title: Synthesis and antitumour evaluation of 4-bromophenyl semicarbazones.
abstract: 4-Bromophenyl semicarbazone derivatives have been synthesized and their chemical structures have been confirmed by means of their IR, 1H-NMR data and by elemental analyses. The in vitro evaluation in the 3-cell line, one dose primary anticancer assay is described. The 4-bromo substituted p-nitrobenzylidene phenyl semicarbazone (5) showed significant activity against breast MCF7 cell line and was further evaluated for potential anticancer activity in an in vitro human disease-oriented tumour cell line screening panel that consisted of 59 human tumour cell lines arranged in nine subpanels, representing diverse histologies. Melanoma UACC-62 cell line was relatively more sensitive to compounds 5 (growth inhibitions: GI50 = 15.3 mumol/l).
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Technology, Barnaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. snpande@banaras.ernet.in
authors.forename: Surendra N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Pandeya
authors.forename: Perumal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yogeeswari
authors.forename: Edward A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Sausville
authors.forename: Anthony B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Mauger
authors.forename: Ven L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Narayanan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004354:Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor; D006801:Humans; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D012664:Semicarbazones / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D012664:Semicarbazones