Targeting drugs to reduce side effects
April 22, 2014
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By Rosie Hales, Communications Officer
Consider ice cream 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ the base of which is frozen cream. Ingredients are then added to make different flavours. All these flavours are distinctly different but are created from the same foundation.
The same goes for actions of phosphodiesterases or PDEs 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ enzymes that are key targets for drugs that combat various cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.
Although PDEs carry out only one reaction in cells, they inactivate small signaling molecules. As humans, we can create about 120 different 카지노 게임 컬렉션śflavours카지노 게임 컬렉션ť of PDEs, using the 26 different PDE genes in our genome.
After conducting a review of the drugs that act by targeting individual PDE 카지노 게임 컬렉션śflavours카지노 게임 컬렉션ť, Donald Maurice, Director of the Cardiac, Circulatory and Respiratory Research Program at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s, and his international co-authors have learned that many of the drugs카지노 게임 컬렉션™ side effects can be avoided.
When PDEs are inhibited, there is an increase in the rhythmic beating of the heart and blood pressure is often reduced. Common PDE-inhibiting drugs include caffeine and Viagra.
It's important to understand drug successes, but comprehensive critical reviews give researchers the chance to understand the basis of failures and make improvements.
- Dr. Donald Maurice
The research review aimed to study previous research on PDE카지노 게임 컬렉션™s in order to position past results in the context of the recently discovered 카지노 게임 컬렉션śflavours카지노 게임 컬렉션ť of PDEs, which can be targeted individually by cardiovascular drugs.
카지노 게임 컬렉션śFew PDE drugs currently available have the selectivity needed to target the individual PDE 카지노 게임 컬렉션ťflavours카지노 게임 컬렉션ť that contribute to human diseases,카지노 게임 컬렉션ť says Dr. Maurice, also a professor in the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences. 카지노 게임 컬렉션śYes, it카지노 게임 컬렉션™s important to understand drug successes, but comprehensive critical reviews give researchers the chance to understand the basis of failures and make improvements.카지노 게임 컬렉션ť
While PDE-inhibitors have been used in the past to treat cardiovascular illnesses, this review outlines recent advances from the laboratories of the authors that have led to an increased interest in the design of PDE-acting drugs for conditions such as Alzheimer카지노 게임 컬렉션™s, schizophrenia and diabetes.
The review also found that drugs that target specific locations within a cell are more likely to be successful.
카지노 게임 컬렉션śIf you can regulate individual events happening in individual locations of the cell then you can leave the normal functions of the cell unaffected while challenging the abnormal ones,카지노 게임 컬렉션ť says Dr. Maurice.
Dr. Maurice카지노 게임 컬렉션™s review was published in . His research program is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.