1, 4-Naphthoquinones: some biological properties and application

D Aminin, S Polonik - Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Over the past decade, a number of new 1, 4-naphthoquinones have been isolated from
natural sources and new 1, 4-naphthoquinones with diverse structural features have been …

Antimalarial application of quinones: A recent update

OPS Patel, RM Beteck, LJ Legoabe - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Atovaquone belongs to a naphthoquinone class of drugs and is used in combination with
proguanil (Malarone) for the treatment of acute, uncomplicated malaria caused by …

Effects of traditional Chinese medicine and its active ingredients on drug-resistant bacteria

J Li, S Feng, X Liu, X Jia, F Qiao, J Guo… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The increasing and widespread application of antibacterial drugs makes antibiotic
resistance a prominent and growing concern in clinical practice. The emergence of …

Synergistic and Additive Effects of Menadione in Combination with Antibiotics on Multidrug‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Insights from Structure‐Function …

NS Mone, S Syed, P Ravichandiran… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) interferes with the effective treatment of infections and
increases the risk of microbial spread and infection‐related illness and death. The …

[HTML][HTML] An overview on the antibacterial properties of juglone, naphthazarin, plumbagin and lawsone derivatives and their metal complexes

C Majdi, V Duvauchelle, P Meffre… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacterial resistance development represents a serious threat to human health across the
globe and has become a very serious clinical problem for many classes of antibiotics …

Synthesis and antimicrobial evaluation of 1, 4‐naphthoquinone derivatives as potential antibacterial agents

P Ravichandiran, M Masłyk, S Sheet… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Naphthoquinones are an important class of compounds present in a number of natural
products. In this study, a new series of 1, 4‐naphthoquinone derivatives were synthesized …

Novel lawsone-containing ruthenium (II) complexes: Synthesis, characterization and anticancer activity on 2D and 3D spheroid models of prostate cancer cells

RA De Grandis, PWS Dos Santos, KM de Oliveira… - Bioorganic …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study describes a series of newly synthesized phosphine/diimine ruthenium complexes
containing the lawsone as bioligand with enhanced cytotoxicity against different cancer …

Spectroscopic and in silico characterization of the interaction between synthetic 2-substituted-naphtho-1, 4-quinones and human serum albumin

ML da Silva Moreira, OA Chaves, NC de Lucas… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
The intermolecular interaction between 2-(N-phenyl-N-methyl) aminonaphtho-1, 4-quinone
(1) and 2-(4-N-methylaminophenyl) naphtho-1, 4-quinone (2) and human serum albumin …

Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG microcapsules inhibit Escherichia coli biofilm formation in coculture

H Song, J Zhang, J Qu, J Liu, P Yin, G Zhang… - Biotechnology …, 2019 - Springer
Objectives Microbial biofilms have become one of the most significant causes of nosocomial
infections. The aim of this study was to examine the potential quorum sensing inhibitor …

Evaluation of 1, 4-naphthoquinone derivatives as antibacterial agents: Activity and mechanistic studies

Z Liu, Z Shen, S Xiang, Y Sun, J Cui, J Jia - Frontiers of Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
The diverse and large-scale application of disinfectants posed potential health risks and
caused ecological damage during the 2019-nCoV pandemic, thereby increasing the …