Introduction. Accumulation of middle molecular weight uremic toxins causes various complications in chronic hemodialysis (HD) patients. Postdilution online hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF) efficiently removes these molecules. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness three different dialysis membranes removing ?2- microglobulin (?2m) within a single session postdilution OL-HDF. Method. A prospecti...

4-Methyl-5-(2-pyrazinyl)-1,2-dithiole-3-thione (oltipraz), a prototype drug candidate containing a 1,2-dithiole-3-thione moiety, has been widely studied as a cancer chemopreventive agent. Oltipraz and other novel 1,2-dithiole-3-thione congeners have the capability to prevent insulin resistance via AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activation. Arachidonic acid (AA, a proinflammatory fatty acid...

A series of amino acid ester derivatives containing 5-fluorouracil were synthesized using 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide hydrochloride (EDC*HCl) and N-hydroxybenzotriazole (HOBt) as a coupling agent. The structures of the products were assigned by NMR, MS, IR etc. The in vitro antitumor activity tests against leukaemia HL-60 and liver cancer BEL-7402 indicated that (R)-ethyl 2-(2...

portant molecules, pyrimidine has played an important role in medicinal chemistry. A survey of literature has shown that compounds having a pyrimidine nucleus possess a broad range of biological activities such as anticancer (1), antiviral (2), antibacterial (3), antimalarial (4), antihypertensive (5) and anti-inflammmatory activities (6, 7). Moreover, chemistry and synthesis of 1,2,3,4-tetrahy...

3 Starting from 2-methyl-4-nitro-imidazole, new 5-(2-methyl- 4-nitro-1-imidazomethyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-thione () was synthesized and was subjected to Mannich reaction with appropriate amines to yield a new series of 3-substituted aminomethyl-5-(2-methyl-4-nitro-1-imidazomethyl)- 1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-thiones (4a-j). The structure of the title compounds was elucidated by elemental analysis and sp...

barium salts of dibenzylidene cystines 8a-c were obtained from the reaction of lcystine with benzaldehyde or its derivatives in the presence of barium hydroxide. their reduction with zinc and hydrochloric acid in methanol yielded the narylmethylcysteines ?9a-c?. these can, in turn, be converted by esterification into the methyl esters ?10 a-c. ?reaction of n, n'-carbonyl diimidazole (im co...

The title compound, C(16)H(24)N(2)OS, is twisted about the central N(H)-C bond with the C-N-C-S torsion angle being 119.6 (3)°. The carbonyl O and thione S atoms are directed to opposite sides of the mol-ecule, a conformation that allows for the formation of a linear supra-molecular chain comprising alternating eight-membered {⋯HNCS}(2) and 14-membered {⋯HCNCNCO}(2) synthons.