Piperazine skeleton in the structural modification of natural products: a review

RH Zhang, HY Guo, H Deng, J Li… - Journal of enzyme …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Piperazine moiety is a cyclic molecule containing two nitrogen atoms in positions 1 and 4, as
well as four carbon atoms. Piperazine is one of the most sought heterocyclics for the …

Dual-Target Inhibitors Based on Acetylcholinesterase: Novel Agents for Alzheimer's Disease

X Zhao, Q Hu, X Wang, C Li, X Chen, D Zhao… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia among the elderly,
accounting for 60% to 70% of cases. At present, the pathogenesis of this condition remains …

Recent developments of flavonoids with various activities

ZG Sun, ZN Li, JM Zhang, XY Hou… - Current Topics in …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
Flavonoids, a series of compounds with a C6-C3-C6 structure, mostly originate from plant
metabolism. Flavonoids have shown beneficial effects on many aspects of human …

Flavones as a privileged scaffold in drug discovery: Current developments

PK Boniface, FI Elizabeth - Current Organic Synthesis, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Flavones are one of the main subclasses of flavonoids with diverse
pharmacological properties. They have been reported to possess antimalarial, antimicrobial …

Histamine H3 receptor ligands by hybrid virtual screening, docking, molecular dynamics simulations, and investigation of their biological effects

N Ghamari, O Zarei, D Reiner… - Chemical Biology & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Histamine H3 receptors (H3R), belonging to G‐protein coupled receptors (GPCR)
class A superfamily, are responsible for modulating the release of histamine as well as of …

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of isoflavone analogs as multifunctional agents for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

D Wang, M Hu, X Li, D Zhang, C Chen, J Fu… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
A series of novel isoflavone analogs were designed, synthesized, and evaluated as
multitarget-directed ligands for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. In vitro evaluations …

Flavonoids enhance rod opsin stability, folding, and self-association by directly binding to ligand-free opsin and modulating its conformation

JT Ortega, T Parmar, B Jastrzebska - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Rhodopsin (Rho) is a visual G protein–coupled receptor expressed in the rod
photoreceptors of the eye, where it mediates transmission of a light signal into a cell and …

Critical evaluation of current Alzheimer's drug discovery (2018–19) & futuristic Alzheimer drug model approach

A Dorababu - Bioorganic Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Alzheimer′ s disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease responsible for death of
millions of people worldwide is a progressive clinical disorder which causes neurons to …

Molecular modeling of histamine receptors—recent advances in drug discovery

P Mehta, P Miszta, S Filipek - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The recent developments of fast reliable docking, virtual screening and other algorithms
gave rise to discovery of many novel ligands of histamine receptors that could be used for …

Synthesis and in vitro evaluation of C-7 and C-8 Luteolin derivatives as influenza endonuclease inhibitors

R Reiberger, K Radilová, M Kráľ, V Zima… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The part of the influenza polymerase PA subunit featuring endonuclease activity is a target
for anti-influenza therapies, including the FDA-approved drug Xofluza. A general feature of …