Publications by authors named "Syed Ovais"

Thirty new aryl-pyridazinone-substituted benzenesulphonylurea derivatives (I-XXX) were synthesized and evaluated for their anti-hyperglycaemic activity in glucose-fed hyperglycaemic normal rats. Twenty-three compounds (III-XI, XIV-XVII, XIX-XXIV, XXVI and XXVIII-XXX) showed more or comparable area under the curve (AUC) reduction percentage (ranging from 21.9% to 35.

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A series of sulfonamide derivatives (2a-l) incorporating substituted pyridazinone moieties were investigated for the inhibition of two human cytosolic carbonic anhydrase isoforms, hCA I and hCA II. All these compounds, together with the clinically used sulfonamide acetazolamide were investigated as inhibitors of the physiologically relevant isozymes I and II. These sulfonamides showed very strong inhibition against all these isoforms with K(I)'s in the range of 0.

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The chemistry of phthalazine derivatives has been of increasing interest since many of these compounds have found many chemotherapeutic applications. So this study aims to synthesize a library of phthalazine derivatives and to investigate their anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative activities. Sixteen new phthalazinone derivatives (2a-p) were synthesized and tested for their in vitro antiproliferative and in vivo anti-inflammatory activities.

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Seventeen new pyrazoline substituted benzenesulfonylurea/thiourea derivatives (2a-q) were synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis and various spectroscopic techniques viz; IR, (1)H NMR, (13)C NMR, and MS data. Thirteen compounds showed moderate to good anti-hyperglycaemic activity in glucose fed hyperglycaemic normal rats at the dose of 0.05 mM/kg b.

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Twenty six new pyrazoline substituted benzenesulfonylureas (2a-z) were synthesized and tested for in vitro anticancer activity. Fourteen derivatives (2i, 2k-2p, 2r, 2s-2x) were screened for their antiproliferative activity towards 60 human cancer cell lines by the National Cancer Institute (USA). Among them four compounds (2i, 2n, 2v and 2x) exhibited significant growth inhibition and further screened at 10-fold dilutions of five different concentrations (0.

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Sixteen new 6-aryl-2-(p-(methanesulfonyl)phenyl)-4,5-dihydropyridazi-3(2H)-ones (2a-p) were synthesized and tested for in vitro anticancer and in vivo anti-inflammatory activities. Eleven (2b, 2d, 2e-j and 2m-p) of the obtained compounds were screened for their antiproliferative activity towards 60 human cancer cell lines by the National Cancer Institute (USA). Compound 2f showed remarkable activity with GI50 less than 1 μM on 36 human tumor cell lines and has been referred to Biological Evaluation Committee (NCI) for advance study.

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Nine 4-arylphthalazones bearing benzenesulfonamide (2a-i) were synthesized by the condensation of the appropriate 2-aroylbenzoic acid (1a-i) and 4-hydrazinobenzenesulfonamide in ethanol. The structures of these compounds were elucidated by elemental analysis, IR, ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR, and MS spectroscopy. Two compounds, 2b and 2i, showed significant anti-inflammatory activity comparable to that of the standard drug celecoxib in the carrageenan-induced rat paw edema model.

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Some new benzenesulfonylthiourea derivatives substituted with phthalazones (2a-q) were synthesized by refluxing the appropriate 4-aryl-1-oxophthalazin-2(1H)yl benzenesulfonamides with isothiocyanate in dry acetone over anhydrous K₂CO₃. All the synthesized compounds were characterized on the basis of IR, (1)H NMR, MS data and elemental analysis. These synthesized compounds (2a-q) at the dose of 20 mg/kg were tested for antihyperglycemic activity in the glucose-fed hyperglycemic normal rat model and among these compounds 2f and 2m showed modest antihyperglycemic activity.

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Some unnatural chalcones (1a-q) and flavones (2a-d) have been synthesized and evaluated for their antiinflammatory activity using carrageenan-induced rat paw edema assay. The flavone 2c (6-Chloro-7-methyl-3', 4'- dimethoxyflavone) had higher anti-inflammatory activity and superior gastrointestinal safety profiles than the reference drug celecoxib. Compound 2c showed almost two times better selective inhibitory activity towards COX-2 enzyme than celecoxib.

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Nine novel 4-[3-(4-Dimethylamino-phenyl)-5-aryl-4,5-dihydro-pyrazol-1-yl]-benzenesulfonamides (2a-i) were synthesized and evaluated for their anti-inflammatory and antiproliferative activities. These compounds (2a-i) showed moderate to strong anti-inflammatory activity in carrageenan rat paw oedema test. Compounds 2b, 2d and 2g showing comparable anti-inflammatory activity to that of reference drug celecoxib were evaluated for their ulcerogenic and analgesic activities.

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A series of novel pyridazinone derivatives bearing benzenesulfonamide moiety (2a-h) has been synthesized by the condensation of appropriate aroylacrylic acid and 4-hydrazinobenzenesulfonamide hydrochloride in ethanol. Five derivatives (2a, 2b, 2d, 2g and 2h) were evaluated for their anticancer activity toward human cancer cell lines by the National Cancer Institute. The 2h showed remarkable activity against SR (leukemia) and NCI-H522 (non-small cell lung) with a GI(50) value of less than 0.

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Thirteen new 2-pyrazoline derivatives bearing benzenesulfonamide moiety (2a-m) were synthesized by condensing appropriate chalcones with 4-hydrazinonbenzenesulfonamide hydrochloride and tested for anticancer and anti-inflammatory actions. According to the protocol of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in vitro disease-oriented human cells screening panel assay compounds 2b, 2c, 2e, 2f and 2g exhibited considerable antitumor activities against the entire tested tumor cell lines and showed effective growth inhibition GI(50) (MG-MID) values of 2.63, 2.

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Seven novel 6-aryl-2-(p-sulfamoylphenyl)-4,5-dihydropyridazin-3(2H)-ones (2a-g) were synthesized by the condensation of appropriate aroylpropionic acid and 4-hydrazinobenzenesulfonamide hydrochloride in ethanol. Structure of all compounds have been elucidated by elemental analysis, IR, (1)H NMR, (13)C NMR, DEPT and MS spectrscopy. These compounds were tested for their anti-inflammatory activity in carrageenan-induced rat paw edema model.

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