Publications by authors named "Veronica Ferraresi Curotto"

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, with a high incidence estimated to reach 2.3 million by 2030. Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is the greatest invasive class of breast cancer with a poor prognosis, due to the side-effects exerted by the chemotherapy used and the low effectivity of novel treatments.

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  • The study investigates a copper(ii)-hydrazone complex (CuHL) for its synthesis, crystal structure, and anticancer activity against human breast cancer cells in both 2D and 3D models.
  • CuHL has been shown to have greater antitumor activity compared to cisplatin, exhibiting IC50 values of approximately 1.7 μM for MCF7 and 1.6 μM for MDA-MB-231 cells, and significantly reducing mammosphere formation.
  • The complex interacts with DNA, generates reactive oxygen species (ROS), induces programmed cell death, and lowers the levels of breast cancer stem cells, indicating its potential as an effective anticancer agent.
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Five Schiff bases obtained from condensation of 4-methoxybenzohydrazide with related aldehydes, namely o-vanillin, vanillin, 5-bromovanillin, 5-chlorosalicylaldehyde and 5-bromosalicylaldehyde were prepared. A detailed structural and spectroscopic study is reported. The crystal structures of four members of the family were determined and compared with one another.

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A detailed structural and spectroscopic study of the disulfide Schiff base obtained from condensation of 2-aminothiophenol and o-vanillin is reported. It includes the analyses of the anhydrous and monohydrate forms of the title compound. Structures of both solids were resolved by X-ray diffraction methods.

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Mayor depression, obsessive-compulsive panic, social anxiety disorders are common diseases that are usually treated with sertraline hydrochloride which is the active ingredient of the well known drugs as Zoloft and Lustral. In this work, we presented a more complete vibrational characterization of the solid phase FT-IR spectra of Sertraline hydrochloride and its sertraline-iodine product in which the conformational space of the molecules was investigated performing molecular dynamic simulations within an NVT ensemble. Geometrical, electronic and vibrational properties were calculated with the density functional theory.

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