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Food and Drug Administration; cancer therapy; chemical constituents of plants; drugs; etiology; hepatoma; nutrition; toxicity
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... The most common principal malignant tumor that accounts for ∼80% of cases of liver cancer across the world is hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). It is a multifacetedillness that is caused by several risk factors and often progresses in the context of underlying cirrhosis. It is tremendously difficult and essential for the screening of novel therapeutic medications to establish HCC preclinical models ...
Food and Drug Administration; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; drugs; electrophoresis; labor
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... The stunning rise of biotherapeutics as successful treatments of complex and hard‐to‐treat diseases, in particular cancer, has necessitated the development of a rapid analytical method capable of differentiating these otherwise significantly similar antibody‐based products. The existing methods for product identification pose significant drawbacks in terms of the consumption of time and labor. Her ...
Food and Drug Administration; drugs; industry; landscapes; patient compliance; product development; therapeutics
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... Long-acting injectable (LAI) drug products enable the controlled release of a drug over an extended duration of time to improve the therapeutic effect, safety profile, or administration of an injectable product. The development of generic [505(j)] and differentiated [505(b)(2)] LAI products helps to provide patients and healthcare providers with more treatment options and to reduce overall healthc ...
... In the last decades, liposomes acquired a striking success in the biomedical field thanks to their biocompatibility and drug delivery ability. Many liposomal drug formulations have been already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and used for the treatment of a wide range of pathologies with or without further engineering. Their clinical application requires strict compliance with h ...
Food and Drug Administration; antagonists; dosage forms; drugs; endometriosis; fluorescence; humans; pain; quality control; sodium dodecyl sulfate
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... Ecological, sensitive, fast and economic approaches are the main aspects in quality control of pharmaceutical products. Elagolix (ELG) is an orally non-peptidic GnRH antagonist, recently approved drug by Food and drug administration in 2018 for treatment of pain associated with endometriosis. A green, and sensitive method was developed and validated for determination of ELG based on micellar spect ...
COVID-19 infection; Food and Drug Administration; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; antiviral properties; drugs; innate immunity; lactoferrin
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... SARS-CoV-2 replicates efficiently in the upper airways during the prodromal stage, resulting in environmental viral shedding from patients with active COVID-19 as well as from asymptomatic individuals. There is a need to find pharmacological interventions to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Hypothiocyanite and lactoferrin are molecules of the innate immune system with a large spectrum cidal activi ...
Food and Drug Administration; antineoplastic activity; biosphere; breast neoplasms; drugs; lymphoma; metastasis; therapeutics
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... Worldwide, 19.3 million new cancer cases and almost 10.0 million cancer deaths occur each year. Recently, much attention has been paid to the ocean, the largest biosphere of the earth that harbors a great many different organisms and natural products, to identify novel drugs and drug candidates to fight against malignant neoplasms. The marine compounds show potent anticancer activity in vitro and ...
Food and Drug Administration; X-radiation; cakes; detection; drugs; freeze drying; good manufacturing practices; image analysis; manufacturing; materials; particles; particulates; pharmaceutical industry; reliability; sampling; spectroscopy; ultrasonics
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... Good Manufacturing Practice Regulations, under the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), stipulate that all pharmaceutical products must be free of any contaminants, including, namely, any foreign solid objects. Lyophilization is a common manufacturing method that consists of several steps where foreign materials may enter the product. The presence of unintended particles in freeze drying, which wil ...
Food and Drug Administration; HIV integrase; computer simulation; drugs; integrase inhibitors; ligands; molecular dynamics; nanomedicine
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... The use of methods at molecular scale for the discovery of new potential active ligands, as well as previously unknown binding sites for target proteins, is now an established reality. Literature offers many successful stories of active compounds developed starting from insights obtained in silico and approved by Food and Drug Administration (FDA). One of the most famous examples is raltegravir, a ...
