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Paula F Carneiro1, Samara B do Nascimento, Antonio V Pinto, Maria do Carmo F R Pinto, Guilherme C Lechuga, Dilvani O Santos, Helvécio M dos Santos Júnior, Jackson A L C Resende, Saulo C Bourguignon, Vitor F Ferreira.
Abstract
New oxirane derivatives were synthesized using six naphthoquinones as the starting materials. Our biological results showed that these oxiranes acted as trypanocidal agents against Trypanosoma cruzi with minimal cytotoxicity in the VERO cell line compared to naphthoquinones. In particular, oxirane derivative 14 showed low cytotoxicity in a mammalian cell line and exhibited better activity against epimastigote forms of T.cruzi than the current drug used to treat Chagas disease, benznidazole.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22795899 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2012.06.027
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioorg Med Chem ISSN: 0968-0896 Impact factor: 3.641