Anti-asthmatic activity of azepino [2, 1-b] quinazolones, synthetic analogues of vasicine, an alkaloid from Adhatoda vasica

Medicinal Chemistry Research

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 4269-4279

  Rayees, Sheikh ^a,b   Satti, Naresh Kumar ^a   Mehra, Rukmankesh ^a   Nargotra, Amit ^a   Rasool, Shafaq ^b   Sharma, Anjna ^a   Sahu, Promod Kumar ^a   Rajnikant, ^c   Gupta, Vivek K ^c   Nepali, Kunal ^d   Singh, Gurdarshan ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (India)

^b SHRI MATA VAISHNO DEVI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU   (India)

^d GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Asthma; Eosinophils; Lymphocytes; Pharmacokinetics; Th2 cytokines; Vasicine; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896588203     PISSN: 10542523     EISSN: 15548120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00044-014-0996-y     Document Type: Article

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