Poly-drug use refers to the use of two or more substances at the one time or repeatedly. It is common among both recreational and regular drug users across the world. Poly-drug use is a great contributor to the global number of deaths related to drug overdose. In this case, the likelihood of drug overdose and its pertaining complications in an individual is higher especially when benzodiazepine...

This review attempts to portray the discovery and development of anticancer agents/drugs from diverse natural sources. Natural molecules from these natural sources including plants, microbes and marine organisms have been the basis of treatment of human diseases since the ancient times. Compounds derived from nature have been important sources of new drugs and also serve as templates for synthe...

OBJECTIVES With the increasing use of oral antineoplastic agents in cancer management, patients and family members need to understand of how to obtain, safely handle, and store the medication, how and when the medications should be taken, and when to report toxic side effects to accomplish efficacious treatment. DATA SOURCES Research-based articles and conference presentations. CONCLUSION C...

OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of drug use in children in three European countries. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study, 2000-5. SETTING Primary care research databases in the Netherlands (IPCI), United Kingdom (IMS-DA), and Italy (Pedianet). PARTICIPANTS 675 868 children aged up to 14 (Italy) or 18 (UK and Netherlands). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Prevalence of use per year calculated by drug...

Mitochondrial transplantation (MT) is a new experimental approach that has demonstrated positive results reverting mitochondrial alterations in cardiac and kidney dysfunction mainly mediated by oxidative stress. On the other hand, cisplatin an effective widely used antineoplastic drug treating several cancers; however, notorious side effects different organs, such as heart, kidneys, liver, brai...

We describe herein for the first time our medicinal electronomics bricolage design of hypoxiatargeting antineoplastic drugs and boron tracedrugs as newly emerging drug classes. A new area of antineoplastic drugs and treatments has recently focused on neoplastic cells of the tumor environment/microenvironment involving accessory cells. This tumor hypoxic environment is now considered as a major ...

Mesenchymal stromal cells are a population of undifferentiated multipotent adult cells possessing extensive self-renewal properties and the potential to differentiate into a variety of mesenchymal lineage cells. They express broad anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory activity on the immune system and after transplantation can interact with the surrounding microenvironment, promoting tissue he...

The prototype taxane antineoplastic agent paclitaxel, was first isolated from the bark of the Western yew tree in 1971. It and its congener, the semisynthetic derivative docetaxel, display unique pharmacodynamics as mitotic spindle poisons, differing from the vinca alkaloids and colchicine derivatives in that they bind to a distinct site on β-tubulin and promote rather than inhibit microtubule ...