Nitrate Esters as Nitric Oxide Donors: SS-Nitrates
作者:Sergei I. Zavorin、Jennifer D. Artz、Adina Dumitrascu、Adrian Nicolescu、Dan Scutaru、Stefanie V. Smith、Gregory R. J. Thatcher
DOI:10.1021/ol007022a
日期:2001.4.1
The important biological secondary messenger NO can be generated from exogenous nitrovasodilators and NO donors, Nitrate esters are nitrovasodilators and NO mimetics, believed to be biotransformed to NO in vivo. On the basis of a mechanistic hypothesis, nitrates have been synthesized that release NO at significant rates in neutral aqueous solution in the presence only of added thiol. The novel masked beta -mercaptonitrates reported (SS nitrates), provide information on possible sulfhydryl dependent biotransformation mechanisms for nitrates in clinical use.
Inhibition of Lipid Peroxidation in Synaptosomes and Liposomes by Nitrates and Nitrites
作者:Adrian C. Nicolescu、Sergei I. Zavorin、Nicholas J. Turro、James N. Reynolds、Gregory R. J. Thatcher
DOI:10.1021/tx025529j
日期:2002.7.1
NO is produced endogenously from arginine by the action of NO synthase, and exogenously by nitrovasodilators, including organic nitrates and nitrites. NO has been proposed as a cytotoxic and cytoprotective agent. There is strong evidence that NO acts as an apparent antioxidant in inhibiting lipid peroxidation, via chain termination, and interestingly lipid nitrates and nitrites have been proposed to be products of this chain termination. Both pro- and antioxidant mechanisms may be drawn for nitrates and nitrites; therefore, their effects on lipid peroxidation were measured in two systems, using tocopherol, thiol, and an NO donor for comparison: (1) rat cerebrocortical synaptosomes with Fe(II)-induced lipid peroxidation measured by thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS), and (2) phospholipid liposomes with an azo-initiator induction system, quantified by a fluorescent probe of peroxide formation. In contrast to the classical nitrate nitroglycerin, novel nitrates which release NO on reaction with thiols and two novel nitrates which spontaneously generate NO in aqueous solution inhibited lipid peroxidation. i-Amyl nitrite inhibited lipid peroxidation, and its properties were further studied with ESR spectroscopy. The data show that classical nitrites and novel nitrates are not prooxidants, but inhibit lipid peroxidation.
NITRATE ESTERS AND THEIR USE FOR MITIGATING CELLULAR DAMAGE
申请人:QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON
公开号:EP1797100A1
公开(公告)日:2007-06-20
EP1797100A4
申请人:——
公开号:EP1797100A4
公开(公告)日:2009-05-13
Nitrate esters and their use for mitigating cellular damage
申请人:Thatcher R.J. Gregory
公开号:US20050137191A1
公开(公告)日:2005-06-23
Nitrate esters and methods for mitigating neurodegeneration, affecting neuroprotection, affecting cognition enhancement, and/or preventing or mitigating tissue and/or cellular damage in a subject are described. Neurological or cognitive conditions, or damage mediated by free radicals are treated by administering to a subject an effective amount of a therapeutic compound comprising a nitrate ester, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.