Esteve Foundation Symposia | Dr. Antonio Esteve's Fundation

Jun182007

Molecular biology and pharmacology of tissue repair

Diseases associated with impaired tissue repair are common clinical problems. Therefore, the elucidation of the molecular basis of normal and impaired repair will help to define new therapeutic targets to alleviate and eventually cure these illnesses. Furthermore, recent studies have revealed remarkable similarities between tissue repair and cancer at the cellular and molecular level. Thus,…

May182005

Drug transport(ers) and the diseased brain

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a selective device that acts as a filter between circulating blood and brain tissues, in order to prevent the penetration of harmful substances into the brain. However, this benefit of preventing the entry of harmful substances becomes an obstacle to the efficacy of certain drugs that exert their therapeutic effect…

Jun182003

Inverse agonism

This tenth volume of the Esteve Foundation gathers existing data, new findings and future perspectives related to reverse agonism. Its contents is the result of the symposium held in S’Agaró (Girona) in 2002, moderated by Adriaan Ijzerman, from the Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research. Twenty-three submissions were presented, one of them by the only Spanish representative,…