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| Navneet Singh; Subhas Chakrabarty; Guangming Liu. |
| Metastases are the cause of 90% of human cancer deaths. Cancer in _situ_ can usually be effectively removed by surgery. Once cancer cells disseminate from the original site and start to circulate in blood, lymph, or other body fluids, the disease becomes almost incurable. Here we show that cancer cells in a non-adherent, 3-dimentional growth pattern are highly drug resistant compared to their adherent counterparts that grow in monolayer, attaching to the wall of tissue culture plates. The non-adherent cancer cells retain the adhering potential and can attach to an appropriate surface to reacquire adherent phenotype. Once the non-adherent cancer cells become attached, they regain drug response, similar to the original adherent cells. A significant increase... |
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Palavras-chave: Cancer; Molecular Cell Biology; Pharmacology. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4488/version/1 |
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| Suaib Luqman. |
| Vetiveria zizanioides L. Nash synonymously known as Chrysopogon zizanioides L. Roberty (Family: Poaceae/Graminae), widely cultivated in the tropical regions of the world, is a miraculous grass native to India first developed for soil and water conservation by the World Bank during mid 1980s. Popularly known as ‘KHUS’, it is the major source of the well-known oil of vetiver, which is used in medicine, cosmetics and in perfumery making agarbattis, soaps, soft drinks, pan masala. Being a major constituent of ‘Rasayana’ in Ayurveda, different parts of the vetiver plant have traditionally been used by the Indian tribes for treating various ailments, diseases and disorders including boils, burns, epilepsy, fever,... |
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Palavras-chave: Cancer; Microbiology; Molecular Cell Biology; Pharmacology. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/6904/version/1 |
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| I. C. Baianu; Jun Guo. |
| Conventional chemical analysis techniques are expensive, time consuming, and often destructive. The non-invasive Near Infrared (NIR) technology was introduced over the last decades for wide-scale, inexpensive chemical analysis of food and crop seed composition (see Williams and Norris, 1987; Wilcox and Cavins, 1995; Buning and Diller, 2000 for reviews of the NIR technique development stage prior to 1998, when Diode Arrays were introduced to NIR). NIR spectroscopic measurements obey Lambert and Beer’s law, and quantitative measurements can be successfully made with high speed and ease of operation. NIR has been used in a great variety of food applications. General applications of products analyzed come from all sectors of the food industry... |
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Palavras-chave: Biotechnology; Chemistry; Genetics & Genomics; Molecular Cell Biology; Pharmacology; Plant Biology. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/6611/version/1 |
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| Bernd Kastenholz; Basil Horst; Jürgen Horst. |
| Commercially available medicinal plant extracts such as Ginkgo biloba leaf extract show no consistent pattern of clinical benefit for people with dementia or cognitive impairment, and have been suggested to be toxic to cells at higher doses. However, medicinal plants may contain other more efficient bioactive molecules apart from the well-known flavonoids and terpenoids. Therapeutic recombinant proteins, plant-made copper chaperone for superoxide dismutase (CCS) derived from Ginkgo biloba leaves, may establish and maintain physiologic Cu levels through restoration and modulation of biometal metabolism in organ systems of younger Alzheimer patients (> 50 years). Medications developed from plant-made copper chaperone proteins may delay progression... |
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Palavras-chave: Neuroscience; Pharmacology. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5907/version/8 |
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| Mauro Iuliano; Gaetano De Tommaso; Liberato Ciavatta; Raffaele Ragone. |
| *Background* 
Based on previous findings, we have estimated that, in injured coronary artery tissue, the low molecular weight disulfides homocystine and cysteine-homocysteine, otherwise identified as oxidized homocysteine equivalents (OHcyE), may achieve a total concentration that is higher than the aqueous solubility of homocystine at room temperature. In order to verify whether or not OHcyE could reach their saturation limit in the vascular tissue, we have measured the solubility of homocystine in physiological-like condition.

