Sentences with phrase «therapeutic drugs known»

A class of therapeutic drugs known as protein kinase inhibitors has in the past decade become a powerful weapon in the fight against various life - threatening diseases, including certain types of leukemia, lung cancer, kidney cancer and squamous cell cancer of the head and neck.

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So, most people don't know what to do when I tell them that my parents were the directors of a residential therapeutic drug community center.

If the test says «yes,» the treatment would continue on course; but if the answer is «no,» then a change in therapeutic approach (either different drugs or surgery) might be more appropriate,» said Dr. Bear.

Instead of systematically testing the effects of known compounds — the pharmaceutical industry's basic model for more than a century — scientists can now investigate backward, combing through genomic data to find links between specific genotypes and diseases and then screening drug data to identify therapeutic candidates.

«We have identified a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of severe influenza that is effective under conditions where known antiviral drugs fail to protect from death.»

Knowing that Notch governs vessel permeability makes it a candidate for new drugs to treat cardiovascular diseases as well, and the team is also investigating the TMD as a potential therapeutic agent itself, as cell models that were exposed to leak - inducing inflammation displayed a dramatic reduction in leakage when they were engineered to express the TMD.

«For prevention, where a drug is given before the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease appear, and likely over longer periods of time, bexarotene is not likely a viable therapeutic because of this known toxicity unless dosing is carefully controlled and patients are closely monitored.»

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a new family of nanocarriers, called «3HM,» that meets all the size and stability requirements for effectively delivering therapeutic drugs to the brain for the treatment of a deadly form of cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme.

Dr. Aldred's lab will evaluate a new therapeutic approach known as nonsense readthrough, testing two drugs that may be able to correct genetic defects in an important cell - signaling pathway.

It seems to me that knowing how the drug works, how it acts on a therapeutic target, is an important consideration in prioritizing potential treatments.

That field was pharmacognosy, which is «knowing all about» drugs and natural products having therapeutic benefits.

With the goal of creating a vault capable of encapsulating therapeutic compounds for drug delivery, UCLA doctoral student Daniel Buhler designed a strategy to package another nanoparticle, known as a nanodisk (ND), into the vault's inner cavity, or lumen.

Identification of new therapeutic applications for known drugs: Boston Children's investigators have developed and characterized a wide variety of preclinical assays and animal models useful for identifying additional therapeutic indications for safe compounds.

The problem is that clenbuterol has extensive side effects and has in fact been banned in the US and is no longer a part of any therapeutic drug approved by the FDA and is available in only few countries via prescription alone as a bronchodilator.

More than 20 therapeutic drugs are known substrates of P - glycoprotein.

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