This invention relates to certain heterocyclic compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, which are useful for sensitizing multidrug-resistant tumor cells to anticancer agents and multidrug resistant forms of malaria, tuberculosis, leishmania and amoebic dysentery to chemotherapeutants. The compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts are also inhibitors of the active drug transport capability of P-glycoprotein which is encoded by the human MDR1 gene, as well as of certain other related ATP-binding-cassette transporters from eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms (e.g., pfmdr from Plasmodium falciprum, and murine mdr1 and mdr3 gene products).
本发明涉及某些
杂环化合物及其药学上可接受的盐,这些化合物可用于增强多药耐药肿瘤细胞对抗癌药物的敏感性,以及对抗多药耐药的疟疾、结核病、利什曼病和阿米巴痢疾的化疗药物。这些化合物及其药学上可接受的盐还是P-糖蛋白的活性药物转运能力的
抑制剂,该蛋白由人类MDR1
基因编码,以及来自真核
生物和原核
生物的某些其他相关
ATP结合盒转运体(例如来自疟原虫恶性疟原虫的pfmdr,以及小鼠mdr1和mdr3
基因产物)。