Neuropsychiatric medications are often designed to have affinity for multiple ligand-binding sites across different receptor types to increase therapeutic efficacy. In a recent paper in Cell, Chen and colleagues imple...
supported by the Walter Benjamin and Research Grant Programs of the German Research Foundation(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,DFG,Germany,#446812474,#504079349[PANABC])(to SMS),the DFG(#437446827);the Research Program of the University Medical Center Gottingen(to MR)。
Introductory comments:The identification and validation of disease-modifying proteins are fundamental aspects in drug development.However,the m ultifactority of n eurodegen era tive diseases poses a real challenge for...
funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China(82192912,82074176,81801935,and 82272187);Innovation Team and Talents Cultivation Program of National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine(ZYYCXTD-C-202009);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA12050306).
Sepsis,a life-threatening health issue,lacks effective medicine targeting the septic response.In China,treatment combining the intravenous herbal medicine XueBiJing with conventional procedures reduces the 28-day mort...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China 81872915(MWI),82073904(MW),82121005(DY),81973373(DY),21704064(QZ);National Science&Technology Major Project of China-Key New Drug Creation and Manufacturing Program 2018ZX09735-001(MW),2018ZX09711002-002-005(DY);National Science&Technology Major Project of China-Innovation 2030 for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Technology 2021ZD0203400(QZ);the National Key Basic Research Program of China 2018YFA0507000(MW);Novo Nordisk-CAS Research Fund grant NNCAS-2017-1-CC(DY)and SA-SIBS Scholarship Program(IDY).
The paradigm of one drug against multiple targets,known as unimolecular polypharmacology,offers the potential to improve efficacy while overcoming some adverse events associated with the treatment.This approach is bes...
financially supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFF1201400);National Natural Science Foundation of China(21575128,81773632,22173118);Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(LZ19H300001,China);Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province(2021RC4011,China)。
Prediction of the interactions between small molecules and their targets play important roles in various applications of drug development,such as lead discovery,drug repurposing and elucidation of potential drug side ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(No.81770809).
Diabetes mellitus(DM)is a progressive metabolic disease characterized by chronic hyperglycemia and caused by different degree of pancreatic islet dysfunction and/or insulin resistance(IR).Long course DM can lead to a ...
With the goal of suggesting dual inhibitors of HIV reverse transcriptase (RT) and integrase (IN), herein we report the molecular docking of an initial set of 556 compounds related to the pyridinone class. Docking with...
Identifying potential protein targets for a small-compound ligand query is crucial to the process of drug development. However, there are tens of thousands of proteins in human alone, and it is almost impossible to sc...
The human central nervous system(CNS)has a markedly poor capacity for regenerating its axons following injury.This appears to be due to two main causes:1)a developmentally regulated decline in regenerative capacit...
support of the Faculty of Medicine,University of Chile
The multifactorial origin of most chronic disorders of the brain, including schizophrenia, has been well accepted. Consequently, pharmacotherapy would require multitargeted strategies. This contrasts to the majority o...