Malaria is an important tropical mosquito borne infection. It is still the present global public health issue. The management of malaria requires antimalarial drugs. The resistance to antimalarial drugs is a very big ...Malaria is an important tropical mosquito borne infection. It is still the present global public health issue. The management of malaria requires antimalarial drugs. The resistance to antimalarial drugs is a very big problem. The genetic variant is proposed to be an important factor affecting susceptibility to antimalarial drug. Here, the authors studied the change in molecular weight due to important pfatp6 and pfmdr1 polymorphisms and further implied the interrelationship with susceptibility to antimalarial drug. The greatest change can be seen in case of G639D(of pfatp6 polymorphism) while the least change can be seen in the case of N1042D(of pfmdr1 polymorphism). The results from some studies imply that there must be other factors that affect the susceptibility to antimalarial drugs. Those factors might be protein conformation factors, epigenetic factors or environmental factors. Further studies on these aspects should be carried out. It is concluded for possible role of epigenetic phenomenon.展开更多
Objective To identify the critical risks in the process of innovative drug research and development,and to provide reference for improving the efficiency of innovative drug development and risk control in China.Method...Objective To identify the critical risks in the process of innovative drug research and development,and to provide reference for improving the efficiency of innovative drug development and risk control in China.Methods Expert investigation and analytic hierarchy process were used to determine the weights of different risks.Results and Conclusion The research and analysis results showed that the risks at different stages of development had different effects on the success rate of drug development,among which the risk at the drug discovery stage influenced the most.In the drug discovery stage,inappropriate target selection had the greatest impact on the success rate of drug development.The lack of appropriate cell tissue or animal models had the greatest impact on the success rate of drug development from the discovery of a compound to the application for clinical trials.The difference in changes between nonclinical and clinical studies had the greatest impact on the success rate of drug development from early clinical studies to pivotal clinical studies.Incorrect dose selection had the greatest impact on the success rate of drug development from pivotal clinical studies to marketing authorization applications.The biggest impact from the marketing authorization application to the approval stage was inadequate communication with regulators.After investigating the weight of risk factors in the process of innovative drug development based on scientific methods,a new perspective for the risk control of new drug development and improving the research and development efficiency is provided.展开更多
Background Antipsychotic-induced weight gain(AIWG)is a crucial factor for the medication cessation of patients with schizophrenia.Multiple studies have shown that the functional polymorphism-759 C/T(rs3813929)in the H...Background Antipsychotic-induced weight gain(AIWG)is a crucial factor for the medication cessation of patients with schizophrenia.Multiple studies have shown that the functional polymorphism-759 C/T(rs3813929)in the HTR2C promoter region could possibly be correlated with AIWG.Aim To evaluate the genetic association of the HTR2C-759C/T polymorphism and AIWG in patients with schizophrenia with antipsychotic drugs(APDs)administration.Methods Eligible studies were identified by searching the following databases:PubMed,Embase,Web of Science,China Nation Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),VIP,Wanfang Data,Chinese Biomedical Literature Database(CBM)and the Airiti Library.The quality of studies was evaluated based on the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.The pooled OR and 95%Cl were calculated for the dominant(CT/TT/T vs CC/C)mode,and subgroup analyses were performed based on ethnicity,antipsychotic medication and gender;ail statistical analyses were performed using the statistical software STATA V.12.0.Result A total of 17 studies with 3170 patients with schizophrenia were included in our meta-analysis.The result of the meta-analysis has shown that the association between the-759 C/T polymorphism and AIWG is statistically significant(OR 0.34,95%Cl:0.20 to 0.57,z=4.11,p<0.001).The subgroup analyses revealed significant correlations between the-759 C/T polymorphism and AIWG in the Caucasian population(OR 0.33,95%CI:0.14 to 0.77,z=2.55,p=0.011),the Asian population(OR 0.31,95%Cl:0.18 to 0.52,z=4.46,p<0.001),the patients with APDs administration(CT/JTfJ vs CC/C:OR 0.63,95%Cl:0.40 to 1.00,z=1.97,p=0.049)and the patients with atypical antipsychotic drug administration(CT/TT/T vs CC/C:OR 0.21,95%Cl:0.09 to 0.47,z=3.83,p<0.001).The sensitivity analysis showed that the results were stable.Begg's test(after correction z=1.07,p=0.287)and Egger's test(t=-2.41,p=0.029)show that the included articles have no significant publication bias.Conclusion There is a significant genetic association between HTR2C-759C/T and AIWG,and patients with T allele are less likely to have AIWG.展开更多
