Chalcones as potential ligands for the treatment of Parkinson's disease

E Królicka, K Kieć-Kononowicz, D Łażewska - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Along with the increase in life expectancy, a significant increase of people suffering from
neurodegenerative diseases (ND) has been noticed. The second most common ND, after …

Indanone: a promising scaffold for new drug discovery against neurodegenerative disorders

R Bansal, R Singh, TS Dutta, ZA Dar, A Bajpai - Drug Discovery Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Indanone is a versatile scaffold that has a number of pharmacological properties. The
successful development and ensuing approval of indanone-derived donepezil as a drug of …

Dual A1 and A2A adenosine receptor antagonists, methoxy substituted 2-benzylidene-1-indanone, suppresses intestinal postprandial glucose and attenuates …

O Sanni, G Terre'Blanche - BMC Endocrine Disorders, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background/Aim Recent research suggests that adenosine receptors (ARs)
influence many of the metabolic abnormalities associated with diabetes. A non-xanthine …

[HTML][HTML] Striatal adenosine A2A receptor involvement in normal and large nest building deer mice: Perspectives on compulsivity and anxiety

D Saaiman, L Brand, G de Brouwer… - Behavioural Brain …, 2023 - Elsevier
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by recurring obsessive thoughts and
repetitive behaviors that are often associated with anxiety and perturbations in cortico …

Synthesis and evaluation of 7-azaindole derivatives bearing benzocycloalkanone motifs as protein kinase inhibitors

MA Qhobosheane, LJ Legoabe, B Josselin… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Protein kinases are important drug targets, especially in the area of oncology. This paper
reports the synthesis and biological evaluation of new 7-azaindole derivatives bearing …

Chalcone‐inspired rA1/A2A adenosine receptor ligands: Ring closure as an alternative to a reactive substructure

C Matthee, G Terre'Blanche… - Chemical Biology & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few years, great progress has been made in the development of high‐affinity
adenosine A1 and/or A2A receptor antagonists—promising agents for the potential …

C3 amino-substituted chalcone derivative with selective adenosine rA1 receptor affinity in the micromolar range

HD Janse van Rensburg, LJ Legoabe… - Chemical Papers, 2021 - Springer
To identify novel adenosine receptor (AR) ligands based on the chalcone scaffold, herein
the synthesis, characterization and in vitro and in silico evaluation of 33 chalcones (15–36 …

Exploration of chalcones and related heterocycle compounds as ligands of adenosine receptors: therapeutics development

C Matthee, G Terre'Blanche, LJ Legoabe… - Molecular Diversity, 2022 - Springer
Adenosine receptors (ARs) are ubiquitously distributed throughout the mammalian body
where they are involved in an extensive list of physiological and pathological processes that …

Synthesis and evaluation of methoxy substituted 2-benzoyl-1-benzofuran derivatives as lead compounds for the development adenosine A1 and/or A2A receptor …

HDJ van Rensburg, LJ Legoabe, G Terre'Blanche… - Bioorganic …, 2020 - Elsevier
A series of fourteen methoxy substituted 2-benzoyl-1-benzofuran derivatives were
synthesised and their affinities determined for adenosine A 1 and A 2A receptors via …

Cationic Gold‐Catalyzed Intramolecular Cyclization of Substituted 1, 5‐Diynes to Access Indenone Derivatives

GV Karunakar, CE Raju, G Sreenivasulu… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
An efficient intramolecular cyclization reaction was developed to achieve indenone
derivatives. The substituted 1, 5‐diyenes were converted to the corresponding indenones …