Promising Aedes aegypti Repellent Chemotypes Identified through Integrated QSAR, Virtual Screening, Synthesis, and Bioassay

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Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Oliferenko, Polina V ^a   Oliferenko, Alexander A ^a   Poda, Gennadiy I ^b   Osolodkin, Dmitry I ^c   Pillai, Girinath G ^a,d   Bernier, Ulrich R ^e   Tsikolia, Maia ^e   Agramonte, Natasha M ^e   Clark, Gary G ^e   Linthicum, Kenneth J ^e   Katritzky, Alan R ^a,f  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^f KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 (1 AZEPANYL) 2,2 DIMETHYL 1 PROPANONE; 2 METHYL N,N DI 2 PROPENYL 2 PENTENAMIDE; AMIDE; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; INSECT REPELLENT; N BUTYL N ETHYL 2 HEXANAMIDE; N BUTYL N ETHYL 2 METHYL 2 PENTENAMIDE; N BUTYL N ETHYL 2 METHYLBENZAMIDE; N BUTYL N ETHYL 2 METHYLPENTANAMIDE; N BUTYL N ETHYL 2,2 DIMETHYLPROPANAMIDE; N BUTYL N ETHYL 3 METHYL 2 BUTENAMIDE; N BUTYL N ETHYL 3 METHYLBUTANAMIDE; N BUTYL N ETHYLHEXANAMIDE; N BUTYL N METHYL 5 HEXYNAMIDE; N BUTYL N METHYL N (2 METHYL 2 PROPENYL) 2 PENTENAMIDE; N BUTYL N METHYLHEXANAMIDE; N BUTYL N,2 DIETHYLBUTANAMIDE; N CYCLOHEXYL N ETHYL 2 HEXANAMIDE; N CYCLOHEXYL N ETHYL 3 METHYLBUTANAMIDE; N CYCLOHEXYL N ETHYLHEXANAMIDE; N ETHYL 2,2 DIMETHYL N (2 METHYL 2 PROPENYL)PROPANAMIDE; N ETHYL 3 METHYL N (2 METHYL 2 PROPENYL) 2 BUTENAMIDE; N ETHYL N PHENYLHEXANAMIDE; N,2 DIETHYL N (2 METHYL 2 PROPENYL)BUTANIMIDE; N,2 DIMETHYL N OCTYLPENT 2 ENAMIDE; N,N DI (2 METHYLPROPYL) 2 HEXENAMIDE; N,N DIALLYLHEXANAMIDE; N,N DIISOBUTYL 3 METHYLBUTANAMIDE; N,N DIISOBUTYL 3 METHYLCROTONAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; MALE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; AEDES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CYCLOHEXANOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT REPELLENTS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84883630355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064547     Document Type: Article

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