Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening - Volume 20, Issue 4, 2017

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common lethal neurodegenerative disorders having impact on the lives of millions of people worldwide. The disease lacks effective treatment options and the unavailability of the drugs to cure the disease necessitates the development of effectual anti-Alzheimer drugs. Several mechanisms have been reported underlying the association of the two disorders Read More

Aim and Objective: Altered activity of PI3K/mTOR signaling pathway is one of the most common aberrations found in various forms of neoplastic lesions. Dual inhibition of PI3K and mTOR represents a reasonably attractive concept in potential cancer treatment. The main aim of this work was to design novel PI3K/mTOR inhibitors with enhanced antiproliferative activity. Materials and Methods: 3D-QSAR pharmacophore modelin Read More

Aims & Scope: Thiazole derivatives are produced using one-pot multicomponent reactions of acid chlorides, potassium thiocyanate, amino acids, alkyl bromides and ZnO nanorods (NR-ZnO) as the catalyst in water at ambient temperature. These reactions were no't performed without using NR-ZnO as the catalyst. Nanorods of ZnO have been prepared by reflux procedure using sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS). Nanorods of ZnO Read More

Objective: Metabolic disorders associated with diabetic patients are a serious concern. Aldose reductase (ALR2) has been identified as first rate-limiting enzyme in the polyol pathway which catalyzes the reduction of glucose to sorbitol. It represents one of the validated targets to develop potential new chemical entities for the prevention and subsequent progression of microvascular diabetic complications. In order to furth Read More

Aims & Scope: Lipophilicity represents one of the most studied and most frequently used fundamental physicochemical properties. In the present work, harmony search (HS) algorithm is suggested to feature selection in quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) modeling to predict lipophilicity of neutral, acidic, basic and amphotheric drugs that were determined by UHPLC. Harmony search is a music-based metaheu Read More

Background and Objective: The rapidly growing number of protein data available creates necessity of computational methods with low complexity to infer accurate protein structure, function, and evolution. Method: A new description of proteins based on five topological indices of star-like graph representation and the occurrence frequency of 20 amino acids was proposed to compare the similarities of proteins. Results: A phylog Read More

Aim and Objective: Due to biological activity of a significant number of compounds containing benzothiazole ring system and in continuation of our interest in developing new environmentally benign methods for the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds by MCRs in this study we performed an efficient three-component from benzothiazole, acetylenic esters and hydroxyl aromatics compounds to synthesize of 2- benzothiazole d Read More

Background: Chemical toxicity is an important reason for late-stage failure in drug R However, it is time-consuming and expensive to identify the multiple toxicities of compounds using the traditional experiments. Thus, it is attractive to build an accurate prediction model for the toxicity profile of compounds. Materials and Methods: In this study, we carried out a research on six types of toxicities: (I) Acute Toxicity; (II) Mutagenici Read More