[HTML][HTML] Phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5): Structure-function regulation and therapeutic applications of inhibitors

WS Ahmed, AM Geethakumari, KH Biswas - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) is one of the most well-studied phosphodiesterases
(PDEs) that specifically targets cGMP typically generated by nitric oxide (NO)-mediated …

A review of synthetic bioactive tetrahydro-β-carbolines: A medicinal chemistry perspective

J Wang, F Gong, T Liang, Z Xie, Y Yang, C Cao… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 1, 2, 3, 4-Tetrahydro-β-carboline (THβC) scaffold is widespread in many natural
products (NPs) and synthetic compounds which show a variety of pharmacological activities …

Development of a new drug candidate for the inhibition of Lassa virus glycoprotein and nucleoprotein by modification of evodiamine as promising therapeutic agents

S Akash, J Baeza, S Mahmood, N Mukerjee… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Lassa virus (LASV), an RNA virus prevalent in West and Central Africa, causes severe
hemorrhagic fever with a high fatality rate. However, no FDA-approved treatments or …

Mangostanin derivatives as novel and orally active phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitors for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with improved safety

YY Huang, J Deng, YJ Tian, J Liang, X Xie… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive lung disease, and its incidence rate is
rapidly rising. However, effective therapies for the treatment of IPF are still lacking …

Therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension: Glance on nitric oxide pathway

A Tettey, Y Jiang, X Li, Y Li - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a severe disease with a resultant increase of the
mean pulmonary arterial pressure, right ventricular hypertrophy and eventual death …

Design, synthesis and bioactivity study of evodiamine derivatives as multifunctional agents for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

X Fan, J Deng, T Shi, H Wen, J Li, Z Liang, F Lei… - Bioorganic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Topoisomerase has been found extremely high level of expression in hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) and proven to promote the proliferation and survival of HCC. Cancer …

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel evodiamine derivatives as potential antihepatocellular carcinoma agents

F Lei, Y Xiong, Y Wang, H Zhang, Z Liang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Evodiamine has many biological activities. Herein, we synthesize 23 disubstituted
derivatives of N14-phenyl or the E-ring of evodiamine and conduct systematic structure …

Discovery of novel PDE4 inhibitors targeting the M-pocket from natural mangostanin with improved safety for the treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

H Liu, Q Wang, Y Huang, J Deng, X Xie, J Zhu… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBDs) are chronic disorders with iterative intestinal
mucosal inflammation which remain unmet medical needs. PDE4 inhibitors were reported to …

Strategy to Construct Polycyclic Scaffolds via Formal Aza‐Diels‐Alder Reaction of Dihydro‐β‐Carboline with Heterodiene Precursor

X Zhang, J Wei, M Zhu, D Yang, Y Pan… - Advanced Synthesis …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Strategy to Construct Polycyclic Scaffolds via Formal Azaâ•’Dielsâ•’Alder Reaction of
Dihydro╒β╒Carbo Page 1 Title: Strategy to Construct Polycyclic Scaffolds via Formal AzaDiels-Alder …

Design, synthesis and bioactivity evaluation of favorable evodiamine derivative scaffold for developing cancer therapy

Z Liang, Y Wang, H Zhang, J Deng, F Lei, J Li… - European journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural product evodiamine is one of the most privileged scaffolds in drug discovery and is
suitable for derivatization, which can be conducted quickly for structure optimization and …