background hymenodictyon excelsum is a medicinal plant traditionally used for tumor treatment as it contains phytochemicals of anthraquinone and coumarin class. objectives the aim of the present study was to unfold the therapeutic value of selected phytocompounds of hymenodictyon excelsum in prostate cancer. materials and methods eight phytochemicals were selected based on the literature search...

Structure-based drug discovery (SBDD) is becoming an essential tool in assisting fast and cost-efficient lead discovery and optimization. The application of rational, structure-based drug design is proven to be more efficient than the traditional way of drug discovery since it aims to understand the molecular basis of a disease and utilizes the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of th...

Fluorescence-detected stopped flow kinetics are reported for binding of pyrene (pyr) labeled oligonucleotide substrates, pyrCUCUA and pyrCCUCUA, to the L-21 ScaI ribozyme from Tetrahymena thermophila. Both oligomer substrates contain a UA sequence that mimics the cleavage site where pG attacks the self-splicing group I intron from which the ribozyme was derived. Kinetics were measured in the pr...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as a complicated and progressive neurodegenerative disorder is the most common form of dementia and memory loss. On account of the multifactorial etiology of AD, the multi-target-directed ligand (MTDL) approach is a promising method in searching new drug candidates for this disease. Here, in this paper more than 500 tacrine-coumarin hybrids have been designed and drug-l...

Gap junction (GJ) channels mediate direct intercellular communication and are composed of two docked hemichannels (connexin oligomers). It is well documented that the docking and formation of GJs are possible only between compatible hemichannels (or connexins). The mechanisms of heterotypic docking compatibility are not fully clear. We aligned the protein sequences of docking-compatible and -in...

Tail docking of piglets is a routine procedure on farms to control tail-biting behaviour; however, docking can cause an acute stress response. The objectives of this research were to determine the stress responses to tail docking in piglets and to compare two methods of tail docking; cautery iron (CAUT) and the more commonly used blunt trauma cutters (BT). At approximately 6 days of age, piglet...

Interaction profile method is a useful method for processing rigid-body docking. After the docking process, the resulting set of docking poses could be classified by calculating similarities among them using these interaction profiles to search for near-native poses. However, there are some cases where the near-native poses are not included in this set of docking poses even when the bound-state...

there are different strategies for selecting stocks, and different investors use different strategies according to their risk tolerance or their expected rate of return. in this study, the profitability of a broad range of stock se-lection strategies in tehran stock exchange over the period 1370-1383, has been examined, and it has been investigated whether the successful strategies in other cou...

Objective: Overexpression of AcrAB-TolC protein complex is often associated with the virulence of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Development of an effective efflux pump inhibitors (EPI) can be a major strategy to enhance the effectivity of current antibiotics and to restrain the menace of antibiotic resistance among bacteria. Molecular docking based assessment of anticancer drugs as EPI with com...