Book of Abstracts - Veterinární a farmaceutická univerzita Brno
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Book of Abstracts - Veterinární a farmaceutická univerzita Brno
44. KONFERENCE SYNTÉZA A ANALÝZA LÉČIV 2015 44th CONFERENCE DRUG SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS 2015 Organizační výbor: Organising committee: doc. PharmDr. Ing. Radka Opatřilová, Ph.D., MBA prof. RNDr. Jozef Csöllei, CSc. doc. PharmDr. Josef Jampílek, Ph.D. PharmDr. Pavlína Marvanová PharmDr. Tereza Padrtová Book of Abstracts 2. - 4. ZÁŘÍ 2015 BRNO 2nd – 4th SEPTEMBER 2015 BRNO 1 Dear participants, colleagues, friends It is pleasing to mention that the agenda of the Conference Synthesis and Analysis a wide range of very interesting items relating to the properties and consists of the development of drugs. Conference Synthesis and Analysis of Drugs is a very important annual gathering of employees of pharmaceutical universities and research institutions. This meeting brings together many key partners in the world of drugs. It is an opportunity to renew contacts and discuss issues of mutual interest. While the sciences are impressive, more important is the profound impact this knowledge has for people - the improved quality of life they provide. We do our best when we go where the science leads us, and base our decisions on thorough, data-driven analyses. This ensures our work will benefit for health. Finally, I would like to thank all of you for your support of our mission and our work. I firmly believe that we can meet the challenges in front of us – especially if we continue the tradition of science in the service of public health. I take this opportunity to wish you all the very best for the future. Assoc. Prof. Ing. PharmDr. Radka Opatřilová, Ph.D., MBA 2 Elektronický sborník 44. Konference Syntéza a analýza léčiv 2. - 4. září 2015 Brno Vydala Veterinární a Farmaceutická univerzita Brno ISBN: 978-80-7305-760-2 Abstrakty příspěvků byly redakčně kráceny a formátovány. Zaslané celé články vyjdou v časopise Česká a Slovenská Farmacie. Yearbook of 44th Conference Drug Synthesis and Analysis 2th – 4th September 2015 Brno Published by University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical sciences Brno ISBN: 978-80-7305-760-2 Abstracts were shortened and edited by editors. Articles will be published in Journal Česká a Slovenská Farmacie. 3 PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE Wednesday 2nd September 2015 arrival, accommodation, registration (1 1.00 - 13. 30) 13. 30 - 14. 00 Official opening of the Conference AULA University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno Chairmens: prof. zw. dr hab. inż. Jarosław Polański doc. PharmDr. Josef Jampílek, Ph.D. 14. 00 - 14. 50 Polanski, J. Chemoinformatics, a tool for drug discovery, an upgrade for a new century: problems, concepts, definitions 14. 50 - 15. 30 Musiol, R. Close the Gate! Antifungal styrylquinolines as Cdr1 substrates 15. 40 - 16. 00 Stanzel, L. Synthesis and antioxidant activity of phenylcarbamic acid derivatives acting on cardiovascular system 16. 00 - 16. 30 Coffee break AULA 4 Chairpersons: doc. RNDr. Jana Staničová, Ph.D. prof. Victoriya Georgiyants 16. 30 - 16. 50 Staničová, J. Potential anticancer agent hypericin and its model compound hypericin: its interaction with DNA 16. 50 - 17. 05 Rišiaňová, L. New derivatives of curcumin with potential anticancer and antiradical activity 17. 05 - 17. 20 Georgiyants , V. Modern approaches to the directed synthesis of anticonvulsants 17. 20 - 17. 35 Pietrzyńska, M. Polymer-ceramic monolithic in-needle extraction device applied for extraction of potential antiresorptive drugs After the lectures: WELCOME PARTY http://www.vfu.cz/information-about-university/location-and-university-campus/index.html#changeMapa 5 Thursday 3th September 2015 registration (8. 30 - 11. 00) Chairmens: Prof. Dr. Janez Košmrlj Prof. Dr.Haider Norbert . 9. 00 - 9. 50 Kosmrlj, J. Chemistry and biological application of selected diazene derivatives 9. 50 - 10. 30 Haider, N. Structural modifications of the antitumor alkaloid Luotonin A: cycloaddition reactions as a useful tool 10. 35 - 11. 00 Coffee break 11. 00 - 11. 30 Pazourek, J. HPLC determination of hepatotoxic peptides in water reservoires with occurence of invasive species of Pectinatella magnifica 11. 30 - 11. 45 Materiienko , A. Development of spectrophotometric method for carmoisine determination in quality control of equipment cleaning 12. 00 - 14. 00 Lunch break 6 Doc. Ing. Lucie Cahlíková, Ph.D. Chairpersons: Doc. PharmDr. Karel Šmejkal, Ph.D. 14. 00 - 14. 40 Šmejkal, K. Potential therapeutic aplications of prenylated phenols 14. 40 - 15. 15 Cahlíková, L. Alkaloids of family Amaryllidaceae and their therapeutic potential 15. 20 - 15. 35 Žemlička, M. The possibilities of HPLC with post-column reaction in the search for plant-derived antioxidants and inhibitors of enzyme activities 16. 00 - 17. 00 Poster session SIC (Study and Information Centre), building Nr. 24 18. 30 - 23. 00 GALA EVENING AND AFTER PARTY SIC, building Nr. 24 Friday 4th September 2015 Free day for trip 7 Lectures Author Title of Lecture L01 CAHLÍKOVÁ, L. Alkaloids of family Amaryllidaceae and their therapeutic potential L02 GEORGIYANTS, V. Modern approaches to the directed synthesis of anticonvulsants L03 HAIDER, N. L04 KOSMRLJ, J. L05 MATERIIENKO, A. L06 MUSIOL, R. L07 PAZOUREK, J. L08 PIETRZYŃSKA, M. L09 POLANSKI, J. L10 RIŠIAŇOVÁ, L. L11 STANIČOVÁ, J. L12 STANZEL, L. L13 ŠMEJKAL, K. L14 ŽEMLIČKA, M. Structural modifications of the antitumor alkaloid Luotonin A: cycloaddition reactions as a useful tool Chemistry and biological application of selected diazene derivatives Development of spectrophotometric method for carmoisine determination in quality control of equipment cleaning Close the Gate! Antifungal styrylquinolines as Cdr1 substrates HPLC determination of hepatotoxic peptides in water reservoires with occurence of invasive species of Pectinatella magnifica Polymer-ceramic monolithic in-needle extraction device applied for extraction of potential antiresorptive drugs Chemoinformatics, a tool for drug discovery, an upgrade for a new century: problems, concepts, definitions New derivatives of curcumin with potential anticancer and antiradical activity Potential anticancer agent hypericin and its model compound hypericin: its interaction with DNA Synthesis and antioxidant activity of phenylcarbamic acid derivatives acting on cardiovascular system Potential therapeutic applications of prenylated phenols The possibilities of HPLC with post-column reaction in the search for plant-derived antioxidants and inhibitors of enzyme activities 8 ALKALOIDS OF FAMILY AMARYLLIDACEAE AND THEIR THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL LUCIE CAHLÍKOVÁ ADINACO Reasearch Group, Department of Pharmaceutical Botany and Ecology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic; [email protected] Plants of the family Amaryllidaceae comprise about 85 genera and 1100 species that are distributed widely in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Plants of this family have been used for thousands of years in traditional herbal medicine. The earliest evidence of their therapeutic application was discovered in the fourth century B.C.E., when Hippocrates of Cos used the oil from daffodil, Narcissus poeticus L., for the treatment of uterine tumors 1. More than 500 Amaryllidaceae alkaloids representing 18 skeletal types have been isolated and identified. The representative alkaloids are lycorine, galanthamine, haemanthamine, pancratistatine, pretazzetine, montanine, narciclassine and others. Biogenetically, these structures are the result of an intramolecular oxidative coupling of the key intermediate O-methylnorbelladine, derived from the amino acids L-phenylalanine and L-tyrosine. These compounds exhibit a diversity of biological activities including antitumor, antiviral, antibacterial, antifugal, antimalarial, analgesic, acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitory and cytotoxic activities 2. In terms of bioactivity, the most important alkaloid of the group is galanthamine, a long-acting, selective, reversible and competitive inhibitor of AChE, which was approved for the clinical management of mild to moderate Alzheimer´ disease (AD)3. Other important compound of this group lycorine, is one of the most frequently occurring Amaryllidaceae alkaloids and has been reported as a potent inhibitor of ascorbic acid synthesis, cell growth and division and organogenesis in higher plants, algae and yeasts. In addition, lycorine is recognized as a low molecular antiproliferative agent against multidrug resistant and apoptosis-resistant cancer cells with selective cell type-dependent cytotoxicity in tumor cells by mitochondrial pathways and inducing apoptosis 2. 1) Kornienko A, Evidente A. Chem. Rev. 2008, 108, 1982-2014. 2) Jin Z. Nat. Prod. Rep. 2009; 26, 363-381. 3) Hampel H, et al. Expert Rev. Neurother. 2015, 15, 83-105. 9 STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS OF THE ANTITUMOR ALKALOID LUOTONIN A: CYCLOADDITION REACTIONS AS A USEFUL TOOL NORBERT HAIDER Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria; [email protected] Luotonin A is a pentacyclic alkaloid that has been isolated in the late 1990s from the Asian plant, Peganum nigellastrum Bunge (Zygophyllaceae).1) It has a pyrroloquinazolinoquinoline skeleton and thus shares some basic structural features with Camptothecin (CPT, cf. Fig. 1), another natural product which has become well-known because of its pronounced antitumor activity. 