Are cocaine-seeking “habits” necessary for the development of addiction-like behavior in rats? [PDF]
Drug self-administration models of addiction typically require animals to make the same response (e.g., a lever-press or nose-poke) over and over to procure and take drugs.
Fadanelli, Monica +3 more
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Depth of anesthesia control using internal model control techniques [PDF]
The major difficulty in the design of closed-loop control during anaesthesia is the inherent patient variability due to differences in demographic and drug tolerance.
Anna, Shahab, Wen, Peng
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Rational Drug Design Paradigms: The Odyssey for Designing Better Drugs
Due to the time and effort requirements for the development of a new drug, and the high attrition rates associated with this developmental process, there is an intense effort by academic and industrial researchers to find novel ways for more effective drug development schemes.
Kellici T +13 more
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A novel multifunctional biomedical material based on polyacrylonitrile:preparation and characterization [PDF]
Wet spun microfibers have great potential in the design of multifunctional controlled release materials. Curcumin (Cur) and vitamin E acetate (Vit. E Ac) were used as a model drug system to evaluate the potential application of the drug-loaded microfiber
Bremner, David H. +6 more
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AI-based disease risk score for community-acquired pneumonia hospitalization
Summary: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an acute infection involving the parenchyma of the lungs, which is acquired outside of the hospital. Population-wide real-world data and artificial intelligence (AI) were used to develop a disease risk score
Saeed Shakibfar +2 more
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Background Sleep disorders (SDs) are a symptom of the prodromal phase of neurodegenerative disorders that are mechanistically linked to the protein α-synuclein (α-syn) including Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Altair Brito Dos Santos +7 more
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The efficiency of multi-target drugs: the network approach might help drug design
Despite considerable progress in genome- and proteome-based high-throughput screening methods and rational drug design, the number of successful single target drugs did not increase appreciably during the past decade.
Agoston, Vilmos +2 more
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Modular assembly of indole alkaloids enabled by multicomponent reaction
Indole alkaloids are one of the largest alkaloid classes, proving valuable structural moiety in pharmaceuticals. Although methods for the synthesis of indole alkaloids are constantly explored, the direct single-step synthesis of these chemical entities ...
Jiaming Li +4 more
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Mining Frequency of Drug Side Effects Over a Large Twitter Dataset Using Apache Spark [PDF]
Despite clinical trials by pharmaceutical companies as well as current FDA reporting systems, there are still drug side effects that have not been caught. To find a larger sample of reports, a possible way is to mine online social media. With its current
Hsu, Dennis
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Lead optimisation of dehydroemetine for repositioned use in malaria [PDF]
Drug repositioning offers an effective alternative to de novo drug design to tackle the urgent need for novel anti-malarial treatments. The anti-amoebic compound, emetine dihydrochloride, has been identified as a potent in-vitro inhibitor of the multi ...
Abubaker, M +8 more
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