Xanthone derivatives: new insights in biological activities

MMM Pinto, ME Sousa… - Current medicinal …, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
Xanthones or 9H-xanthen-9-ones (dibenzo-γ-pirone) comprise an important class of
oxygenated heterocycles whose role is well-known in Medicinal Chemistry. The biological …

[Retracted] Naturally Occurring Xanthones: Chemistry and Biology

JS Negi, VK Bisht, P Singh… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Xanthones are one of the biggest classes of compounds in natural product chemistry. A
number of xanthones have been isolated from natural sources of higher plants, fungi, ferns …

Quantum chemical investigation and statistical analysis of the relationship between corrosion inhibition efficiency and molecular structure of xanthene and its …

NO Obi-Egbedi, IB Obot, MI El-Khaiary - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2011 - Elsevier
A density functional theory (DFT) study of xanthene (XEN) and two of its derivatives namely
xanthone (XAN) and xanthione (XION) recently used as corrosion inhibitors for mild steel in …

Antimalarial drugs inhibiting hemozoin (β-hematin) formation: a mechanistic update

S Kumar, M Guha, V Choubey, P Maity… - Life sciences, 2007 - Elsevier
Digestion of hemoglobin in the food vacuole of the malaria parasite produces very high
quantities of redox active toxic free heme. Hemozoin (β-hematin) formation is a unique …

Anti-malarial activity of some xanthones isolated from the roots of Andrographis paniculata

VK Dua, VP Ojha, R Roy, BC Joshi, N Valecha… - Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
Four xanthones were isolated from the roots of Andrographis paniculata using a
combination of column and thin-layer chromatographic methods. They were characterized …

“Recycling” classical drugs for malaria

C Teixeira, N Vale, B Perez, A Gomes… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Malaria has been a human health concern ever since the dawn of mankind, but despite the
huge struggles made to date to fight this infection, in 2012 over half a million people were …

Xanthones as inhibitors of growth of human cancer cell lines and their effects on the proliferation of human lymphocytes in vitro

M Pedro, F Cerqueira, ME Sousa… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2002 - Elsevier
Twenty-seven oxygenated xanthones have been assessed for their capacity to inhibit in vitro
the growth of three human cancer cell lines, MCF-7 (breast cancer), TK-10 (renal cancer) …

Mechanism of malarial haem detoxification inhibition by chloroquine

AV Pandey, H Bisht, VK Babbarwal… - Biochemical …, 2001 - portlandpress.com
The haem detoxification pathway of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is a
potential biochemical target for drug development. Free haem, released after haemoglobin …

Hemozoin and antimalarial drug discovery

KY Fong, DW Wright - Future medicinal chemistry, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Recent initiatives to develop more effective and affordable drugs, controlling mosquitoes
and development of a preventative vaccine have been launched with the goal of completely …

[HTML][HTML] Xanthione: A new and effective corrosion inhibitor for mild steel in sulphuric acid solution

NO Obi-Egbedi, IB Obot - Arabian Journal of Chemistry, 2013 - Elsevier
The adsorption and inhibition effect of xanthione (XION) on mild steel in 0.5 M H2SO4 at 303–
333K were studied using gravimetric and UV–visible spectrophotometric methods. The …