Evaluation of amidoxime derivatives as prodrug candidates of potent bis-cationic antimalarials.

Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for most of the cases of malaria and its resistance to established antimalarial drugs is a major issue. Thus, new chemotherapies are needed to fight the emerging multi-drug resistance of P. falciparum malaria, like choline analogues targeting plasmodial phospholipidic metabolism.

A Novel Methodology to Estimate the Treatment Effect in Presence of Highly Variable Placebo Response.

One of the main reasons for the inefficiency of multicenter randomized clinical trials (RCTs) in depression is the excessively high level of placebo response. The aim of this work was to propose a novel methodology to analyze RCTs based on the assumption that centers with high placebo response are less informative than the other centers for estimating the 'true' treatment effect (TE). A linear mixed-effect modeling approach for repeated measures (MMRM) was used as a reference approach.

Structural characterization of in vitro metabolites of the new anticancer agent EAPB0503 by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

EAPB0503, belonging to the imidazo[1,2-a]quinoxaline series, is an anticancer drug with antitumoral activity against a variety of tumors. Previous studies have shown that this drug undergoes demethylation and oxygenation reactions. In this paper, liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS) was employed to assess the structures of unknown oxygenated metabolites of EAPB0503.

Characterization of a new anticancer agent, EAPB0203, and its main metabolites: nuclear magnetic resonance and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry studies.

The present study was conducted to assess the structures of the main unknown oxygenated metabolites of EAPB0203. The first step was to assign all the (1)H and (13)C NMR of both EAPB0203 and its demethylated metabolite (EAPB0202) to the corresponding atoms in their molecular structures and to elucidate the fragmentation pathways for the [M + H](+) ions of these compounds using high-resolution mass spectrometry (MS). MS/MS spectra showed that both protonated molecules possessing an even number of electrons were unexpectedly losing radicals such as H(•), CH(3)(•), or even C(7)H(7)(•) giving stable radical cations.

Stability of the ready-to-use solutions of eribulin for intravenous infusion.

A simple HPLC-UV method was developed to determine the stability of ready-to-use eribulin solutions under different storage conditions. The developed method was validated with respect to linearity, accuracy, precision and ruggedness. The following admixtures were prepared: 3-mL polypropylene syringes at concentration of 440 μg/mL and multilayer laminate polyolefin containers containing 0.