Novel methods were proposed for determining primaquine (PQN) in tablets by multiple-injection capillary zone electrophoresis (MI-CZE) and by short-end injection CZE (SEI-CZE), both with ultraviolet detection. The background electrolyte (BGE), consisting of 20 mmol/L of tris (hydroxymethyl) aminomethane and 30 mmol/L of hydrochloric acid at pH 2.0, was selected considering a comprehensive study involving the effective mobility versus pH curves of the analytes and BGE components.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious disease that still affects humanity, despite being old, caused by the bacterium . The emergence of drug-resistant strains has alarmed governments and international organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO). The need for research on new drugs that are effective in a shorter treatment time and active against resistant strains still persists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChem Biol Drug Des
July 2024
Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoa Leishmania spp., considered as a significant and urgent public health problem mainly in developing countries. In the absence of an effective vaccine, the treatment of infected people is one of the most commonly prophylactic measures used to control this disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParasitol Res
June 2024
Human toxocariasis is a neglected anthropozoonosis with global distribution. Treatment is based on the administration of anthelmintics; however, their effectiveness at the tissue level is low to moderate, necessitating the discovery of new drug candidates. Several groups of synthetic compounds, including coumarin derivatives, have demonstrated bioactivity against fungi, bacteria, and even parasites, such as Dactylogyrus intermedius, Leishmania major, and Plasmodium falciparum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeishmaniasis is a complex protozoan infectious disease and, associated with malnutrition, poor health services and unavailability of prophylactic control measures, neglected populations are particularly affected. Current drug regimens are outdated and associated with some drawbacks, such as cytotoxicity and resistance, and the development of novel, efficacious and less toxic drug regimens is urgently required. In addition, leishmanial pathogenesis is not well established or understood, and a prophylactic vaccine is an unfulfilled goal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe crystal structures of four thio-phene-carbohydrazide-pyridine derivatives, '-[()-pyridin-3-yl-methyl-idene]thio-phene-2-carbohydrazide, CHNOS, (I), '-[()-pyridin-2-yl-methyl-idene]thio-phene-2-carbohydrazide, CHNOS, (II), -methyl-'-[()-pyridin-2-yl-methyl-idene]thio-phene-2-carbohydrazide, CHNOS, (III) and '-[()-pyridin-2-yl-methyl-idene]-2-(thio-phen-2-yl)ethano-hydrazide, CHNOS, (IV) are described. The dihedral angles between the thio-phene ring and the pyridine ring are 21.4 (2), 15.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of novel pharmaceutical tools to efficiently tackle tuberculosis is the order of the day due to the rapid development of resistant strains of . Herein, we report novel potential formulations of a repurposed drug, the antimalarial mefloquine (MFL), which was combined with organic anions as chemical adjuvants. Eight mefloquine organic salts were obtained by ion metathesis reaction between mefloquine hydrochloride ([MFLH][Cl]) and several organic acid sodium salts in high yields.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrichomoniasis is a great public health burden worldwide and the increase in treatment failures has led to a need for finding alternative molecules to treat this disease. In this study, we present in vitro and in silico analyses of two 2,8-bis(trifluoromethyl) quinolines (QDA-1 and QDA-2) against Trichomonas vaginalis. For in vitro trichomonacidal activity, up to seven different concentrations of these drugs were tested.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of new drugs requires a lot of time and high financial investments. It involves a research network in which there is the participation of several researchers from different areas. For a new drug to reach the market, thousands of substances must be evaluated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBioorg Chem
May 2021
Studies displaying the combination of mefloquine (MFL) with anti-tuberculosis (TB) substances are limited in the literature. In this work, the effect of MFL-association with two first-line anti-TB drugs and six fluoroquinolones was evaluated against Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistant strains. MFL showed synergistic interaction with isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and several fluoroquinolones, reaching fractional inhibitory concentration indexes (FICIs) ranging from 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA novel method was proposed for simultaneous determination of artesunate (ATS) and mefloquine (MFQ) in fixed-dose combination tablets by capillary zone electrophoresis with simultaneous direct and indirect detection by ultraviolet (CZE-UV). The background electrolyte, consisting of 30/15 mmol L TRIS/3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid buffer at pH 8.2, a chromophore buffer, was selected taking into account a detailed study involving the effective mobility vs.
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February 2021
Objectives: The emergence of resistant strain has aggravated the tuberculosis situation in the world, running out of control and hard to fight. We evaluate forty new quinoline analogues against sensitive and resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb).
Methods: The compounds were obtained via synthesis and evaluated against sensitive strain ATCC 27294.
