Therapeutics for COVID-19

SS Toussi, JL Hammond, BS Gerstenberger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vaccines and monoclonal antibody treatments to prevent severe coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) illness were available within a year of the pandemic being declared but there …

COVID-19 and the role of cytokines in this disease

A Hasanvand - Inflammopharmacology, 2022 - Springer
Studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 has the ability to activate and mature proinflammatory
cytokines in the body. Cytokine markers are a group of polypeptide signalling molecules that …

Baricitinib for the treatment of alopecia areata

E Freitas, E Guttman-Yassky, T Torres - Drugs, 2023 - Springer
Alopecia areata (AA) is a relapsing, chronic, immune-mediated disease characterized by
nonscarring, inflammatory hair loss that can affect any hair-bearing site. AA clinical …

The importance of the pyrazole scaffold in the design of protein kinases inhibitors as targeted anticancer therapies

GM Nitulescu, G Stancov, OC Seremet, G Nitulescu… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The altered activation or overexpression of protein kinases (PKs) is a major subject of
research in oncology and their inhibition using small molecules, protein kinases inhibitors …

STAT3 inhibitors: a novel insight for anticancer therapy of pancreatic cancer

X Li, W Jiang, S Dong, W Li, W Zhu, W Zhou - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) is a family of intracellular
cytoplasmic transcription factors involved in many biological functions in mammalian signal …

Baricitinib combination therapy: a narrative review of repurposed Janus kinase inhibitor against severe SARS-CoV-2 infection

M Akbarzadeh-Khiavi, M Torabi, L Rahbarnia, A Safary - Infection, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is one of the most
devastating global problems. Regarding the lack of disease-specific treatments, repurposing …

Development of sustained release baricitinib loaded lipid-polymer hybrid nanoparticles with improved oral bioavailability

MK Anwer, EA Ali, M Iqbal, MM Ahmed, MF Aldawsari… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Baricitinib (BTB) is an orally administered Janus kinase inhibitor, therapeutically used for the
treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Recently it has also been approved for the treatment of …

Application of injectable hydrogels as delivery Systems in Spinal Cord Injury

R Ji, Z Hao, H Wang, X Li, L Duan, F Guan, S Ma - Gels, 2023 - mdpi.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe neurological injury caused by traffic accidents, trauma, or
falls, which leads to significant loss of sensory, motor, and autonomous functions and …

Quantitative in silico analysis of SARS-CoV-2 S-RBD omicron mutant transmissibility

T Hanai - Talanta, 2022 - Elsevier
Covid-19 variants transmissibility was quantitatively analyzed in silico to understand the
reaction mechanisms and to find the reaction inhibitors. Especially, SARS-CoV-2 omicron …

Jakinibs of all trades: inhibiting cytokine signaling in immune-mediated pathologies

M Alexander, Y Luo, G Raimondi, JJ O'shea… - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the last 25 years, inhibition of Janus kinases (JAKs) has been pursued as a modality
for treating various immune and inflammatory disorders. While the clinical development of …