Background: Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM), also known as lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, is a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in which the malignant cells produce many macroglobulin proteins. It originates from B cells and develops in the bone marrow, where Wm cells combine to produce distinct types of blood cells, resulting in reduced volumes of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets, making it harder for the body to fight diseases. Chemoimmunotherapy is being used for the clinical management of WM, but new targeted agents, the BTK inhibitor ibrutinib and the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib, have shown significant improvements in patients with relapsed/refractory WM.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is considered the most frequent gynecological endocrine disorder that causes anovulatory infertility. The current study aimed to investigate the potential significance of selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs), an IL-1 inhibitor, in the treatment of letrozole-induced PCOS in rats that satisfied the metabolic and endocrine parameters found in PCOS patients. Letrozole (2 ppm, per orally, p.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The gene interaction network is a set of genes interconnected by functional interactions among the genes. The gene interaction networks are studied to determine pathways and regulatory mechanisms in model organisms. In this research, the enrichment study of bone cancer-causing genes is undertaken to identify several hub genes associated to the development of bone cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOsteoarthritis occurs when protective cartilage of bones worn out. Similarlty, cartilage damage occurs mainly in the pannus cartilage in rheumatoid arthritis. It is a potentially debilitating condition, affecting women two to three times more often than men.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCoronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infection of the respiratory system caused by single standard RNA viruses named as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease appeared as a serious problem and the leading cause of death in human beings throughout the world. The main source of different phytochemicals are plants, which helps in the development of new drugs against various ailments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Researchers worldwide with great endeavor searching and repurpose drugs might be potentially useful in fighting newly emerged coronavirus. These drugs show inhibition but also show side effects and complications too. On December 27, 2020, 80,926,235 cases have been reported worldwide.
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January 2022
Background: Search for new drug targets is becoming imperative these days, given that marketed chemotherapeutic drugs have lost their efficacy against harmful agents because of adaptability to climatic changes and co-evolving vectors to new hosts. In the wake of such a challenge, the prominence of biochemical studies is increasing by way of exploring selective enzymes and investigating their structural and functional properties through biochemical kinetic parameter Km for the application of IC50 using designed drugs. Recently, discovered Adenine Aminohydrolase (EC 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmygdalin a naturally occurring compound, predominantly in the bitter kernels of apricot, almond, apple and other members of Rosaceae family. Though, amygdalin is used as an alternative therapy to treat various types of cancer but its role in cancer pathways has rarely been explored yet. Therefore, present study was intended with the aim to investigate the alleged anti-cancerous effects of amygdalin specifically on PI3K-AKT-mTOR and Ras pathways of cancer in human body.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn rare pandemic of viral pneumonia occurs in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, which is now recognized internationally as Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the etiological agent classified as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it has so far expanded to more than 213 countries/territories worldwide. Our study aims to find the viral peptides of SARS-COV-2 by peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) in order to predict its novel structure and find an inhibitor for each viral peptide.
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December 2021
Unlabelled: Medicinal plants are the basic source of medicinal compounds traditionally used for the treatment of human diseases. Calotropis gigantea is a medicinal plant belonging to the family of Apocynaceae in the plant kingdom and subfamily Asclepiadaceae usually bearing multiple medicinal properties to cure a variety of diseases.
Background: The Peptide Mass Fingerprinting (PMF) identifies the proteins from a reference protein database by comparing the amino acid sequence that is previously stored in the database and identified.
Infect Disord Drug Targets
September 2021
Background: Salmonella typhimurium is a rod-shaped bacteria with a Gram-negative genus, belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae family of microbes, which invades the intestinal lumen of Human. Salmonella typhimurium is a root source, accounting for gastroenteritis in humans as well as in other mammals. Gastroenteritisis associated with Salmonella Typhimurium interacts with the contaminated food and water and spreads to nearby people in the area.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chikungunya an arbovirus, is transmitted to humans by the bite of Aedes mosquito. The virus occurrences have been reported in Southeast Asian countries including Pakistan. Its symptoms include typical febrile illness and arthralgic syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic pain has been defined as the persistence that remained for more than three months. The extent of previous time duration with the normal time of natural healing phase becomes poor and results in reduced life quality and morbidity. Opioids are well recognized therapy for pain management and the clinical prescriptions based on opioids have been defined with increasing implicating behavior among patients suffering with chronic pain.
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December 2020
Background: Huntington's disease is characterized by three side effects, including motor disturbances, psychiatric elements, and intellectual weakness. The onset for HD has nonlinear converse associations with the number of repeat sequences of the polyglutamine mutations, so that younger patients have a tendency for longer repeats length. This HD variation is because of the development of a polyglutamine (CAG) repeats in the exon 1 of the Huntingtin protein.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMathematical modeling is the art of converting problems from the biological area into handy mathematical formulations whose theoretical and numerical analysis provides understandings about the directions and solutions to the particular problem. Recently, the combination therapy treatments have been revealed exceptionally fruitful by using mathematical modeling technique. The human nervous system is composed of axons, covered by the myelin sheath.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEGFRs are a vast group of receptor tyrosine kinases playing an important role in a number of tumors, including lungs, head and neck, breast, and esophageal cancers. A couple of techniques are being used in the process of drug design. Drug repositioning or repurposing is a rising idea that consists of distinguishing modern remedial indications for officially existing dynamic pharmaceutical compounds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling is a supporting tool in drug discovery and improvement. Simulations produced by these models help to save time and aids in examining the effects of different variables on the pharmacokinetics of drugs. For this purpose, Sheila and Peters suggested a PBPK model capable of performing simulations to study a given drug absorption.
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