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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Hybrid Quinoline-Thiosemicarbazone Therapeutics as a New Treatment Opportunity for Alzheimer's Disease‒Synthesis, In Vitro Cholinesterase Inhibitory Potential and Computational Modeling Analysis.

Sumera Zaib, Rubina Munir, Muhammad Tayyab Younas, Naghmana Kausar, Aliya Ibrar, Sehar Aqsa, Noorma Shahid, Tahira Tasneem Asif, Hashem O Alsaab, Imtiaz Khan

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 45 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

10 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Sumera ZaibDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan.
Rubina MunirDepartment of Chemistry, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-8015-5974
Muhammad Tayyab YounasDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan.
Naghmana KausarDepartment of Chemistry, University of Gujrat, Gujrat 50700, Pakistan.
Aliya IbrarDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, The University of Haripur, Haripur 22620, Pakistan.
Sehar AqsaDepartment of Chemistry, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Noorma ShahidDepartment of Chemistry, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Tahira Tasneem AsifDepartment of Chemistry, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Hashem O AlsaabDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-5448-1004
Imtiaz KhanDepartment of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7359-1727
Kinnaird College for Women University · PKUniversity of Central Punjab · PKTaif University · SAUniversity of Gujrat · PKUniversity of Haripur · PKUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the leading cause of dementia worldwide. The limited pharmacological approaches based on cholinesterase inhibitors only provide symptomatic relief to AD patients. Moreover, the adverse side effects such as nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, muscle cramps, and headaches associated with these drugs and numerous clinical trial failures present substantial limitations on the use of medications and call for a detailed insight of disease heterogeneity and development of preventive and multifactorial therapeutic strategies on urgent basis. In this context, we herein report a series of quinoline-thiosemicarbazone hybrid therapeutics as selective and potent inhibitors of cholinesterases. A facile multistep synthetic approach was utilized to generate target structures bearing multiple sites for chemical modifications and establishing drug-receptor interactions. The structures of all the synthesized compounds were fully established using readily available spectroscopic techniques (FTIR,

Indexed as

AcetylcholinesteraseAlzheimer DiseaseCholinesterase InhibitorsHumansModels, MolecularNeuroprotective AgentsQuinolinesThiosemicarbazonesAcetylcholinesteraseCholinesterase InhibitorsNeuroprotective AgentsquinolineQuinolinesThiosemicarbazonesAlzheimer’s diseasecholinesterasesdrug therapyenzyme inhibitionhybridizationmolecular designmolecular dockingneurodegenerationquinolinethiosemicarbazone

Identifiers

PMID34770983
PMCPMC8587653
OpenAlexW3210231795

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