Current Drug Metabolism - Volume 15, Issue 5, 2014

Co-administration of drugs is a primary cause of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) and a drain on the health care industry costing billions of dollars and reducing quality of life. Drug-Drug Interactions (DDIs) account for as much as 30% of all ADRs. Unfortunately, DDIs are not systematically explored pre-clinically and are difficult to detect in post-marketing drug surveillance. For this reason, the detection and prediction of DDI Read More

As a kind of monooxygenase with the function of catalyzing many reactions involved in drug metabolism and synthesis of cholesterol, steroids and other lipids, CYP2J2 is an important member of the cytochrome P450 superfamily. Located at the endoplasmic reticulum, CYP2J2 is responsible for epoxidation of endogenous arachidonic acid in cardiac tissue to produce cis-epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), which have anti-inflammat Read More

In the drug discovery cascade, metabolism studies should be performed as early as possible to allow an early evaluation of the metabolism profiles of drug candidates. To help design new drug candidates with improved pharmacokinetics, the knowledge of the site of metabolism is necessary. Computational or in silico metabolism approaches can be broadly classified into (i) ligand-based methods, and (ii) structure-based meth Read More

The M2 proton channel is translated by the M gene segment of influenza viruses, and has been adopted as an attractive target for influenza A viruses, on which a series of adamantane-based drugs act. However, recently epidemic influenza viruses have had strong resistant effects against the adamantane-based drugs. In this paper, we combined evolutionary analyses, linkage disequilibrium as well as molecular dynamics si Read More

Plants and their natural components sophisticated with the cornerstone of traditional conventional medicinal system throughout the globe for many years and extend to furnish mankind with latest remedies. Natural Products act as lead molecules for the synthesis of various potent drugs. In the current research a study is conducted on herbal small molecule and their potential binding chemical affinity to the effect or molecules of Read More

Metabolic pools of biological matrices can be extensively analyzed by NMR. Measured data consist of hundreds of NMR signals with different chemical shifts and intensities representing different metabolites’ types and levels, respectively. Relevant predictive NMR signals need to be extracted from the pool using variable selection methods. This paper presents both a review and research on this metabolomics field. Af Read More

Topological Indices (TIs) are numerical parameters useful to carry out Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (QSPR) analysis and predict the effect of perturbations in many types of Complex Networks. This work, focuses on a very powerful class of TIs called Galvez charge transfer indices. First, we review the classic concept and some applications of these indices. Next, we review the Galvez-Markov TIs of order k (GMk), a re Read More