Exosomes,as promising vehicles,have been widely used in the research of oral drug delivery,but the generally low drug loading efficiency of exosomes seriously limits its application and transformation.In this study,we...Exosomes,as promising vehicles,have been widely used in the research of oral drug delivery,but the generally low drug loading efficiency of exosomes seriously limits its application and transformation.In this study,we systematically investigated the effects of drug loading methods and physicochemical properties(lipophilicity and molecular weight)on drug loading efficiency of milk-derived exosomes to explore the most appropriate loading conditions.Our finding revealed that the drug loading efficiency of exosomes was closely related to the drug loading method,drug lipophilicity,drug molecular weight and exosome/drug proportions.Of note,we demonstrated the universality that hydrophilic biomacromolecule drugs were the most appropriate loading drugs for milk-derived exosomes,which was attributed to the efficient loading capacity and sustained release behavior.Furthermore,milk-derived exosomes could significantly improve the transepithelial transport and oral bioavailability of model hydrophilic biomacromolecule drugs(octreotide,exendin-4 and salmon calcitonin).Collectively,our results suggested that the encapsulation of hydrophilic biomacromolecule drugs might be the most promising direction for milk exosomes as oral drug delivery vehicles.展开更多
The effects of thyroxine and atropine in ameliorating phosphamidon intoxication in chick embryos was studied. Treatment of phosphamidon significantly enhanced the moriality and abnormalityrates, decreased the average ...The effects of thyroxine and atropine in ameliorating phosphamidon intoxication in chick embryos was studied. Treatment of phosphamidon significantly enhanced the moriality and abnormalityrates, decreased the average body weights, and cholinesterase activity in chick embryos. When thyroxine was administered to the phosphamidon intoxicated embryos, the above parameters changedsignificantly, indicating an ameliorating effect of thyroxine against phosphamidon intoxication in chick embryos. The combined thyroxine and atropine therapy did not further improve the ameliorating effect. Since in many respects chick embryo development parallels that of mammalian embryos,a short-term use of thyroxine as a protective agent against organophosphate toxicity might be useful展开更多
Obesity is a chronic disease which requires treatment. As lifestyle interventions alone hardly ever result in long-term weight loss, pharmacotherapy is an impor-tant adjunct to lifestyle measures to improve the induc-...Obesity is a chronic disease which requires treatment. As lifestyle interventions alone hardly ever result in long-term weight loss, pharmacotherapy is an impor-tant adjunct to lifestyle measures to improve the induc-tion and maintenance of weight loss. Owing to the lim-ited options currently available for the pharmacological treatment of obesity, it is imperative to develop new safe compounds. This study aims to review the current medications approved by European Medicines Agency and United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of obesity, focusing essentially on their benefits and risks, as well as on the new drugs which are presently under clinical trials. Moreover, it lists the anti-obesity agents that have been recently withdrawn from the market. A revision of the scientifc literature was carried out, through a search on Pubmedfor papers published from January 2010 to January2013. Orlistat (Xenical?) is currently the only long-termpharmacotherapy for obesity available in the Europeanmarket, as rimonabant and sibutramine were with-drawn in 2008 and 2010, respectively, due to serious psychiatric and cardiovascular adverse effects. Lorca-serin (Belviq?) and the association of phentermine and topiramate (QsymiaTM) were recently approved by FDA. Orlistat suppresses appetite inhibiting gastrointestinal lipase, being its adverse effects mostly gastrointestinal. Lorcaserin activates 5-HT2C receptors, phentermine is a norepinephrine releasing drug, and topiramate is an anticonvulsivant drug with weight loss properties.展开更多
