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Therapeutic Options in Neuro-Oncology

One of the biggest challenges in neuro-oncology is understanding the complexity of central nervous system tumors, such as gliomas, in order to develop suitable therapeutics. Conventional therapies in malignant gliomas reconcile surgery and radiotherapy with the use of chemotherapeutic options such as temozolomide, chloroethyl nitrosoureas and the combination therapy of procarbazine, lomustine and vincristine. W...

Behind Brain Metastases Formation: Cellular and Molecular Alterations and Blood...

Breast cancer (BC) brain metastases is a life-threatening condition to which accounts the poor understanding of BC cells’ (BCCs) extravasation into the brain, precluding the development of preventive strategies. Thus, we aimed to unravel the players involved in the interaction between BCCs and blood–brain barrier (BBB) endothelial cells underlying BBB alterations and the transendothelial migration of malignant ...

5-(Hydroxyphenyl)-γ-Valerolactone-Sulfate, a Key Microbial Metabolite of Flavan...

Phenolic compounds have been recognized as promising compounds for the prevention of chronic diseases, including neurodegenerative ones. However, phenolics like flavan-3-ols (F3O) are poorly absorbed along the gastrointestinal tract and structurally rearranged by gut microbiota, yielding smaller and more polar metabolites like phenyl-γ-valerolactones, phenylvaleric acids and their conjugates. The present work i...

The choroid plexus in health and in disease: dialogues into and out of the brain

This article brings the choroid plexus into the context of health and disease. It is remarkable that the choroid plexus, composed by a monolayer of epithelial cells that lie in a highly vascularized stroma, floating within the brain ventricles, gets so little attention in major physiology and medicine text books and in the scientific literature in general. Consider that it is responsible for producing most of t...

Synthesis and Friedlander reactions of 5-amino-4-cyano-1,3-oxazoles

The synthesis of 2-substituted 5-amino-4-cyano-1,3-oxazoles (1-4, 6-11) and the Friedländer-type reaction of compounds 1, 3, 4 is described. Compounds 13-17 are tacrine (18) analogues provided by the Friedländer reaction. The anti-cholinesterase activity of compounds 13, 14, 16 and 17 has been investigated.

Roles of amyloid beta-peptide-associated oxidative stress and proteomics-identi...

Bilirubin toxicity to human erythrocytes: a review

Neonatal jaundice, a physiologic condition reflecting the interplay between developmentally modulated changes in bilirubin production and metabolism, affects virtually all newborn infants. Usually, it is an entirely benign process that is resolved at the

Effects of bilirubin molecular species on membrane dynamic properties of human ...

Unconjugated bilirubin is a neurotoxic pigment that interacts with membrane lipids. In this study we used electron paramagnetic resonance and the spin labels 5-, 7-, 12-, and 16-doxyl-stearic acid (DSA) to evaluate the depth of the hydrocarbon chain at which interaction of bilirubin preferentially occurs. In addition, we used different pH values to determine the molecular species involved. Resealed right-side-o...