Natural products: an evolving role in future drug discovery

BB Mishra, VK Tiwari - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
The therapeutic areas of infectious diseases and oncology have benefited from abundant
scaffold diversity in natural products, able to interact with many specific targets within the cell …

Reward, addiction, withdrawal to nicotine

M De Biasi, JA Dani - Annual review of neuroscience, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Nicotine is the principal addictive component that drives continued tobacco use despite
users' knowledge of the harmful consequences. The initiation of addiction involves the …

Human disease-drug network based on genomic expression profiles

G Hu, P Agarwal - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Drug repositioning offers the possibility of faster development times and
reduced risks in drug discovery. With the rapid development of high-throughput technologies …

Pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation: pharmacological principles and clinical practice

HJ Aubin, A Luquiens, I Berlin - British journal of clinical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Strategies for assisting smoking cessation include behavioural counselling to enhance
motivation and to support attempts to quit and pharmacological intervention to reduce …

Catalytic mechanism of cytochrome P450 for 5′-hydroxylation of nicotine: fundamental reaction pathways and stereoselectivity

D Li, X Huang, K Han, CG Zhan - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A series of computational methods were used to study how cytochrome P450 2A6 (CYP2A6)
interacts with (S)-(−)-nicotine, demonstrating that the dominant molecular species of (S)-(−) …

Nicotine vaccines to assist with smoking cessation: current status of research

T Raupach, PHJ Hoogsteder, CP van Schayck - Drugs, 2012 - Springer
Tobacco smoking causes cardiovascular, respiratory and malignant disease, and stopping
smoking is among the key medical interventions to lower the worldwide burden of these …

Natural products in drug discovery: impacts and opportunities—an assessment

G Brahmachari - … natural products: opportunities and challenges in …, 2012 - World Scientific
Nature stands as an inexhaustible source of novel chemotypes and pharmacophores, and
has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years, and an impressive number of …

Molecular actions of smoking cessation drugs at α4β2 nicotinic receptors defined in crystal structures of a homologous binding protein

B Billen, R Spurny, M Brams… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Partial agonists of the α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), such as varenicline,
are therapeutically used in smoking cessation treatment. These drugs derive their …

New pharmacological agents to aid smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction: what has been investigated, and what is in the pipeline?

E Beard, L Shahab, DM Cummings, S Michie, R West - CNS drugs, 2016 - Springer
A wide range of support is available to help smokers to quit and to aid attempts at harm
reduction, including three first-line smoking cessation medications: nicotine replacement …

Tobacco dependence and withdrawal: science base, challenges and opportunities for pharmacotherapy

JE Henningfield, S Shiffman, SG Ferguson… - Pharmacology & …, 2009 - Elsevier
Several pharmacotherapies for tobacco dependence and withdrawal have been approved
by the Food and Drug Administration to aid smoking cessation. These medicines double to …