Background: Indonesia is the world's primary producer of clove. In order to find new utilization for clove and new biologically active compounds, eugenol, the main constituent of clove, has been converted to its derivatives.
Objective: This study aims to examine anticancer activity of benzoxazine and aminomethyl compounds derived from eugenol.
Backgrounds: Pinostrobin has the potential activity as an anticancer. However, its activity is still lower than the anticancer drugs on the market. To increase its activity, pinostrobin derivatives have been synthesized, namely pinostrobin propionate and pinostrobin butyrate, which are predicted to have better activity and lower toxicity than pinostrobin after being tested by approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Currently is found to be resistant to the treatment of tuberculosis with rifampin and isoniazid (INH) and often stated as multi-drug resistance (MDR). Knowledge and determination of biological properties of plant extracts is a source of drug candidates in various health fields. Therefore, natural products are important in the discovery of new drugs, especially in disease therapy, particularly for tropical diseases, tuberculosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: has been known as an immunomodulator and also reported to possess an antiviral activity against several RNA viruses, such as hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus by inhibiting viral entry and replication. Since the current situation of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) which infected among the world and caused severe disease and high morbidity, it urgently needed to find new agents against COVID-19. Therefore, screening against COVID-19 receptors is carried out as an initial stage of drug discovery by evaluating the activity of phyllanthin and hypophyllanthin, an isolated from , in inhibiting spike glycoprotein (6LZG) and main protease (5R7Y) which play as target receptors of COVID-19.
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June 2021
Objectives: The high prevalence of HER2-positive breast cancer has become a significant concern in the health sector. The problem is more complex with the side effects of breast cancer drugs currently used. Thymoquinone (TQ), the main bioactive compound in , has been shown to have anticancer activity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBreast cancer with HER-2 overexpression is sensitive to drugs which target the receptor or its kinase activity. Although the anti-HER-2 therapies commonly used have improved patient outcome, resistance usually occurs. In this present study, we investigated a modification of the chemical structure of allylthiourea derivatives in order to enhance the cytotoxicity effect on breast cancer cells with HER-2 overexpression.
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