2) The latter is based on a stabilising effect towards the binary complex formed between DNA and the enzyme, topoisomerase I as an essential step for releasing the supercoiled structure of the nucleic acid, and this stabilisation effectively prevents DNA replication. While CPT itself has unfavorable pharmacokinetic properties, some of its derivatives, such as topotecan and irinotecan, have made their way into clinical use as anticancer agents for the chemotherapy of certain malignancies, 2) although they do not only cause the typical side effects of most cytotoxic agents, but also suffer from specific adverse effects like bladder toxicity.3) This problem arises from the labile hydroxylactone structure of CPT-like compounds which first leads to an undesired early inactivation of the drug by lactone-ring opening at the physiological blood pH and later (during excretion) to another undesired structural change, namely re-formation of the lactone in the acidic environment of the urinary bladder. For that reason (together with synthesis-related aspects), Luotonin A has been receiving increased intrerest as an alternative lead structure for the development of therapeutically useful topoisomerase I poisons, as it was found to exhibit a similar biological activity as CPT, albeit with considerably lower potency.4) As shown in Fig. 1, Luotonin A does not possess the labile lactone structure and, moreover, lacks the chiral center of CPT. 1 14 A B 4 N 13 O 2 D 10 N E 6 7 Luotonin A N 12 11 3 5 O C N N O 9 8 Camptothecin OH O Figure 1. Structures of Luotonin A (with IUPAC numbering scheme) and Camptothecin Thus, in recent years quite a number of publications have appeared that describe various total syntheses of Luotonin A as well as some structural modifications of this alkaloid. A comprehensive 2011 review article4) nicely summarises this development. In continuation of previous investigations of our groups in the field of antitumor-active polycyclic N-heterocycles, we became interested in Luotonin A as a lead structure for hitherto unexplored derivatives and analogues with potential cytotoxic activity. 10 In particular, variation of ring A of the pentacyclic skeleton in terms of steric and electronic properties appears highly interesting with regard to an improved activity profile, as suggested by some previous observations.4) 1) Ma Z.-Z., Hano Y., Nomura T., Chen Y.-J. Heterocycles 1997; 46, 541–546. 2) Du W. Tetrahedron 2003; 59, 8649–8687. 3) Pizzolato J. F., Saltz L. B. Lancet 2003; 361, 2235–2242. 4) Liang J. L., Cha H. C., Jahng Y. Molecules 2011; 16, 4861–4883. 11 CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGICAL APPLICATION OF SELECTED DIAZENE DERIVATIVES JANEZ KOŠMRLJ Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; [email protected] Cancer is one of the major causes of death in developed countries (1). Despite extensive screening and investing huge funds for cancer research over the past decade, the decline in cancer mortality rate is relatively modest. Therefore, to maximize the effectiveness of cancer treatment, new compounds – potential antitumor drugs – are synthesized and tested. Cisplatin has been clinically approved to be used to treat solid tumor (1). Although it is one of the most commonly used and effective agents it causes neuro-, nephro- and ototoxicities as the main side effects (1). The major obstacle of cisplatin in successful chemotherapy is development of cisplatin-resistance on tumors, which is the effect of several unrelated mechanisms (1-3). One of those is a result of cisplatin inactivation by binding to intracellular thiol-containing molecules including glutathione (GSH). Glutathion-S-transferase (GST) augments the resistance by catalyzing GSH-cisplatin binding4). Diazenes, compounds with the structure R–N=N–R’, are known for a long time. Some diazenes have been recognized as biological control agents, the diazene antibiotics (2). These include methyl phenyldiazenecarboxylate, which inhibited the germination of the fungus Trichoderma viride and diazenecarboxylic acid bis(N,N-dimethylamide), which halted the growth of Escherichia coli (Figure 1). The mechanism of action has been studied revealing that these diazenes may oxidize intracellular GSH into glutathione disulfide (GSSG) 8). Figure 1. Molecular structures of methyl phenyldiazenecarboxylate (left), diazenecarboxylic acid bis(N,N-dimethylamide) (middle), and diazenecarboxamides 1 (right). We have demonstrated that another subclass of diazenes, i.e, diazenecarboxamides 1 (Figure 1) (7), are cytotoxic for tumor cell lines and their cisplatin (also doxorubicin and vincristine)-resistant sublines (2-12) The tumor cell lines tested include cervical carcinoma cells (HeLa), glioblastoma cells (A1235), laryngeal carcinoma cells (HEp2), mammary carcinoma cells (MCF-7), breast adenocarcinoma cells (SK-BR-3) and others. Diazenecarboxamides were found to be powerful modulators of tumor intracellular GSH concentration, oxidizing it to GSSG (9, 12, 13). Besides GSH-depleting activity, in selected examples an activation some alternative cell-death pathways has been observed, indicating that GSH may not be the only cellular target of diazenecarboxamides (16). 12 In so advanced diseases like cancer a single mono functional targeted drug is unlikely to be superior for the cure. In this context, combined drugs (so called cocktails) that are capable of affecting several cellular targets simultaneously have been developed 11). Even further, an alternative approach involves the use of hybrid molecules. These comprise of two drugs covalently bound into a single entity, combining pharmacological effects of independently acting drugs . Such hybrid molecules can possess a synergistic effects that is beyond mere simultaneous administration of two separate agents (12). In a combined (cocktail) diazenecarboxamide–cisplatin treatment, the GSH-depleting diazenecarboxamides led to the reversal of the acquired tumor resistances. The synergistic effect with cisplatin has been demonstrated on different tumor cell lines as well as some cisplatin-resistant sublines (11,17) Stimulated by this, we prepared and tested platinum complex 2 containing a diazenecarboxamide ligand that is coordinated to platinum(II) through a pyridine nitrogen atom (Figure 2). The diazenecarboxamide in this complex retained its oxidative properties toward GSH and exhibited high cytotoxicity against T24 bladder carcinoma cells (12). Figure 2. Molecular structures of platinum complexes with diazenecarboxamides 2–4. To increase the efficacy in the preparation of a library of diazenecarboxamide-based ligands, we developed strategies that are based on copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition protocol, also known as “Click chemistry (12-18). This allowed an easy access to hybrid molecules that resemble cisplatin 3 and carboplatin 4 structures (17,26). Unfortunately, the cytotoxic profile of these compounds against the tumor cell lines was not satisfactory, which was ascribed to their low solubility in aqueous media. Work is in progress to address this issue. Ruthenium coordination compounds with redox-active azopyridine ligands have been developed by the group of Sadler as catalytic anticancer compounds (17). These Ru-azopyridine complexes undergo activation by reduction inducing redox reactions inside cancer cells. The Ru-azopyridine complexes act as catalysts for the oxidation of intracellular GSH into GSSG. We surmised that the use of equimolar amounts of diazenecarboxamides, which are necessary for intracellular GSH oxidation, could be avoided by the use of ruthenium-diazenecarboxamide complexes. For the latter the oxidant catalytic anticancer activities could be expected in analogy to the above mentioned Ru-azopyridine complexes. 13 In contrast to the azopyridine ligand, however, diazenecarboxamides possess three different donor atoms, which makes possible the formation of two different five-membered chelating rings on metal coordination (N,O- and N,N-) with different properties. Both types of the complexes, N,O- (5), and N,N(6) were easily prepared from N,2-diphenyldiazenecarboxamide and [(Cym)RuCl2]2 as show in Scheme 117). Scheme 1. Preparation of Ru-diazenecarboxamide complexes 5 and 6. Indeed, complexes 5 and 6 had completely different properties. Compound 6 exhibit high cytotoxic activity with IC50 values ranging from 3.4–15.1 M towards the human cervical carcinoma cells (HeLa), colorectal carcinoma cells (HCT-116), lung carcinoma cells (H460), breast adenocarcinoma cells (MDAMB-231), and laryngeal carcinoma cells (HEp-2) and their carboplatin, cisplatin and curcumin resistant subline (7T) 34). Financial support from the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, Republic of Slovenia, the Slovenian Research Agency (Grant P1-0230) is acknowledged. 1) Siegel R., Naishadham D., Jemal A. Cancer J. Clin. 2012; 62, 10–29. 2) Boulikas T., Vougiouka M. Oncol. Rep. 2003; 10, 1663–1682. 3) Kelland L. Nature Rev. Cancer 2007; 7, 573–584. 4) Siddik Z. H. Oncogene 2003; 22, 7265–7279. 5) Stewart D. J. Crit. Rev. Oncol./Hematol. 2007; 63, 12–31. 6) Chen H. H. W., Kuo M. T. Metal Based Drugs 2010; 1–6. 7) Košmrlj J., Kočevar M., Polanc S. Synlett 2009; 2217–2235. 8) Kosower E. M., Miyadera T. Glutathione. 6. J. Med. Chem. 1972; 15, 307–312. 9) Osmak M., et al. Neoplasma 1999; 46, 201–206. 10) Osmak M., Bordukalo T., Jernej B., Košmrlj J., Polanc S. Anti-Cancer Drugs 1999; 10, 853–859. 11) Osmak M., Bordukalo T., Ambriović Ristov A., Jernej B., Košmrlj J., Polanc S. Neoplasma 2000; 47, 390–395. 12) Moskatelo D., Benjak A., Laketa V., Polanc S., Košmrlj J., Osmak M. Chemother. 2002; 48, 36–41. 13) Moskatelo D., Polanc S., Košmrlj J., Vuković L., Osmak M. Pharmacol. Toxicol. 2002; 91, 258–263. 14) Čimbora T., Bombek S., Polanc S., Osmak M. Toxicol. in Vitro 2003; 17, 159–164. 15) Čimbora-Zovko T., Bombek S., Košmrlj J., Kovačić L., Polanc S., Katalinić A., Osmak M. Drug Devel. Res. 2004; 61, 95–100. 16) Jakopec S., Dubravčić K., Polanc S., Košmrlj J., Osmak M. 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Chem. 2010; 49, 4820–4829. 30) Urankar D., Pevec A., Turel I., Košmrlj J. Cryst. Growth Des. 2010; 10, 4920–4927. 31) Bratsos I., et al. Dalton Trans. 2011; 40, 5188–5199. 32) Stojanović N., et al. Acta Chim. Slov. 2013; 60, 368–374. 33) Dougan S. J., et al. PNAS 2008; 105, 11628–11633. 34) Sommer M. G., et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2014; 20, 17296–17299. 