"Naphthoquinones" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Naphthalene rings which contain two ketone moieties in any position. They can be substituted in any position except at the ketone groups.
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D009285
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.426.559.847.638.721 D02.806.550 D04.615.638.721
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Naphthoquinones" by people in Profiles.
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Isolation and chemopreventive evaluation of novel naphthoquinone compounds from Alkanna tinctoria. Anticancer Drugs. 2013 Nov; 24(10):1058-68.
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A highly sensitive and genetically encoded fluorescent reporter for ratiometric monitoring of quinones in living cells. Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Sep 21; 49(73):8027-9.
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NQO1 activation regulates angiotensin-converting enzyme shedding in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Cardiovasc Res. 2013 Sep 01; 99(4):743-50.
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NMR studies reveal an unexpected binding site for a redox inhibitor of AP endonuclease 1. Biochemistry. 2011 Dec 06; 50(48):10540-9.
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Activation of a cysteine protease in MCF-7 and T47D breast cancer cells during beta-lapachone-mediated apoptosis. Exp Cell Res. 2000 Mar 15; 255(2):144-55.
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Effects of 1,2-naphthoquinones on human tumor cell growth and lack of cross-resistance with other anticancer agents. Anticancer Drugs. 1998 Jun; 9(5):437-48.
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Effect of ascorbate on the DT-diaphorase-mediated redox cycling of 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1995 Apr 20; 318(2):418-23.