Current Medicinal Chemistry - Volume 30, Issue 39, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has claimed millions of lives worldwide in the past two years. Fatalities among the elderly with underlying cardiovascular disease, lung disease, and diabetes have particularly been high. A bibliometrics analysis on author’s keywords was carried out, and searched for possible links between various coronavirus studies over the past 50 years, and integrated th Read More

Background: Long chain non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) are a kind of transcript that is around 200 nucleotides long and can engage in life activities via epigenetic, transcriptional, and post-transcriptional regulation. One of the key members of lncRNAs, long stress-induced noncoding transcripts 5 (LSINCT5), is localized at Chr 5p and has been reported to be abnormally expressed in a range of cancers. We present a comprehensive Read More

The reproductive system is extremely vulnerable to chemotherapy drugs, ionizing radiation, toxic heavy metals, chemicals, and so on. These harmful stimuli are able to induce oxidative damage, apoptosis, inflammation, and other mechanisms in the reproductive organs, leading to different adverse reproductive effects. It was shown that using medicinal plants (medicinal herbs) can be an effective medication for the Read More

Although the burden of malaria has been successfully controlled globally, this disease remains a major public health issue. To date, neither existing drugs nor vaccines against malaria are sufficient in eliminating malaria worldwide. To achieve the eradication of malaria by 2040, effective interventions targeting all Plasmodium species are urgently needed. As the cornerstone of vaccine design, immune memory serves a si Read More

Background: Coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19) is an infection with high morbidity and mortality. Obesity and low body mass index (BMI) have both been linked to severe COVID-19, but recent studies have failed to confirm these associations. Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between BMI and disease progression in hospitalised patients with COVID-19. Methods: We performed a monocentric, retros Read More

Background: The representative symptom of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has mainly been mentioned to be misfolding of amyloid proteins, such as amyloid-beta (Aβ) and tau protein. In addition, the neurological pathology related to neuroinflammatory signaling has recently been raised as an important feature in AD. Currently, numerous drug candidates continue to be investigated to reduce symptoms of AD, including amyloid Read More

Background: Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is an endotoxin that causes inflammation, and the content of LPS increases gradually during the process of aging. Whether the response of the colon to LPS stimulation will increase with age is yet unknown. Objective: The study investigated the effects of LPS stimulation on the colon of adult and aging rats. Method: 43 healthy male SD rats were divided into 4 different groups: adult group a Read More