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Synthesis and anticancer evaluation of alpha-lipoic acid derivatives
Shi-Jie Zhang1, Qiu-Fu Ge, Dian-Wu Guo
1College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, PR China.
Abstract:
alpha-Lipoic acid derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their in vitro anticancer activities against NCI-460, HO-8910, KB, BEL-7402, and PC-3 cell lines. The results, for most compounds exhibited dose-dependent inhibitory property and several compounds had good inhibitions at the dose of 100 microg/mL. Compound 17 m was further selected for in vivo evaluation against S180 xenograft in ICR mice, which had 24.7% tumor-weight inhibition through intragastric administration of 200mg/kg of body weight. Moreover, the LD(50) in mice for 17 m through ig exceeded 1000 mg/kg of body weight.
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