"Naphthoquinones" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Naphthalene rings which contain two ketone moieties in any position. They can be substituted in any position except at the ketone groups.
| Descriptor ID |
D009285
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.426.559.847.638.721 D02.806.550 D04.615.638.721
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Naphthoquinones" by people in Profiles.
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Identification of Novel Therapeutic Targets for Fibrolamellar Carcinoma Using Patient-Derived Xenografts and Direct-from-Patient Screening. Cancer Discov. 2021 10; 11(10):2544-2563.
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Synthesis and evaluation of 1,4-naphthoquinone ether derivatives as SmTGR inhibitors and new anti-schistosomal drugs. FEBS J. 2015 Aug; 282(16):3199-217.
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Synthesis and biological evaluation of 1,4-naphthoquinones and quinoline-5,8-diones as antimalarial and schistosomicidal agents. Org Biomol Chem. 2012 Aug 21; 10(31):6375-87.
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Synthetic methods for the preparation of ARQ 501 (beta-Lapachone) human blood metabolites. Bioorg Med Chem. 2008 May 15; 16(10):5635-43.
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Thioredoxin glutathione reductase from Schistosoma mansoni: an essential parasite enzyme and a key drug target. PLoS Med. 2007 Jun; 4(6):e206.