目的系统评价癌症相关静脉血栓栓塞(VTE)患者使用新型口服抗凝剂(NOAC)的有效性和安全性。方法检索PubMed、Cochrane Library、Embase、Web of Science、中国知网、万方数据库,检索时限为各数据库建库起至2023年8月,收集低分子肝素(LMWH...目的系统评价癌症相关静脉血栓栓塞(VTE)患者使用新型口服抗凝剂(NOAC)的有效性和安全性。方法检索PubMed、Cochrane Library、Embase、Web of Science、中国知网、万方数据库,检索时限为各数据库建库起至2023年8月,收集低分子肝素(LMWH,对照组)对比NOAC(试验组)治疗癌症相关VTE患者疗效的随机对照试验(RCT),对纳入临床研究进行资料提取后,采用RevMan 5.0统计软件进行Meta分析。结果共计纳入7项RCT,合计3790例癌症相关VTE患者。与对照组相比,试验组患者的VTE复发率(RR=0.65,95%CI为0.51~0.82,P=0.0004)显著降低,而其大出血发生率略高于对照组,但差异无统计学意义(RR=1.13,95%CI为0.83~1.53,P=0.45)。试验组患者的临床相关非主要大出血(RR=1.69,95%CI为1.34~2.13,P<0.00001)、消化道出血(RR=1.96,95%CI为1.15~3.34,P=0.01)发生率均较对照组显著升高。两组患者颅内出血发生率、全因死亡率、致死性肺栓塞发生率比较,差异均无统计学意义(P>0.05)。结论对于癌症相关VTE患者,NOAC在预防VTE复发方面优于LMWH,在大出血、颅内出血、全因死亡、致死性肺栓塞方面不劣于LMWH。展开更多
The clinical efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs is hindered by their poor aqueous solubility, low bioavailability and severe side effects. In recent years, polymeric nanocarriers have been used for drug delivery to im...The clinical efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs is hindered by their poor aqueous solubility, low bioavailability and severe side effects. In recent years, polymeric nanocarriers have been used for drug delivery to improve the efficacy of many chemotherapeutics. In this study, a series of biodegradable phenylalaninebased poly(ester amide)(Phe-PEA) with tunable molecular weights(MWs) were synthesized to systematically investigate the relationship between the polymer MW and the efficacy of the corresponding polymeric nanoparticles(NPs). The results indicated that a range of polymers with different MWs can be obtained by varying the monomer ratio or reaction time. Doxorubicin(DOX), a classic clinical lymphoma treatment strategy, was selected as a model drug. The loading capacity and stability of the higher MW polymeric NPs were superior to those of the lower MW ones. Moreover, in vitro and in vivo data revealed that high MW polymeric NPs had better anticancer efficacy against lymphoma and higher biosafety than low MW polymeric nanoparticles and DOX. Therefore, this study suggests the importance of polymer MW for drug delivery systems and provides valuable guidance for the design of enhanced polymeric drug carriers for lymphoma treatment.展开更多
文摘Malaria is an important tropical mosquito borne infection. It is still the present global public health issue. The management of malaria requires antimalarial drugs. The resistance to antimalarial drugs is a very big problem. The genetic variant is proposed to be an important factor affecting susceptibility to antimalarial drug. Here, the authors studied the change in molecular weight due to important pfatp6 and pfmdr1 polymorphisms and further implied the interrelationship with susceptibility to antimalarial drug. The greatest change can be seen in case of G639D(of pfatp6 polymorphism) while the least change can be seen in the case of N1042D(of pfmdr1 polymorphism). The results from some studies imply that there must be other factors that affect the susceptibility to antimalarial drugs. Those factors might be protein conformation factors, epigenetic factors or environmental factors. Further studies on these aspects should be carried out. It is concluded for possible role of epigenetic phenomenon.
文摘Objective To identify the critical risks in the process of innovative drug research and development,and to provide reference for improving the efficiency of innovative drug development and risk control in China.Methods Expert investigation and analytic hierarchy process were used to determine the weights of different risks.Results and Conclusion The research and analysis results showed that the risks at different stages of development had different effects on the success rate of drug development,among which the risk at the drug discovery stage influenced the most.In the drug discovery stage,inappropriate target selection had the greatest impact on the success rate of drug development.The lack of appropriate cell tissue or animal models had the greatest impact on the success rate of drug development from the discovery of a compound to the application for clinical trials.The difference in changes between nonclinical and clinical studies had the greatest impact on the success rate of drug development from early clinical studies to pivotal clinical studies.Incorrect dose selection had the greatest impact on the success rate of drug development from pivotal clinical studies to marketing authorization applications.The biggest impact from the marketing authorization application to the approval stage was inadequate communication with regulators.After investigating the weight of risk factors in the process of innovative drug development based on scientific methods,a new perspective for the risk control of new drug development and improving the research and development efficiency is provided.
