Cardiovascular & Hematological Agents in Medicinal Chemistry (Formerly Current Medicinal Chemistry - Cardiovascular & Hematological Agents) - Volume 12, Issue 2, 2014

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Recently emerging evidence suggests that cardiomyocyte apoptosis is one of the major pathogenic factors in heart diseases leading to heart failure. Cardiomyocytes undergo apoptosis in response to a wide variety of cellular stresses including protein folding stress at Endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Stressed myocytes elicit an adaptive response referred as Unfold Read More

Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide, affecting millions of men and women every year. Elucidation of key signaling factors and their pathways are critical for understanding and developing novel therapeutic targets for protection of the myocardium from ischemia. EGR-1, an immediate early gene and a zinc finger transcription factor plays critical role in various cardiovascular patho-biological proces Read More

Myocardial infarction (MI) is an insidious disease, gently spreading in developed and developing countries. MI is the consequence of hypoxia in myocardial tissue, which may lead to apoptosis, narcosis and followed by cardiac cell death. Activation of apoptotic pathways during MI is frequently reported in clinical, preclinical and post-mortem studies. Several mediators of apoptosis signalling cascades culminate into MI Read More

Thrombolytic agents play a major role in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Streptokinase is the prominently commercialized thrombolytic drug used for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The later studies on staphylokinase (SaK) showed promising results as an alternative fibrinolytic drug. The present study explores the isolation, production and purification of SaK producing Staphylococcus sp. from milk sa Read More

Fibrinolysis is the ultimate outcome of a cascade of enzymatic reactions in which serine proteases such as plasmin, tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), and urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) are the key players. Plasmin degrades fibrin into soluble fibrin degradation products. The tPA-mediated plasminogen activation is mainly involved in the dissolution of fibrin in the circulating blood whereas the uPA binds to a specific Read More

Dual agonism of glucagon and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptors reduces body weight without inducing hyperglycemia. In addition, coagonists have demonstrated lipid lowering property, which was independent of their anorectic effect. Similarly, GLP-1 modulates cardiovascular function which is favorable for treatment of myocardial injury, cardiac dysfunction, cardiac arrhythmias, endothelial dysfunction, and blo Read More