The relationship between the chemical structure and epileptogenic activity of quinolones was investigated. When the quinolones were administered intravenously to mice concomitantly with oral biphenylacetic acid, a major metabolite of the nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug fenbufen, enoxacin, norfloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and pipemidic acid, which have an unsubstituted piperazine moiety at the 7 p...

Objective(s) Extensive use of quinolones has been associated with raising level of resistance. In the current, we focused on assessing the prevalence of Escherichia coli resistance to quinolones and frequency of qnrA, qnrB and qnrS in non ESBLs (extended spectrum beta-lactamases) and ESBLs producing E. coli with blaSHV and blaTEM. Materials and Methods One hundred and fifty E. coli isolates ...

Ninety quinolones were evaluated to determine whether their ability to induce mammalian topoisomerase II mediated DNA cleavage in vitro correlated with their antitumor activity in vivo. Ten quinolones generated linear DNA at a yield of more than 10% of substrate supercoiled DNA in the mammalian topoisomerase II mediated DNA cleavage assay. All of these compounds showed a significant increase in...

chemically, may be regarded as weak substituted heterocyclic amino acids. These drugs primarily find use in the treatment of urinary and respiratory infections. Fluoroquinolones exhibit strong activity against Gram-negative and some Gram-positive bacteria, though many anaerobic strains are resistant. Fleroxacin and moxifloxacin are fluoroquinolone family members which belong to 2nd and 4th gene...

The reaction of diphenylcyclopropenone with several N-substituted hydroxylamine and primary amines are investigated. Most of these reactions led to ring opened or ring enlarged products, instead of the desired N-Oxide or imine. The reaction of cyclopropeneimine with peracid-another possible route to N-substituted cyclopropeneimine N-Oxide is studied. Most of the unexpected products are ide...