Food and Drug Administration; analytical methods; aqueous solutions; detection limit; detectors; drugs; manufacturing; process control; salt content; sodium chloride
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... In 2004, the Food and Drug Administration established the foundations for the application of process analytical technologies (PAT) in real-time control of the drug manufacturing process, where progress has been essentially directed to solid formulations. In order to enlarge the application of PAT principles to injectable drug products, the development of appropriate manufacturing process control t ...
Food and Drug Administration; Raman spectroscopy; bioreactors; cell culture; drugs; gel chromatography; least squares; mammals; mannose; microchip technology; model validation; pH; prediction; product quality; quality control
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... In-situ Raman spectroscopy provides enhanced capabilities to monitor and control the mammalian cell culture process in real-time, which conforms to the concepts Process Analytical Technology (PAT) and Quality by Design (QbD) raised by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and help us to overcome the challenges encountered in the Pharmaceutical R&D. Product quality control was addressed in FDA’s ...
Felid alphaherpesvirus 1; Food and Drug Administration; drugs; high performance liquid chromatography; ophthalmology; reference standards
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... OBJECTIVE: To evaluate compounded famciclovir suspensions for accuracy, precision, and consistency in drug content. PROCEDURES: Two compounded famciclovir concentrations were evaluated (250 and 400 mg/mL, 30 preparations total from nine 503A compounding pharmacies) with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)‐approved famciclovir tablets as control. Drug quantification via high‐performance liquid ...
... Liver disease has emerged as a healthcare burden because of high hospitalization rates attributed both to steatohepatitis and to severe hepatic toxicity associated with changes of drug exposure. Early detection of hepatic insufficiency is critical to preventing long-term liver damage. The galactose single-point test is recommended by the US FDA as a sensitive means to quantify liver function, yet ...
Food and Drug Administration; acarbose; apoptosis; cell proliferation; cell viability; databases; drug therapy; drugs; fluorescence; gene expression; inflammation; ischemia; low calorie diet; mitochondria; molecular dynamics; necrosis; neurites; neuroprotective effect; protein kinases; protein-protein interactions; stroke
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... The increasing prevalence of ischemic stroke combined with limited therapeutic options highlights the compelling need for continued research into the development of future neuro-therapeutics. Death-Associated Protein Kinase 1 (DAPK1) and p53 protein–protein interaction serve as a signaling point for the convergence of apoptosis and necrosis in cerebral ischemia. In this study, we used an integrate ...
COVID-19 infection; Food and Drug Administration; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; algorithms; calcium; drugs; economic crises; humans; pathogenesis; pathogenicity; taste; therapeutics
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... Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is accountable for the protracted COVID-19 pandemic. Its high transmission rate and pathogenicity led to health emergencies and economic crisis. Recent studies pertaining to the understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection exhibited the indispensable role of ion channels in viral infection inside the host. Moreover ...
Food and Drug Administration; blood serum; chemical species; drugs; epidermal growth factor; humans; liquid chromatography; lung neoplasms; metabolites; tandem mass spectrometry; therapeutics
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... Reports on the therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of second- and third-generation epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) in non-small cell lung cancer patients are limited and are required to improve the safety of EGFR-TKI therapy. Some EGFR-TKIs have active metabolites with similar or higher potency compared with the parent compounds; thus, monitoring the parent co ...
Food and Drug Administration; chemical species; cost effectiveness; drugs; guidelines; oral administration; pharmacokinetics; rats; toxicity
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... The current research aims to develop a rapid, sensitive and robust UPLC-MS/MS method for quantitative estimation of sertraline in rat plasma following oral administration of lipid-based formulation. Different types of isocratic systems were tried for optimization of mobile phase to attain good resolution and appropriate retention time. The multiple reaction monitoring transitions of m/z 306.3 → 15 ...