15 DEVELOPMENT OF SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHOD FOR CARMOISINE DETERMINATION IN QUALITY CONTROL OF EQUIPMENT CLEANING ANNA MATERIIENKO, VOLODYMYR GRUDKO, VICTORIYA GEORGIYANTS Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, The National University of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine; [email protected] Pharmaceutical product can be contaminated by other active pharmaceutical ingredients, by cleaning agents, or by other materials. The cleaning processes in the pharmaceutical industry have been regulated by the implementation of the Good Manufacturing Practice rules. Cleaning procedure includes sampling and testing for allowable trace amounts of active pharmaceutical ingredients or excipients that were a part of the previous preparation 1, 2). There are two methods of sampling that are considered to be acceptable: direct surface sampling (swab method) and indirect sampling (use of the rinse solutions). The acceptance limits of contaminants and residues are determined in the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) guidelines on their specific toxicity in tested impurities 3, 4). The suitability of the material to be used for sampling and the suitability of the sampling medium should be determined. The ability to recover samples accurately may be affected by the choice of the sampling material. A major complication when using rinse solutions are probably very dilute solutions since the quantitative content of the active substance is not always possible to determine by the available analytical methods1, 3). Carmoisine (E 122) is a red coloured synthetic food azo dye, a derivative of diazosulfonaphthalenes, a crystalline substance that is soluble in water. It is used to provide a certain color for many medicines as for individual matters and mixed with other dyes 5). Carmoisine 6) Methods for determining the dyes in food and medicines by HPLC are known . But these methods are laborious, they require a lot of time and use expensive equipment that carries great expenses to pharmaceutical manufacturers. 1) 2) PIC/S document PI006-3. Cleaning validation. 2007; 27 p. U. S. Food and Drug Administration. Guide to inspections validation of cleaning processes. http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/Inspections/InspectionGuides/ucm074922.htm 3) Shklyaev S.A. Kyiv: Pharmaceutical Journal 2012; 5, 33-37. 4) Zavyalova I.E., Sharahova E.F. Siberia: Siberian Medical Review 2010; 63(3), 57-62. 16 5) Smirnov E. V. Directory St. Petersburg: ed. Profession 2009; 352 p. 6) Minioti K. S., Sakellariou C. F., Thomaidis N. S. Elsevier: Anal. Chim. Acta 2007; 583(1), 103-110. 17 CLOSE THE GATE! ANTIFUNGAL STYRYLQUINOLINES AS CDR1 SUBSTRATES ROBERT MUSIOL1, ANNA KRASOWSKA2, JOANNA SZCZEPANIAK2, WIOLETA CIESLIK1, EWELINA SPACZYNSKA1 1 Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 2 Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, Poland [email protected]. The worldwide appearance of fungal infections have grown enormously during last few decades. This, surely increased our demand for drugs and therapeutical strategies 1,2. Until the 1940s, comparatively few agents were available for the treatment of systemic fungal infections. The first antifungal agent from that time was griseofulvin, isolated in 1939. The development of polyene antifungals with Amphotericin B is first major advance in medical mycology. The continuous search for new and less toxic antifungal drugs led finally to the discovery of the azoles. The very first drug of this class was Chlormidazole introduced in 1958 for the treatment of topical mycosis. Although some disadvantages, it began a new era of antifungal drugs. In this regards the late 1960s, may be considered as dawn of the azole antimycotics3. On the other hand it was also beginning of our continuous struggle with the very discouraging aspect of mycoses – drug resistance. Fungal species have evolved a multitude of mechanisms to survive exposure to xenobiotic or harmful substances. Extensive biochemical studies have highlighted a significant diversity in the mechanisms by which fungi can became. These mechanisms involve; increased levels of the cellular target or alteration of its molecular structure (mutations) which reduce the efficacy of a drug, reduced intracellular accumulation of antifungal drug or alterations in ergosterol synthesis 4. Since drug resistance can develop as a stepwise process over time; these mechanisms may combine with each other 5. Fungal cells in plasma membranes possess multidrug efflux transporters, which are responsible for important aspect of resistance. Figure 1. Two main efflux pump proteins responsible for fungal resistance. 18 The two main classes of pumps are the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) and the major facilitator superfamily (MFS)6. The CDR1 and CDR2 (Candida drug resistance 1 or 2) genes encode two homologous transporters of the ABC family, and the MDR1 (multi-drug resistance 1) gene encodes the MFS (Figure 1)7. The mechanisms involve the upregulation of genes encoding the efflux transporters. The overexpression of MDR1 is responsible for specific resistance to fluconazole exclusively. By contrast, the overexpression of CDR genes is associated with cross-resistance to different azole derivatives, including fluconazole, itraconazole and ketoconazole. Deletion of CDR1 and CDR2 confers hypersensitivity to azoles5,8. Other multidrug efflux transporter genes of the ABC class are CDR3, CDR4 and CDR59, for which only partial sequences are known. CDR3 is expressed at very low levels, but this expression does not appear to be dependent on resistance to azole derivatives. Limited data on CDR4 and CDR5 suggest that these genes are not involved in the mechanisms of azole resistance 10. Our team is working on antifungal compounds for roughly ten years 11-13. We have designed and synthesized series of quinoline related structures as potential antimycotic drugs. Quinoline derivatives are particularly important as privileged structures for antimicrobial agents14. In our approach we highlighted the structural resemblance between quinolines and allylamine antimycotics as terbinafine or naftifine. Then heterocyclic moiety was reinforced with bunch of substituents that have been selected form library of active small molecular quinolines with known antifungal activity as shown on Figure 2. N H R N R = phenyl, hetaryl Cl X Cl N OH R´ X N R OH Figure 2. Design of styrylquinolines with antifungal potency. The designed compounds were synthesised according to modified procedures and our developed state of the art microwave assisted synthesis allowing high yields in relatively short period of time. Biological activities of those compounds were tested against broad spectrum of fungal and bacterial strains. Several of the designed compounds appeared more active than standard drugs. For additional tests some mutant strains of Candida albicans were chosen. These were CDR1Δ, CDR2Δ with deletion of Cdr1p or Cdr2p exporters respectively and wild type with correct functionality for both pumps. The most interesting compounds shown promising activity against Cdr1p strain and synergy with fluconazole. Prolonged incubation with styrylquinolines cause also overexpression and delocalisation of the efflux pump. 19 To conclude the styrylquinolines appeared interesting leading structures for antifungal agents. Their activities are up to order of magnitude higher than that of fluconazole. At the same time these compounds are less vulnerable to resistance. Financial support of NCN grant 2013/09/B/NZ7/00423 is acknowledged. 1) Kauffman C.A. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2004; 39, 588-590 2) McNeil M. M., et al. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2001; 33, 641-617. 3) Musiol R., Kowalczyk W. Curr. Med. Chem. 2012;19, 1378–1388. 4) Sanglard D. Mycologist, 2003; 17, 74-78. 5) Lupetti A., et al. Trends Mol. Med. 2002; 8, 76-81. 6) Joseph-Horne T., Hollomon D. W. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 1997; 149, 141-149. 7) Fera M. T., et al. Expert Rev. Anti Infect. Ther. 2009; 7, 981-998. 8) Rai V., et al. Biochemistry, 2005; 44, 6650-6661. 9) Shukla S., et al.Biochemistry, 2007; 46, 12081-12090. 10) Sanglard D. Curr. Opin. Microbiol., 2002; 5, 379–385. 11) Musiol R., et al. Bioorg Med Chem. 2006; 14, 3592–3598. 12) Jampilek J., et al. Molecules. 2009; 14, 4246–4265. 13) Jampilek J., et al.Molecules. 2009;14: 1145–1159. 14) Musiol R., et al. Curr Med Chem. 2010; 17, 1960–1973. 20 HPLC DETERMINATION OF HEPATOTOXIC PEPTIDES IN WATER RESERVOIRS WITH OCCURENCE OF INVASIVE SPECIES OF PECTINATELLA MAGNIFICA JIŘÍ PAZOUREK* 1, KAREL ŠMEJKAL 1, PETER KOLLÁR 1, JOSEF RAJCHARD 2 1 Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech Republic 2 Agriculture faculty, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic [email protected] Introduction Pectinatella magnifica (PM) is an invasive bryozoan species, which makes giant colonies in fresh water. Its occurrence in the Czech Republic was for the first time documented in 2003 in Třeboňsko area (south Bohemia). Colonies of P. magnifica live on submerged branches of Salix spp., on submerged woody species rests and less frequently on littoral vegetation (e.g. Typha latifolia), at stones and other objects. The species occurs mostly in large numbers and its life activity probably has a significant influence on the composition of the food chain (it is a filtrating species) and the values of hydrochemical and physicochemical parameters. Not only PM itself can affect the quality of surrounding water - PM colonies are joined with algae and cyanobacteria during its lifetime 1) . These symbionts can also produce toxic compounds to the water reservoirs. The goal of this contribution was to identify and determine contingent toxins known in water with cyanobacteria (microcystins, nodularins). Experimental methods HPLC conditions: DIONEX Ultimate 3000, software Chromeleon HPLC column Ascentis Express RP-amide 2.7 um, 150x2.1 mm. mobile phase was acetonitrile/water with 0.1% formic acid, flow rate 0.5 ml/min, gradient elution UV detection at 240 nm Sample preparation samples from various water reservoirs were stored lyophilized. Prior to analysis they were extracted to methanol/water mixture, sonicated and filtrated. Results and discussion An HPLC method 2) was transferred and modified for our purpose. Total time of HPLC analysis including an equilibration stage was 20 minutes, the analytes retention time was less than 7 minutes (see Fig. 1). 