基金This study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China(81771450)Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(201540029).
文摘Background Antipsychotic-induced weight gain(AIWG)is a crucial factor for the medication cessation of patients with schizophrenia.Multiple studies have shown that the functional polymorphism-759 C/T(rs3813929)in the HTR2C promoter region could possibly be correlated with AIWG.Aim To evaluate the genetic association of the HTR2C-759C/T polymorphism and AIWG in patients with schizophrenia with antipsychotic drugs(APDs)administration.Methods Eligible studies were identified by searching the following databases:PubMed,Embase,Web of Science,China Nation Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),VIP,Wanfang Data,Chinese Biomedical Literature Database(CBM)and the Airiti Library.The quality of studies was evaluated based on the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.The pooled OR and 95%Cl were calculated for the dominant(CT/TT/T vs CC/C)mode,and subgroup analyses were performed based on ethnicity,antipsychotic medication and gender;ail statistical analyses were performed using the statistical software STATA V.12.0.Result A total of 17 studies with 3170 patients with schizophrenia were included in our meta-analysis.The result of the meta-analysis has shown that the association between the-759 C/T polymorphism and AIWG is statistically significant(OR 0.34,95%Cl:0.20 to 0.57,z=4.11,p<0.001).The subgroup analyses revealed significant correlations between the-759 C/T polymorphism and AIWG in the Caucasian population(OR 0.33,95%CI:0.14 to 0.77,z=2.55,p=0.011),the Asian population(OR 0.31,95%Cl:0.18 to 0.52,z=4.46,p<0.001),the patients with APDs administration(CT/JTfJ vs CC/C:OR 0.63,95%Cl:0.40 to 1.00,z=1.97,p=0.049)and the patients with atypical antipsychotic drug administration(CT/TT/T vs CC/C:OR 0.21,95%Cl:0.09 to 0.47,z=3.83,p<0.001).The sensitivity analysis showed that the results were stable.Begg's test(after correction z=1.07,p=0.287)and Egger's test(t=-2.41,p=0.029)show that the included articles have no significant publication bias.Conclusion There is a significant genetic association between HTR2C-759C/T and AIWG,and patients with T allele are less likely to have AIWG.
基金The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China(81872818)National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFE0115200).
文摘Exosomes,as promising vehicles,have been widely used in the research of oral drug delivery,but the generally low drug loading efficiency of exosomes seriously limits its application and transformation.In this study,we systematically investigated the effects of drug loading methods and physicochemical properties(lipophilicity and molecular weight)on drug loading efficiency of milk-derived exosomes to explore the most appropriate loading conditions.Our finding revealed that the drug loading efficiency of exosomes was closely related to the drug loading method,drug lipophilicity,drug molecular weight and exosome/drug proportions.Of note,we demonstrated the universality that hydrophilic biomacromolecule drugs were the most appropriate loading drugs for milk-derived exosomes,which was attributed to the efficient loading capacity and sustained release behavior.Furthermore,milk-derived exosomes could significantly improve the transepithelial transport and oral bioavailability of model hydrophilic biomacromolecule drugs(octreotide,exendin-4 and salmon calcitonin).Collectively,our results suggested that the encapsulation of hydrophilic biomacromolecule drugs might be the most promising direction for milk exosomes as oral drug delivery vehicles.
