Exploring Carbohydrates for Therapeutics: A Review on Future Directions

Carbohydrates are important components of foods and essential biomolecules performing various biological functions in living systems. A variety of biological activities besides providing fuel have been explored and reported for carbohydrates. Some carbohydrates have been approved for the treatment o...

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Autores principales: Wang, Jie, Zhang, Yukun, Lu, Qi, Xing, Dongming, Zhang, Renshuai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Pharmacology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8634948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34867374
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.756724
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Zhang, Yukun
Lu, Qi
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description Carbohydrates are important components of foods and essential biomolecules performing various biological functions in living systems. A variety of biological activities besides providing fuel have been explored and reported for carbohydrates. Some carbohydrates have been approved for the treatment of various diseases; however, carbohydrate-containing drugs represent only a small portion of all of the drugs on the market. This review summarizes several potential development directions of carbohydrate-containing therapeutics, with the hope of promoting the application of carbohydrates in drug development.
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spelling pubmed-86349482021-12-02 Exploring Carbohydrates for Therapeutics: A Review on Future Directions Wang, Jie Zhang, Yukun Lu, Qi Xing, Dongming Zhang, Renshuai Front Pharmacol Pharmacology Carbohydrates are important components of foods and essential biomolecules performing various biological functions in living systems. A variety of biological activities besides providing fuel have been explored and reported for carbohydrates. Some carbohydrates have been approved for the treatment of various diseases; however, carbohydrate-containing drugs represent only a small portion of all of the drugs on the market. This review summarizes several potential development directions of carbohydrate-containing therapeutics, with the hope of promoting the application of carbohydrates in drug development. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8634948/ /pubmed/34867374 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.756724 Text en Copyright © 2021 Wang, Zhang, Lu, Xing and Zhang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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