title: Review in quantitative structure activity relationships on lipoxygenase inhibitors.
abstract: This paper reviews and evaluates all the published QSAR treatments of LOX inhibitors. This reveals that in almost all cases, the clog P parameter plays an important part in the QSAR relationships. In some cases the steric factors (B(1), B(5) and L) as well as the overall molar refractivity (CMR) or the substitutents molar refractivity (MR) are important. Electronic effects except for the Hammet's constant alpha, are comparatively unimportant. The study shows that log P as calculated from the Clog P program is suitable for this form of QSAR study. Log Po of 2.77-3.76 was found to be ideal, for the biological response.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece.
authors.forename: Pontiki
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Eleni
authors.forename: Hadjipavlou-Litina
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Dimitra
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000737:chemistry; D015195:Drug Design; D008084:Lipoxygenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D016859:Lipoxygenase Inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; D016859:Lipoxygenase Inhibitors; D008084:Lipoxygenase