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Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces
November 2024
Key Lab of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, PR China. Electronic address:
Transdermal drug delivery (TDD) has attracted widespread attention because of the advantage of its non-invasive nature, easy self-administration, and low side effects. The key to this pathway of drug delivery is how to overcome the barrier of the lipid matrix in the stratum corneum (SC). In this work, molecular dynamics (MD) were employed to investigate the adsorption of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) on the SC, and the effects of three different chemical permeation enhancers (ethanol (ETOH), carveol (CAV), and borneol (BOR)) on the SC were analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndocr Metab Immune Disord Drug Targets
September 2024
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan.
Objectives: Patients with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are prone to disruptive behaviors and aggression. A typical antipsychotics are used to treat these difficult ASD conditions. Several psychotropic drugs have been linked to hypothyroidism.
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January 2024
State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
The hypothalamus plays a fundamental role in controlling lipid metabolism through neuroendocrine signals. However, there are currently no available drug targets in the hypothalamus that can effectively improve human lipid metabolism. In this study, we found that the antimalarial drug artemether (ART) significantly improved lipid metabolism by specifically inhibiting microglial activation in the hypothalamus of high-fat diet-induced mice.
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October 2023
Sanofi, Rare and Neurologic Diseases, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address:
Iron accumulation has been associated with the etiology and progression of multiple neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). The exact role of iron in these diseases is not fully understood, but an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death called ferroptosis could be key. Although there is substantial preclinical and clinical evidence that ferroptosis plays a role in NDD, there are still questions regarding how to target ferroptosis therapeutically, including which proteins to target, identification of clinically relevant biomarkers, and which patients might benefit most.
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October 2023
Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Human 12-lipoxygenase (12-LOX) is a key enzyme involved in platelet activation, and the regulation of its activity has been targeted for the treatment of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. Despite the clinical importance of 12-LOX, the exact mechanisms by which it affects platelet activation are not fully understood, and the lack of structural information has limited drug discovery efforts. In this study, we used single-particle cryo-electron microscopy to determine high-resolution structures (1.
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