Food and Drug Administration; cytochrome P-450; drugs; enzymes; humans; polypeptides; renal failure; separation; solid phase extraction; sulfates; tandem mass spectrometry; ultra-performance liquid chromatography
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... Indoxyl sulfate and 3‐carboxy‐4‐methyl‐5‐propyl‐2‐furanpropanoic acid are uremic toxins that accumulate in renal failure and have been reported to decrease the activities of the drug‐metabolizing enzyme cytochrome P450 3A and the drug transporter organic anion transporting polypeptides 1B, respectively. In this study, we established and validated an assay for simultaneous quantification of indoxyl ...
Food and Drug Administration; drugs; enzymes; genes; humans; liver microsomes; mechanism of action; oligonucleotides; pharmacokinetics; therapeutics
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... The potential of antisense oligonucleotides in gene silencing was discovered over 40 years ago, which resulted in the growing interest in their chemistry, mechanism of action, and metabolic pathways. This review summarizes the selected mechanisms of antisense drug action, as well as therapeutics which are to date approved by the Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency. Moreover, ...
... A silk fibroin (silk) hydrogel was prepared by using diglycidyl ether (BDDE), a chemical crosslinker commonly used to generate Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved hyaluronic acid (HA) medical products. The silk/BDDE hydrogels exhibited high elasticity (compressive modulus of 166 ± 15.0 kPa), anti-fatigue properties, and stable structure and mechanical strength in aqueous solution. Chemical ...
Food and Drug Administration; acetylcholinesterase; antagonists; blood-brain barrier; brain; drug therapy; drugs; elderly; memory; nanocarriers; nanomedicine; neurodegenerative diseases; neuroprotective effect; xenobiotics
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... For the past several years, dementia, is one of the predominantly observed groups of symptoms in a geriatric population. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive memory related neurodegenerative disease, for which the current Food and drug administration approved therapeutics are only meant for a symptomatic management rather than targeting the root cause of AD. These therapeutics belong to two c ...
Food and Drug Administration; drugs; ligands; phosphotransferases (kinases); physical chemistry
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... Excipients are major components of drugs and are used to improve drug attributes such as stability and appearance. Excipients approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are regarded as safe for humans in allowed concentrations, but their potential interactions with drug targets have not been investigated systematically, which might influence a drug’s efficacy. Deep learning models hav ...
Food and Drug Administration; Spheniscus demersus; aspergillosis; bird diseases; blood sampling; cats; drugs; high performance liquid chromatography; humans; itraconazole; morbidity; mortality; oral administration; penguins; sample size
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... Aspergillosis is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in captive penguins. Itraconazole, an antifungal drug, is commonly used to treat aspergillosis infections in avian species; however, commercially available human formulations are costly, and studies have shown the effectiveness of compounded formulations to be unreliable. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a veteri ...
Food and Drug Administration; bioactive properties; biocompatibility; breasts; cancer therapy; death; drugs; encapsulation; lungs
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... Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) is a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved polymer used in humans in the forms of resorbable sutures, drug carriers, and bone regeneration materials. Recently, PLGA-based conjugates have been extensively investigated for cancer, which is the second leading cause of death globally. This article presents an account of the literature on PLGA-based conjuga ...
Food and Drug Administration; drugs; moieties; pyridines
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... The nitrogen-bearing heterocycle pyridine in its several analogous forms occupies an important position as a precious source of clinically useful agents in the field of medicinal chemistry research. This privileged scaffold has been consistently incorporated in a diverse range of drug candidates approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). This moiety has attracted increasing attention from ...
Food and Drug Administration; bioadhesives; bioavailability; biodegradability; brain; drugs; gelation; humans; hydrocolloids; sodium alginate; therapeutics; thickeners
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... Eye is one of the susceptible organs of the human body which is associated with several internal organs including the brain. Due to the protective mechanisms of body and ocular barrier properties, the area of ocular drug delivery presents a challenge to pharmaceutical researchers. Alginate is a naturally occurring polysaccharide obtained from marine brown seaweeds and bacterial sources. According ...
