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ReviewCardiovascular research2013

Insights into dietary flavonoids as molecular templates for the design of anti-platelet drugs.

Bernice Wright, Jeremy P E Spencer, Julie A Lovegrove, Jonathan M Gibbins

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Review in Cardiovascular research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bernice WrightInstitute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research, Schools of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Berkshire, Reading RG6 6UB, UK. b.wright@reading.ac.uk
Jeremy P E Spencer
Julie A Lovegrove
Jonathan M Gibbins
University of Reading · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilBritish Heart Foundation RG/09/011/28094Medical Research Council G0400883Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flavonoids are low-molecular weight, aromatic compounds derived from fruits, vegetables, and other plant components. The consumption of these phytochemicals has been reported to be associated with reduced cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, attributed to their anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferative, and anti-thrombotic actions. Flavonoids exert these effects by a number of mechanisms which include attenuation of kinase activity mediated at the cell-receptor level and/or within cells, and are characterized as broad-spectrum kinase inhibitors. Therefore, flavonoid therapy for CVD is potentially complex; the use of these compounds as molecular templates for the design of selective and potent small-molecule inhibitors may be a simpler approach to treat this condition. Flavonoids as templates for drug design are, however, poorly exploited despite the development of analogues based on the flavonol, isoflavonone, and isoflavanone subgroups. Further exploitation of this family of compounds is warranted due to a structural diversity that presents great scope for creating novel kinase inhibitors. The use of computational methodologies to define the flavonoid pharmacophore together with biological investigations of their effects on kinase activity, in appropriate cellular systems, is the current approach to characterize key structural features that will inform drug design. This focussed review highlights the potential of flavonoids to guide the design of clinically safer, more selective, and potent small-molecule inhibitors of cell signalling, applicable to anti-platelet therapy.

Indexed as

DietDrug DesignAnimalsBlood PlateletsCardiovascular DiseasesComputer-Aided DesignFlavonoidsHumansMolecular StructureMolecular Targeted TherapyPlatelet Aggregation InhibitorsProtein Kinase InhibitorsSignal TransductionStructure-Activity RelationshipFlavonoidsPlatelet Aggregation InhibitorsProtein Kinase Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID23024269
PMCPMC3527766
OpenAlexW2128413739

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