Sentences with phrase «different class of drug»

Anti-inflammatory medications such as corticosteroids (commonly called steroids, but in a different class of drug from anabolic steroids, which are sometimes abused by athletes),

Not exact matches

«Our data confirmed that, while the rate of growth of triple - negative breast cancer was not affected by CDK 4/6 inhibitors, this class of drugs was able to significantly inhibit the spread of triple - negative breast cancer to distant organs when tested in multiple different triple - negative breast cancer models, including patient - derived xenografts.»

The resulting «map» of gene - drug interactions allowed the researchers to accurately predict the responses of multiple human cancer cell lines to different chemotherapy agents based on the cell lines» genetic profiles and also revealed new genetic factors that appear to determine the response of breast and ovarian tumor cells to common classes of chemotherapy treatment.

University of Illinois chemist Martin Burke, a pioneer of a technique that constructs complex molecules from simple chemical «building blocks,» led a group that found that thousands of compounds in a class of molecules called polyenes — many of which have great potential as drugs — can be built simply and economically from a scant one dozen different building blocks.

Their results, published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, provide details on the procedure for evaluating candidate anti-Ebola drugs and comparing the antiviral effectiveness of eight drugs from three different drug classes.

«We find that drug - sensitive tumor cells respond in similar ways to some classes of drugs and very different ways to other classes of drugs,» Sorger said.

To combat these multidrug - resistant bacteria, researchers have been searching for new classes of antibiotics that work by different mechanisms than current drugs.

We developed several computational and machine learning methods to successfully identify behavioral patterns or signatures associated with different classes of reference drugs, from which to predict the class of novel compounds (Brunner et al., 2012, Alexandrov et al., 2015), and more recently developed methods to allow us to compare animal models of AD and its progression, and to identify (in silico) novel compounds from our existing database of thousands of novel and reference compounds with the potential to reverse the AD model behavioral profile.

His team has three different chemical classes of drug that all do the same thing - help cells reduce levels of the mutant HD gene.

Corey's team has three different chemical classes of drug that all do the same thing - help cells reduce levels of the mutant HD gene.

«Now you have a way to test efficacy of future vaccines or future therapeutics, whether those therapeutics are drugs that exist already that could be used in a different way for a different purpose, or new classes of drugs such as antibody - based therapeutics that would be more specifically against Zika,» Diamond said.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reported in 2009 that about two - thirds (63 percent) of seniors on public drug programs in six provinces were claiming the use of five or more drugs from different drug classes.

Drugs with antiviral effects are a class of medication specifically used to treat viral infections such as HIV, different herpes viruses, influenza, hepatitis etc..

No increased risk was seen in people who took a different class of heartburn drugs like Pepcid and Zantac, which work by blocking histamine production in the cells lining the stomach.

There are a lot of competing narratives in Showtime's ambitious new miniseries Patrick Melrose — wealth, inherited wealth (which is different), class (which is different still), bad parenting, drugs, alcohol, thwarted ambition, depression.

Through a different method of action than other NSAIDs, Onsior for Cats is reportedly safer and much less toxic than other drugs of this class when used for short periods of time.

Ovaban works via a different mechanism than Cheque Drops, and is part of a class of drugs known as progestins.

These drugs consist of different classes and kinds of dog heart medicines such as: