Highly resistant to reduction nitroxides open new opportunities for structural studies of biological macromolecules in their native environment inside living cells and for functional imaging of pH and thiols, enzymatic activity and redox status in living animals. 3,4-Disubstituted nitroxides of 2,2,5,5-tetraethylpyrrolidine and pyrroline series with a functional group for binding to biomolecules and a polar moiety for higher solubility in water and for more rigid attachment via additional coordination to polar sites were designed and synthesized. The EPR spectra, lipophilicities, kinetics of the reduction in ascorbate-containing systems and the decay rates in liver homogenates were measured.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNitric Oxide
February 2024
This study explores the antiarrhythmic and hypotensive potential of pyridyl-substituted nitronyl nitroxides derivatives, uncovering the crucial role of a single carbon moiety of the pyridine cycle alongside radical and charged oxygen centers of the imidazoline fragment. Notably, the introduction of fluorine atoms diminished the antiarrhythmic effect, while the most potent derivatives featured the nitronyl nitroxide pattern positioned at the third site of the pyridine cycle. Gender-dependent responses were observed in lead compounds L and L, with L inducing temporary bradycardia and hypotension specifically in female rats, and L causing significant blood pressure reduction followed by rebound in females compared to milder effects in males.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe paper presents an LC-MS/MS-based approach to targeted screening of both polar and non-polar metabolites using a synthesized monolithic column which is a copolymer of styrene, divinylbenzene, and 1-vinyl-1,2,4-triazole. It was shown that this column in combination with eluents 20 mM (NH)CO + NH (pH = 9.8, eluent A) and ACN (eluent B) allows for separation of metabolites of different nature in two modes, HILIC and RP LC, and these methods are mutually complementary.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOpisthorchiosis is a parasitic liver disease found in mammals that is widespread throughout the world and causes systemic inflammation. Praziquantel remains the drug of choice for the treatment of opisthorchiosis, despite its many adverse effects. An anthelmintic effect is attributed to the main curcuminoid of L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHere, we investigated the reaction of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of 1,3-diazido-2-nitro-2- azapropane (DANP) to propargyl alcohol over a copper-based catalyst and identified the optimum reaction conditions that enable the synthesis of 2-nitro-1,3-bis(4,4'-dihydroxymethyl)-1,2,3-triazolyl-2-azapropane () in more than 84% yield. The reaction between DANP, 1,5-diazido-3-nitrazapentane, and phenylacetylene produced the respective 1,2,3-triazole derivatives in 83% and 71% yields, respectively. The structures of the resultant compounds were validated by infrared and NMR spectroscopies and elemental analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aerosol inhalation delivery of isoniazid in mice was investigated, and the specific activity of the aerosol form of isoniazid was studied with the mouse model of tuberculosis infection, the H37Rv strain. Aerosol delivery was performed using a laminar-flow horizontal nucleation chamber. The inhalation dose was measured in real-time mode using a diffusion aerosol spectrometer.
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August 2022
The combination of 4-week repeated social defeat stress (RSDS) and Opisthorchis felineus infection was modeled in C57BL/6 mice. Various parameters were compared between three experimental groups of male mice (SS: mice subjected to RSDS, OF: mice infected with O. felineus, and OF + SS: mice subjected to both adverse factors) and behavior-tested and intact (INT) controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe furocoumarin backbone is a promising platform for chemical modifications aimed at creating new pharmaceutical agents. However, the high level of biological activity of furocoumarins is associated with a number of negative effects. For example, some of the naturally occurring ones and their derivatives can show genotoxic and mutagenic properties as a result of their forming crosslinks with DNA molecules.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA model of chronic opisthorchiasis combined with social stress is examined; this situation is more likely for humans and animals than a separate impact of the infectious factor. For this purpose, we evaluated the effects of Opisthorchis felineus ("OP" group) and 30-day social stress (confrontations between males, "SS" group) alone and in combination ("OP + SS" group) in inbred C57BL/6 male mice and compared these effects according to the parameters listed below. The animals exposed to neither factor formed the control group ("CON").
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effects of two influences, social stress and acute opisthorchiasis, were investigated in inbred C57BL/6J male mice. In the model of social stress, mice were repeatedly attacked and defeated by aggressive outbred ICR male mice and were in continuous sensory contact with an aggressive conspecific mouse in their home cage for 20 days. Acute opisthorchiasis was provoked by invasion of Opisthorchis felineus (50 larvae per animal) on the fourth day after the social stress was induced.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF(5Z,9Z)-11-Phenylundeca-5,9-dienoic acid was stereoselectively synthesized, based on original cross-cyclomagnesiation of 2-(hepta-5,6-dien-1-yloxy)tetrahydro-2H-pyran and buta-2,3-dien-1-ylbenzene with EtMgBr in the presence of the Cp2TiCl2 catalyst giving 2,5-dialkylydenemagnesacyclopentane in 86% yield. The acid hydrolysis of the product and Jones oxidation of the resulting 2-{[(5Z,9Z)-11-phenylundeca-5,9-dien-1-yl]oxy}tetrahydro-2Н-pyran afforded (5Z,9Z)-11-phenylundeca-5,9-dienoic acid in an overall yield of 75%. A high inhibitory activity of the synthesized acid with respect to human topoisomerase I (hTop1) and II (hTop2α) was detected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF(5Z,9Z)-11-Phenylundeca-5,9-dienoic acid was stereoselectively synthesized, based on original cross-cyclomagnesiation of 2-(hepta-5,6-dien-1-yloxy)tetrahydro-2H-pyran and buta-2,3-dien-1-ylbenzene with EtMgBr in the presence of Cp2TiCl2 catalyst giving 2,5-dialkylidenemagnesacyclopentane in 86% yield. The acid hydrolysis of the product and the Jones oxidation of the resulting 2-{[(5Z,9Z)-11-phenylundeca-5,9-dien-1-yl]oxy}tetrahydro-2Н-pyran afforded (5Z,9Z)-11-phenylundeca-5,9-dienoic acid in an overall yield of 75%. A high inhibitory activity of the synthesized acid with respect to human topoisomerase I (hTop1) and II (hTop2α) was determined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe antiarrhythmic activity of 4,6-di(het)aryl-5-nitro-3,4-dihydropyrimidin-(1H)-2-ones toward two types of experimental rat arrhythmia has been studied. With CaCl(2) induced arrhythmia model, several agents have demonstrated high antiarrhythmic activity and the lack of influence on arterial pressure of rats.
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