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Hepatitis B: New Approaches for Antiviral Chemotherapy (1996)

Progress in the development of effective therapeutic regimes for chronic hepatitis B has been slow, mainly due to the lack of promising lead compounds and useful assays for high throughput in-vitro screening. Nucleoside analogue chemotherapy has targeted the inhibition of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) polymerase and achieved inhibition of this unique viral enzyme. The persistence and resistance of HBV covalently closed circular (or supercoiled) DNA, the key replicative intermediate and sole transcriptional template, to existing treatments also poses challenges for the effective development of antiviral chemotherapy. In spite of these difficulties, the process of viral DNA replication, as well as supercoiled DNA generation and processing, is now being elucidated at the molecular level, presenting unique opportunities for new drug targeting and design. This review attempts to highlight these new approaches to the development of treatment regimes for this important disease.
Immunomodulatory effects of low dose chemotherapy and perspectives of its combination with immunotherapy (2012)

Given that cancer is one of the main causes of death worldwide, many efforts have been directed toward discovering new treatments and approaches to cure or control this group of diseases. Chemotherapy is the main treatment for cancer; however, a conventional schedule based on maximum tolerated dose (MTD) shows several side effects and frequently allows the development of drug resistance. On the other side, low dose chemotherapy involves antiangiogenic and immunomodulatory processes that help host to fight against tumor cells, with lower grade of side effects. In this review, we present evidence that metronomic chemotherapy, based on the frequent administration of low or intermediate doses of chemotherapeutics, can be better than or as efficient as MTD. Finally, we present some data indicating that noncytotoxic concentrations of antineoplastic agents are able to both up-regulate the immune system and increase the susceptibility of tumor cells to cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Taken together, data from the literature provides us with sufficient evidence that low concentrations of selected chemotherapeutic agents, rather than conventional high doses, should be evaluated in combination with immunotherapy.
Plasma First in the Field for Postinjury Hemorrhagic Shock (2013)

Hemorrhage is the most preventable cause of death in civilian and military trauma, and despite tremendous advances in patient transport in the field, survival within the first hour has changed little over the past 40 years. The pathogenesis of trauma-induced coagulopathy is multifactorial, but most authorities believe there is an early depletion of clotting factors. While fresh frozen plasma delivered early in the emergency department has been shown to be beneficial, the rapid onset of trauma-induced coagulopathy suggests advancing this concept to the scene may improve patient outcome. The purpose of this report was to describe the rationale and design of a randomized trial to test the hypothesis that prehospital "plasma-first" resuscitation will benefit the critically injured patient. The rationale includes the possibility that plasma-first resuscitation may be advantageous beyond direct effects on clotting capacity. The study design is based on a ground ambulance system that allows rapid prehospital thawing of frozen plasma.
The Value, Qualification, and Regulatory Use of Surrogate End Points in Drug Development (2009)

