Central Nervous System Agents in Medicinal Chemistry (Formerly Current Medicinal Chemistry - Central Nervous System Agents) - Volume 15, Issue 1, 2015

Pyrimidine and its derivatives are present in many of the bioactive aromatic compounds that are of wide interest because of their diverse biological and clinical applications. The utility of pyrimidines as synthon for various biologically active compounds has given impetus to these studies. The review article aims to review the work reported on pharmacological activities of central nervous system (CNS) such as anticonvulsant an Read More

From last few years research work on heterocyclic compound and their derivatives has been increasing. Benzothiazole molecule has a heterocyclic structure, basic in nature with wide variety of active sites. As a small molecule, it contains electronegative atoms due to which it is feasible for other moieties to form conjugates. Referring to the bioorganic and medicinal chemistry, the moiety has potential to give active pharmacophor Read More

The search for new anticonvulsant agent with more selectivity and lower toxicity continues to be an area of rigorous investigation in medicinal chemistry. Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of brain whose treatment consists of controlling seizures with antiepileptic drugs that very often related with side-effects which in rare circumstances can be potentially life-threatening. Triazolam and Alprazolam are established drugs used in Read More

A heterocyclic compound is one which possesses a cyclic structure with at least two different kinds of hetero atoms in the ring. Nitrogen, oxygen, and sulphur are the most common heteroatoms. Derivatives are an important class of heterocyclic compounds and play a vital role due to their wide range of biological activities and industrial importance. 4-Thiazolidinones have always been an attraction point for researchers bec Read More

Isatin is a heterocyclic moiety which can be used for the synthesis of a large variety of heterocyclic compounds such as quinolines, indoles and as raw material for medicinal important drugs. This review gives an overview of the advances of isatin for the synthesis of various heterocyclic compounds and shows the various biological potentials such as anticonvulsant, sedative, hypnotic, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, antian Read More

Currently, cell biology is based on glucose as the main source of energy. Cellular bioenergetic pathways have become unnecessarily complex in their eagerness to explain that how the cell is able to generate and use energy from the oxidation of glucose, where mitochondria play an important role through oxidative phosphorylation. During a descriptive study about the three leading causes of blindness in the world, th Read More

In last decade, the development of new drugs and drug products for central nervous system (CNS) has remained limited due to incomplete elucidation of pathophysiology of many CNS disorders, complexity of the diseases and the lack of technologies for delivery through the blood-brain barrier (BBB). In this article we will summarize the development of diazenyl derivatives of many biologically active moieties like benzodia Read More

BACE1, the aspartate protease that generates amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) in the brain of AD (Alzheimer’s disease) patients, has emerged as a pharmaceutically relevant target. Here, a fragment-based in silico approach has been adopted to design novel compounds with increased ligand efficiency for BACE1, before screening for brain permeability and toxicity. Fragments docked to the active site of BACE1 and sorted into t Read More