Search Results - "Animati, F"
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Novel anthracycline oligosaccharides: Influence of chemical modifications of the carbohydrate moiety on biological activity
Published in Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry (01-05-2002)“…Several observations highlight the importance of the carbohydrate moiety for the biological activity of antitumoural anthracyclines. Here is reported the…”
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Synthesis of 14-fluorodoxorubicin
Published in Tetrahedron letters (08-04-2002)“…Synthesis of the novel anthracycline 14-fluorodoxorubicin is described. A key step in the synthesis is the hydrolysis of 14-bromo,14-fluoro derivative 14 with…”
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Observation of Internal Monosaccharide Losses in the Collisionally Activated Dissociation Mass Spectra of Anthracycline Aminodisaccharides
Published in Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (01-07-1998)“…The loss of internal monosaccharide residues from anthracycline aminodisaccharides has been studied using high and low energy collisionally activated…”
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Biochemical and pharmacological activity of novel 8-fluoroanthracyclines: influence of stereochemistry and conformation
Published in Molecular pharmacology (01-09-1996)“…In an attempt to better understand the role of the cyclohexene ring (ring A) in the biochemical and pharmacological properties of anthracyclines related to…”
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Anthracyclines: selected new developments
Published in Current medicinal chemistry. Anti-cancer agents (01-08-2001)“…Anthracycline antibiotics play an important role in cancer chemotherapy. The need for an improvement of their therapeutic index has stimulated an ongoing…”
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Synthesis and conformational preference of novel 8-fluoroanthracyclines
Published in Acta biochimica polonica (01-01-1995)“…Analogues of daunorubicin possessing a fluorine atom at position C(8) of ring A have been synthesized with the aim of comparing their DNA-drug interaction and…”
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The crystal structure of the complex between a disaccharide anthracycline and the DNA hexamer d(CGATCG) reveals two different binding sites involving two DNA duplexes
Published in Nucleic acids research (01-03-2003)“…The crystal structure of the complex formed between the anthracycline antibiotic 3′‐deamino‐3′‐ hydroxy‐4′‐(O‐l‐daunosaminyl)‐4‐demethoxydoxo rubicin (MEN…”
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Croton macrostachys, a plant used in traditional medicine: purgative and inflammatory activity
Published in Journal of ethnopharmacology (01-03-1987)“…Croton macrostachys seeds are widely used in Somalia as a purgative. In the present study, pharmacologic and chemical investigations confirm the laxative…”
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Oxidative degradation of cardiotoxic anticancer anthracyclines to phthalic acids. Novel function or ferrylmyoglobin
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (13-02-2004)“…We show that the pseudoperoxidase activity of ferrylmyoglobin (MbIV) promotes oxidative degradation of doxorubicin (DOX), an anticancer anthracycline known to…”
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Chronic cardiotoxicity of anticancer anthracyclines in the rat: role of secondary metabolites and reduced toxicity by a novel anthracycline with impaired metabolite formation and reactivity
Published in British journal of pharmacology (01-06-2003)“…The anticancer anthracycline doxorubicin (DOX) causes cardiomyopathy upon chronic administration. There is controversy about whether DOX acts directly or after…”
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New developments in antitumor anthracyclines
Published in Pharmacology & therapeutics (Oxford) (01-10-1997)“…Doxorubicin is a major anticancer agent introduced to extended clinical use in the early 1970s. The fulfillment of a wide program of analogue synthesis led to…”
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Anthracycline Metabolism and Toxicity in Human Myocardium: Comparisons between Doxorubicin, Epirubicin, and a Novel Disaccharide Analogue with a Reduced Level of Formation and [4Fe-4S] Reactivity of Its Secondary Alcohol Metabolite
Published in Chemical research in toxicology (18-12-2000)“…Secondary alcohol metabolites have been proposed to mediate chronic cardiotoxicity induced by doxorubicin (DOX) and other anticancer anthracyclines. In this…”
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Impairment of myocardial contractility by anticancer anthracyclines: role of secondary alcohol metabolites and evidence of reduced toxicity by a novel disaccharide analogue
Published in British journal of pharmacology (01-11-2001)“…The anticancer anthracycline doxorubicin (DOX) causes cardiotoxicity. Enzymatic reduction of a side chain carbonyl group converts DOX to a secondary alcohol…”
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Topoisomerase poisoning activity of novel disaccharide anthracyclines
Published in Molecular pharmacology (01-07-1999)“…Doxorubicin and idarubicin are very effective anticancer drugs in the treatment of human hematological malignancies and solid tumors. These agents are well…”
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Solution Chemistry and DNA Binding Properties of MEN 10755, A Novel Disaccharide Analogue of Doxorubicin
Published in Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry (01-07-2001)“…The behavior under physiological conditions of MEN 10755, a novel disaccharide analogue of doxorubicin, was investigated in detail by a variety of…”
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Doxorubicin disaccharide analogue : Apoptosis-related improvement of efficacy in vivo
Published in JNCI : Journal of the National Cancer Institute (20-08-1997)“…Although doxorubicin remains one of the most effective agents for the treatment of solid tumors, there is an intensive effort to synthesize doxorubicin…”
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Configurational requirements of the sugar moiety for the pharmacological activity of anthracycline disaccharides
Published in Biochemical pharmacology (15-05-1999)“…The amino sugar is recognized to be a critical determinant of the activity of anthracycline monosaccharides related to doxorubicin and daunorubicin. In an…”
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A comparative study of cellular and molecular pharmacology of doxorubicin and MEN 10755, a disaccharide analogue
Published in Biochemical pharmacology (01-07-2001)“…MEN 10755 is a disaccharide anthracycline endowed with a broader spectrum of antitumour activity than doxorubicin (DOX). To investigate the cellular and…”
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Synthesis, DNA-binding properties, and antitumor activity of novel distamycin derivatives
Published in Journal of medicinal chemistry (01-04-1989)“…A group of potential alkylating agents have been synthesized that are structurally related to the oligopeptide antiviral antibiotic distamycin. All derivatives…”
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An unusual rearrangement of Zofenopril, a new ACE inhibitor drug: mass spectrometric and conformational studies
Published in Journal of mass spectrometry (01-12-2002)“…Zofenopril (1) is a new ACE inhibitor, used in therapy for hypertension and post‐myocardial infarction. The protonated quasi‐molecular ion (m/z 430) of 1,…”
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