The acceptance and use of either surrogate end points (SEPs) or efficient clinical end points are associated with greater and more rapid availability of new medicines as compared with disease situations for which clinical end points are inefficient or no surrogates exist. This review of the history of the development, qualification, and acceptance of key SEPs shows that both successes and failures had three key characteristics: (i) apparent biologic plausibility, (ii) prognostic value for the outcome of the disease, and (iii) an association between changes in the SEP and changes in outcome with therapeutic intervention--the three factors recommended for SEPs in the International Conference on Harmonisation's "Statistical Principles for Clinical Trials." We recommend that only prognostic value be an absolute prerequisite for surrogacy, because therapeutic interventions may not exist a priori, and biological plausibility can be subjective. Ideally, all three of these factors would be traded off against one another in a consistent and transparent risk-management process.
Striking Effect of Hydroxamic Acid Substitution on the Phosphodiesterase Type 4 (PDE4) and TNFα Inhibitory Activity of Two Series of Rolipram Analogues:  Implications for a New Active Site Model of PDE4 (1998)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVLetterNEXTStriking Effect of Hydroxamic Acid Substitution on the Phosphodiesterase Type 4 (PDE4) and TNFα Inhibitory Activity of Two Series of Rolipram Analogues: Implications for a New Active Site Model of PDE4†Edward F. Kleinman, Erin Campbell, Lisa A. Giordano, Victoria L. Cohan, Teresa H. Jenkinson, John B. Cheng, John T. Shirley, E. Roy Pettipher, Eben D. Salter, Tessa A. Hibbs, Frank M. DiCapua, and John BordnerView Author Information Central Research Division, Pfizer Inc., Groton, Connecticut 06340 Cite this: J. Med. Chem. 1998, 41, 3, 266–270Publication Date (Web):January 13, 1998Publication History Received9 October 1997Published online13 January 1998Published inissue 1 January 1998https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jm970685mhttps://doi.org/10.1021/jm970685mrapid-communicationACS PublicationsCopyright © 1998 American Chemical SocietyRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views592Altmetric-Citations49LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-AlertscloseSupporting Info (1)»Supporting Information Supporting Information SUBJECTS:Aromatic compounds,Genetics,Inhibition,Inhibitors,Metals Get e-Alerts
Transport of Drugs Across the Blood-Brain Barrier by Nanoparticles (2002)

Poly(butyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticles coated with polysorbate 80 (Tween 80) enable the transport of a number of drugs across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) into the brain following intravenous injection. These drugs include the hexapeptide endorphin dalargin, the dipeptide kytorphin, loperamide, tubocurarine, doxorubicin, and the NMDAreceptor antagonists MRZ 2 / 576 and MRZ 2 / 596. After binding to the polysorbate-coated particles, dalargin as well as loperamide exhibited a dose-dependent antinociceptive effect after i.v. injection as determined by the tail-flick as well as by the hot plate test. This effect was accompanied by a Straub reaction and was totally inhibited by pretreatment with naloxone, indicating that it is a central effect and not peripheral analgesia. After brain perfusion of rats with tubocurarine bound to the polysorbate-coated nanoparticles epileptic spikes were observable in the EEC of the rats but not with the controls. Other very interesting results were obtained with the NMDA-receptor antagonists MRZ 2 / 576 and MRZ 2 / 596. The very short anticonvulsive response of MRZ 2 / 576 was increased from below 30 to 300 min, and the transport across the BBB of the non-penetrating MRZ 2 / 596 was enabled after i.v. injection. Intravenous injection of polysorbate 80-coated nanoparticles loaded with doxorubicin (5 mg / kg) achieved very high brain levels of 6 μg / g brain tissue while all the controls, including uncoated nanoparticles and doxorubicin solutions mixed with polysorbate, did not reach the analytical detection limit of 0.1 μg / g. Moreover, experiments with the extremely aggressive glioblastoma 101 / 8 transplanted intracranially showed a long term survival for 6 months of 40 % of the rats after intravenous injection of the polysorbate 80-coated nanoparticle preparation (3 x 1.5 mg / kg). The surviving animals were sacrificed after this time and showed total remission by histological investigation. Untreated controls died within 10 - 20 days, the animals in the six other control groups between 10 - 50 days. The mechanism of the drug transport across the blood-brain barrier with the nanoparticles requires further elucidation. The most likely mechanism at present appears to be endocytotic uptake by the brain capillary endothelial cells followed either by release of the drugs in these cells and diffusion into the brain or by transcytosis. Endocytotic uptake of the polysorbate-coated nanoparticles but not of uncoated particles has been shown with bovine, murine, rat, and human brain capillary endothelial cells. After injection of the nanoparticles, apolipoprotein E (apo E) or apo B adsorption of the particles seems to occur as already shown in vitro, followed by interaction with the LDL receptor and endocytotic uptake. This scenario is rather likely since both apolipoproteins can interact with the LDL-receptor. They may then be taken up like the naturally occurring lipoprotein particles. Keywords: Blood-Brain Barrier, Nanoparticles
Cardiac-Directed Adenylyl Cyclase Expression Improves Heart Function in Murine Cardiomyopathy (1999)

