Design of selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors is still a challenging task because of active site similarities between COX isoenzymes. To help with this issue, we tried to generate a 3D-QSAR (3 dimensional quantitative structure activity relationship) model that might reflect the essential features of COX-2 active sites. Compounds in a series of resveratrol derivatives inhibitors with ...

Background: To determine the role of drugs in fatal overdose, analyses were done on samples obtained from autopsy examination and death and crime scene investigations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of toxicology analyses of postmortem biological and non-biological samples belonging to a subject in determining the forensic cause of death. Methods: Toxicological analysi...

In this article we present a new method for automatic landmark extraction from the contours of biological specimens. Our ultimate goal is to enable automatic identification of biological specimens in photographs and drawings held in a database. We propose to use Active Appearance Models for visual indexing of both photographs and drawings. Automatic landmark extraction will assist us in buildin...

Previous studies from this laboratory have implicated the expression of the third isoform of metallothionein (MT-3) in the maintenance of proximal tubular vectorial active ion transport. It was shown that HK-2 cells have no expression of MT-3 and do not form domes in culture; whereas, the human proximal tubular (HPT) cells and HK-2 cells stably transfected with MT-3 [HK-2(MT-3)] form these stru...

acridine derivatives, especially 1,8-dioxo-9-aryl-decahydroacridine represent significant scaffolds in medicinal chemistry. given the biological properties of such products which are used in drug development, they need to have appropriate carrier. proteins are generally used as helpful tools in drug delivery. consequently, molecular docking between these compounds and bovine serum albumin (bsa)...

design of selective cyclooxygenase-2 (cox-2) inhibitors is still a challenging task because of active site similarities between cox isoenzymes. to help with this issue, we tried to generate a 3d-qsar (3 dimensional quantitative structure activity relationship) model that might reflect the essential features of cox-2 active sites. compounds in a series of resveratrol derivatives inhibitors with ...