[HTML][HTML] Cyclooxygenase-2 in endometriosis

ZZ Lai, HL Yang, SY Ha, KK Chang, J Mei… - … journal of biological …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Endometriosis (EMS) is the most common gynecological disease in women of reproductive
age, and it is associated with chronic pelvic pain, dyspareunia and infertility. As a …

Lipids and lipid mediators associated with the risk and pathology of ischemic stroke

A Kloska, M Malinowska, M Gabig-Cimińska… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Stroke is a severe neurological disorder in humans that results from an interruption of the
blood supply to the brain. Worldwide, stoke affects over 100 million people each year and is …

Systematic study of constitutive cyclooxygenase-2 expression: Role of NF-κB and NFAT transcriptional pathways

NS Kirkby, MV Chan, AK Zaiss… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is an inducible enzyme that drives inflammation and is the
therapeutic target for widely used nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). However …

Emerging drug targets for endometriosis

MM Dolmans, J Donnez - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease causing distressing symptoms and
requiring a life-long management strategy. The objective of this review is to evaluate …

Enzyme tunnels and gates as relevant targets in drug design

SM Marques, L Daniel, T Buryska… - Medicinal Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Many enzymes contain tunnels and gates that are essential to their function. Gates
reversibly switch between open and closed conformations and thereby control the traffic of …

Network Pharmacology Integrated Molecular Docking and Dynamics to Elucidate Saffron Compounds Targeting Human COX-2 Protein

A Ali, AB Wani, BA Malla, J Poyya, NJ Dar, F Ali… - Medicina, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background and Objectives: Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is mostly linked to inflammation
and has been validated as a molecular target for treating inflammatory diseases. The …

Recent advances in the development of pharmacologically active compounds that contain a benzoxazole scaffold

S Singh, G Veeraswamy, D Bhattarai… - Asian Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, the emergence of biologically active compounds that contain a heterocyclic
ring has gained a great deal of attention among medicinal chemists. Among these …

Potentiation of LPS-induced apoptotic cell death in human hepatoma HepG2 cells by aspirin via ROS and mitochondrial dysfunction: protection by N-acetyl cysteine

H Raza, A John, J Shafarin - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Cytotoxicity and inflammation-associated toxic responses have been observed to be
induced by bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in vitro and in vivo respectively. Use of …

Celecoxib promotes survival and upregulates the expression of neuroprotective marker genes in two different in vitro models of Parkinson's disease

S Dassati, R Schweigreiter, S Buechner, A Waldner - Neuropharmacology, 2021 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common age-related neurodegenerative
disorder after Alzheimer's disease. Increasing evidence highlights the role of age-related …

Nanomedicine-driven neuropathic pain relief in a rat model is associated with macrophage polarity and mast cell activation

M Saleem, B Deal, E Nehl, JM Janjic… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2019 - Springer
We explored the immune neuropathology underlying multi-day relief from neuropathic pain
in a rat model initiated at the sciatic nerve, by using a nanoemulsion-based nanomedicine …