Current Pharmaceutical Design - Volume 29, Issue 5, 2023

Antibiotics are commonly used to treat bacterial infections. For many years, antibiotics have been used at sub-therapeutic doses to promote animal growth and misused as prophylactics and metaphylactic on farms. The widespread and improper use of antibiotics has resulted in a serious problem, defined as antibiotic resistance by the World Health Organisation, which is a major public health threat in the 21st century. Bac Read More

Antibiotic resistance can be characterized, in biochemical terms, as an antibiotic’s inability to reach its bacterial target at a concentration that was previously effective. Microbial resistance to different agents can be intrinsic or acquired. Intrinsic resistance occurs due to inherent functional or structural characteristics of the bacteria, such as antibiotic-inactivating enzymes, nonspecific efflux pumps, and permeability barriers. O Read More

Use of antibiotics has dramatically eradicated bacterial infections in humans and animals. However, antibiotic overdose and abuse are responsible for the emergence of so-called multi-drug resistant bacteria. Gut microbiota deserves many functions in the host, and among them, integrity of epithelial barrier and enhancement of protective immune responses are included. There is evidence that antibiotic treatment decreases Read More

Background: Scutellarin exerts anticancer effects on diverse malignancies. However, its function in gastric cancer has not been explored. Objective: This study aimed to examine the anticancer effect and molecular mechanism of scutellarin in gastric cancer. Materials and Methods: Gastric cancer cells were treated with scutellarin and transfected with the Wnt1 overexpression plasmid. Cell viability, proliferation, toxicity, and apopto Read More

Background: At present, there are no effective pharmacologic therapies for attenuating the course of osteoarthritis (OA) in humans and current therapies are geared to mitigating symptoms. Fangfeng decoction (FFD) is a traditional Chinese medicine prescribed for the treatment of OA. In the past, FFD has achieved positive clinical outcomes in alleviating the symptoms of OA in China. However, its mechanism of action has not Read More