
Pharmaceutical industry is growing day by day with the aim to develop new drugs extracted from natural products or synthetic chemically produced drug substances, but one thing always remains constant, […]

A biowaiver monograph of pyrazinamide based on literature data together with some additional experimental data is presented. The risks of basing a bioequivalence (BE) assessment on in vitro rather than […]

The study of carbamazepine solid forms continues to be a forum for advancing fundamental knowledge about polymorphism, hydrate formation, crystal engineering of pharmaceuticals, and structure–property relationships of pharmaceutical relevance. The […]

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by a progressive loss of memory associated with other cognitive sphere deficits interfering with social and occupational functioning. The […]

The majority of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) consists of two related but clinically and histologically distinct conditions, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Both conditions are characterized by chronically relapsing inflammation […]

Nanomaterials with easy surface functionalization and high biocompatibility have emerged as good candidates for theranostic applications. In particular the integration of multiple smart functions such as contrast agents (CA) and […]

The cathepsins comprise a family of lysosomal proteolytic enzymes. Eleven human cathepsins are cysteine proteases of the papain-like subfamily C1A and represent the best characterized group of cathepsins. Cysteine cathepsins […]

Epigenetic therapies from natural products in the clinic 1. Clinically approved natural product epigenetic modulators Despite an increasing number of synthetically-derived epigenetic modulators being taken into preclinical and clinical studies, […]

Xanthones with various substituents on the three-membered heterocyclic ring skeleton exhibit diverse biological activities, such as antihypertensive, antioxidative, antithrombotic and anticancer activities. Naturally existing xanthone analogues, including gentiakochianin, α-mangostin and […]

(±)-Reboxetine mesylate is a selective norepinephrine uptake (NRI) inhibitor which is marketed as the racemate, under the trade name EdronaxTM, for the treatment of depression, in more than 60 countries. […]