*Materials and methods* 
The solubility of homocystine has been measured in aqueous sodium chloride solutions at 37 °C by differential pulse polarography... |
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Palavras-chave: Chemistry; Pharmacology. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1436/version/1 |
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| Dr Sudarsan Prasad. |
| A method based on the Concentration Derivative Product (CDP) is proposed to analyze the thermodynamics of Drug-Receptor interactions. CDP is defined as the product of the fractional inhibition f and it’s concentration derivative. Assuming Michaelis-Menten kinetics, it is shown that for a number of drug-receptor systems (HIV protease, ACE, HMG-CoA, Opioid receptor inhibitors, etc.) f max = 0.333, irrespective of the nature of bonding interactions and Ki. The CDP max = [4 / ( 27 Ki ) ], and gives a measure of the drug potency directly. CDP also gives thermodynamic information about the ratio of the gradients of the inhibitor chemical potential in the free and bound states. |
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Palavras-chave: Pharmacology. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/6006/version/1 |
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| Rodrick Wallace; Deborah Wallace. |
| We apply Tlusty's information-theoretic index theorem analysis of the genetic code to the glycome, using a cognitive paradigm by which external information sources constrain and tune the glycan code error network, in the context of available metabolic energy. The model suggests spontaneous symmetry breaking of the glycan code as a function of metabolic energy intensity, an effect that may be currently present, or embedded in evolutionary trajectory, recording large-scale ecosystem resilience shifts in energy availability such as the aerobic transition. Once focused on a subset of the glycan error code network however, the glycan production machinery must then be regulated by an elaborate cognitive process to ensure that what is produced matches... |
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Palavras-chave: Biotechnology; Developmental Biology; Ecology; Molecular Cell Biology; Pharmacology; Evolutionary Biology. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5932/version/2 |
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| Ramar Perumal R. Samy; Ponnampalam Gopalakrishnakone. |
| Traditional medicine is the synthesis of therapeutic experience of generations of practicing physicians of indigenous systems of medicine. Throughout the history of mankind, many infectious diseases have been treated with herbals. The traditional medicine is increasingly solicited through the tradipractitioners and herbalists in the treatment of infectious diseases. Among the remedies used, plant drugs constitute an important part. A number of scientific investigations have highlighted the importance and the contribution of many plant families i.e. Asteraceae, Liliaceae, Apocynaceae, Solanaceae, Caesalpinaceae, Rutaceae, Piperaceae, Sapotaceae used as medicinal plants. Medicinal plants play a vital role for the development of new drugs (export and import... |
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Palavras-chave: Pharmacology; Plant Biology. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1176/version/1 |
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| Sierra Rayne; Kaya Forest. |
| The KOWWIN and ALOGPS octanol-water partition coefficient (K~ow~) estimation software programs were compared for their capacity to accurately predict log K~ow~ values of 1545 organic compounds on the publicly available Domestic Substances List (DSL) from Environment Canada for which experimental data is available. Approximately equivalent log K~ow~ error statistics were observed between KOWWIN and ALOGPS against available experimental data. Substantial predictive differences were observed between the two programs for 6529 compounds not having experimental K~ow~ data on the Canadian DSL. Predictive differences of up to 40 log K~ow~ units were found between KOWWIN and ALOGPS, and in some cases, the discrepancies were sufficiently large that strongly opposing... |
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Palavras-chave: Chemistry; Pharmacology; Earth & Environment. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3882/version/2 |
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| Manuela G. Neuman; Radu M. Nanau; Lawrence Cohen; Paul A. Hwang. |
| Hypersensitivity syndrome reactions (HSR) to antiepileptic drugs (AED) are associated with severe clinical cutaneous adverse reactions (SCAR).Our aims are: to assess HSRs to AEDs using the in vitro lymphocyte toxicity assay (LTA) in patients who manifested HSRs clinically, to correlate LTA results with the clinical syndrome, to correlate LTA results with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) allele B*1502 (HLA-B*1502) positivity in a Han Chinese-Canadian population, and to determine the cytokine network in this population. HSR patients developed fever and cutaneous eruptions in the presence or absence of organ involvement within 8 weeks of exposure to carbamazepine (CBZ), phenytoin (PHY) or lamotrigine (LTG). Control patients received AEDs without presenting... |
