.
Because of their frequency, reciprocal influences–even minor influences–may have a major …

Nilotinib effects in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

F Pagan, M Hebron, EH Valadez… - Journal of …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Background: We evaluated the effects of low doses of the tyrosine kinase Abelson (Abl)
inhibitor Nilotinib, on safety and pharmacokinetics in Parkinson's disease dementia or …

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors-a review on pharmacology, metabolism and side effects

JT Hartmann, M Haap, HG Kopp… - Current drug …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) are effective in the targeted treatment of various
malignancies. Imatinib was the first to be introduced into clinical oncology, and it was …

Nilotinib reverses loss of dopamine neurons and improves motor behavior via autophagic degradation of α-synuclein in Parkinson's disease models

ML Hebron, I Lonskaya… - Human molecular …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Parkinson's disease is a movement disorder characterized by death of dopaminergic
substantia nigra (SN) neurons and brain accumulation of α-synuclein. The tyrosine kinase …

Neuroprotective and therapeutic strategies against Parkinson's disease: recent perspectives

S Sarkar, J Raymick, S Imam - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Parkinsonism is a progressive motor disease that affects 1.5 million Americans and is the
second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's. Typical …

Treatment of Alzheimer's disease: beyond symptomatic therapies

FR Buccellato, M D'Anca, GM Tartaglia… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In an ever-increasing aged world, Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents the first cause of
dementia and one of the first chronic diseases in elderly people. With 55 million people …