Pyrrole: An emerging scaffold for construction of valuable therapeutic agents

SS Gholap - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Pyrrole derivatives comprise a class of biologically active heterocyclic compounds which
can serve as promising scaffolds for antimicrobial, antiviral, antimalarial, antitubercular, anti …

Trypanothione reductase: a target for the development of anti-Trypanosoma cruzi drugs

K Vázquez, M Paulino, CO Salas… - Mini Reviews in …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Background & Objective: Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis is a major parasitic
disease in Latin America with restricted available treatment: nifurtimox and benznidazole …

Mode of action of p-quinone derivatives with trypanocidal activity studied by experimental and in silico models

A Ballesteros-Casallas, C Quiroga, C Ortiz… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Quinones are attractive pharmacological scaffolds for developing new agents for the
treatment of different transmissible and non-transmissible human diseases due to their …

Synthesis of chalcones with antiproliferative activity on the SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cell line: Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship Models

M Mellado, A Madrid, M Reyna… - Medicinal Chemistry …, 2018 - Springer
Chalcones are a group of molecules with a broad spectrum of biological activities, being
especially appealing for their antiproliferative effects on several cancer cell lines. For this …

Targets and patented drugs for chemotherapy of Chagas disease in the last 15 years-period

VG Duschak - Recent patents on anti-infective drug discovery, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: The American trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease, is a parasitic infection
typically spread by triatomine vectors affecting millions of people all over Latin America …

New aryloxy-quinone derivatives as potential anti-Chagasic agents: Synthesis, trypanosomicidal activity, electrochemical properties, pharmacophore elucidation and …

K Vázquez, C Espinosa-Bustos, J Soto-Delgado… - RSC …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A set of new aryloxy-quinones were synthesized and evaluated in vitro against the
epimastigote form of Trypanosoma cruzi and their unspecific cytotoxicity was tested on …

In vitro and in silico evaluations of new aryloxy-1,4-naphthoquinones as anti-Trypanosoma cruzi agents

A González, N Becerra, M Kashif, M González… - Medicinal Chemistry …, 2020 - Springer
In the search for new therapeutic alternatives for Chagas disease, a series of six aryloxy-
naphthoquinone derivatives were synthesized and evaluated in vitro against Trypanosoma …

Synthesis and Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Activity of Diaryldiazepines

JCL Menezes, LBA Vaz, PMA Vieira, KS Fonseca… - Molecules, 2014 - mdpi.com
Chagas disease is a so-called “neglected disease” and endemic to Latin America.
Nifurtimox and benznidazole are drugs that have considerable efficacy in the treatment of …

New aryloxy‐quinone derivatives with promising activity on Trypanosoma cruzi

C Espinosa‐Bustos, K Vázquez, J Varela… - Archiv der …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Continuing with a program to develop new quinone derivatives as biologically active
compounds, we designed and synthesized a new series of aryloxy‐quinones, which were …

Expanding the chemical space of aryloxy-naphthoquinones as potential anti-Chagasic agents: Synthesis and trypanosomicidal activity

NA Becerra, C Espinosa-Bustos, K Vázquez… - Medicinal Chemistry …, 2021 - Springer
In continuation our effort to research the chemical space of aryloxy-naphthoquinones as
potential anti-Chagas agents, we synthesized nine derivatives and these compounds were …