Increasing myocardial ACVI content in cardiomyopathy restores cAMP-generating capacity and improves cardiac function and responsiveness to betaAR stimulation.
Quantitative PET imaging of tumor integrin alphavbeta3 expression with 18F-FRGD2. (2006)

The dimeric RGD peptide tracer (18)F-FRGD2, with high integrin specificity and favorable excretion profile, may be translated into the clinic for imaging integrin alpha(v)beta(3) expression. The binding potential calculated from simplified tracer kinetic modeling such as the Logan plot appears to be an excellent indicator of tumor integrin density.
TRAUMA-HEMORRHAGE CAUSES PROLONGED DEPRESSION IN CELLULAR IMMUNITY (1995)

A number of clinical studies have shown that multiple and severe trauma causes immunosuppression and increases the susceptibility to sepsis. However, because there is a close temporal relationship between trauma and hemorrhage in humans, it is difficult to dissociate the effects of tissue trauma versus hemorrhage on immunity in the clinical setting. Studies in mice have shown that simple hemorrhage per se as well as laparotomy alone produces a marked depression in cellular immunity and no difference was seen in the extent of depression at 2 h if these two insults were combined. Nonetheless, it remains unknown whether the combined model of trauma-hemorrhage produces a more protracted depression in immune function. To study this, 5 days after either sham operation, laparotomy (i.e. trauma), hemorrhage alone (35 mmHg for 1 h, followed by resuscitation), or the combination of laparotomy and hemorrhage, mice (C3H/HeN) were sacrificed, after which splenocyte and peritoneal macrophage cultures were established. The proliferative capacity of the splenocytes, as well as their ability to release IL-2 and IL-3, was markedly decreased in the trauma-hemorrhage animals but was normal in the other groups. Furthermore, the release of IL-6 by peritoneal macrophages from animals that underwent trauma-hemorrhage was also significantly depressed. These results support the concept that traumatic injury in the form of a midline laparotomy combined with hemorrhage produces a more protracted impairment in cell-mediated immunity than laparotomy or hemorrhage alone.
Recombinant cyclin E expression activates proliferation and obviates surface attachment of chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells in protein‐free medium (1995)

Exogenous growth factors normally required in cell culture activate cell proliferation via the molecular controls of cell-cycle progression. Highly differing influences of mitogenic stimulation of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells by insulin and basic fibroblast growth factor(bFGF) have been clearly observed in a defined protein-free medium. CHO K1 cells stimulated only with insulin grow with flattened cell morphology and extensive cell-cell contact, whereas stimulation with only bFGF or bFGF plus insulin results in loss of cell-cell contact and a transformed and rounded-up morphology. Compared with insulin-stimulated cells, bFGF-stimulated cells exhibit a relatively long G1, and short S phase, and contain higher levels of cyclin E. Observation of elevated levels of cyclin E in wild-type CHO K1 cells mitogenically stimulated by basic fibroblast growth factor motivated transfection of these cells by a cyclin E expression vector. These transfectants grew rapidly in protein-free basal medium and had similar cyclin b levels, distributions of nuclear cell-cycle times, and cell morphologies as bFGF-stimutated CHO K1 culture. Metabolic engineering of cell-cycle regulation thus bypasses exogenous growth factor requirements, addressing a priority objective in economical, reproducible, and safe biopharmaceutical manufacturing. (c) 1995 John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Path-based scheduling for synthesis (1991)

A novel path-based scheduling algorithm is presented. It yields solutions with the minimum number of control steps, taking into account arbitrary constraints that limit the amount of operations in each control step. The result is a finite state machine that implements the control. Although the complexity of the algorithm is proportional to the number of paths in the control-flow graph, it is shown to be practical for large examples with thousands of nodes.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>
Spatial speckle correlometry in applications to tissue structure monitoring (1997)

