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Non-ulcerogenic pyrazolyl 2-hydroxychalcones and pyrazolylpyrazolines derived from naturally existing furochromone
Fatma Abd El-Fattah Ragab1, Yassin Mohammed Nissan1,2, M Alaraby Salem2,3
1Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Abstract:
Novel pyrazolyl 2-hydroxychalcone derivatives 3a-e and pyrazolylpyrazoline derivatives 4a-e and 5a-j derived from the naturally existing furochromone (Khellin) were synthesized and evaluated for their in vivo anti-inflammatory activity. Most of the synthesized compounds showed better or comparable activity to that of Diclofenac as reference drug. Twelve compounds were evaluated for their ulcerogenic potential and exhibited no ulcerogenic effect. In addition compounds 3c, 5c and 5h as examples showed PGE2 inhibition % 88.86, 65.87 and 44.06, respectively and TNFα inhibition % 48.62, 31.11 and 16.02, respectively in rat serum samples. Compounds 3c, 5c, 5h and Celecoxib were subjected to in vitro COX-1 and COX-2 inhibition assay, showed selectivity index 45.04, 102.04, 131.58 and 185.18, respectively. The computational finding supported those of in vitro, where the pyrazolylpyrazolines interacted with the COX-2 enzyme in a similar orientation to that of Celecoxib, while chlacones were found to exhibit similar orientation to that of Diclofenac.
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