Publications by authors named "Maojun Cheng"

Based on preprocessed MRI images of low back pain patients, this study extracted MRI image features that can reflect the dysfunction of low back pain patients, and proposed a stacking ensemble learning algorithm model based on algorithm diversity, which provided a reliable method and an implementation method for the accurate assessment of limb dysfunction in low back pain patients.

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Here, we have designed and synthesized a series of melatonin-alkylbenzylamine hybrids as multitarget agents for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Most of them exhibited a potent multifunctional profile involving cholinesterase inhibition and antioxidant effects. Among these compounds, compound 5 was most the potent antioxidant (ORAC = 5.

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) possessed intricate pathogenesis. Currently, multi-targeted drugs were considered to have the potential to against AD by simultaneously triggering molecules in functionally complementary pathways. Hence, a series of molecules based on the pharmacophoric features of Dimethyl fumarate, Tranilast, and Dithiocarbate were designed and synthesized.

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The fragments, 3,4-(methylenedioxy)cinnamic acid amide and dithiocarbamates, have received increasing attention because of their multiple pharmacological activities in recent years, especially in anti-tumor. We synthesized 17 novel 3,4-(methylenedioxy)cinnamic acid amide-dithiocarbamate derivatives based on the principle of pharmacophore assembly and discovered that compound 4a displayed the most potent antiproliferative activity against HeLa cells with IC value of 1.01 μM.

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Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) belongs to neurodegenerative disease, and the increasing number of AD patients has placed a heavy burden on society, which needs to be addressed urgently. ChEs/MAOs dual-target inhibitor has potential to treat AD according to reports.

Purpose: To obtain effective multi-targeted agents for the treatment of AD, a novel series of hybrid compounds were designed and synthesized by fusing the pharmacophoric features of 3,4-dihydro-2 (1)-quinolinone and dithiocarbamate.

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In this study, a series of multifunctional hybrids against Alzheimer's disease were designed and obtained by conjugating the pharmacophores of xanthone and alkylbenzylamine through the alkyl linker. Biological activity results demonstrated that compound 4j was the most potent and balanced dual ChEs inhibitor with IC values 0.85 μM and 0.

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A series of rasagiline-clorgyline hybrids was designed, synthesized and investigated in vitro for their inhibition of monoamine oxidase and amyloid-β aggregation. Most of compounds were found to be selective and highly potent hMAO-B inhibitors showing IC values in the nanomolar, and exhibited a moderate inhibition of amyloid-β aggregation. 7-((5-(methyl(prop-2-yn-1-yl)amino) pentyl)oxy)chroman-4-one (6j) was the most interesting compound identified in this research, endowed with higher hMAO-B potency (IC = 4 nM) and selectivity (SI > 25000) compared to the reference selective inhibitor rasagiline (IC = 141 nM, SI > 355), and exhibited good inhibitory activity against Aβ aggregation (40.

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A series of novel coumarin-based N-hydroxycinnamamide derivatives were designed and synthesized as histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors. Most of the synthesized compounds showed potent HDAC inhibitory activity and significant antiproliferative activity against human cancer cell lines MCF-7, HepG2, HeLa and HCT-116. Among them, compound 14f displayed the most potent HDAC inhibition, especially against HDAC1 with IC value of 0.

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