文摘The effects of thyroxine and atropine in ameliorating phosphamidon intoxication in chick embryos was studied. Treatment of phosphamidon significantly enhanced the moriality and abnormalityrates, decreased the average body weights, and cholinesterase activity in chick embryos. When thyroxine was administered to the phosphamidon intoxicated embryos, the above parameters changedsignificantly, indicating an ameliorating effect of thyroxine against phosphamidon intoxication in chick embryos. The combined thyroxine and atropine therapy did not further improve the ameliorating effect. Since in many respects chick embryo development parallels that of mammalian embryos,a short-term use of thyroxine as a protective agent against organophosphate toxicity might be useful
文摘Obesity is a chronic disease which requires treatment. As lifestyle interventions alone hardly ever result in long-term weight loss, pharmacotherapy is an impor-tant adjunct to lifestyle measures to improve the induc-tion and maintenance of weight loss. Owing to the lim-ited options currently available for the pharmacological treatment of obesity, it is imperative to develop new safe compounds. This study aims to review the current medications approved by European Medicines Agency and United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of obesity, focusing essentially on their benefits and risks, as well as on the new drugs which are presently under clinical trials. Moreover, it lists the anti-obesity agents that have been recently withdrawn from the market. A revision of the scientifc literature was carried out, through a search on Pubmedfor papers published from January 2010 to January2013. Orlistat (Xenical?) is currently the only long-termpharmacotherapy for obesity available in the Europeanmarket, as rimonabant and sibutramine were with-drawn in 2008 and 2010, respectively, due to serious psychiatric and cardiovascular adverse effects. Lorca-serin (Belviq?) and the association of phentermine and topiramate (QsymiaTM) were recently approved by FDA. Orlistat suppresses appetite inhibiting gastrointestinal lipase, being its adverse effects mostly gastrointestinal. Lorcaserin activates 5-HT2C receptors, phentermine is a norepinephrine releasing drug, and topiramate is an anticonvulsivant drug with weight loss properties.
文摘目的系统评价癌症相关静脉血栓栓塞(VTE)患者使用新型口服抗凝剂(NOAC)的有效性和安全性。方法检索PubMed、Cochrane Library、Embase、Web of Science、中国知网、万方数据库,检索时限为各数据库建库起至2023年8月,收集低分子肝素(LMWH,对照组)对比NOAC(试验组)治疗癌症相关VTE患者疗效的随机对照试验(RCT),对纳入临床研究进行资料提取后,采用RevMan 5.0统计软件进行Meta分析。结果共计纳入7项RCT,合计3790例癌症相关VTE患者。与对照组相比,试验组患者的VTE复发率(RR=0.65,95%CI为0.51~0.82,P=0.0004)显著降低,而其大出血发生率略高于对照组,但差异无统计学意义(RR=1.13,95%CI为0.83~1.53,P=0.45)。试验组患者的临床相关非主要大出血(RR=1.69,95%CI为1.34~2.13,P<0.00001)、消化道出血(RR=1.96,95%CI为1.15~3.34,P=0.01)发生率均较对照组显著升高。两组患者颅内出血发生率、全因死亡率、致死性肺栓塞发生率比较,差异均无统计学意义(P>0.05)。结论对于癌症相关VTE患者,NOAC在预防VTE复发方面优于LMWH,在大出血、颅内出血、全因死亡、致死性肺栓塞方面不劣于LMWH。
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51973243 and 52173150)International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51820105004)+3 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No. 2020M683058)Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(No. RCBS20210706092411033)the Science and Technology Planning Project of Shenzhen (No. JCYJ20190807155801657)Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program (No.2016ZT06S029)。
文摘The clinical efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs is hindered by their poor aqueous solubility, low bioavailability and severe side effects. In recent years, polymeric nanocarriers have been used for drug delivery to improve the efficacy of many chemotherapeutics. In this study, a series of biodegradable phenylalaninebased poly(ester amide)(Phe-PEA) with tunable molecular weights(MWs) were synthesized to systematically investigate the relationship between the polymer MW and the efficacy of the corresponding polymeric nanoparticles(NPs). The results indicated that a range of polymers with different MWs can be obtained by varying the monomer ratio or reaction time. Doxorubicin(DOX), a classic clinical lymphoma treatment strategy, was selected as a model drug. The loading capacity and stability of the higher MW polymeric NPs were superior to those of the lower MW ones. Moreover, in vitro and in vivo data revealed that high MW polymeric NPs had better anticancer efficacy against lymphoma and higher biosafety than low MW polymeric nanoparticles and DOX. Therefore, this study suggests the importance of polymer MW for drug delivery systems and provides valuable guidance for the design of enhanced polymeric drug carriers for lymphoma treatment.