Bacteriophages as potential new therapeutics to replace or supplement antibiotics

M Kutateladze, R Adamia - Trends in biotechnology, 2010 - cell.com
Over recent decades, a growing body of literature has validated the use of bacteriophages
for therapy and prophylaxis in the war against drug-resistant bacteria. Today, much more is …

Drug resistance in brain diseases and the role of drug efflux transporters

W Löscher, H Potschka - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2005 - nature.com
Resistance to drug treatment is an important hurdle in the therapy of many brain disorders,
including brain cancer, epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression and infection of the brain with …

The transcriptional responses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to inhibitors of metabolism: novel insights into drug mechanisms of action

HIM Boshoff, TG Myers, BR Copp, MR McNeil… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - jbc.org
The differential transcriptional response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to drugs and growth-
inhibitory conditions was monitored to generate a data set of 430 microarray profiles …

The magic bullets and tuberculosis drug targets

Y Zhang - Annu. Rev. Pharmacol. Toxicol., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Modern chemotherapy has played a major role in our control of tuberculosis. Yet
tuberculosis still remains a leading infectious disease worldwide, largely owing to …

Pseudomonas Aeruginosa: Arsenal of Resistance Mechanisms, Decades of Changing Resistance Profiles, and Future Antimicrobial Therapies

ME El Zowalaty, AA Al Thani, TJ Webster… - Future …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most serious public health issues facing humans since
the discovery of antimicrobial agents. The frequent, prolonged, and uncontrolled use of …

Bacteriophage orphan DNA methyltransferases: insights from their bacterial origin, function, and occurrence

J Murphy, J Mahony, S Ainsworth, A Nauta… - Applied and …, 2013 - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT Type II DNA methyltransferases (MTases) are enzymes found ubiquitously in
the prokaryotic world, where they play important roles in several cellular processes, such as …

Possible biological and clinical applications of phenothiazines

B Varga, Á Csonka, A Csonka, J Molnar… - Anticancer …, 2017 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Phenothiazines have been used in many areas of medicine, mainly in psychopharmacology.
These compounds are able to effectively inhibit dopamine, histamine, serotonin …

Inhibitors of type II NADH: menaquinone oxidoreductase represent a class of antitubercular drugs

EA Weinstein, T Yano, LS Li, D Avarbock… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - pnas.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an obligate aerobe that is capable of long-term
persistence under conditions of low oxygen tension. Analysis of the Mtb genome predicts the …

A review of the interplay between tuberculosis and mental health

AM Doherty, J Kelly, C McDonald, AM O'Dywer… - General hospital …, 2013 - Elsevier
AIMS: Tuberculosis and mental illness share common risk factors including homelessness,
HIV positive serology, alcohol/substance abuse and migrant status leading to frequent …

Synergistic drug combinations for tuberculosis therapy identified by a novel high-throughput screen

S Ramón-García, C Ng, H Anderson… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2011 - journals.asm.org
Therapeutic options for tuberculosis (TB) are limited and notoriously ineffective despite the
wide variety of potent antibiotics available for treating other bacterial infections. We …