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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

Cinnamic Acid Derivatives and Their Biological Efficacy.

Ngonidzashe Ruwizhi, Blessing Atim Aderibigbe

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 185 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

185 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ngonidzashe RuwizhiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Fort Hare, Alice Campus, Alice 5700, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Blessing Atim AderibigbeDepartment of Chemistry, University of Fort Hare, Alice Campus, Alice 5700, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Funding

South African Medical Research Council SAMRC
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role played by cinnamic acid derivatives in treating cancer, bacterial infections, diabetes and neurological disorders, among many, has been reported. Cinnamic acid is obtained from cinnamon bark. Its structure is composed of a benzene ring, an alkene double bond and an acrylic acid functional group making it possible to modify the aforementioned functionalities with a variety of compounds resulting in bioactive agents with enhanced efficacy. The nature of the substituents incorporated into cinnamic acid has been found to play a huge role in either enhancing or decreasing the biological efficacy of the synthesized cinnamic acid derivatives. Some of the derivatives have been reported to be more effective when compared to the standard drugs used to treat chronic or infectious diseases in vitro, thus making them very promising therapeutic agents. Compound

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Infective AgentsAntioxidantsBacteriaCholinesterase InhibitorsCinnamatesFungiHumansMolecular StructureStructure-Activity RelationshipAnti-Infective AgentsAntioxidantsCholinesterase InhibitorsCinnamatescinnamic acidAlzheimer’s diseaseanticancerantimalarialantimicrobialcinnamic acid

Identifiers

PMID32784935
PMCPMC7460980

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