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Comparative Analysis of Total Alpha-Synuclein (alpha SYN) Immunoassays Reveals That They Do Not Capture the Diversity of Modified alpha SYN Proteoforms

Hilal Lashuel, Ritwik Burai, Mohamed Bilal Fares, Lorène Aeschbach, Layane Hanna-el-Daher

Background: The development of therapeutics for Parkinson's disease (PD) requires the establishment of biomarker assays to enable stratifying patients, monitoring disease progression, and assessing target engagement. Attempts to develop diagnostic assays b ...

IOS PRESS2022

Experimental And Theoretical Insight Into Formulations Based On Poly(Vinyl Alcohol Boric Acid) And Diclofenac Sodium Salt

Maria-Alexandra Paun

A series of three formulations were prepared in view of experimental and theoretical investigation of their drug release potential. The morphology of the film formulations, in terms of distribution of drug into the polymeric matrix and the nature of the dr ...

UNIV POLITEHNICA BUCHAREST, SCI BULL2020

Graphene nanowalls for high-performance chemotherapeutic drug sensing and anti-fouling properties

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Nima Aliakbarinodehi

Improved sensitivity and continuous monitoring of therapeutic compounds are two of the most highlighted concerns for the treatment of malignant diseases, such as cancer. We demonstrated ultrasensitive screening of etoposide, a therapeutic compound widely-u ...

Elsevier2018

A design of experiment approach for efficient multi-parametric drug testing using a Caenorhabditis elegans model

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Matteo Cornaglia, Raphaël Etienne Jean Trouillon, Maria Cristina Letizia

When studying the drug effectiveness towards a target model, one should distinguish the effects of the drug itself and of all the other factors that could influence the screening outcome. This comprehensive knowledge is crucial, especially when model organ ...

2018

Optimized Background Regimen for Treatment of Active Tuberculosis with the Next-Generation Benzothiazinone Macozinone (PBTZ169)

Stewart Cole, Anthony Vocat, Shi-Yan Caroline Foo, Andréanne Lupien

The efficacy of the standardized four-drug regimen (comprising isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol) for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) is menaced by the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drugresistant (XDR) strains of ...

AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY2018

A novel electrochemical sensor for non-invasive monitoring of lithium levels in mood disorders

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Francesca Criscuolo

Lithium is the main drug for the treatment of mood disorders. Due to its narrow therapeutic window, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) is a norm during therapy in order to avoid adverse effects. Consequently, patients are obliged to frequent check-ups in ho ...

2018

Modeling of a capacitive sensor dedicated to drug injection

Catherine Dehollain

to follow up patients who inject themselves insulin with injection pen is a quite complex task. Due to the repetition of injections, and the numerous influent parameter the patient can easily made an injection mistake and it is difficult for health-takers ...

IEEE2018

The memristive effect as a novelty in drug monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Nima Aliakbarinodehi

Nanoscale devices exhibiting memristive properties show great potential in a plethora of applications. In this work, memristive nanowires are presented for the first time as ideal candidates for absolutely novel, ultrasensitive, highly specific and selecti ...

2017

Aptamer-based Field-Effect Biosensor for Tenofovir Detection

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Nima Aliakbarinodehi

During medical treatment it is critical to maintain the circulatory concentration of drugs within their therapeutic range. A novel biosensor is presented in this work to address the lack of a reliable point-of-care drug monitoring system in the market. The ...

Nature Research2017

Optimization of drug combinations using Feedback System Control

Paul Joseph Dyson, Hubert van den Bergh, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Andrea Brett Gasser

We describe a protocol for the discovery of synergistic drug combinations for the treatment of disease. Synergistic drug combinations lead to the use of drugs at lower doses, which reduces side effects and can potentially lead to reduced drug resistance, w ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

A streamlined search technology for identification of synergistic drug combinations

Paul Joseph Dyson, Hubert van den Bergh, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Andrea Brett Gasser

A major key to improvement of cancer therapy is the combination of drugs. Mixing drugs that already exist on the market may offer an attractive alternative. Here we report on a new model-based streamlined feedback system control (s-FSC) method, based on a ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Kinetics of Ultrasonic Drug Delivery from Targeted Micelles

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

To minimize the adverse side effects of conventional chemotherapy, a targeted micellar drug carrier was investigated that retains hydrophobic drugs in its core and then releases the drug via ultrasonic activation. This paper compares the percent drug relea ...

Amer Scientific Publishers2015

Next-generation antimicrobials: from chemical biology to first-in-class drugs

Paul Murima

The global emergence of multi-drug resistant bacteria invokes an urgent and imperative necessity for the identification of novel antimicrobials. The general lack of success in progressing novel chemical entities from target-based drug screens have prompted ...

Pharmaceutical Soc Korea2015

Drug discovery through stem cell-based organoid models

Matthias Lütolf, Adrian Ranga, Nikolche Gjorevski

The development of new drugs is currently a long and costly process in large part due to the failure of promising drug candidates identified in initial in vitro screens to perform as intended in vivo. New approaches to drug screening are being developed wh ...

Elsevier2014

Safe Implementation of Embedded Software for a Portable Device Supporting Drug Administration

Giovanni De Micheli, Yann Thoma, Alena Simalatsar, Wenqi You Dubout

Poor adherence to medical regimen causes approximately 33% to 69% of medication-related hospitalizations and accounts for $100 billion in annual health care costs. In this paper we address the problem of unintentional non adherence, when patient fails to t ...

IEEE2014

Inferring about individual drug and schizotypy effects on cognitive functioning in polydrug using mephedrone users before and after clubbing

Christine Mohr, Daniela Herzig

Objective Mephedrone has been recently made illegal in Europe, but little empirical evidence is available on its impact on human cognitive functions. We investigated acute and chronic effects of mephedrone consumption on drug-sensitive cognitive measures, ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Dual and multi-stimuli responsive polymeric nanoparticles for programmed site-specific drug delivery

Harm-Anton Klok

In the past decades, polymeric nanoparticles have emerged as a most promising and viable technology platform for targeted and controlled drug delivery. As vehicles, ideal nanoparticles are obliged to possess high drug loading levels, deliver drug to the sp ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

Personalized Drug Administrations Using Support Vector Machine

Giovanni De Micheli, Alena Simalatsar, Wenqi You Dubout

The decision-making process regarding drug dose, regularly used in everyday medical practice, is critical to patients’ health and recovery. It is a challenging process, especially for a drug with narrow therapeutic ranges, in which a medical doctor decides ...

2013

Investigating the acoustic release of doxorubicin from targeted micelles

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

The main problem associated with the administration of anti-cancer medication is that the drug is delivered throughout the body causing undesirable side effects. Therefore, it is important to synthesize drug carriers capable of minimizing the adverse side ...

Elsevier2013

Enumeration of 166 Billion Organic Small Molecules in the Chemical Universe Database GDB-17

Drug, molecules consist of a few tens of atoms connected by covalent bonds. Haw many such molecules are possible in total and what is their structure? This question is of pressing interest in: medicinal. chemistry to help solve the problems of drug potency ...

American Chemical Society2012