Hybrid molecules: The privileged scaffolds for various pharmaceuticals

S Mishra, P Singh - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
The practice of polypharmacology is not a new concept but the approaches which are being
adopted for administering the two or more drugs together are varied from time to time …

Nitric oxide donor-based cancer therapy: advances and prospects

Z Huang, J Fu, Y Zhang - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
The increasing understanding of the role of nitric oxide (NO) in cancer biology has
generated significant progress in the use of NO donor-based therapy to fight cancer. These …

An overview of molecular hybrids in drug discovery

G Bérubé - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The hybridization of biologically active molecules is a powerful tool for drug
discovery used to target a variety of diseases. It offers the prospect of better drugs for the …

Dual intratumoral redox/enzyme‐responsive NO‐releasing nanomedicine for the specific, high‐efficacy, and low‐toxic cancer therapy

X Jia, Y Zhang, Y Zou, Y Wang, D Niu, Q He… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Chemotherapy suffers numbers of limitations including poor drug solubility, nonspecific
biodistribution, and inevitable adverse effects on normal tissues. Tumor‐targeted delivery …

Nitric oxide in liver diseases

Y Iwakiri, MY Kim - Trends in Pharmacological sciences, 2015 - cell.com
Nitric oxide (NO) and its derivatives play important roles in the physiology and
pathophysiology of the liver. Despite its diverse and complicated roles, certain patterns of …

Oleanolic acid and its synthetic derivatives for the prevention and therapy of cancer: preclinical and clinical evidence

MK Shanmugam, X Dai, AP Kumar, BKH Tan, G Sethi… - Cancer letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Oleanolic acid (OA, 3β-hydroxyolean-12-en-28-oic acid) is a ubiquitous pentacyclic
multifunctional triterpenoid, widely found in several dietary and medicinal plants. Natural …

The mercapturic acid pathway

PE Hanna, MW Anders - Critical reviews in toxicology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The mercapturic acid pathway is a major route for the biotransformation of xenobiotic and
endobiotic electrophilic compounds and their metabolites. Mercapturic acids (N-acetyl-l …

Insights into drug discovery from natural products through structural modification

J Chen, W Li, H Yao, J Xu - Fitoterapia, 2015 - Elsevier
Natural products (NPs) have played a key role in drug discovery and are still a prolific
source of novel lead compounds or pharmacophores for medicinal chemistry …

Glutathione S-conjugates as prodrugs to target drug-resistant tumors

EE Ramsay, PJ Dilda - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Living organisms are continuously exposed to xenobiotics. The major phase of enzymatic
detoxification in many species is the conjugation of activated xenobiotics to reduced …

Tumor microenvironment-responsive degradable silica nanoparticles: design principles and precision theranostic applications

J Zhang, K Tang, Z Liu, Z Zhang, S Duan, H Wang… - Nanoscale …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Silica nanoparticles have emerged as promising candidates in the field of nanomedicine
due to their remarkable versatility and customizable properties. However, concerns about …