Beyond erectile dysfunction: cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors for other clinical disorders

A Samidurai, L Xi, A Das… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), an important intracellular second messenger,
mediates cellular functional responses in all vital organs. Phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) is …

Polypharmacology: The science of multi-targeting molecules

A Kabir, A Muth - Pharmacological Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Polypharmacology is a concept where a molecule can interact with two or more targets
simultaneously. It offers many advantages as compared to the conventional single-targeting …

[HTML][HTML] Phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5): Structure-function regulation and therapeutic applications of inhibitors

WS Ahmed, AM Geethakumari, KH Biswas - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) is one of the most well-studied phosphodiesterases
(PDEs) that specifically targets cGMP typically generated by nitric oxide (NO)-mediated …

A histone acetylome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease identifies disease-associated H3K27ac differences in the entorhinal cortex

SJ Marzi, SK Leung, T Ribarska, E Hannon… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We quantified genome-wide patterns of lysine H3K27 acetylation (H3K27ac) in entorhinal
cortex samples from Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases and matched controls using chromatin …

Dual-target inhibitors based on HDACs: novel antitumor agents for cancer therapy

T Liu, Y Wan, Y Xiao, C Xia, G Duan - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Histone deacetylases (HDACs) play an important role in regulating target gene expression.
They have been highlighted as a novel category of anticancer targets, and their inhibition …

From combinations to multitarget‐directed ligands: A continuum in Alzheimer's disease polypharmacology

C Albertini, A Salerno… - Medicinal Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The continued drug discovery failures in complex neurodegenerative diseases, including
Alzheimer's disease (AD), has raised questions about the classical paradigm “one‐drug …

[HTML][HTML] Small molecule therapeutics for tauopathy in Alzheimer's disease: walking on the path of most resistance

L Wang, R Kumar, PF Pavlov, B Winblad - European journal of medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia characterized by presence
of extracellular amyloid plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles composed of tau …

Multitarget therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's disease: Review on emerging target combinations

S Maramai, M Benchekroun, MT Gabr… - BioMed Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Neurodegenerative diseases represent nowadays one of the major health problems.
Despite the efforts made to unveil the mechanism leading to neurodegeneration, it is still not …

Dual inhibitors of histone deacetylases and other cancer-related targets: A pharmacological perspective

Y Gao, H Zhang, F Lirussi, C Garrido, XY Ye… - Biochemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Epigenetic enzymes histone deacetylases (HDACs) are clinically validated anticancer drug
targets which have been studied intensively in the past few decades. Although several drugs …

The development prospection of HDAC inhibitors as a potential therapeutic direction in Alzheimer's disease

S Yang, R Zhang, G Wang, Y Zhang - Translational neurodegeneration, 2017 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease, which is associated with
learning and memory impairment in the elderly. Recent studies have found that treating AD …