TY - JOUR
T1 - Curcumin-inspired cytotoxic 3,5-bis(arylmethylene)-1-(N-(ortho-substituted aryl)maleamoyl)-4-piperidones
T2 - A novel group of topoisomerase II alpha inhibitors
AU - Jha, Amitabh
AU - Duffield, Katherine M.
AU - Ness, Matthew R.
AU - Ravoori, Sujatha
AU - Andrews, Gabrielle
AU - Bhullar, Khushwant S.
AU - Rupasinghe, H. P.Vasantha
AU - Balzarini, Jan
N1 - Funding Information:
The following sources of financial support for this study are gratefully acknowledged: Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (to A.J.) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (to A.J. and H.P.V.R.), the Canada Research Chair Program (to H.P.V.R.), Belgian Fonds voor Geneeskundig Wetenschappelik Onderzoek (to J.B.), Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (to K.D. and M.N.). Appreciation is extended to Mrs. Lizette van Berckelaer for conducting the Molt 4/C8, CEM and L1210 assays, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), U.S.A., which provided the data using the panel of human tumor cell lines and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), U.S.A. for undertaking the short-term toxicity studies in mice.
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PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bmc.2015.08.023
DO - 10.1016/j.bmc.2015.08.023
M3 - Article
C2 - 26456623
AN - SCOPUS:84942199487
SN - 0968-0896
VL - 23
SP - 6404
EP - 6417
JO - Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
JF - Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
IS - 19
M1 - 12527
ER -