Current Medicinal Chemistry - Volume 22, Issue 9, 2015

The amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) has been associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) for decades. The original amyloid cascade hypothesis declared that the insoluble extracellular plaques were responsible for Aβ toxicity. Later, this hypothesis has been updated and soluble intracellular Aβ forms and their effects within the cell have come into focus. Mitochondrial dysfunction plays an important role in the pathophysiology of AD. Aβ wa Read More

The pharmaceutical industry is struggling with a lack of potential drugs in the pipe line. However, there is still a great opportunity to elaborate interesting scaffolds for medicinal chemistry. Various scaffolds that hold promise are not (or little) studied or are not (or only a few times) described in literature. For the last couple of decades, a wide range of biological activities of benzodiazepine derivatives have been investigated th Read More

Endogenous glucocorticoids exert a diverse array of physiological processes including immunemodulatory or anti-inflammatory responses and play an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Regulation of inflammatory processes by glucocorticoids is controlled in a cytokinehypothalamo- pituitary-adrenal axis feedback circuit and on the local, cell-type and context-specific local regulat Read More

Survivin, a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis proteins family, is highly expressed in most human neoplasms, but its expression is very low or undetectable in terminally differentiated normal tissues. Survivin has been shown to inhibit cancer cell apoptosis and promote cell proliferation. The overexpression of survivin closely correlates with tumor progression and drug resistance. Because of its key role in tumor formation and Read More

A large amount of pesticides are being used now-a-days in crop protection which has resulted in buildup of such harmful compounds in the environment, proving a menace to humans, animal life as well as to soil microbes. Residues of these pesticides have been reported in soil, water and foods. Carbendazim and sulfosulfuron are among the most widely used pesticides for treating fungal diseases and unwanted herbs i Read More

The prostate adenocarcinoma is the cancer with the highest incidence for men in Western countries. Targeting the androgen receptor (AR) by antagonists is used as hormone therapy for prostate cancer (PCa), however, eventually therapy resistance occurs in most patients. In most of these cancer the AR signaling is active and thus AR remains an important drug target. Since many years we are characterizing novel chemical Read More