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ReviewBiomedicines2025

Sulfonamides a Promising Hit for Cancer Therapy Through VEGFR-2 Inhibition.

Eleftherios Charissopoulos, Eleni Pontiki

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Review in Biomedicines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Common Food Additives Inhibit Carbonic Anhydrase Activity.Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Eleftherios CharissopoulosDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Eleni PontikiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0099-5653

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2), a tyrosine kinase receptor (TKR), plays a crucial role in angiogenesis and is overexpressed in most cancers. It is important for tumor angiogenesis, facilitating essential angiogenic cellular processes, such as promoting endothelial cell survival, proliferation, migration, and vascular permeability. Consequently, VEGFR-2 has become one of the main targets for anti-angiogenic therapy, with its inhibition serving as a crucial strategy for developing new drugs to mitigate angiogenesis-dependent cancers. Small-molecule drugs targeting VEGFR-2, approved by the USFDA, are exhibiting the development of drug resistance during chemotherapy, with cardiac-related side effects being consistently reported. In conclusion, it is important to develop novel strategies to enhance the efficacy of VEGFR-2 inhibitors and eliminate their adverse effects. Multifunctional drugs that target multiple pathways present a promising strategy, enhancing efficacy while minimizing side effects. Sulfonamide derivatives are extensively used in medicinal chemistry and modern drug discovery due to their variety of pharmacological activities. The present review focuses on novel compounds endowed with potential VEGFR-2 inhibition, four of which additionally present carbonic anhydrase inhibitory activity.

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anti-cancercarbonic anhydrasemultitargetsulfonamideVEGFR-2

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PMID40299334
PMCPMC12025213

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