The present invention relates to the field of anti-invasive compounds and methods for predicting the anti-invasive activity of said compounds, as well as their use in the prevention and/or treatment of diseases associated with undesired cell invasion; in particular, this invention relates to the field of anti-invasive chalcone-like compounds.
Novel Chalcone Derivatives With Antimitotic Activity
申请人:Boumendjel Ahcene
公开号:US20090182058A1
公开(公告)日:2009-07-16
The present invention relates to novel chalcone derivatives of formula (I):
wherein X, Y, Z, W, RI, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined, said derivatives having antimitotic activity, as well as to pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and to their use for making drugs.
A series of 59 chalcones was prepared and evaluated for the antimitotic effect against K562 leukemia cells. The most active chalcones were evaluated for their antiproliferative activity against a panel of I I human and murine cell cancer lines. We found that three chalcones were of great interest as potential antimitotic drugs. In vivo safety studies conducted on one of the most active chalcones revealed that the compound was safe, allowing further in vivo antitumor evaluation.