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Design and synthesis of niflumic acid-based N-acylhydrazone derivatives as novel anti-inflammatory and analgesic agents
Kheradmand, Amin,Navidpour, Latifeh,Shafaroodi, Hamed,Saeedi-Motahar, Ghazaleh,Shafiee, Abbas
, p. 2411 - 2420 (2013/07/26)
A new series of niflumic acid-based N-acylhydrazone derivatives 5a-p were synthesized and evaluated for their anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities. Most of the compounds have shown anti-inflammatory activity with a moderate-to-excellent activity range (20-80 % reduction in inflammation). Among them, 3-chlorophenyl 5d and 3-pyridyl derivatives 5o exhibited the most potent anti-inflammatory activity relative to niflumic acid as the reference drug (77, 76, and 70 % reduction in inflammation at 1-h postdrug administration, respectively). Also, molecular simplification of niflumic acid through replacing the N-aryl group with N-methyl group produced compounds 6a-f with anti-inflammatory activity in a quite similar manner to those of their parent derivatives. In this subgroup, 4-pyridyl derivative 6f showed the most potent anti-inflammatory activity relative to niflumic acid (80 % reduction in inflammation at 1-h postdrug administration). The compounds with highest anti-inflammatory activity were subjected to analgesic assays and showed moderate-to-excellent analgesic activities. The compound 5j, 4-methoxy derivative, exhibited the highest analgesic activity relative to niflumic acid (97 and 68 % activity, respectively).
