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Peter M Fischer

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Nottingham
Verified email at nottingham.ac.uk
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[HTML][HTML] Untangling tau hyperphosphorylation in drug design for neurodegenerative diseases

MP Mazanetz, PM Fischer - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2007 - nature.com
Aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau is one of the characteristic neuropathological
lesions of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Pharmacological …

Cyclin-dependent kinase 9: a key transcriptional regulator and potential drug target in oncology, virology and cardiology

S Wang, PM Fischer - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2008 - cell.com
Unlike other CDKs, CDK9 does not regulate the cell cycle but promotes RNA synthesis in
genetic programmes for cell growth, differentiation and viral pathogenesis. It is becoming …

Diketopiperazines in peptide and combinatorial chemistry

PM Fischer - Journal of peptide science: an official publication …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Diketopiperazines (DKPs), the smallest cyclic peptides, represent an important class of
biologically active natural products and their research has been fundamental to many …

Brand logo recognition by children aged 3 to 6 years: Mickey Mouse and Old Joe the Camel

PM Fischer, MP Schwartz, JW Richards, AO Goldstein… - Jama, 1991 - jamanetwork.com
Objective.—Little is known about the influence of advertising on very young children. We,
therefore, measured product logo recognition by subjects aged 3 to 6 years. Design …

Oral treatment targeting the unfolded protein response prevents neurodegeneration and clinical disease in prion-infected mice

JA Moreno, M Halliday, C Molloy, H Radford… - Science translational …, 2013 - science.org
During prion disease, an increase in misfolded prion protein (PrP) generated by prion
replication leads to sustained overactivation of the branch of the unfolded protein response …

In vitro and in vivo antitumor properties of the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor CYC202 (R‐roscovitine)

SJ McClue, D Blake, R Clarke, A Cowan… - … journal of cancer, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
CDK2 inhibitors have been proposed as effective anti‐cancer therapeutics. We show here
that CYC202 (R‐roscovitine) is a potent inhibitor of recombinant CDK2/cyclin E kinase …

[HTML][HTML] Partial restoration of protein synthesis rates by the small molecule ISRIB prevents neurodegeneration without pancreatic toxicity

M Halliday, H Radford, Y Sekine, J Moreno… - Cell death & …, 2015 - nature.com
Activation of the PERK branch of the unfolded protein response (UPR) in response to protein
misfolding within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) results in the transient repression of …

4-Arylazo-3,5-diamino-1H-pyrazole CDK Inhibitors:  SAR Study, Crystal Structure in Complex with CDK2, Selectivity, and Cellular Effects

V Kryštof, P Cankař, I Fryšová, J Slouka… - Journal of medicinal …, 2006 - ACS Publications
In a routine screening of our small-molecule compound collection we recently identified 4-
arylazo-3, 5-diamino-1 H-pyrazoles as a novel group of ATP antagonists with moderate …

Mutations in a translation initiation factor identify the target of a memory-enhancing compound

Y Sekine, A Zyryanova, A Crespillo-Casado… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The integrated stress response (ISR) modulates messenger RNA translation to regulate the
mammalian unfolded protein response (UPR), immunity, and memory formation. A chemical …

Adolescents' attention to beer and cigarette print ads and associated product warnings

RJ Fox, DM Krugman, JE Fletcher… - Journal of …, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
Much of the controversy surrounding the advertising of tobacco and alcohol products
concerns the impact on young people. Eye tracking was used to determine how a large …