作者:Katiuscia Bonezzi、Giulia Taraboletti、Patrizia Borsotti、Fabio Bellina、Renzo Rossi、Raffaella Giavazzi                                    
                                    
                                        DOI:10.1021/jm900968s
                                    
                                    
                                        日期:2009.12.10
                                    
                                    Highly cytotoxic 1,5-diaryl-1H-imidazoles were studied to clarify the relationship between cytotoxicity and activity as vascular disrupting agents (VDA). All the compounds disorganized the tubulin cytoskeleton, affected endothelial cell morphology and capillary formation in vitro, and caused vessel shutdown and tumor necrosis in vivo, thus confirming their vascular disrupting properties. Nonetheless, the substitution patterns oil the imidazole ring, responsible for greater interaction energy with tubulin and higher cytotoxicity, were not associated to greater vascular disrupting activity.