Neocryptolepine (cryprotackieine), a unique bioactive natural product: Isolation, synthesis, and profile of its biological activity

ABJ Bracca, DA Heredia, EL Larghi… - European Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The widely varying different approaches to the total synthesis of the indoloquinoline alkaloid
neocryptolepine are discussed. Aspects relating to the isolation of the natural product from …

Experimental models in Chagas disease: a review of the methodologies applied for screening compounds against Trypanosoma cruzi

C Fonseca-Berzal, VJ Arán, JA Escario… - Parasitology …, 2018 - Springer
One of the main problems of Chagas disease (CD), the parasitic infection caused by
Trypanosoma cruzi, is the lack of a completely satisfactory treatment, which is currently …

CORAL: quantitative structure–activity relationship models for estimating toxicity of organic compounds in rats

AP Toropova, AA Toropov, E Benfenati… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
For six random splits, one‐variable models of rat toxicity (minus decimal logarithm of the
50% lethal dose [pLD50], oral exposure) have been calculated with CORAL software …

Machine Learning Models and Pathway Genome Data Base for Trypanosoma cruzi Drug Discovery

S Ekins, J Lage de Siqueira-Neto… - PLoS neglected …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) caused by the eukaryotic
parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The current clinical and preclinical pipeline for T. cruzi is …

Speeding up early drug discovery in antiviral research: a fragment-based in silico approach for the design of virtual anti-hepatitis C leads

A Speck-Planche… - ACS Combinatorial …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Hepatitis C constitutes an unresolved global health problem. This infectious disease is
caused by the hepatotropic hepatitis C virus (HCV), and it can lead to the occurrence of life …

Computer-aided drug discovery approaches against the tropical infectious diseases malaria, tuberculosis, trypanosomiasis, and leishmaniasis

PM Njogu, EM Guantai, E Pavadai… - ACS infectious …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Despite the tremendous improvement in overall global health heralded by the adoption of
the Millennium Declaration in the year 2000, tropical infections remain a major health …

Current modeling methods used in QSAR/QSPR

LC Yee, YC Wei - … modelling of molecular descriptors in QSAR …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A drug company has to ensure the quality, safety, and efficacy of a marketed drug by
subjecting the drug to a variety of tests [1]. Therefore, drug development is a time-consuming …

Using entropy of drug and protein graphs to predict FDA drug-target network: theoretic-experimental study of MAO inhibitors and hemoglobin peptides from Fasciola …

F Prado-Prado, X García-Mera, P Abeijón… - European journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
There are many drugs described with very different affinity to a large number of receptors. In
this work, we selected Drug-Target pairs (DTPs/nDTPs) of drugs with high affinity/non-affinity …

Neocryptolepine: A promising indoloisoquinoline alkaloid with interesting biological activity. Evaluation of the drug and its most relevant analogs

EL Larghi, A BJ Bracca… - Current Topics in …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Plants are one of the most important resources for the discovery of new drugs. The potential
of natural compounds as new drug leads is clearly illustrated by the discovery and …

Innovative lead compounds and formulation strategies as newer kinetoplastid therapies

S Espuelas, D Plano, P Nguewa, M Font… - Current medicinal …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
The protozoan diseases leishmaniasis, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) and Chagas
disease (CD) are responsible for substantial global morbidity and mortality in tropical and …