Chem Biol Interact
October 2020
The effect of N-geranyl-ethane-1,2-diamine dihydochloride (GIB24), a synthetic diamine, was assayed against different developmental forms of the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi (strain Dm28c). The compound was effective against culture epimastigote forms (IC/24h = 5.64 μM; SI = 16.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA monocyclic ring in their structure characterizes monobactams, a subclass of β-lactam antibiotics. Many of these compounds have a bactericidal mechanism of action and acts as penicillin and cephalosporins, interfering with bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. The synthesis of novel β-lactams is an emerging area of organic synthesis research due to the problem of increasing bacterial resistance to existing β -lactam antibiotics, and, in this way, new compounds have been presented with several structural modifications, aiming to improve biological activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Onychine is a 4-azafluorenone alkaloid isolated from the Annonaceae family, in low concentrations. Onychine and its analogs exhibit a wide range of pharmacological activities such as antifungal, antibacterial, anticancer, and antimalarial. Because of the high bioactivity of some 4-azafluorenone derivatives, several synthetic methods have been developed for their procurement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Trichomonas vaginalis is the causative agent of trichomoniasis, which is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases worldwide. Trichomoniasis has a high incidence and prevalence and is associated with serious complications such as HIV transmission and acquisition, pelvic inflammatory disease and preterm birth. Although trichomoniasis is treated with oral metronidazole (MTZ), the number of strains resistant to this drug is increasing (2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: 1,2,3-triazoles are an important class of organic compounds and because of their aromatic stability, they are not easily reduced, oxidized or hydrolyzed in acidic and basic environments. Moreover, 1,2,3-triazole derivatives are known by their important biological activities and have drawn considerable attention due to their variety of properties. The synthesis of this nucleus, based on the click chemistry concept, through the 1,3-dipolar addition reaction between azides and alkynes is a well-known procedure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe culture of preantral follicles as an in vitro model to evaluate the toxicity of new anticancer drug has being established. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of quinoxaline derivative the 2 2- (XYZC 6H 3 -CH=N-NH)-quinoxaline, 1 (QX) on caprine preantral follicles. We evaluate the follicular morphology and activation, proliferation and apoptosis of granulosa cells and finally the protein (ABCB1) and genes expression (cyclin/Cdks), respectively involved in multidrug resistance and cell cycle progression.
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January 2020
Quinoxaline derivatives are reported as antineoplastic agents against a variety of human cancer cell lines, with some compounds being submitted to clinical trials. In this work, we report the synthesis, characterization and cytotoxicity potential of a new series of quinoxalinyl-hydrazones. The most cytotoxic compound was (E)-2-[2-(2-pyridin-2-ylmethylene)hydrazinyl]quinoxaline (PJOV56) that presented a time-dependent effect against HCT-116 cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Due to serious problems with the treatment of leishmaniasis all around the world, here is an urgent need in the search for new drugs that are more effective and safer for the treatment of the various forms of leishmaniasis. Actual therapy is limited and lacks sufficient efficacy due to incomplete elimination of the parasites form of patients. In this sense, we decided to evaluate, by first-time, a series of seventeen camphor hydrazone derivatives (2a-2p) against Leishmania amazonensis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActa Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun
November 2019
A 1:1 epimeric mixture of 3-[(4-nitro-benzyl-idene)amino]-2()-(4-nitro-phen-yl)-5()-(propan-2-yl)imidazolidin-4-one, CHNO, was isolated from a reaction mixture of 2()-amino-3-methyl-1-oxo-butane-hydrazine and 4-nitro-benz-alde-hyde in ethanol. The product was derived from an initial reaction of 2()-amino-3-methyl-1-oxo-butane-hydrazine at its hydrazine group to provide a 4-nitro-benzyl-idene derivative, followed by a cyclization reaction with another mol-ecule of 4-nitro-benzaldehyde to form the chiral five-membered imidazolidin-4-one ring. The formation of the five-membered imidazolidin-4-one ring occurred with retention of the configuration at the 5-position, but with racemization at the 2-position.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe syntheses and crystal structures of five 2-benzyl-idene-1-benzosuberone [1-benzosuberone is 6,7,8,9-tetra-hydro-5-benzo[7]annulen-5-one] derivatives, 2-(4-meth-oxy-benzyl-idene)-1-benzosuberone, CHO, (I), 2-(4-eth-oxy-benzyl-idene)-1-benzosuberone, CHO, (II), 2-(4-benzyl-benzyl-idene)-1-benzosuberone, CHO, (III), 2-(4-chloro-benzyl-idene)-1-benzosuberone, CHClO, (IV) and 2-(4-cyano-benzyl-idene)-1-benzosuberone, CHNO, (V), are described. The conformations of the benzosuberone fused six- plus seven-membered ring fragments are very similar in each case, but the dihedral angles between the fused benzene ring and the pendant benzene ring differ somewhat, with values of 23.79 (3) for (I), 24.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActa Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun
April 2019
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, CHNOS, comprises two independent mol-ecules ( and ); the crystal structure was determined by employing synchrotron radiation. The mol-ecules exhibit essentially the same features with an almost planar benzo-thia-zole ring (r.m.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Background and Introduction: Mefloquine, a drug used to prevent and treat malaria is described possessing activity against the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) as well as against multidrugresistant tuberculosis (MDR) and other types of bacteria. Despite their importance, few compounds based on the Mefloquine nucleus have been synthesized and evaluated against TB.
Materials And Methods: For the synthesis of all the compounds based on the Mefloquine nucleus we used a synthetic route which utilized the key derivative 4-methoxy-2,8-bis(trifluoromethyl)quinoline 2 as starting material.