Molecular Targets of Valeric Acid: A Bioactive Natural Product for Endocrine, Metabolic, and Immunological Disorders.

Backgrounds: Postbiotics produced by gut microbiota have exhibited diverse pharmacological activities. Valeric acid, a postbiotic material produced by gut microbiota and some plant species like valerian, has been explored to have diverse pharmacological activities.

Methods: This narrative review aims to summarise the beneficial role of valeric acid for different health conditions along with its underlying mechanism.

Design, synthesis, molecular docking and pharmacological evaluation of some thiadiazole based nipecotic acid derivatives as a potential anticonvulsant and antidepressant agents.

Unlabelled: In our continuous effort to develop novel antiepileptic drug, a new series of nipecotic acid derivatives having1,3,4-thiadiazole nucleus were designed and synthesized. This study aims to improve the lipophilicity of nipecotic acid by attaching some lipophilic anchors like thiadiazole and substituted aryl acid derivatives. In our previous study, we noticed that the N-substituted oxadiazole derivative of nipecotic acid exhibited significant antiepileptic activity in the rodent model.