Drug targets for COVID-19 therapeutics: Ongoing global efforts

A Saxena - Journal of biosciences, 2020 - Springer
The current global pandemic COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has already
inflicted insurmountable damage both to the human lives and global economy. There is an …

Opportunities and challenges in application of artificial intelligence in pharmacology

M Kumar, TPN Nguyen, J Kaur, TG Singh, D Soni… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - Springer
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a machine science that can mimic human behaviour like
intelligent analysis of data. AI functions with specialized algorithms and integrates with deep …

Computer-aided drug design of novel derivatives of 2-amino-7, 9-dihydro-8H-purin-8-one as potent Pan-Janus JAK3 inhibitors

A Faris, IM Ibrahim, O Al Kamaly, A Saleh, M Elhallaoui - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains one of the most prevalent autoimmune diseases
worldwide. Janus kinase 3 (JAK3) is an essential enzyme for treating autoimmune diseases …

[HTML][HTML] De novo transcriptome assembly and identification of G-Protein-Coupled-Receptors (GPCRs) in two species of monogenean parasites of fish

V Caña-Bozada, FN Morales-Serna, EJ Fajer-Ávila… - Parasite, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genomic resources for Platyhelminthes of the class Monogenea are scarce, despite the
diversity of these parasites, some species of which are highly pathogenic to their fish hosts …

Precision medicine review: rare driver mutations and their biophysical classification

R Nussinov, H Jang, CJ Tsai, F Cheng - Biophysical reviews, 2019 - Springer
How can biophysical principles help precision medicine identify rare driver mutations? A
major tenet of pragmatic approaches to precision oncology and pharmacology is that driver …

Schistosoma mansoni α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase (SmNAGAL) regulates coordinated parasite movement and egg production

BJ Hulme, KK Geyer, JE Forde-Thomas… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
α-galactosidase (α-GAL) and α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase (α-NAGAL) are two glycosyl
hydrolases responsible for maintaining cellular homeostasis by regulating glycan substrates …

Drug repurposing and de novo drug discovery of protein kinase inhibitors as new drugs against schistosomiasis

B Pereira Moreira, MHW Weber, S Haeberlein… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease affecting more than 200 million people
worldwide. Chemotherapy relies on one single drug, praziquantel, which is safe but …

Breaking bad: necroptosis in the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal diseases

JV Patankar, M Bubeck, MG Acera… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
A delicate balance between programmed cell death and proliferation of intestinal epithelial
cells (IEC) exists in the gut to maintain homeostasis. Homeostatic cell death programs such …

Drug–disease association prediction with literature based multi-feature fusion

H Kang, L Hou, Y Gu, X Lu, J Li, Q Li - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Exploring the potential efficacy of a drug is a valid approach for drug
development with shorter development times and lower costs. Recently, several …

Schistosomiasis drug discovery in the era of automation and artificial intelligence

JT Moreira-Filho, AC Silva, RF Dantas… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by trematode worms of the genus
Schistosoma and affects over 200 million people worldwide. The control and treatment of …