75491-93-9Relevant articles and documents
Thalifaurine and dehydrodiscretine, new quaternary protoberberines from Thalictrum fauriei
Chen,Chen,Lee
, p. 1061 - 1065 (1980)
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Synthesis and biological evaluation of berberine analogues as novel up-regulators for both low-density-lipoprotein receptor and insulin receptor
Wang, Yan-Xiang,Wang, Yu-Ping,Zhang, Hao,Kong, Wei-Jia,Li, Ying-Hong,Liu, Fei,Gao, Rong-Mei,Liu, Ting,Jiang, Jian-Dong,Song, Dan-Qing
scheme or table, p. 6004 - 6008 (2010/06/16)
Berberine (BBR) is a natural compound with up-regulating activity on both low-density-lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) and insulin receptor (InsR). This one-drug-multiple-target characteristic might be suitable for the treatment of metabolic syndrome. In searching for up-regulators effective for both LDLR and InsR expression, the structure-activity relationship (SAR) analysis for BBR analogues was done. Fourteen BBR analogues were designed, synthesized and biologically evaluated. SAR analysis revealed that appropriate modifications on the phenyl ring A or D of BBR might retain the up-regulatory activities on the expression of both LDLR and InsR. Among these compounds, compound 13a bearing 9-methoxy and 10-hydroxyl on the ring D showed promising activities on either LDLR or InsR gene expression. The 10-hydroxyl of 13a could be an arm to connect proper chemical groups for optimizing drug-bioavailability in vivo. Thus, 13a could be considered to be a parent compound to make pro-drugs for either blood lipids or glucose.