Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel nitric oxidedonating protoberberine derivatives as antitumor agents

A novel class of NO-donating protoberberine derivatives were synthesized and initially evaluated for their anti-hepatocellular carcinoma activities. Most of the compounds exhibited more potent activity against HepG2 cells than parent compounds berberine and palmatine. In particular, compound 15a exe...

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Main Authors: Chen, Jichao, Wang, Tianyu, Xu, Shengtao, Lin, Aijun, Yao, Hequan, Xie, Weijia, Zhu, Zheying, Xu, Jinyi
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42904/