Asymptotic behavior of temporal autocorrelation functions of speckle intensity fluctuations induced by tissue scanning with a focused probe beam is experimentally studied for the transition from a single-scattering to a multiple-scattering mode. Such parameters as the exponential factor (or the Hurst coefficient) and the Hausdo dimension are proposed for the characterization and the visualization of the variations of the studied tissues' optical properties in generalized form. We studied reversible transition between various scattering modes stimulated by the application of certain chemical agents to the human sclera samples using speckle intensity correlation analysis; corresponding results are presented. The possibilities of the scattering structures imaging with local estimations of the exponential factor of speckle intensity fluctuations are shown in in vitro experiments with samples of human skin epidermis.
Synthetic Polyglutamylation of Dual-Functional MTX Ligands for Enhanced Combined Cytotoxicity of Poly(I:C) Nanoplexes (2014)

The antifolate drug methotrexate (MTX) can serve as a dual-functional ligand in antitumoral drug delivery, inducing both a folate receptor mediated cellular uptake and an intracellular cytotoxic action. Bioactivity of MTX however changes by conjugation; the activity can be affected by the hampered intracellular conversion to more potent poly-γ-glutamyl derivatives. Therefore, in a cancer combination therapy approach for the codelivery of cytotoxic dsRNA polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid poly(I:C), a set of molecularly precise oligo(ethanamino)amides were synthesized comprising poly(ethylene glycol) conjugated MTX ligands. The conjugates differed in the number of additional glutamic acid residues to investigate the effect of different degrees of synthetic "a priori" polyglutamylation. The bioactivity of these compounds concerning dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) inhibition, cytotoxicity, nucleic acid binding potency, cellular uptake of poly(I:C) polyplexes, and combined antifolate/poly(I:C) toxicity was investigated. Synthetic polyglutamylation had a crucial impact on several stages of efficient poly(I:C) delivery and combined MTX cytotoxicity. DHFR inhibition of the conjugates significantly increased with increasing polyglutamate chain length. The library member with highest glutamylation degree even outperformed free MTX in direct comparison. Studies in KB cells showed the corresponding enhanced cytotoxicity by polyglutamylation. Also poly(I:C) polyplexes of the glutamylated MTX variants exhibited higher cellular uptake in the folate receptor positive cell line. Finally, a synergistic combined cytotoxicity of polyglutamylated MTX ligands and complexed poly(I:C) cargo was observed in transfected KB cells. The present structure-activity relationship study of MTX-based ligands pinpoints the concept of synthetic polyglutamylation as a promising approach for optimizing bioactivity of antifolate conjugates, which might be considered as a useful tool also in context of other drug delivery systems.
Antigen-stimulated Activation of Phospholipase D1b by Rac1, ARF6, and PKCα in RBL-2H3 Cells (2002)

Phospholipase D (PLD) activity can be detected in response to many agonists in most cell types; however, the pathway from receptor occupation to enzyme activation remains unclear. In vitro PLD1b activity is phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate dependent via an N-terminal PH domain and is stimulated by Rho, ARF, and PKC family proteins, combinations of which cooperatively increase this activity. Here we provide the first evidence for the in vivo regulation of PLD1b at the molecular level. Antigen stimulation of RBL-2H3 cells induces the colocalization of PLD1b with Rac1, ARF6, and PKCalpha at the plasma membrane in actin-rich structures, simultaneously with cooperatively increasing PLD activity. Activation is both specific and direct because dominant negative mutants of Rac1 and ARF6 inhibit stimulated PLD activity, and surface plasmon resonance reveals that the regulatory proteins bind directly and independently to PLD1b. This also indicates that PLD1b can concurrently interact with a member from each regulator family. Our results show that in contrast to PLD1b's translocation to the plasma membrane, PLD activation is phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase dependent. Therefore, because inactive, dominant negative GTPases do not activate PLD1b, we propose that activation results from phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-dependent stimulation of Rac1, ARF6, and PKCalpha.
Studies on Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs:  Synthesis of Novel Quinoline and Quinazoline Derivatives and Their Anti-inflammatory Effect (1996)

