Study of activity carboquinones throught quantum descriptors / Estudo da atividade antineoplasica das carboquinonas atraves de descritores quanticos

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2006

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The discovery of efficient treatments against cancer is one of the great challenges of science. In Brazil the cancer became the second greatest cause of death. For the year 2005 467,440 new cases of cancer are expected. The investment for the development of a modern drug is about U$ 850 millions and the treatment with those drugs varies from U$ 4,000 to U$ 17,000 per month. Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) studies play an important role in design of drugs. In this work the Methodology of Electronic Indices was applied (MEI) to the study of anticancer activity of 36 molecules derived from carboquinones. The MEI is based on the concepts of local density of states, from which the index D is extracted, and in the difference of energy of the frontier orbitals, which defines the other MEI parameter h. The geometrical and electronic aspects for the carboquinone set were obtained using the semi-empirical PM3 (Parametric Method 3) available in computational package MOPAC. Our results show that the MEI is able to classify (with an accuracy of 92%) active and inactive compounds. More standards statistical methods such Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Hierarchic Cluster Analysis (HCA) were also used also producing results of identifying active/inactive molecules with high accuracy (100 and 94%, respectively). We conclude that the use of the MEI indices D and h can be an efficient tool for studies of qualitative SAR studies of carboquinones, as well as, to be used for the development and improvement of new drugs

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carboquinonas carboquinones qsar (bioquimica) antineoplasic qsar (biochemistry) antineoplasico

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