21 Fig. 1. Typical chromatogram of standard mixture of hepatotoxic peptides. The method was applied to samples collected in the area of South Bohemia in the seasons 2012-2013. On a model reservoir (Veselí I) with average production of biomass, we also estimated a threshold concentration in water that could be determined by the method. The concentrations are 0.130 ng/L, and 8.2 ng/L, resp. Conclusions A rapid method for determination of microcystins and nodularin was developed and applied to real samples from South Bohemia water reservoirs. We can conclude that the invasion of PM in water reservoirs of the Czech Republic does not represent a toxicity risk in this moment.3) The work was supported by a project P503/12/0337 of Grant Agency of Czech Republic (GAČR). 1) Šetlíková, I., et al. Biologia, 2013; 68(6), 1136-1141. 2) Bláhová L., et al. Environ. Chem. Lett. 2008; 6, 223-227. 3) Pazourek J., HPCL analysis of toxins in lyophilised Pectinatella magnifica, Lecture on International Conference „Invasive aquatic animal species" held in České Budějovice, Agriculture Faculty, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, 9.12.2014. 22 CHEMOINFORMATICS, A TOOL FOR DRUG DISCOVERY, AN UPGRADE FOR A NEW CENTURY: PROBLEMS, CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS JAROSLAW POLANSKI Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice Poland; [email protected]. Chemoinformatics is a term that has been coined to describe a discipline organizing and coordinating the application of informatics methods in chemistry. At the semantic level, two elements constructing the designation chemoinformatics clearly relate this discipline to chemistry and informatics. The designation originated in the 90’, when a new name was sought for the discipline that uses computers in drug design. The basic problems, concepts and definitions will be discussed during the lecture. Drug design is a central arena where chemoinformatics is played. With the development of the methods we are more and more aware that we need to understand better a formal structure of this new discipline. The problems, concepts and definitions of this discipline will be discussed during the lecture. At the semantic level two elements constructing the designation chemoinformatics clearly relate this discipline to chemistry and informatics. Chemistry focuses on chemical compounds. But what do we mean by a chemical compound? Substantial definitions of chemistry were formulated by IUPAC. This includes especially: Chemical element Chemical species Chemical substance Measurement Mixture Molecular entity Molecule Property Quite surprisingly we are not formally defining chemical compound [1, 2]. What is the reason for that? Chemoinformatics focuses on molecular descriptors and properties. Despite common belief real measured properties are rare in chemistry. Thus, we are to predict them, which is especially important in molecular design. Some major problems focused by chemoinformatics are listed below to realize how important they are in molecular design: Chemical data documentation and searches: database searches and management Property prediction: compounds’ series (FCS) are mapped from FCS into VCS; two basic versions are available, i.e., property vs. property or structure vs. property. However, in the design step for novel 23 compounds in VCS (we can design both compounds VCS or FCS where some properties can be registered in databases and/or literature) we are always to use a structure version (no property is available in VCS). Calculating molecular descriptors: 2D (chemical graphs) and 3D (molecular modeling) representations are mapped into single numbers (0D); vectors, fingerprints(1D); matrixes, surface maps (2D); surface, atomic representations, force fields, virtual or real receptor data (3D); etc. Molecular modeling: molecular structure 3D data generation in silico from their 2D or 1D representations. This includes both predictions of molecular topography and molecular descriptors i.e., atomic annotations data by calculated (simulated) atomic properties. Structure elucidation: (synonym: structure-spectra correlations) property to molecular structure is mapped in FCS when we are attempting to find a structure having a certain spectra or in structure to property version (VCS and FCS) we are simulating a spectra for a given molecule (substance). Mapping structure to activity (SAR): a series of structures (FCS substances) is needed to study SAR, which are usually synthesized. The real goal of SAR is usually to predict the training series for designing new structures and substances by property predictions in a qualitative or quantitative procedures. Synthesis design: designing organic synthesis in product (target molecule) to reagent (synthon, reagent equivalent) mapping. Where are critical points of the current molecular design? How current dogma of drug development influences the progress in pharma? Are we getting better and more innovative in pharma R&D and how to evaluate this [3]? These are problems that will be discussed during the lecture. 1) Polanski J., Gesteiger J. Computer Representation of Chemical Compounds, in: Handbook of Computational Chemistry, Springer, 2015, in print. 2) IUPAC Goldbook. http://goldbook.iupac.org. 3) Polanski J., Bogocz J., Drug Discov. Today, 2015, in print. 24 NEW DERIVATIVES OF CURCUMIN WITH POTENTIAL ANTICANCER AND ANTIRADICAL ACTIVITY NATALIA MIKLÁŠOVÁ, LUCIA RIŠIAŇOVÁ, JINDRA VALENTOVÁ, SAMUEL VARÉNYI, FERDINAND DEVÍNSKY Department of chemical theory of drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia; [email protected] Introduction Curcumin (1,7-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxy phenyl)hepta-1,6-diene-3,5-dione) the yellow spice used for anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antioxidant activities, AIDS and Alzheimer´s disorders 1), exhibits a poor bioavailability. This issue might be improved by using adjuvants like piperine, liposomal curcumin, nanoparticles, phospholipid complex and structural analogues of curcumin. 2) Different derivatives of curcumin can coordinate with metallic ions to form complexes with various biological potential, for example palladium complexes of curcumin describe the antitumoral and antioxidant activities on human prostate cancer cells.3) Several Knoevenagel condensates of curcumin and their copper complexes inhibit the TNF-α induced NF-κB activation and proliferation of human leukemic cells. Schiff bases of such derivatives induce the cell growth inhibition in colon and pancreatic cancer cells. Therefore, these compounds are interesting for a chemopreventive and therapeutic activity against cancer and for their increasing bioavailability.4) Experimental methods Fourteen Knoevenagel condensates of two curcuminoids were synthesized and structurally characterized by NMR, IR, UVspectra and their antiradical activity was determined. Knoevenagel condensates were synthesised by general procedure 5) 1 mmol of curcumin dissolved in toluene was reacted with a corresponding aromatic aldehyde (2 mmol) in a dropwise manner with continuous stirring, in the presence of a catalytic amount of piperidine and acetic acid. The reaction mixture was refluxed overnight and the final product was isolated by column chromatography. Results and discussion Literature studies shown that 4-arylidene curcumin analogues inhibit growth of lung cancer cells with less concentrations than curcumin, acting as potential compounds for development against cancer and inflammatory diseases.5) In our laboratory fourteen curcuminoids were synthesised, as Fig.1 illustrates, with the expectation that the condensates will exhibit significant antiradical activity. 25 O O H O OH R R R 140 oC R1 OH R=OCH3; OCH2CH3 R1= OCH3; OCH2CH3; OH; H R2= OCH3; OCH2CH3; OH; H R piperidine/AcOH + HO O HO OH R2 R1 R2 Fig 1: Synthesis of Knoevenagel condensates of curcumin and its analogue This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract No. APVV-051612 and FaF UK/10/2015, FaF UK/11/2015. 1) Zambre A.P., et al. Synth. React. Inorg. Met.-Org. Chem. 37(1), 2007; 19-27. 2) Anand P., et al. Mol. pharmaceutics, 2007; 4(6), 807-818. 3) Miklášová N., et al. Inorg. Chem. Comm., 2014; 46, 229-233. 4) Padhye S., et al. Pharm. res., 2009; 26(8), 1874-1880. 5) ZuO Y., et al. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2012; 55, 346–357. 26 POTENTIAL ANTICANCER AGENT HYPERICIN AND ITS MODEL COMPOUND EMODIN: INTERACTION WITH DNA JANA STANIČOVÁ, VALÉRIA VEREBOVÁ, ALENA STREJČKOVÁ Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Institute of Biophysics, The University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Košice, Slovakia; [email protected] Hypericin (HYP, Fig. 1a) is a natural photosensitizing pigment occurring in plants of the genus Hypericum. HYP under light illumination displays anti-proliferative and cytotoxic effects on many tumour cell lines1, 2). These properties together with minimal dark toxicity, tumour selectivity and high clearance from the host body make HYP a very promising agent in photodynamic therapy of cancer. Due to its prospective pharmaceutical utilization, this interesting molecule has been the subject of many scientific research groups3-6). Our team has been dealing with the interaction of HYP and its derivatives (such as emodin, quinizarin, danthron, alizarin) with important bio macromolecules to better understand a drug´s mechanism of action. The interaction of the drug with linear calf thymus DNA is the main aim of this contribution. The binding constant and interaction mode have been determined by spectrophotometric methods. Model compound of HYP, emodin (E, Fig. 1b), was considered to our study for its structural similarity with HYP molecule. In addition, emodin, a plant derived anthraquinone, was found to be a photosensitizer which possess anti-tumor, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, and myorelaxing activities7,8). Detailed knowledge of the interaction of HYP and E with the DNA at the molecular level is extremely important in determination of their distribution and therapeutic effect in the body. OH O OH OH HO CH3 HO CH3 O HO OH CH3 O OH Fig. 1. Chemical O OH a) b) structure of hypericin (a) and emodin (b) This work was supported by grant KEGA No. 014 UVLF – 4/2013. Authors are pleased to thank Dr. P. Miškovský and Dr. R. Varhač for the possibility to use experimental equipment in their laboratories. 