There has been special interest in the chemistry of quinolone and pyrimidine derivatives due to their diverse biological activities such as anticonvulsant, anti-malarial agents, antibacterial, antiviral, cytostatic, antithelemintic, antigenotoxic, anti-cancer agents. These compounds are also used as targeting delayed-type hypersensivity and anti-convulsant agents. As a part of our research work...

Nanotechnology is the creation and utilization of materials, devices, and systems through the control of matter on the nanometer-length scale, i.e., at the level of atoms, molecules, and supramolecular structures. Nanotechnology, as defined by the National Nanotechnology Initiative (http://www.nano.gov/), is the understanding and control of matter at dimensions of roughly 1 to 100 nanometers, w...

In the present perspective the advances and real possibilities of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions as key steps in the total synthesis of virus inhibitors are described. Azides, nitrones, and azomethine ylides are the most appropriate 1,3-dipoles for the synthesis of privileged structures with the highest biological responses against viruses.

We used a hybrid transmission and economic model to evaluate the relative merits of stockpiling antiviral drugs and vaccine for pandemic influenza mitigation. In the absence of any intervention, our base-case assumptions generated a population clinical attack rate of 31.1%. For at least some parameter values, population prepandemic vaccination strategies were effective at containing an outbreak...

A quick and sensitive method to quantitate viral RNA synthesis has been developed. Utilizing glutaraldehyde to fix infected cells onto nitrocellulose paper, viral RNA can be probed directly in situ. Viral message can be detected from as few as 10(4) infected cells. This technique can be used to study viral gene expression and can be adapted to screen the activity of antiviral agents such as int...

A new 12-membered macrolide, balticolid (1) was isolated from the EtOAc extract of the culture broth of fungal strain 222 belonging to the Ascomycota, which was found on driftwood collected from the coast of the Greifswalder Bodden, Baltic Sea, Germany. The structure of balticolid was determined to be (3R,11R), (4E,8E)-3-hydroxy-11-methyloxacyclododeca-4,8-diene-1,7-dione using extensive spectr...

BACKGROUND Antiviral agents could play a significant role in the response to a future influenza pandemic, especially if an effective vaccine is unavailable. There is, however, a limited availability of antiviral drugs, as was the case during the A/Fujian(H3N2) epidemic in the 2003-2004 season. There are major differences among the available antiviral agents in terms of clinical pharmacology, ad...

The back cover image is based on the Research Article Ferulic acid derivatives with piperazine moiety as potential antiviral agents by Ting Yuan et al., https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.6794.