Food and Drug Administration; acetonitrile; chrysin; drugs; formic acid; intravenous injection; pharmacokinetics; quality control; rats; standard deviation; tandem mass spectrometry
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... This study presents the development and validation of a fast and simple bioanalytical ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS) method intended for quantifying the anti-inflammatory candidate 5′-methoxynobiletin (5′-MeONB) in rat plasma. Standard of 5′-MeONB was purified from A. conyzoides extract by using preparative HPLC. After a pretreatment of plasma samples wi ...
Food and Drug Administration; biosensors; commercialization; diagnostic techniques; drugs; immunogenicity; manufacturing; oligonucleotides
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... The dominance of antibodies in diagnostics has gradually changed following the discovery of aptamers in the early 1990s. Aptamers offer inherent advantages over traditional antibodies, including higher specificity, higher affinity, smaller size, greater stability, ease of manufacture, and low immunogenicity, rendering them the best candidates for point-of-care testing (POCT). In the past 20 years, ...
Food and Drug Administration; NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (quinone); adenosine; benzodiazepines; cost effectiveness; drugs; pharmaceutical industry; pharmacology; toxicology
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... Secondary pharmacology studies are utilized by the pharmaceutical industry as a cost-efficient tool to identify potential safety liabilities of drugs before entering Phase 1 clinical trials. These studies are recommended by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a part of the Investigational New Drug (IND) application. However, despite the utility of these assays, there is little guidance on wh ...
... Nowadays, almost 300 essential oils (EOs) are commonly traded in the world market, with a prediction to be worth over $14 billion in 2024. EOs are natural preservatives for food products in order to reduce the activity of pathogenic microorganisms, therefore their use as an antioxidant or a preservative in foods has been encouraged. They are not only considered as antimicrobial or flavoring agents ...
... Bacterial Vaginosis (BV) is a complex polymicrobial infection of vagina that shifts the paradigms of vaginal flora from lactobacilli to opportunistic pathogens. BV is catagorized by greyish white discharge, pH greater than 4.5. It results in the preterm labor, abortion, pelvic inflammatory disorders, post cesarean infections. BV is associated with Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) or immune def ...
Food and Drug Administration; carbon; drugs; engineering; gel chromatography; markets; molecular weight; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; polystyrenes; quality control; solubility; solvents; stable isotopes
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... Poly (lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) has been used for making injectable, long-acting depot formulations for the last three decades. An in depth understanding of PLGA polymers is critical for development of depot formulations as their properties control drug release kinetics. To date, about 20 PLGA-based formulations have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) through new drug ...
Food and Drug Administration; active sites; antibodies; bone marrow; crystal structure; drugs; epitopes; glycoproteins; mechanism of action; myeloma; research
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... Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer characterized by the plasma cell malignancy in the bone marrow, resulting in the destruction of bone tissue. Recently, the US FDA approved two antibody drugs for the treatment of multiple myeloma, daratumumab and isatuximab, targeting CD38, a type II transmembrane glycoprotein highly expressed in plasma cells and multiple myeloma cells. Here, we report the crysta ...
Food and Drug Administration; analytical chemistry; desorption; drugs; ionization; ligands; mass spectrometry; pharmacodynamics; pharmacokinetics
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... Desorption/ionization (DI) methods play an important role among the panel of mass spectrometric (MS) approaches for the rapid and sensitive quantification of drugs from the surface of solid samples. The possibility to implement these approaches for pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic investigations in early phase clinical trials depends on the ability to validate quantification assays according to reg ...
Food and Drug Administration; Moringa oleifera; bitterness; computer software; dietary supplements; drugs; hardness; tensile strength; toxicity
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... Moringa oleifera leaves were selected as a model due to their hundreds of health benefits. On the other hand, the powder of these leaves has exhibited poor flowability, low tensile strength, bitter taste, poor dissolution rate, and lack of information regarding dosage. These are the common hurdles and limitations in the adaptation of herbal-based medications. Therefore, a comprehensive study was p ...