1) Lopez-Bazzocchi I., et al. Photochem. Photobiol.1991; 54, 95-98. 27 2) Andreoni A., et al. Photochem. Photobiol. 1994; 59, 529-533. 3) Miškovský P. Curr. Drug Targets 2002; 3, 55-84. 4) Dougherty T.J., et al. Natl. Cancer Inst. 1998; 90, 889–905. 5) Kiesslich T., et al.Curr. Med. Chem. 2006; 13, 2189-20201. 6) Karioti A., et al. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2010; 11, 562-594. 7) Radovic J., et al. Food chem. tox. 2012; 50, 9, 3181 – 3189. 8) Poliaček I., et al. Phys. Res. 2003; 52, 6, 749-762. 28 SYNTHESIS AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF PHENYLCARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVES ACTING ON CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM LUKÁŠ STANZEL1, SICHROVSKÁ1, IVA MATEJ MARUNIAK1, KAPUSTÍKOVÁ1, IVAN MALÍK1, ĽUBICA SEDLÁROVÁ1, EVA HAVRANOVÁ JOZEF CSÖLLEI2 1 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic 2 Department of Chemical Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic [email protected] In search of new perspective antagonists of β-adrenergic receptors, alkylesters of 4{2hydroxy3[(4pyridin2yl)piperazine1yl]propoxy}phenylcarbamic acid monochlorides, alkyl = methyl-buthyl, (labelled as 4a1-4d1) have been evaluated. They might act as the potential antioxidants, therefore the aim of current study was to investigate their antioxidant profile by applying three in vitro methods. Following mentioned, the capability of these compounds to reduce relatively stable reference 2,2diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radicals and 2,2'-azinobis-(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS) radicals in performed spectrophotometric analyses and to influence redox potential using FRAP method was inspected. The position of alkyl side chain bonded to lipophilic aromatic fragment as well as the electrostatic effects, which were induced by pyridin-2-yl substitution, have been considered the essential factors, which have influenced an antioxidant potential of investigated molecules. Relatively high lipophilicity of all tested compounds might be relevant, but any connection between length of alkyl side chain and activity has not been revealed. 29 POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC APLICATIONS OF PRENYLATED PHENOLS KAREL ŠMEJKAL1,2 1 Department of Natural Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech Republic 2 Department of Molecular biology and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech Republic [email protected] Introduction. The flavonoids are a group of secondary metabolites biosynthetically derived from shikimic acid and polyketide pathways. They are plant pigments containing benzopyrane substituted with a phenyl ring at position 2 or 3. Their aglycones can be lipophilic; their lipophilicity can be further enhanced by methylating the hydroxyl groups, or by prenylation or geranylation at different positions on the skeleton. The prenyl or geranyl moiety may be modified in different ways and enhances the interaction with organism. Experimental methods. Different chromatographic methods were used for isolation of series of prenylated phenols. Experimental in vitro and in vivo studies have revealed many biological and pharmacological activities of flavonoids. We worked with prenylated compounds from Morus alba and Paulownia tomentosa1-5). Results and discussion. Inflammation is a multiple and complex response by the body to infection or injury. Prenylated compounds show pleiotropic effects and can modulate a broad spectrum of inflammatory regulatory nodes. Their antiphlogistic action combines many particular effects: it can be mediated by several pathways: via anti-oxidant and pro-oxidant effects, by interacting directly with pro-inflammatory proteins, and by interacting with signal pathways and inhibiting the expression of inflammation-related genes. In vivo tests have confirmed all of the effects of flavonoids previously observed in in vitro experiments. The antibacterial effect of prenylated substances was confirmed, some synergy with standard antibiotics was observed against MRSA1-5). Conclusion. Prenylated phenols are good candidates for further research to discovered new therapeutics for treatment of diseases connected with bacterial infection and inflammatory disorders. 1) Šmejkal K., et.al. J. Nat. Prod. 2008; 71 (4), 706–709. 30 2) Navrátilová A., et al. Phytochemistry 2013; 89, 104–113. 3) Hošek J., et al. J. Nat. Prod. 2011, 74 (4), 614–619. 4) Hanáková Z., et al. J. Nat. Prod. 2015, 78, 850-863. 5) Vochyánová Z., et al. Fitoterapia 2015, 101, 201-207. 31 THE POSSIBILITIES OF HPLC WITH POST-COLUMN REACTION IN THE SEARCH FOR PLANT-DERIVED ANTIOXIDANTS AND INHIBITORS OF ENZYME ACTIVITIES. MILAN ŽEMLIČKA Department of Natural Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, [email protected] Despite the high number of publications on the topic of antioxidants that have degraded this topic and, therefore, just the antioxidant activity itself is almost impossible to publish, plant-derived antioxidants still remain a commercially very important and scientifically interesting group of food supplements. In the search for active constituents from plant extracts an idea occurred at the end of the 20th century: HPLC instrumentation linked up with post-column reaction with a highly colored synthetic radical was used 1). DPPH· and ABTS+· are the most frequently used radicals, but other oxidation-reduction or enzymatic reactions have extended the use of this way of determination. The basic arrangement of the instrumentation is shown in the following scheme 2): This method is suitable for the identification of an antioxidant or other biologically active substance without their previous isolation. It allows to determine which compounds and to what extend are responsible for the specific activity and it rationalizes the means of isolation. This lecture summarizes the current state of this kind of experiments and points out its benefits and limitations. 1) Yamaguchi T., et al. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 1998; 62(6) 1201-1204. 2) Pazourek J., Václavík J., Žemlička M. Food Chem. 2011; 125, 785–790. 32 Posters Nr. Authors Title of Poster P1. AMBROŻKIEWICZ W. P2. P9. AMIĆ A., PAVIĆ V., MOLNAR M. BAK A., KOZIK V., WYSZOMIRSKI M., MAGDZIARZ T., SMOLINSKI A., POLANSKI J. BEDLOVIČOVÁ Z., UNGVARSKÁ MAĽUČKÁ L., SALAYOVÁ A., HARVANOVÁ J., OČENÁŠ P. CZAPLIŃSKA B., MROZEKWILCZKIEWICZ A., RAMS-BARON M., SPACZYŃSKA E., KORZEC M., MUSIOŁ R. ČAVOJSKÝ T., PAŠKOVÁ L., BILKA F., SLOVÁK L., BAUEROVÁ K., PAULÍKOVÁ I. ČERNÍKOVÁ A., JAMPÍLEK J., BOBÁĽ P. DAŇKOVÁ I., MALANÍK M., DALL´ACQUA S., GAZDOVÁ M., HANÁKOVÁ Z. DOKUPILOVÁ S., VEIZEROVÁ L., GALBA J., MIKUŠ P. THE USAGE OF CATALYSTS IN PRODUCTION OF THE DRUGS SYNTHESIS OF NEW OXADIAZOLE BASED ANTIOXIDANTS MODELING OF DYE-FIBER AFFINITY USING RD SOM-4DQSAR APPROACH: APPLICATION TO SET OF ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVES DETERMINATION OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS IN FUNGI OF GENUS CORDYCEPS SINENSIS BY HPLC AND NMR P10. FARSA O., BRKA P. P11. FAZEKAS T., MICIAN J. P12. FORGÁCSOVÁ A., MIKUŠ P., HAVRÁNEK E., MELNÍK M. P13. GÁLUSOVÁ A., ANDRIAMAINTY F., MIKLÁŠ R. P14. GARAJ V. P15. GAZVODA M., POLANC S. P3. P4. P5. P6. P7. P8. P16. P17. P18. P19. GONĚC T., KMEŤKO J., POSPÍŠILOVÁ Š., KOS J., ZADRAŽILOVÁ I., JAMPÍLEK J. GRUBEROVÁ L., KRATOCHVÍL B., SEILEROVÁ L. HAVRANOVÁ SICHROVSKÁ L., STANZEL L., MALÍK I., MARUNIAK M., KAPUSTÍKOVÁ I., SEDLÁROVÁ E., CSӦLLEI J. CHRIPKOVÁ M., ANTOLIKOVÁ N., ZIGO F., BUDOVSKÁ M., MOJŽIŠ J., TAKÁČ L., TOROPILOVÁ D. CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW GREEN FLUOROPHORES BASED ON QUINOLINE SCAFFOLD. STUDY OF BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE WITHIN EXPERIMENTAL ARTHRITIS ANALOGS OF ALAPTIDE AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE PENETRATION OF DRUGS NEWLY IDENTIFIED CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF PARASITIC PLANT LATHRAEA SQUAMARIA L. ANALYSIS OF FLAVONOIDS IN GRAPE LEAVES BY HPLCDAD-MS/MS FROM AN OLD DRUG TO A NEW ONE: SYNTHESIS OF VALPROATE FROM 5,5-DIPROPYLBARBITURIC ACID MOBILE APPLICATIONS AND THEIR POTENTIAL FOR USE IN PHARMACEUTICAL PRACTICE PREPARATION AND ANALYSIS OF GALLIUM (III) COMPLEXES WITH AMINOCARBOXYLATES AND SULFONAMIDES DETERMINATION OF CMC OF CATIONIC TENSIDE IN AQUEOUS AND MIXED WATER-ALCOHOL SOLUTIONS VIRTUAL SCREENING OF COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY OF 1,3,5-TRIAZINE MOIETY SUBSTITUTED WITH BENZENESULFONAMIDES AND DIFFERENT AMINES SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF SELECTED CINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVES SYNTHESIS AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF N(HALOGEN-PHENYL)-1-HYDROXYNAPHTHALENE-2CARBOXAMIDES SOLUBILITY AND DISSOLUTION RATEIMPROVEMENT OF CANDESARTAN CILEXETIL ESTIMATION OF LIPOHYDROPHILIC PROPERTIES OF MOLECULES WITH POTENTIAL Β3-AGONISTIC ACTIVITY ANTIPROLIFERATIVE EFFECT OF 1-METHOXYBRASSININ 33 P20. JĘDRZEJOWSKA A., MATUSSEK M., KOZIK V., BĄK A., ZADRAŽILOVÁ I., JAMPÍLEK J. P21. JEŽKO P., SÁRAZOVÁ Z. P22. KAPKOWSKI M., SŁOTA M., POLAŃSKI J. P23. KAPUSTÍKOVÁ I., MARUNIAK M., HAVRANOVÁ-SICHROVSKÁ L., STANZEL L., MALÍK I., SEDLÁROVÁ E. P24. KARABANOVICH G., ROH J., JIRKOVSKÁ-VÁVROVÁ A., VÁVROVÁ K., ŠIMŮNEK T. SYNTHESIS AND STUDY OF CARDIOPROTECTIVE ACTIVITY OF NEW DEXRAZOXANE ANALOGS P25. KASTNER P., BURDOVÁ K., PILAŘOVÁ P. 1. HPLC METHOD FOR STABILITY EVALUATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATION CONTAINING SODIUM PICOSULFATE P26. P27. KORZEC M., RZYCKA R., SENKAŁA S., SZPACZYŃSKA E., CZAPLIŃSKA B., CIEŚLIK W., MROZEKWILCZKIEWICZ A., RAMS-BARON M., MUSIOŁ R., POLAŃSKI J. KOS J., GONĚC T., ZADRAŽILOVÁ I., VALEŠOVÁ M., POSPÍŠILOVÁ Š., SPACZYŃSKA E., JAMPÍLEK J. P28. KOZAKIEWICZ D., POLAŃSKI J. P29. KOZIK V., BĄK A. P30. KRAJČIOVÁ D., MIKUŠ P., MELNÍK M., HAVRÁNEK E. P31. KRÁTKÝ M., STOLAŘÍKOVÁ J., VINŠOVÁ J. P32. KROUTIL A., CSÖLLEI J. P33. KRYVANYCH O., BEVZ N., HARNA N., BEVZ O. P34. KUBÍNOVÁ R., SRNÁNKOVÁ H. P35. LUKAČOVIČOVÁ O., HAVRÁNEK E. P36. MALARZ K., RAMS-BARON M., MROZEK-WILCZKIEWICZ A., SERDA M., POLAŃSKI J., MUSIOŁ R. P37. MARÁKOVÁ K., PIEŠŤANSKÝ J., MIKUŠ P. P38. MARVANOVA P., MOKRY P., HUMPA O., PADRTOVA T. SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF CHOSEN SYMMETRICAL AMIDES AND THIOAMIDES OF TEREPHTHALIC ACID STUDY OF STRUCTURE AND ADMET PROPERTIES OF AT1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS CATALYTIC GAS-PHASE GLYCEROL PROCESSING OVER SIO2-, CU-, NI- AND FE- SUPPORTED AU NANOPARTICLES DETERMINATION OF ACID-BASE DISSOCIATION CONSTANTS OF NEWLY SYNTHESIZED ARYLETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVES USING CAPILLARY ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS SYNTHESIS OF QUINOLINE DERIVATIVES BY USING NANO-PD/CU CATALYST IN THE SEARCH OF NEW FLUOROPHORES RING-SUBSTITUTED 1-HYDROXYNAPHTHALENE-2CARBOXANILIDES AS POTENTIAL ANTIBACTERIAL AGENTS SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL CARBAMATES AND THIOSEMICARBAZONES AS POTENTIAL ANTICANCER DRUG CANDIDATES THE STUDY OF EPR AND UV-VIS JUICE FROM POMEGRANATES PREPARATION AND ANALYSIS OF COPPER (II) COMPLEXES WITH AMINOCARBOXYLATES AND SULFONAMIDES SYNTHESIS AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF NOVEL SULFONAMIDE DERIVATIVES SYNTHESIS OF ARYLOXYAMINEPROPANOLES AND ARYLAMINEPROPANOLES USE OF 2,6-DICHLOROQUINONE-4-CHLORIMIDE FOR ASSAY OF PHENYLEPHRINE HYDROCHLORIDE IN COMBINED TABLETS WITH PARACETAMOL AND CHLORPHENIRAMINE MALEATE FLAVONOIDS FROM TAGETES PATULA L. AS INHIBITORS OF ACETYL/BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE RADIONUCLIDE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY IN ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL PLANTS AND MEDICINES IN USE TO LOWER CHOLESTEROL LEVELS EFFECTS OF THIOSEMICARBAZONES ANALOGS ON OXIDATIVE STRESS AND CELLS DEATH IN HUMAN COLON CANCER. ON-LINE HYPHENATION OF CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS AND MASS SPECTROMETRY USED FOR THE ANALYSIS OF BIOGENIC AMINES IN GRAPE LEAVES SYNTHESIS OF NEW ARYLCARBONYLOXYAMINOPROPANOL DERIVATIVES CONTAINING N-PHENYLPIPERAZINE MOIETY 34 P40. MIKLÁŠOVÁ N., RIŠIAŇOVÁ L., VALENTOVÁ J., VARÉNYI S., DEVÍNSKY F. MIKULOVÁ M., SÝKOROVÁ M., HAVRÁNEK E. P41. MOKRÝ M., ŠRÁMKOVÁ M. P39. P42. P43. P44. P45. P46. P47. P48. MULARSKI J., CIEŚLIK W., SZCZEPANIAK J., KRASOWSKA A., MUSIOŁ R. MYHAL A., DOBROVA A., GOLOVCHENKO O., GEORGIYANTS V. MYZNIKOV L.V., MELNIKOVA Y.V., ZEVATSKII Y.E. NALEPA P., MROZEK-WILCZKIEWICZ A., POLAŃSKI J. NĚMEČEK J., KARABANOVICH G., ROH J., VALÁŠKOVÁ L., VÁVROVÁ K., STOLAŘÍKOVÁ J., PÁVEK P., KLIMEŠOVÁ V., HRABÁLEK A. ONDREJKOVÁ A., SÜLI J., KOLČÁKOVÁ L., ONDREJKA R., ČECHVALA P., BENKÖ Z., PROKEŠ M. PADRTOVÁ T., MOKRÝ P., ODEHNALOVÁ K., MARVANOVÁ P., HUMPA O. P49. PIEŠŤANSKÝ J., MARÁKOVÁ K., MIKUŠ P. P50. PILAŘOVÁ P, KUŽELOVÁ K., KASTNER P. P51. PÍŽOVÁ H., BOBÁĽ P. P52. PLANKOVÁ A., HAVRÁNEK E., MIKUŠ P. P53. REJMUND M, POLAŃSKI J. P54. SALANCI E., ANDRIAMAINTY F., MALÍK I. P55. P56. SEMELKOVÁ L., JANĎOUREK O., PATEROVÁ P., KONEČNÁ K., DOLEŽAL M., ZITKO J. SPACZYŃSKA E., CIEŚLIK W., MROZEK-WILCZKIEWICZ A., RAMSBARON M., MALARZ K., MUSIOŁ R. P57. STOPKOVÁ l., BEZÁKOVÁ Ž. P58. SÜLI J., KOLČÁKOVÁ L., HARVANOVÁ J., ONDREJKOVÁ A. P59. ŠULEKOVÁ M., HUDÁK A. P60. TARHAJOVÁ M., HÉTHELYI E. B., BÖSZÖRMÉNYI A., SZOLGAI G., TÓTH J., CZIGLE S. NEW DERIVATIVES OF CURCUMIN WITH POTENTIAL ANTICANCER AND ANTIRADICAL ACTIVITY TARGET-SPECIFIC RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS: LTRYPTOPHAN AS A RADIONUCLIDE CARRIER HPLC ANALYSIS OF SOME NON-STEROIDAL ANTOFLOGISTICS ANTIFUNGAL STYRYLQUINOLINES PROBABLY ACT AS A CELLULAR RAZOR BLADE VALIDATION OF SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHOD OF ASSAYING METRONIDAZOLE IN CAPSULES BARGELLINI REACTION IN FUNCTIONALIZATION OF HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS STABLE GOLD NANOPARTICLES – SYNTHESIS, BIOCONJUGATION AND APPLICATION NITRO GROUP-CONTAINING OXA- AND THIADIAZOLES AS POTENTIAL ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS INFLUENCE OF Β-CAROTENE ON ANTIGENIC EFFECTIVENESS OF INACTIVATED RABIES VACCINE WITH SQUALENE ADJUVANT SYNTHESIS AND EVALUATION OF HETEROARYLCARBONYLOXYAMINOPROPANOLS AND THEIR QUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALTS HYDRODYNAMICALLY CLOSED CITP-CZE COUPLED WITH TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR DETERMIANTION OF ANTIGRIPAL DRUGS IN HUMAN URINE HPLC HODNOCENÍ PIROXIKAMU V PLAZMĚ S VYUŽITÍM SPME A DEPROTEINACE AN OPTIMIZED AND SCALABLE SYNTHESIS OF PROPYLPHOSPHONIC ANHYDRIDE STANOVENIE SELÉNU A ZINKU V KRVNEJ PLAZME PACIENTOV S ATOPICKOU DERMATITÍDOU MICROWAVE – ASSISTED SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THIOSEMICARBAZONES BASED ON 3-AMINOPYRIDINE-2-CARBOXALDEHYDE STUDY OF THE CMC OF 1-[3-(3ALCOXYPHENYLCARBAMOYLOXY)-2-HYDROXYPROPYL]4-(4-FLUOROPHENYL)PIPERAZINIUMCHLORIDE SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF NBENZYL-3-BENZYLAMINOPYRAZINE-2-CARBOXAMIDES SYNTHESIS, BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY AND FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES OF STYRYLQUINOLINE DERIVATIVES SOLUBILITY OF VALSARTAN - INFLUENCE OF CATIONIC SURFACTANTS ON THE EXTENT OF SOLUBILIZATION ANTIOXIDATIVE PROTECTION OF INACTIVATED RABIES VACCINE WITH SQUALENE ADJUVANT BY Β-CAROTENE DETERMINATION OF THE COLORANTS IN VITAMIN E BY HPLC WITH PHOTODIODE ARRAY DETECTION ANALÝZA PRCHAVÝCH ZLOŽIEK RASTLÍN RODU HYLOCEREUS 35 P61. VALÁŠKOVÁ L, ROH J, KARABANOVICH G, NĚMEČEK J, STOLAŘÍKOVÁ J, VÁVROVÁ K, KLIMEŠOVÁ V, HRABÁLEK A P62. VALENTOVÁ M., ROHÁLOVÁ J. P63. VOSÁTKA R., KRÁTKÝ M., VINŠOVÁ J. P64. YAKOVENKO O., MASLIY Y. NITRO GROUP-CONTAINING SUBSTITUTED TETRAZOLES: NEW HIGHLY EFFICIENT ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF SELECTED SPECIES OF MACROMYCETES SYNTHESIS OF TRICLOSAN DERIVATIVES AND THEIR ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL EFFECT THE DEVELOPMENT OF DENTAL DRUG IN THE FORM OF MEDICATED CHEWING GUM 36 POTENTIAL USAGE OF NEW NANOCATALYSTS FOR ORGANIC SYNTHESIS WERONIKA AMBROŻKIEWICZ1, JAROSŁAW POLAŃSKI1 1 Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland; [email protected] Introduction Over recent years, nanometals are widely study due to their catalytic properties, in particular, in combination with various carriers 1) . Recently there has been developed an efficient method for disperse the nanoparticles on the amorphous SiO2 surface with the ultrasound assistance 2). Further research led to improvement of this method of transfer of nanoparticles to the target metal grains 3) . Metals used as carriers are also involved in the catalysis and can act as a synergist to increase the effectiveness of the active ingredients. This type of structures can be especially useful in organic synthesis, where a new efficient catalysts are constantly required 4). Experimental The preparation of amorphous silica included usage of Stöber process. Precursors of nanoparticles was added into obtained carrier, then sonicated, dried and reduced in a hydrogen furnace. Nanometals on intermediate carriers were transferred onto metal powder via etching by aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide. Catalytic properties were tested in the oxidation reactions of various compounds. Results and discussion There have been obtained series of nanoformations based on transition metals dispersed on amorphous silica and a series of bimetallic nanostructures, which indicated the catalytic potential. 1) Korzec M., et al. J. Cat. 2014, 313, 1-8 2) Bartczak P., et al. Patent application P.405270 3) Bartczak P., et al. Patent application P.405268 4) Kapkowski M., et al. J. Cat., 2014, 319, 110-118 37 SYNTHESIS OF NEW OXADIAZOLE BASED ANTIOXIDANTS ANA AMIĆ1, VALENTINA PAVIĆ1, MAJA MOLNAR2 1 Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia 2 Faculty of Food Technology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia Oxadiazoles are a class of heterocyclic compounds with a wide range of biological activities. Their combination with coumarin core is interesting synthetic approach and could yield some new biologically active compounds including antioxidants. A series of new oxadiazoles was synthesized from coumarin Schiff bases in reaction with acetic anhydride. Their structure was confirmed with various spectral techniques and their antioxidant activity was determined as DPPH scavenging activity. A combination of coumarin core with oxadiazole ring was found to be an excellent approach for obtaining antioxidants, since some compounds had an excellent antioxidant activity. 