3 results match your criteria: "National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Pharmacy[Affiliation]"

Effects of Interleukin 17A Inhibition on Myocardial Deformation and Vascular Function in Psoriasis.

Can J Cardiol

January 2020

Second Department of Dermatology and Venereology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Attikon Hospital, Athens, Greece.

Background: Interleukin (IL)-17A activity is implicated in psoriasis. We investigated the effects of IL-17A inhibition on vascular and left ventricular (LV) function in patients with psoriasis.

Methods: A total of 150 patients with psoriasis received either an anti-IL-17A agent (secukinumab, n = 50), cyclosporine (n = 50), or methotrexate treatment (n = 50).

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Lowering Interleukin-12 Activity Improves Myocardial and Vascular Function Compared With Tumor Necrosis Factor-a Antagonism or Cyclosporine in Psoriasis.

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging

September 2017

From the Second Department of Cardiology (I.I., G.M., M.V., G.P., H.T., J.P., E.I., J.L.), Second Department of Dermatology and Venereology (E.P., K.T., D.R.), Department of Biological Chemistry (P.M., C.P.), and Department of Clinical Biochemistry (P.M., C.P.), Attikon Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Greece; and Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Pharmacy, Greece (I.A., K.G.).

Background: Interleukin (IL)-12 activity is involved in the pathogenesis of psoriasis and acute coronary syndromes. We investigated the effects of IL-12 inhibition on vascular and left ventricular (LV) function in psoriasis.

Methods And Results: One hundred fifty psoriasis patients were randomized to receive an anti-IL-12/23 (ustekinumab, n=50), anti-tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-α; etanercept, n=50), or cyclosporine treatment (n=50).

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The xanthine permease XanQ of Escherichia coli is a paradigm for transporters of the evolutionarily broad family nucleobase-cation symporter-2 (NCS2) that transport key metabolites or anti-metabolite analogs. Most functionally known members are xanthine/uric acid transporters related to XanQ and belong to a distinct phylogenetic cluster of the family. Here, we present a comprehensive mutagenesis of XanQ based on the identification and Cys-scanning analysis of conserved sequence motifs in this cluster.

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