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Nasir Ullah1,2, Zhangjian Huang3, Forough Sanaee2
1a Department of Chemistry , Islamia College Peshawar , Peshawar , Pakistan .
Abstract:
The carboxylic acid group (-COOH) present in classical NSAIDs is partly responsible for the gastric toxicity associated with the administration of these drugs. This concept has been extensively proven using NSAID prodrugs. However, the screening of NSAIDs with no carboxylic acid at all has been neglected. The goal of this work was to determine if new NSAID derivatives devoid of acidic moieties would retain the anti-inflammatory activity of the parent compound, without causing gastric toxicity. To test this concept, we replaced the carboxylic acid group in ibuprofen, flurbiprofen, and naproxen with three ammonium moieties. We tested the resulting water-soluble NSAID derivatives for anti-inflammatory and ulcerogenic activity in vitro and in vivo. In this regard, we observed that all non-acidic NSAIDs exerted a potent anti-inflammatory activity, suggesting that the acid group in commercial 2-phenylpropionic acid NSAIDs not be an essential requirement for anti-inflammatory activity. These data provide complementary evidence supporting the discontinuation of ulcerogenic acidic NSAIDs.
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