38 MODELING OF DYE-FIBER AFFINITY USING RD SOM-4D-QSAR APPROACH: APPLICATION TO SET OF ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVES ANDRZEJ BAK1, VIOLETTA KOZIK2, MIROSLAW WYSZOMIRSKI3, TOMASZ MAGDZIARZ1, ADAM SMOLINSKI4 AND JAROSLAW POLANSKI1 1 Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 2 Department of Organic Synthesis, Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 3 Faculty of Materials and Environmental Sciences, University of Bielsko-Biala,Poland 4 Central Mining Institute, Department of Energy Saving and Air Protection, Central Mining Institute Katowice,Poland [email protected] Introduction A comprehensive projection of the molecular structure into the compound property space has been in the center of interest of modern chemistry for quite some time. An expansion of rational design techniques, particularly the quantitative activity-structure relationship (QSAR), and its variants have been described in various studies. However, a diversity of inter/intramolecular phenomena involved in the interaction of a molecule with the corresponding environment makes the modeling of the environmental response a complicated issue. Experimental methods In spite of the satisfactory QSAR assessments focused on modeling dye-cellulose affinity, it is still controversial whether a pharmacophore concept or its extended idea of tinctophore might be directly applied in dye chemistry to predict tinctorial properties. The arrangement of dye molecules on the polysachaccharide surface suggested existence of binding cavities or sites of higher or lower affinities in the crystalline region capable of incorporating a dye molecule. Despite considerable variations between dye tinctophores and drug pharmacophores some RI mD-(Q)SAR assessments have been conducted, which indicated that the shape-determined dyeing affinity rules as a cofactor and significantly contributed to the electrostatic field distribution. Results and discussion A major objective of the presented study is a systematic analysis of tinctorial properties of anthraquinone dyes using a standard and neural formalism of 4D-QSAR method together with the IVEPLS procedure. The applied 4D-QSAR methods take into consideration an impact of receptor-like cavities on a supramolecular cellulose structure during a dye-fiber interaction modeling. The dye-fiber 39 geometry is crucial to explain dyeing affinity and can provide better insight into dye-cellulose interactions. The application of the RD 4D-QSAR and its neural counterpart, namely RD SOM-4DQSAR was presented to verify a pharmacophore and/or tinctophores concept in dye chemistry and discuss the rules governing QSAR modeling. Additionally, we examined performance of the IVE-PLS method employed for the variable elimination of the dye data sets with the external model validations using SDEP and q 2 test estimators, respectively. The automated data reduction using IVE-PLS procedure represents a filter for selecting only those descriptors, which have the highest individual weightings to the observed dye affinity indicating areas potentially relevant for dye-fiber interactions. Moreover, the stochastic SMV procedure to investigate the predictive ability of the method for a large population of 4D-QSAR models was employed. The obtained findings were compared with the previously published RI 3D/4D-QSAR models for the corresponding anthraquinone trainings sets. The neutral (protonated) and anionic (deprotonated) forms of anthraquinone scaffold were examined in order to deal with the uncertainty of the dye ionization state. The results are comparable to both the neutral and anionic dye sets regardless of the occupancy and charge descriptors applied, respectively. Conclusions The presented RD 4D-QSAR methodology together with IVE-PLS procedure provides a robust and predictive modeling technique, which facilitates detailed specification of the molecular motifs significantly contributing to the fiber-dye affinity. 40 DETERMINATION OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS IN FUNGI OF GENUS CORDYCEPS SINENSIS BY HPLC AND NMR ZDENKA BEDLOVIČOVÁ, LUCIA UNGVARSKÁ MAĽUČKÁ, ANETA SALAYOVÁ, JARMILA HARVANOVÁ, PETER OČENÁŠ University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Košice, Slovakia, [email protected] Cordyceps sinensis is the fungi parasiting larvae, pupae and imagoes of insect as well as fruiting bodies of truffles of the genus Elaphomyces 1). The fungi is known in both the traditional Chinese medicine and in the modern medicinal methods. It is used as dietary supplement (CORDYCEPS MRL.®, ACAI DETOX®). The fact of Cordyceps sinensis consequence is supported by many scientific studies, which showed its positive effects for example in anti-tumor therapy2), in treatment of HIV/AIDS, asthma, liver diseases and it also has positive effect on female fertility etc3). This work is focused on the basic research of identification studied biologically active compounds presented in fungi by HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) and NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance). 1) Hobbs Ch. Medicinal mushrooms: an exploration of tradition, healing, and culture. Santa Cruz (CA): Botanica Press 1995; 251 s. 2) Wang B. J., et al. Food Chem. Tox. 2005; 43, 543-552. 3) Gong Y. X. et al. Chromatogr. A 2004; 1055, 215-221. 41 CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW GREEN FLUOROPHORES BASED ON QUINOLINE SCAFFOLD. BARBARA CZAPLIŃSKA1, ANNA MROZEK-WILCZKIEWICZ2,3, MARZENA RAMS-BARON2,3, EWELINA SPACZYŃSKA1, MATEUSZ KORZEC1, ROBERT MUSIOŁ1 1 Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 2 A. Chełkowski Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 3 Silesian Center for Education and Interdisciplinary Research, Chorzow, Poland Introduction Fluorescence phenomenon is widely used in chemical and life sciences. As a tool of investigation, it allows us to gain insight into a world of biological structures and cellular mechanisms. Moreover, fluorescent dyes are commonly used to imaging of cancer and neurological diseases, as indicators for aminoacids and sugars or as micro- and macroelements sesnsors [1,2]. Molecule has to meet a number of conditions to become a fluorescent dye, whose are not always easy to gain. That is why searching for new, better fluorophores is still of interest. This work presents synthesis and characterization of over a dozen of novel Schiff bases based on a quinoline scaffold that exhibit fluorescence properties. Experimental methods Starting from 2-methylquinoline, we obtained 2-(4-amino-trans-styryl)quinoline, which constituted a starting material for further Shiff bases synthesis [3]. The last reaction step was carried out under microwave conditions. The structures of newly synthesized compounds were confirmed by 1HNMR and 13 CNMR spectroscopy. Their biological activity spectrum was checked on human colon adenocarcinoma cells (HCT116). The fluorescence properties were measured at room temperature with using of U-2900 spectrophotometer (Hitachi) and F-7000 spectrofluorimeter (Hitachi). Additonally, Gaussian09 software package was applied in theoretical DFT and TD DFT calculations with 6-311+G(d,p) as a basis set and CAM-B3LYP as a hybrid exchange-correlation functional. Results and discussion In result we designed and synthesized thirteen hitherto undescribed compounds in general synthesis pathway presented in Fig.1. They exhibit good fluorescence properties with emission in green light region and quite large Stokes shifts (around 100 nm). Moreover, they show positive and negative solvatochromism dependent on change of dipole moment of molecule in ground and excited state. TD DFT calculations were carried out with use of two exchange-correlation functionals – B3LYP and CAM-B3LYP, the latter seems to be 42 a better choice. Examination of biological activity did not implicated any significant results – in general, all of them turned out to be inactive. Fig. 1: General synthesis pathway of new fluorophores. Conclusions Thirteen novel fluorophores based on quinoline scaffold were synthesized and described. New compounds exhibit fluorescence properties which were examined. Additionally, theoretical calculations using the density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT methods were carried out and then compared with experimental data. To gain a deeper understanding of spectroscopic nature, orbital energy analysis was also performed. Moreover, their biological activity spectrum was also assayed. As general conclusion the presented compounds may become useful dyes for biological applications. 1) Orzeł Ł., Dąbrowski J., Zastosowanie pomiarów fluorescencji w biochemii i chemii bionieorganicznej, Zespół Fizykochemii Koordynacyjnej i Bionieorganicznej,Wydział chemii UJ 2) Tsien R., Fluorescence readouts of biochemistry in live cells and organizm, Molecular Imaging: Principles and practice, 2008, p. 808-828 3) Cieślik W., et al. Bioorg.& Med.Chem., 2012, 20, 6960-6968 4) Valeur B, Molecular Fluorescence: Principles and Applications, 2001 43 STUDY OF BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE WITHIN EXPERIMENTAL ARTHRITIS TOMÁŠ ČAVOJSKÝ1, LUDMIĽA PAŠKOVÁ1, FRANTIŠEK BILKA1, LUKÁŠ SLOVÁK 2, KATARÍNA BAUEROVÁ2, INGRID PAULÍKOVÁ1 1 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology of Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia 2 Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Slovak academy of sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia [email protected] Introduction Inflammation is a protective response whose goal is to eliminate the injury-inducing agent, prevent tissue damage and initiate the repair process. BuChE is involved in the several functions: in lipoprotein metabolism, hydrolysis of acetylcholine and non-choline esters1. Important function is suggested for BuChE also in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway mediated by the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (Ach) which exerts and directs inhibition of the pro-inflammatory cytokines production2. Increasing of BuChE activity may lead to the greater hydrolytic destruction, this resulted in a reduction of Ach concentration, what could trigger and perpetuate systemic inflammation. