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Molecules, Volume 24, Issue 5

March-1 2019 - 176 articles

Cover Story: The race to develop glycosaminoglycan (GAG) mimetics as the drug of choice for ailments ranging from cancer to inflammation is heating up. The development of any new drug class, however, comes with challenges. Moving from animal models to clinical trials is an important step, and, often, the preclinical data do not translate well to the clinical setting. Increasingly, it is being understood that the choice of animal species used in preclinical testing is of critical importance. For GAG mimetics, making an informed choice has been difficult. However, we are now proposing a method based on a range of comparative modelling techniques that will transform this process. The application of our method should lead to data that better translate to the clinical stages, and, hence, reduce the risks of moving from preclinical to clinical trials. View this paper.
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Articles (176)

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,191 Views
15 Pages

Menopause is associated with changes in body composition (a decline in lean body mass and an increase in total fat mass), leading to an increased risk of metabolic syndrome, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and heart disease. A healthy diet to contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,548 Views
13 Pages

Multi-year Quantitative Evaluation of Stilbenoids Levels Among Selected Muscadine Grape Cultivars

  • Devaiah M. Kambiranda,
  • Sheikh M. Basha,
  • Stephen J. Stringer,
  • James O. Obuya and
  • Janana J. Snowden

Stilbenoids such as t-piceid, t-resveratrol, ε-viniferins, and t-pterostilbene can differ significantly among grape cultivars and years due to variation in environmental conditions and subsequent stressors encountered during a year. This stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,811 Views
18 Pages

Glycosylation of 6-amino-4-methoxy-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine and its iodo- and bromo- analogues with the protected ribofuranose and 2′-deoxyribofuranose under different conditions resulted in the synthesis of N9- and N8-glycosylated purine n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,223 Views
14 Pages

The Maillard reaction (MR) is responsible for the development of color, taste and aroma in bakery products though the formation of numerous aroma compounds such as pyrazines, pyrroles and aldehydes, nonvolatile taste active compounds and melanoidins....

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,097 Views
16 Pages

Evolution and Antibacterial Evaluation of 8-Hydroxy-cycloberberine Derivatives as a Novel Family of Antibacterial Agents Against MRSA

  • Yuan-Shuai Yang,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Xin-Xin Hu,
  • Sheng Tang,
  • Jing Pang,
  • Xue-Fu You,
  • Tian-Yun Fan,
  • Yan-Xiang Wang and
  • Dan-Qing Song

Twenty-five new derivatives of 8-hydroxycycloberberine (1) were synthesized and evaluated for their activities against Gram-positive bacteria, taking 1 as the lead. Part of them displayed satisfactory antibacterial activities against methicillin-susc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,598 Views
14 Pages

Synthesis and Broad Antiviral Activity of Novel 2-aryl-isoindolin-1-ones towards Diverse Enterovirus A71 Clinical Isolates

  • Yixuan Wang,
  • Huiqiang Wang,
  • Xinbei Jiang,
  • Zhi Jiang,
  • Tingting Guo,
  • Xingyue Ji,
  • Yanping Li,
  • Yuhuan Li and
  • Zhuorong Li

Enterovirus 71 (EV-A71) is the main causative pathogen of childhood hand, foot and mouth disease. Effective medicine is currently unavailable for the treatment of this viral disease. Using the fragment-hopping strategy, a series of 2-aryl-isoindolin-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,974 Views
17 Pages

Hydrodistillation Extraction Kinetics Regression Models for Essential Oil Yield and Composition in Juniperus virginiana, J. excelsa, and J. sabina

  • Ivanka B. Semerdjieva,
  • Santosh Shiwakoti,
  • Charles L. Cantrell,
  • Valtcho D. Zheljazkov,
  • Tess Astatkie,
  • Vicki Schlegel and
  • Tzenka Radoukova

The chemical profile and antioxidant capacity of Juniperus virginiana, J. excelsa, and J. sabina essential oil (EO) fractions as a function of time was the subject of this study. The hypothesis was that, capturing EO in sequential timeframes during h...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,343 Views
21 Pages

Vasodilation Elicited by Isoxsuprine, Identified by High-Throughput Virtual Screening of Compound Libraries, Involves Activation of the NO/cGMP and H2S/KATP Pathways and Blockade of α1-Adrenoceptors and Calcium Channels

  • Daniella Medina-Ruiz,
  • Berenice Erreguin-Luna,
  • Francisco J. Luna-Vázquez,
  • Antonio Romo-Mancillas,
  • Alejandra Rojas-Molina and
  • César Ibarra-Alvarado

Recently, our research group demonstrated that uvaol and ursolic acid increase NO and H2S production in aortic tissue. Molecular docking studies showed that both compounds bind with high affinity to endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) and cystathionine ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,463 Views
30 Pages

Green and Facile Assembly of Diverse Fused N-Heterocycles Using Gold-Catalyzed Cascade Reactions in Water

  • Xiuwen Jia,
  • Pinyi Li,
  • Xiaoyan Liu,
  • Jiafu Lin,
  • Yiwen Chu,
  • Jinhai Yu,
  • Jiang Wang,
  • Hong Liu and
  • Fei Zhao

The present study describes an AuPPh3Cl/AgSbF6-catalyzed cascade reaction between amine nucleophiles and alkynoic acids in water. This process proceeds in high step economy with water as the sole coproduct, and leads to the generation of two rings, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,354 Views
12 Pages

Quantitative Characterization of Olaparib in Nanodelivery System and Target Cell Compartments by LC-MS/MS

  • Roberta Ottria,
  • Alessandro Ravelli,
  • Matteo Miceli,
  • Sara Casati,
  • Marica Orioli and
  • Pierangela Ciuffreda

Olaparib, an orally active inhibitor of poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase(PARP), is the drug of choice in the treatment of gBRCA1/2+ metastatic breast cancers. Unfortunately, Olaparib is poorly soluble with low bioavailability and tumor accumulation; nano-d...

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