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Dis-organizing Centrosomal Clusters: Specific Cancer Therapy for a Generic Spread?
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Current Medicinal Chemistry covers all the latest and outstanding developments in medicinal chemistry and rational drug design. Each issue contains a series of timely in-depth reviews and guest edited thematic issues written by leaders in the field covering a range of the current topics in medicinal...
Current Medicinal Chemistry covers all the latest and outstanding developments in medicinal chemistry and rational drug design. Each issue contains a series of timely in-depth reviews and guest edited thematic issues written by leaders in the field covering a range of the current topics in medicinal...
Mass Production of Pharmaceutically Important Metabolites: Paclitaxel and its Derivatives
Journal Name: " Current Medicinal Chemistry."Vol. 20. , No.7, 2013Article: Bioprocessing of Plant In Vitro Systems for the Mass Production of Pharmaceutically Important Metabolites: Paclitaxel and its
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Gergő A. Molnár, Szilárd Kun, Eszter Sélley, Melinda Kertész, Lívia Szélig, Csaba Csontos, Katalin Böddi, Lajos Bogár, Attila Miseta and István WittmannPages 667-685 (19)
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Oxidative stress plays a major role in the pathogenesis of a variety of acute and chronic diseases. Measurement of the oxidative stress-related end products may be performed, e.g. that of structural isomers...
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Astrocytes are the most abundant neuron-supporting glial cells in the central nervous system. The neuroprotective role of astrocytes has been demonstrated in various neurological disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal cord injury, stroke and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Astrocyte dysfunction or loss-of-astrocytes...
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Serum amyloid A (SAA) is, like C-reactive protein (CRP), an acute phase protein and can be used as a diagnostic, prognostic or therapy follow-up marker for many diseases. Increases in serum levels of SAA are triggered by physical insults to the...