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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 ...

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