Food and Drug Administration; HIV infections; Human immunodeficiency virus 1; antiretroviral agents; clinical trials; drugs; mechanism of action; morbidity; mortality; multiple drug resistance; patients
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... Application of highly active antiretroviral drugs (ARDs) effectively reduces morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected individuals. However, the emergence of multiple drug-resistant strains has led to the increased failure of ARDs, thus calling for the development of anti-HIV drugs with targets or mechanisms of action different from those of the current ARDs. The first peptide-based HIV entry inhibi ...
Ayurvedic medicine; Food and Drug Administration; alanine transaminase; albumins; anorexia; aspartate transaminase; bilirubin; clinical trials; death; drug therapy; drugs; elasticity imaging techniques; fatty liver; hardness; histology; indigestion; liver; liver function
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... Non Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is the most severe histological form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). It progress to cirrhosis in 20% population and 40% will have death due to liver pathology. Still consensus on pharmacotherapy is yet to be evolved and till date there is no US FDA approved drug for NASH. Ayurveda formulation Katukyadi churna is explored in the possible management ...
Food and Drug Administration; absorption; antioxidant activity; bioactive compounds; bioavailability; citrus fruits; cytotoxicity; differential scanning calorimetry; drugs; health services; hesperetin; light scattering; micelles; oral administration; particle size; pharmacokinetics; phosphatidylcholines; polyethylene glycol; rats; solvents; water solubility
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... Hesperetin, an abundant bioactive component of citrus fruits, is poorly water-soluble, resulting in low oral bioavailability. We developed new formulations to improve the water solubility, antioxidant activity, and oral absorption of hesperetin. Two nano-based formulations were developed, namely hesperetin-TPGS (D-α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate) micelles and hesperetin-phosphatidy ...
Food and Drug Administration; drugs; manufacturing; microparticles; pharmacokinetics; polymers; quality control
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... Injectable long-acting formulations, specifically poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) based systems, have been used to deliver drugs systemically for up to 6 months. Despite the benefits of using this type of long-acting formulations, the development of clinical products and the generic versions of existing formulations has been slow. Only about two dozen formulations have been approved by the U.S. ...
Brassicaceae; Food and Drug Administration; adjuvants; alcohol drinking; black currants; carcinoma; death; drug therapy; drugs; etiology; fatty liver; garlic; ginger; hepatitis B; hepatoma; immunotherapy; inflammation; liver; metastasis; nutrition; oxidative stress; plums; pomegranates; toxicity; turmeric
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... The most common tumor linked with elevated death rates is considered the hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), sometimes called the malignant hepatoma. The initiation and progression of HCC are triggered by multiple factors like long term alcohol consumption, metabolic disorders, fatty liver disease, hepatitis B and C infection, age, and oxidative stress. Sorafenib is the merely US Food and Drug Adminis ...
Food and Drug Administration; databases; drugs; humans; markets; models; silicone; thermoplastics; vagina
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... Drug-releasing vaginal rings are torus-shaped devices, generally fabricated from thermoplastic polymers or silicone elastomers, used to administer pharmaceutical drugs to the human vagina for periods typically ranging from three weeks to twelve months. One of the most important product performance tests for vaginal rings is the in vitro release test. Although it has been fifty years since a vagina ...
Food and Drug Administration; adverse effects; algorithms; artificial intelligence; cats; clinical trials; death; dogs; drugs; health services; medicine; patients; pets; public health
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... Drug-associated adverse events cause approximately 30 billion dollars a year of added health care expense, along with negative health outcomes including patient death. This constitutes a major public health concern. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires drug labeling to include potential adverse effects for each newly developed drug product. With the advancement in incidence of advers ...
