A journey of celecoxib from pain to cancer

P Saxena, PK Sharma, P Purohit - Prostaglandins & other lipid mediators, 2020 - Elsevier
The most enthralling and versatile class of drugs called the Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
(NSAIDs) showed its therapeutic utility in inflammation, beginning from the era of classic …

Preadministration of high-dose salicylates, suppressors of NF-κB activation, may increase the chemosensitivity of many cancers: an example of proapoptotic signal …

MF McCarty, KI Block - Integrative cancer therapies, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
NF-κ B activity is elevated in a high proportion of cancers, particularly advanced cancers that
have been treated previously. Cytotoxic treatment selects for such up-regulation inasmuch …

Synthesis and anti-inflammatory activity of sulfonamides and carboxylates incorporating trimellitimides: dual cyclooxygenase/carbonic anhydrase inhibitory actions

AM Alaa, A Angeli, AS El-Azab, MEA Hammouda… - Bioorganic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Trimellitimides 6–21 were prepared and investigated in vivo for anti-inflammatory and
ulcerogenic effects and in vitro for cytotoxicity. They were subjected to in vitro …

Structural alterations based on naproxen scaffold: Synthesis, evaluation of antitumor activity and COX-2 inhibition, and molecular docking

WM El-Husseiny, AA Magda, NI Abdel-Aziz… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
A new series of non-carboxylic naproxen analogues, bearing a variety of ring systems, such
as oxadiazoles 3a–c and 6a–c, cycloalkanes 4a–d, cyclic imides 5a–c, and triazoles 7–9 …

Synthesis, potential antitumor activity, cell cycle analysis, and multitarget mechanisms of novel hydrazones incorporating a 4-methylsulfonylbenzene scaffold: a …

AAM Abdel-Aziz, AS El-Azab, NA AlSaif… - Journal of Enzyme …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Hydrazone is a bioactive pharmacophore that can be used to design antitumor agents. We
synthesised a series of hydrazones (compounds 4–24) incorporating a 4 …

Indomethacin based new triazolothiadiazine derivatives: Synthesis, evaluation of their anticancer effects on T98 human glioma cell line related to COX-2 inhibition and …

B Sever, MD Altıntop, G Kuş, M Özkurt… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
In the current work, new 1, 2, 4-triazolo [3, 4-b]-1, 3, 4-thiadiazine derivatives (1–8) were
synthesized via the ring closure reaction of 2-bromoacetophenone derivatives with 4-amino …

Tumor radiosensitization by antiinflammatory drugs: evidence for a new mechanism involving the oxygen effect

N Crokart, K Radermacher, BF Jordan, C Baudelet… - Cancer research, 2005 - AACR
We hypothesized that nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) might enhance tumor
radiosensitivity by increasing tumor oxygenation (pO2), via either a decrease in the …

Natural products and their derivatives as cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors

P Chandel, RK Rawal, R Kaur - Future Medicinal Chemistry, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
From ancient times, natural products have been continuously used as therapeutic agents in
the treatment of various ailments. Many drugs from the natural origin are available in the …

[HTML][HTML] NFAT regulates induction of COX-2 and apoptosis of keratinocytes in response to ultraviolet radiation exposure

RJ Flockhart, BL Diffey, PM Farr, J Lloyd… - The FASEB …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) transcription factors are regulated by
calcium/calcineurin signals and play important roles in T cells, muscle, bone, and neural …

Indomethacin-based near-infrared photosensitizer for targeted photodynamic cancer therapy

S Siriwibool, S Wangngae, K Chansaenpak… - Bioorganic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Near-IR fluorescent sensitizers based on heptamethine cyanine (Cy820 and Cy820–IMC)
were synthesized and their abilities to target and abolish tumor cells via photodynamic …