Synthesis and bronchodilatory activity of four new derivatives of deoxyvasicine

Drug Design and Discovery

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-14

  Ojo, Babatunde ^a   Findsen, Leonore A ^b   Igarashi, Naoko ^b   Kong, Bruce ^b   Chowdhury, Bejoy K ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^c CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

Author keywords

Bronchodilatory activity; Deoxyvasicine derivatives (1,2,3,9 tetrahydro 7 halo 6 hydroxy 5 methoxypyrrolo 2,1 b quinazoline); DL 8 chlorovasicine; Quinazolines; Vasicine

Indexed keywords

AMINOPHYLLINE; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; ISOPRENALINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASICINE; VASICINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHODILATATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE;

ALKALOIDS; AMINOPHYLLINE; ANIMALS; BRONCHIAL SPASM; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; GUINEA PIGS; ISOPROTERENOL; QUINAZOLINES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRACHEA;

EID: 0029939757     PISSN: 10559612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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