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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ana I. Casas

Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
Verified email at maastrichtuniversity.nl
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[HTML][HTML] Network pharmacology: curing causal mechanisms instead of treating symptoms

…, ZM Mamdouh, M List, C Kiel, AI Casas… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
For complex diseases, most drugs are highly ineffective, and the success rate of drug
discovery is in constant decline. While low quality, reproducibility issues, and translational …

[HTML][HTML] European contribution to the study of ROS: A summary of the findings and prospects for the future from the COST action BM1203 (EU-ROS)

…, A Bindoli, SP Bottari, PM Brito, G Carrara, AI Casas… - Redox biology, 2017 - Elsevier
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) provides an ideal
framework to establish multi-disciplinary research networks. COST Action BM1203 (EU-ROS) …

Reactive oxygen-related diseases: therapeutic targets and emerging clinical indications

AI Casas, VTV Dao, A Daiber, GJ Maghzal… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2015 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Enhanced levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been associated with
different disease states. Most attempts to validate and exploit these associations by chronic …

Transgenic sorghum plants via microprojectile bombardment.

AM Casas, AK Kononowicz, UB Zehr… - Proceedings of the …, 1993 - National Acad Sciences
Transgenic sorghum plants have been obtained after microprojectile bombardment of
immature zygotic embryos of a drought-resistant sorghum cultivar, P898012. DNA delivery …

From single drug targets to synergistic network pharmacology in ischemic stroke

AI Casas, AA Hassan, SJ Larsen… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Drug discovery faces an efficacy crisis to which ineffective mainly single-target and symptom-based
rather than mechanistic approaches have contributed. We here explore a mechanism…

On the clinical pharmacology of reactive oxygen species

AI Casas, C Nogales, HAM Mucke, A Petraina… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - ASPET
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been correlated with almost every human disease. Yet
clinical exploitation of these hypotheses by pharmacological modulation of ROS has been …

NOX4-dependent neuronal autotoxicity and BBB breakdown explain the superior sensitivity of the brain to ischemic damage

AI Casas, E Geuss, PWM Kleikers… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Ischemic injury represents the most frequent cause of death and disability, and it remains
unclear why, of all body organs, the brain is most sensitive to hypoxia. In many tissues, type 4 …

[HTML][HTML] Network medicine for disease module identification and drug repurposing with the NeDRex platform

…, K Flanagan, S Cockell, C Nogales, AI Casas… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Traditional drug discovery faces a severe efficacy crisis. Repurposing of registered drugs
provides an alternative with lower costs and faster drug development timelines. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Lower breast cancer risk among women following the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research lifestyle recommendations …

A Castello, M Martin, A Ruiz, AM Casas… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background According to the “World Cancer Research Fund” and the “American Institute of
Cancer Research” (WCRF/AICR) one in four cancer cases could be prevented through a …

Agmatine, by improving neuroplasticity markers and inducing Nrf2, prevents corticosterone-induced depressive-like behavior in mice

…, E Parada, E Navarro, AI Casas… - Molecular …, 2016 - Springer
Agmatine, an endogenous neuromodulator, is a potential candidate to constitute an
adjuvant/monotherapy for the management of depression. A recent study by our group …