Targeting adipokines in polycystic ovary syndrome and related metabolic disorders: from experimental insights to clinical studies

Y Xu, H Zhu, W Li, D Chen, Y Xu, A Xu, D Ye - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects approximately 15% of women of reproductive age
worldwide. It is the most prevalent endocrine disorder with marked risks for female infertility …

DNA-encoded chemical libraries yield non-covalent and non-peptidic SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors

R Jimmidi, S Chamakuri, S Lu, MN Ucisik… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The development of SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) inhibitors for the treatment of
COVID-19 has mostly benefitted from X-ray structures and preexisting knowledge of …

Recent Advances in the Discovery of Novel Drugs on Natural Molecules

L Quintieri, L Caputo, O Nicolotti - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Natural products (NPs) are always a promising source of novel drugs for tackling unsolved
diseases [1–3]. Natural molecules have addressed the rational design of many synthetic …

Development of S-aryl dithiocarbamate derived novel antiproliferative compound exhibiting tubulin bundling

S Jaiswal, SK Parida, S Murarka, P Singh - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer is a leading cause of human death, and there is a need to identify efficient and novel
chemical scaffolds which could provide flexibility to cancer chemotherapeutics. This work …

Rational computational approaches in drug discovery: Potential inhibitors for allosteric regulation of mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 enzyme in cancers

M Thamim, AK Agrahari, P Gupta, K Thirumoorthy - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mutations in homodimeric isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) enzymes at specific arginine
residues result in the abnormal activity to overproduce D-2 hydroxyglutarate (D-2HG), which …

Synthesis and cytotoxic/antimicrobial screening of 2-alkenylimidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidines

A Ramírez-Trinidad, K Carrillo-Jaimes… - Medicinal Chemistry …, 2023 - Springer
Polyaza-heterocycles show a plethora of biological properties and represent a significant
percentage of clinically used drugs. However, the imizado [1, 2-a] pyrimidine ring system …

The prognostic value and response to immunotherapy of immunogenic cell death-associated genes in breast cancer

R Zhao, W Wang, L Pan, X Lv, Y He, W Lian… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer (BRCA) remains the most prevalent cancer worldwide and the tumor
microenvironment (TME) has been discovered to exert a wide influence on the overall …

Investigating the immune mechanism of natural products in the treatment of lung cancer

L Yang, Y Chen, K Liu, Y Chen, Y Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
With the deepening of people's understanding of lung cancer, the research of lung cancer
immunotherapy has gradually become the focus of attention. As we all know, the treatment …

Investigating impacts of the mycothiazole chemotype as a chemical probe for the study of mitochondrial function and aging

N Dutta, JA Gerke, SF Odron, JD Morris, A Hruby, J Kim… - GeroScience, 2024 - Springer
Small molecule inhibitors of the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) hold significant
promise to provide valuable insights to the field of mitochondrial research and aging biology …

A deep learning based multi-model approach for predicting drug-like chemical compound's toxicity

KM Saravanan, JF Wan, L Dai, J Zhang, JZH Zhang… - Methods, 2024 - Elsevier
Ensuring the safety and efficacy of chemical compounds is crucial in small-molecule drug
development. In the later stages of drug development, toxic compounds pose a significant …