COVID-19 infection; Food and Drug Administration; Gibbs free energy; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; computer simulation; computer software; drugs; financial economics; molecular dynamics; therapeutics
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... Novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2continues tospread rapidly worldwide and causing serious health and economic loss. In the absence of any effective treatment, various in-silico approaches are being explored towards the therapeutic discovery against COVID-19. Targeting multiple key enzymes of SARS-CoV-2 with a single potential drug could be an important in-silico strategy to tackle the therapeutic emerg ...
Food and Drug Administration; drugs; endotoxins; humans; medicine; therapeutics
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... Implantable drug-delivery microdevices are a key diagnostic and therapeutic tool in medicine with increasing applications. Preparation of such combination drug-delivery devices for human studies requires the development of methods to ensure sterility, safety and integrity on both the device and drug side. Despite growing applications for these technologies, there has been a lack of clear methodolo ...
angiogenesis; blood; drugs; high performance liquid chromatography; immunity; inflammation; interleukin-17; interleukin-23; keratinocytes; mice; pharmacology; psoriasis; quality control; traditional medicine
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... Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease mediated by immunity. Our pre-clinical studies have proved that QZLX mixture can improve patients' clinical symptoms with psoriasis without noticeable adverse reactions. In a psoriasis-like mouse model induced by imiquimod, QZLX mixture has been shown to alleviate epidermal inflammation and inhibit the hyperproliferation of keratinocytes. However, i ...
Food and Drug Administration; biocompatibility; biodegradability; blood; captive animals; drug delivery systems; drugs; fish; gonadotropin-releasing hormone; half life; luteinizing hormone; polymers; reproduction; reproductive disorders; semen
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... Many fish species display some form of reproductive disorder in captivity. Captive fish reared in conditions outside the natural spawning environment show a failure of the pituitary to release the maturational gonadotropin luteinizing hormone thus necessitating administration of the hormone to induce spawning. A controlled sustained-release delivery system can conquer the issue of short half-life ...
Alzheimer disease; Food and Drug Administration; cognition; disease progression; drug development; drugs; etiology; memory; neurodegenerative diseases; pathogenesis; therapeutics
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... Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder and is identified as the most common cause for dementia. Despite huge global economic burden and the impact on the close family of the patients, there is no definitive cure and thus, improved treatment methods are of need. While memory and cognition are severely affected in AD, exact etiology is yet unknown. The β-Amyloid plaque formation an ...
Echinococcus multilocularis; Food and Drug Administration; GRAS substances; albendazole; antiparasitic properties; bioavailability; carbonates; cosmetics; drug therapy; drugs; echinococcosis; gastronomy; industry; lipophilicity; menthol; patients; pentanols; pharmacokinetics; tapeworms; toxicity; zoonoses
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... Alveolar echinococcosis is one of the most dangerous parasitic zoonoses. This disease, widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, is caused by the metacestode stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. All surgical and non-surgical patients should perform chemotherapy with benzimidazoles, mainly with albendazole. However, the efficacy of albendazole is variable due to its deficient pha ...
Food and Drug Administration; cattle; data collection; drug resistance; drugs; feedlots; humans; medicine; public health; swine; veterinary medicine; zoonoses
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... Antimicrobial drug use can contribute to the emergence of antimicrobial drug‐resistant organisms; therefore, judicious use of this important category of drugs is critical in both human and animal medicine to slow the development and spread of resistance. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is committed to advancing efforts to implement good antimicrobial ...
Danio rerio; Food and Drug Administration; bioactive compounds; breast neoplasms; breasts; cancer therapy; chemical structure; coculture; drugs; embryotoxicity; fractionation; humans; ligands; metastasis; mice; models; molecular biology; phenotype; secretion; teratogenicity; xenotransplantation; China
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... Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women and metastasis is the leading cause of breast cancer-related deaths. Our previous studies have shown that XIAOPI formula, a newly approved drug by the State Food and Drug Administration of China (SFDA), can dramatically inhibit breast cancer metastasis by modulating the tumor-associated macrophages/C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 1 (TAMs/CXCL1) pat ...