In the course of our study aimed at developing new types of DMARDs (disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs), we found that quinoline derivative 1a had a potent anti-inflammatory effect in an adjuvant arthritis (AA) rat model, starting from the potent bone resorption inhibitors justicidins as the lead compounds. Further modification of 1a was performed, and various quinoline and quinazoline derivatives having a heteroaryl moiety on the alkyl side chain at the 2-position of the skeleton were prepared. These compounds were evaluated for anti-inflammatory effects using the AA rat model. Most of these compounds, especially those having an imidazole or a triazole moiety on the 2-alkyl chain, exhibited a potent effect. Among the compounds synthesized, ethyl 4-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-6,7-dimethoxy-2-(1,2, 4-triazol-1-yl-methyl)quinoline-3-carboxylate (12d), having an ED50 value of 2.6 mg/kg/day (anti-inflammatory effect in an AA rat model, po), was selected as a candidate for further investigation. In vitro, 12d inhibited mitogen-induced proliferation at 10(-7)-10(-5) M but not prostaglandin E2 production at 10(-5) M. Moreover, 12d preferentially inhibited the IFN-gamma production by Th1-type clones over the IL-4 production by Th2-type clones. This preferential suppression of Th1 cytokine production is considered the essential immunomodulating action of 12d for the present. Synthesis and structure-activity relationships for this novel series of quinoline and quinazoline derivatives are detailed.
The impact of scaling-down oxide thickness on poly-Si thin-film transistors' I-V characteristics (1994)

The key factors reducing the fluctuations of poly-Si I-V fluctuations are investigated. Besides the trapping states at the grain boundary, the oxide thickness plays an important role in poly-Si characteristics. Scaling down the oxide thickness will improve both poly-Si performance and I-V uniformity.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>
Annexin A5 Binds to Lipopolysaccharide and Reduces Its Endotoxin Activity (2012)

AnxA5 is highly expressed in cells that have a barrier function-including, among others, vascular endothelium, placental trophoblasts, and epithelial cells lining bile ducts, renal tubules, mammary ducts, and nasal epithelium. The protein has been well characterized for its binding to phospholipid bilayers that contain phosphatidylserine. This report of a previously unrecognized activity of AnxA5 opens the door to investigation of the possibility that this binding may have biological and therapeutic ramifications. In view of the tissue expression of the protein, the present results suggest the possibility that AnxA5 plays a role in modulating the host defense against lipopolysaccharide at these anatomic sites, where cells may interface with microorganisms. These results also raise the intriguing possibility that AnxA5 or analogous proteins or peptides could provide novel approaches to addressing the difficult clinical problem of Gram-negative sepsis.
Single-molecule detection and tracking of RNA transcripts in living cells using phosphorothioate-optimized 2′-O-methyl RNA molecular beacons (2016)

Molecular Beacons (MBs) composed of 2'-O-methyl RNA (2Me) and phosphorothioate (PS) linkages throughout the backbone (2Me/PSFULL MBs) have enabled long-term imaging of RNA in living cells, but excess PS modification can induce nonspecific binding, causing false-positive signals. In this study, we evaluate the intracellular stability of MBs composed of 2Me with various PS modifications, and found that false-positive signals could be reduced to marginal levels when the MBs possess a fully PS-modified loop domain and a phosphodiester stem (2Me/PSLOOP MB). Additionally, 2Me/PSLOOP MBs exhibited uncompromised hybridization kinetics, prolonged functionality and >88% detection accuracy for single RNA transcripts, and could do so without interfering with gene expression or cell growth. Finally, 2Me/PSLOOP MBs could image the dynamics of single mRNA transcripts in the nucleus and the cytoplasm simultaneously, regardless of whether the MBs targeted the 5'- or the 3'-UTR. Together, these findings demonstrate the effectiveness of loop-domain PS modification in reducing nonspecific signals and the potential for sensitive and accurate imaging of individual RNAs at the single-molecule level. With the growing interest in the role of RNA localization and dynamics in health and disease, 2Me/PSLOOP MBs could enable new discoveries in RNA research.