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Palavras-chave: Biotechnology; Genetics & Genomics; Immunology; Pharmacology. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/6477/version/1 |
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| Heng Ma; Jingying Wang; Erin Lane; Lin Leng; Wenkui Wang; Jun Ren; Richard Bucala; Ji Li. |
| An important role for a macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF)-AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signaling pathway in ameliorating myocardial damage following ischemia/reperfusion has been described. An aging-associated reduction in AMPK activity may be associated with a decline in the ability of cardiac cells to activate the MIF-AMPK cascade, thereby resulting in reduced tolerance to ischemic insults. To test this hypothesis, _in vivo_ regional ischemia was induced by occlusion of the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery in young (4-6 months) and aged (24-26 months) mice. The ischemic AMPK activation response was impaired in aged hearts compared to young ones (p<0.01). Notably, cardiac MIF expression in aged hearts was lower... |
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Palavras-chave: Molecular Cell Biology; Pharmacology. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2466/version/1 |
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| M Sandhya rani; Manne Munikumar; Amineni Umamaheswari. |
| Insulin like growth factor-II (IGF2) is a member of IGF family, the main role of IGF2 is as a growth hormone during gestation or fetal development. Ischematic stroke, atherosclerosis and pathological cardiac hypertrophy are associated with low circulating levels of IGF2. 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine increases the activity of IGF2, due to high toxicity of 5aza2’deoxycytidine, some silenced genes are also expressed that cause various cancer diseases. In the present study an in silico approach was used to design the potential activator for IGF2 without side effects to treat cardiovascular diseases. Ligand binding sites were predicted using CASTp for drug target. 361 ligand analogs for 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine were identified through... |
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Palavras-chave: Pharmacology; Bioinformatics. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/6558/version/1 |
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| Priyanka Singh; Farhan Mohammad*; Abhay Sharma. |
| A _Drosophila_ behavioral and transcriptomic model of locomotor plasticity induced by chronic pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) has recently been developed. In this model, two of the five antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) tested, sodium valproate (NaVP) and levetiracetam (LEV), not ethosuximide (ETH), gabapentin (GBP) and vigabatrin (VGB), ameliorate development of chronic PTZ induced locomotor alteration. Transcriptomic effect of the AEDs and PTZ in fly head has been described. Here, we analyze microarray expression profile of heads of flies treated with the convulsants tetraethylammonium chloride (TEA) and pilocarpine hydrochloride (PILO). Strikingly, microarray clustering placed TEA, not PILO, with LEV and NaVP in one group that was distinct from the other one... |
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Palavras-chave: Genetics & Genomics; Neuroscience; Pharmacology; Bioinformatics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3418/version/1 |
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| Juan P. Ogalde; Bernardo T. Arriaza; Elia Soto. |
| Hallucinogenic plants are often regarded as the main source of psychoactive drugs in antiquity to reach deep altered states of consciousness^1,2^. Many researchers believe this was particularly true during the Tiwanaku empire expansion, circa (500-1000 A.D.), along the Atacama Desert of Chile. Highly decorated snuffing tablets and tubes are often found as grave goods during this period^3,4,5,6,7,8^. Until now the type of drugs consumed in this paraphernalia has been unclear. From the modern city of Arica, naturally mummified human bodies with abundant hair provided a unique opportunity to test for hallucinogenic plants consumed in Andean prehistory. Analysis by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry demonstrated the presence of harmine. The... |
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Palavras-chave: Chemistry; Pharmacology. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1368/version/1 |
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