title: Leishmanicidal activity of aurones.
abstract: This is the first report on aurones as a new class of natural products with leishmanicidal activity. A series of aurones with drug-potential for Leishmania infections was identified in vitro using both a direct cytotoxicity test against extracellular promastigotes of Leishmania donovani, L. infantum, L. enriettii, and L. major, and a test against intracellular amastigote L. donovani residing within murine macrophages. The compounds proved to be active at concentrations in the microgram range between 0.4 and 5.0 microg/ml. When tested against murine bone marrow-derived macrophages as a mammalian host cell control, all compounds showed only moderate cytotoxicity (EC50 2.32-25.0 microg/ml).
authors.affiliation: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Pharmacy II, Germany. kayser@zedat.fu-berlin.de
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kayser
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Kiderlen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001572:Benzofurans / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006801:Humans; D007891:Leishmania / Q000187:drug effects*; D008264:Macrophages / Q000166:cytology; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D015394:Molecular Structure; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents; D001572:Benzofurans