Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

  Volume 1, Number 1, July, 2000

Contents

 

Preface  

 

Rituximab:  The First Monoclonal Antibody Approved for the Treatment of Lymphoma

A.J. Grillo-López, C.A. White, B.K. Dallaire, C.L. Varns, C.D. Shen, A. Wei,

J.E. Leonard, A. McClure, R. Weaver, S. Cairelli and J. Rosenberg

 

Use of Recombinant Human Erythropoietin as an Antianemic and Performance Enhancing Drug

W. Jelkmann

 

Growth Velocity, Final Height and Bone Mineral Metabolism of Short Children Treated Long Term with Growth Hormone

Roberto Lanes

 

Advances in Biotechnology for Tissue Engineering of Bone

U. Ripamonti and J.R Tasker

 

Transcription Factors as Potential Targets for Therapeutic Drugs

David S. Latchman

 

Modulation of Metabolism Through Transcriptional Control has created New Treatment Opportunities for Type 2 Diabetes

Esper Boel, Tatjana Albrektsen, Jan Fleckner and Johan Selmer

 

The Chick Embryo Chorioallantoic Membrane as a Model for in vivo Research on Anti-Angiogenesis

Domenico Ribatti, Angelo Vacca, Luisa Roncali and Franco Dammacco

 

Toward The Rational Design of Cell Fate Modifiers: Notch Signaling as a Target for Novel Biopharmaceuticals

A. Zlobin, M. Jang and L. Miele

 

Inhibition of Cellular Proliferation by Drug Targeting of Cyclin-Dependent Kinases

Ignacio Pérez-Roger, Carmen Ivorra, Antonio Díez, María José Cortés,

Enric Poch, Silvia M. Sanz-González and Vicente Andrés

 


This is to acknowledge that the slide shown on the front cover of this was journal kindly supplied by Dr. Rekha Panchal, Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia. The Figure shows Bouquet of Pores: Aerolysin (left; proposed heptameric model, PDB supplied by Michael Parker), Porin (Centre Top; PDB ld: 1OSM), a-hemolysin (Right; PDB ld: 7AHL), Gramicidin A (Centre Bottom; PDB Id: 1GRM)