Background The marine environment hosts a wide variety of species that have evolved to
live in harsh and challenging conditions. Marine organisms are the focus of interest due to …

The annual number of cancer deaths continues increasing every day; thus, it is urgent to
search for and find active, selective, and efficient anticancer drugs as soon as possible …

This work reviews the contributions of the corresponding author (MMMP) and her research
group to Medicinal Chemistry concerning the isolation from plant and marine sources of …

Inflammation is the body's self-protective response to multiple stimulus, from external
harmful substances to internal danger signals released after trauma or cell dysfunction …

Xanthones are important O-heteroaromatic tricyclic molecules exhibiting a wide range of
bioactivities and can represent a showcase to highlight the recent techniques and strategies …

An efficient diastereoselective route is developed to get access to novel spiropyrrolo [1, 2-a]
isoquinoline-oxindole skeletons by a one-pot three-component [3+ 2] cycloaddition reaction …

Spectroscopic studies were carried out for the interaction of the bioactive compounds 2, 3-
dimethoxyxanthone (1) and 3, 4-dimethoxyxanthone (2) with human serum albumin (HSA) …

The marine environment is an important source of specialized metabolites with valuable
biological activities. Xanthones are a relevant chemical class of specialized metabolites …

Pharmaceuticals are indispensable for human and animal health. After use, the active
agents and their metabolites are excreted and impact the environment via different …

The emergence of multidrug and extensively drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria able to
resist to the action of a wide range of antibiotics is becoming a growing problem for public …