Enterovirus (EV) is a genus that includes a large diversity of viruses spread around the world. They are the main cause of numerous diseases with seasonal clusters, like hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD). A vaccine is marketed in China for the prevention of HFMD caused by EV-A71.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe potential as a cancer therapeutic target of the recently reported hotspot binding region close to Lys508 of the β-catenin armadillo repeat domain was not exhaustively explored. In order to get more insight, we synthesized novel -(heterocyclylphenyl)benzenesulfonamides -. The new compounds significantly inhibited Wnt-dependent transcription as well as SW480 and HCT116 cancer cell proliferation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Bioaerosols can represent a danger to health. During SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, portable devices were used in different environments and considered a valuable prevention tool. This study has evaluated the effectiveness of the air treatment device "AEROK 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnterovirus infections are common in humans, yet there are no approved antiviral treatments. In this study we concentrated on inhibition of one of the (EV-B), namely Coxsackievirus A9 (CVA9), using a combination of medicinal chemistry, virus inhibition assays, structure determination from cryogenic electron microscopy and molecular modeling, to determine the structure activity relationships for a promising class of novel -phenylbenzylamines. Of the new 29 compounds synthesized, 10 had half maximal effective concentration (EC) values between 0.
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