From animal poisons and venoms to medicines: achievements, challenges and perspectives in drug discovery

KCF Bordon, CT Cologna, EC Fornari-Baldo… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Animal poisons and venoms are comprised of different classes of molecules displaying wide-
ranging pharmacological activities. This review aims to provide an in-depth view of toxin …

Discovery and development of calcium channel blockers

T Godfraind - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In the mid 1960s, experimental work on molecules under screening as coronary dilators
allowed the discovery of the mechanism of calcium entry blockade by drugs later named …

Animal models of pain: diversity and benefits

C Abboud, A Duveau, R Bouali-Benazzouz… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chronic pain is a maladaptive neurological disease that remains a major health problem. A
deepening of our knowledge on mechanisms that cause pain is a prerequisite to developing …

Microneedle-mediated delivery of Ziconotide-loaded liposomes fused with exosomes for analgesia

K Song, Y Hao, X Tan, H Huang, L Wang… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ziconotide (ZIC) is an N-type calcium channel antagonist for treating severe chronic pain
that is intolerable, or responds poorly to the administration of other drugs, such as intrathecal …

Polypharmacological cell-penetrating peptides from venomous marine animals based on immunomodulating, antimicrobial, and anticancer properties

S Hemmati, H Rasekhi Kazerooni - Marine Drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
Complex pathological diseases, such as cancer, infection, and Alzheimer's, need to be
targeted by multipronged curative. Various omics technologies, with a high rate of data …

Intranasal administration for pain: oxytocin and other polypeptides

VN Bharadwaj, AZ Tzabazis, M Klukinov, NA Manering… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pain, particularly chronic pain, remains one of the most debilitating and difficult-to-treat
conditions in medicine. Chronic pain is difficult to treat, in part because it is associated with …

Facile nose-to-brain delivery of rotigotine-loaded polymer micelles thermosensitive hydrogels: In vitro characterization and in vivo behavior study

F Wang, Z Yang, M Liu, Y Tao, Z Li, Z Wu… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
A rotigotine (ROT)-loaded polymer micelles thermosensitive gel (ROT-PM-TSG) delivery
system was engineered to enhance the solubility of the drug, prolong the residence time …

Lavender oil reduces depressive mood in healthy individuals and enhances the activity of single oxytocin neurons of the hypothalamus isolated from mice: a …

K Ogata, K Ataka, H Suzuki, T Yagi… - Evidence‐Based …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background. The aim of the present study was to assess the effects of lavender oil inhalation
on blood pressure, pulse measurements, cortisol levels, depressive mood, and anxiety in …

Revisiting cerebrospinal fluid flow direction and rate in physiologically based pharmacokinetic model

M Hirasawa, ECM de Lange - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The bidirectional pulsatile movement of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), instead of the traditionally
believed unidirectional and constant CSF circulation, has been demonstrated. In the present …

Formulation, functional evaluation and ex vivo performance of thermoresponsive soluble gels-A platform for therapeutic delivery to mucosal sinus tissue

P Pandey, PJ Cabot, B Wallwork, BJ Panizza… - European Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Mucoadhesive in situ gelling systems (soluble gels) have received considerable attention
recently as effective stimuli-transforming vectors for a range of drug delivery applications …