Design and synthesis of novel fluorene derivatives as inhibitors of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase.

Activation of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) by inhibition of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDHK) has the potential for the treatment of diabetes mellitus and its complications, caused by the malfunction of the glycolytic system and glucose oxidation. In this paper, we describe the identification of novel PDHK inhibitors with a fluorene structure. High-throughput screening using our in-house library provided compound 6 as a weak inhibitor that occupied the allosteric lipoyl group binding site in PDHK2.

Prognostic Value of Eosinophil to Leukocyte Ratio in Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

Aim: Leukocyte profile has been related to clinical outcome in patients with ST-segment elevation (STE) myocardial infarction (MI). However, whether eosinophil to leukocyte ratio (ELR) predicts clinical outcome in patients who have undergone primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains unclear. Therefore, we examined the prognostic value of ELR in this patient population.