Publications by authors named "Esakkimuthukumar M"

Today's pharmaceutical products are seeing a massive increase in impurity profiling. A drug substance or product will inevitably contain contaminants in trace amounts. According to pharmaceutical chemistry, impurities are undesirable substances found in pharmaceutical compounds with therapeutic activity.

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Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease character-ized by inflammation and joint destruction, leading to significant disability and reduced quality of life. Current treatment options for RA have limitations, highlighting the need for novel therapeu-tic approaches. In this study, we employed network pharmacology methods to identify potential bioactive compounds from Persea Americana (avocado) for the treatment of RA.

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Hydroxyurea (HU) has shown promise in breast cancer treatment, but its hydrophilic nature limits its efficacy. Therefore, conjugating HU with lipids could increase its liphophilicity and improve its cellular uptake, leading to increased efficacy and reduced toxicity. The PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway is an attractive therapeutic target in cancer not only because it is the second most frequently altered pathway after p53, but also because it serves as a convergence point for many stimuli.

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Interleukin-6 upregulation leads to various acute phase reactions such as local inflammation and systemic inflammation in many diseases like cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, anemia, and Alzheimer's disease stimulating JAK/STAT3, Ras/MAPK, PI3K-PKB/Akt pathogenic pathways. Since no small molecules are available in the market against IL-6 till now, we have designed a class of small bioactive 1,3 - indanedione (IDC) molecules for inhibiting IL-6 using a decagonal approach computational studies. The IL-6 mutations were mapped in the IL-6 protein (PDB ID: 1ALU) from thorough pharmacogenomic and proteomics studies.

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Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1α) is a crucial regulator of wound healing, which includes epithelialization, angiogenesis, granulation, tissue development, and wound contraction. Even though diabetic wounds are hypoxic, HIF-1α levels are decreased during healing. Diabetic wound healing necessitates the modulation of hypoxia-induced responses by VHL-HIF-1α protein-protein inhibition.

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