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory rheumatic disease, manifested by inflammation of the joints also in other organs especially the lungs, blood vessels and heart. The reason of RA is determined by autoimmune processes which leads to the deficit of T-suppressor function of lymphocytes 3. Characteristic for the RA is increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines, mostly prominent are considered Il-1β and TNFα. Materials and methods For simulation of RA conditions we used the model of experimental arthritis. Experimental arthritis was induced by intradermal injection of a suspension of Mycobacterium butyricum injected to the base of the tail.. The injection contained 100 mg of heat-killed mycobacteria suspended in incomplete Freund's adjuvant (0.1 ml). The experiment lasted 28 days, involving 3 groups of the experimental rat animals: the group of RA, the group of treated RA with methotrexate and the control group; each contained 10 animals. We determined BuChE activity by Ellman method and its biotransformation activity using BCH2 as a substrate. We also determined the mRNA transcriptional level of BuChE. Results and discussion The model of RA was confirmed by arthritic score, body weight change and reduced expression of CRP and IL-1β protein level in plasma. Under the inflammatory conditions, we observed a significant decrease of BuChE biotransformation activity, which accounted for 50% of the original activity in the rat 44 lungs and even 30% in the liver comparing to the control group. The kinetics of the enzyme hydrolysis of BuChE was also altered significantly. In both organs of the inflammatory model we observed a significant increase of the KM value. The expression of BuChE gene has shown interesting finding by increased transription level of BuChE in the liver (p˂0,05), and by contrast the significant reduction in the lungs (p˂0,0001) and spleen (p˂0,001). Conclusions Decreased biotransformation activity of BuChE in both tissues may eventually result in an increased concentration of the drug in the cell with serious consequences for the treatment. This work was supported by grants: APVV 0052-10, UK/296/2014 and VEGA 2/0045/11, 2/0044/15. This contribution is the result of the project implementation: Comenius University in Bratislava Science Park supported by the research and development operational programme funded by the ERDF. Grant number: ITMS 26240220086. 1) Patocka J., Kuca K., Jun D. Acta. Med. 2004, 47, 215-28. 2) Rosas-Ballina M., Tracey K.J. J. Intern. Med. 2009, 265, 663-79. 3) Gravallese E.M. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 2003, 61,84-86. 45 SELECTED ALAPTIDE ANALOGUES AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE PENETRATION OF THEOPHYLLINE ANETA CERNIKOVA, PAVEL BOBAL, JOSEF JAMPILEK Department of Chemical Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic; [email protected] There are many ways of administration of drugs into the organism. Possibilities of transdermal application of drugs are extensively studied. The composition of the outermost horny layer of the skin (stratum corneum) protects the body against the permeation of most xenobiotics. There are many approaches to increase the penetration of drug substances through the skin. One of them is the use of chemical penetration modifiers (CPMs). The exact mechanism of action of CPMs is not known, but there are several hypotheses of probable pathways of the penetration of drugs, which can be modified by CPMs can be administered on the skin in the form of creams, ointments, gels 4) 1–3) . Drugs as well as transdermal patches (patches are commonly used for application of contraceptives, smoking cessation, reduction of pain, etc.) 1, 2) . CPMs modify the penetration/permeation of drugs across the stratum corneum both is the case when local effect of the drug in the skin is desired (e.g., corticosteroids) and in the case when the systemic effect in the organism is required (e.g., hormonal contraceptives). Our research team began to study alaptide as a potential penetration/permeation modifier several years ago 5–9) . Alaptide (8-methyl-6,9-diazaspiro[4.5]decane-7,10-dione) is a cyclic dipeptide that is capable to interact with components of the skin. It is an original Czech compound prepared in the 80s of the 20th century. Alaptide showed significant skin curative effect, while any toxic, teratogenic or embryotoxic effects were not observed 10–12) . The aim of this study is to investigate how the application of selected alaptide analogues (AAs) 9) affects the permeation of theophylline from various media, including propylene glycol (mixed with water, 1:1) and physiological buffer (pH = 7.4), through full-thickness pig ear skin using static Franz cells. This study was supported by the IGA VFU Brno 302/2015/FaF. 1) Jampilek J., Brychtova K. Med. Res. Rev. 2012; 32, 907–947. 2) Jampilek J. J. Bioequiv. Availab. 2013; 5, 233–235. 3) Cernikova A., Jampilek J. Chem. Listy 2014; 108, 7–16. 4) Jampilek J., et al. Patent WO/2013/020527 A1, 2013. 5) Opatrilova R., et al. Sci. World J. 2013; 2013, Article ID 787283 (8 pages). 6) Opatrilova R., Jampilek J. ADMET 2014; 2, 56–62. 7) Cernikova A., et al. Mil. Med. Sci. Lett. 2014; 83, 34–39. 8) Jampilek J., et al. Czech Patent Application PV 2014-416, 2014. 9) Cernikova A., et al. ADMET 2014; 2, 248–253. 10) Kasafirek E., et al. Belg. 897843, 1984 & CS 231227, 1986. 11) Radl S., Kasafirek E., Krejci I. Drugs Fut. 1990; 15, 445–447. 12) Jampilek J., et al. Patent WO/2014/019556 A1, 2014. NEWLY IDENTIFIED CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF PARASITIC PLANT LATHRAEA SQUAMARIA L. IVANA DAŇKOVÁ1, MILAN MALANÍK1, STEFANO DALL´ACQUA2, MARKÉTA GAZDOVÁ1, ZUZANA HANÁKOVÁ1 1 Department of Natural Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech Republic 2 Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Italy Lathraea squamaria L. (Orobanchaceae) is a non-chlorophyllous root parasitic plant. According to the prior phytochemical investigations 1,2) , the vegetative parts of the plant contain mainly iridoid glycosides (e.g. aucubin, melampyroside) and phenolic acids. In previous research work carried out on our department phenylpropanoid glycosides and benzoic acid were identified, these compounds were described in this plant species for the first time. Moreover, we have found out that other important chemical constituents of the plant with potential biological activity have not been determined yet. The aim of the present study was to bring a new knowledge about other chemical constituents of the plant. The extract of the underground part of the plant was prepared by ultrasound-assisted maceration in methanol and analysed by means of HPLC on reverse phase. We focused on several polar substances which have not been identified in this plant so far. Subsequently, the methanolic extract was subjected to liquid-liquid fractionation with chloroform, ethylacetate and water successively; the ethylacetate aliquot was used for separation. Four fractions of unknown compounds were isolated by means of the preparative liquid chromatography and analysed by using available spectral methods (UV, IR, HRMS, 1H NMR, 13 C NMR). Based on the results of mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance and according to the comparison with the data from literature 3), the iridoid scyphiphin B1. The presence of this O O substance from the fraction 4 was identified as non-glycosidic H type of compounds has been determined in Lathraea squamaria L. for the first time. Identification of the remaining three compounds from isolated fractions will be continued. We suppose that they could have similar chemical structure. 1) Swiatek, L., Dombrowicz, E. Pol. J. Pharmacol. Pharm. 1976; 28, 105-109. 2) Grabias, B., et al. Phytochemistry. 1993; 32, 1489-1491. 3) Zeng, Y. B., et al. Chin. Chem. Lett. 2007; 18, 1509-1511. O HO H OH CH3 ANALYSIS OF FLAVONOIDS IN GRAPE LEAVES BY HPLCDAD-MS/MS SVETLANA DOKUPILOVÁ, LUCIA VEIZEROVÁ, JAROSLAV GALBA, PETER MIKUŠ Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, [email protected] Introduction Flavonoids are water soluble polyphenolic molecules, that belong to a group of plant metabolites thought to provide health benefits through cell signalling pathways and antioxidant effects. flavonoids are the most abundant and widely studied, and have enjoyed greater attention among grape researchers1. Experimental methods Grape leaves of various grape varietes obtained from Research Institute of Viticulture and Enology in Slovakia were analysed. Samples were collected in September 2013. Leaves were dried and frozen (-20°C) until treated prior analysis. Samples were homogenized and 2,5g of each sample was extracted with 40 ml mixture of methanol/water 80:20 (v/v) for 120min and 2x20 ml dichlórmethene was used for sample clean-up. 2,5 ml of watermethanolic part was dried and dissloved in mobile phase. Analysis was performed on LC Agilent 1200 Infinity System (Agilent Technologies, USA) with Agilent 1260 Infinity Diode Array Detector and Agilent 6520 Accurate-Mass Quadrupole Time-of-Flight. Separation column was Kromasil C18 (4,0×150 mm, 3,5 µm). Mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile and formate buffer (ammonium formate with concentration 10 mmol/l and pH adjusted to 3,1 by formic acid). Gradient elution 10% -95% of acetonitrile in 62min. was used. MS Detection conditions were: negative mode (ESI-), capillary voltage: 3,5 kV, drying gas temperature: 300 °C, drying gas flow rate: 10 l/min, nebulizer pressure: 40 psi, fragmentor voltage: 140 V, collision energy: 20 eV. Results and discussion Identification of the separated compounds was carried out using a UV, MS and MS/MS spectra. 7 quercetin and 4 kaempferol glycoside flavonoids (quercetin-3-O-rutinoside, quercetin-glucuronide, quercetin-3-O-galactoside, quercetin-3-O-glucoside, quercetin- pentoside 1, kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside, kaempferol-hexoside 1, quercetin-pentoside 2, quercetin-3-O-rhamnoside, kaempferol-hexoside 2, kaempferol-deoxyhexoside) were identified. DAD detector and external calibration curves of quercetin and kaempferol (in the range 5-100 µg/ml) were used for quantification. 9 of the 13 identified compounds could be quantified (see Table 1). Table 1. content of glycoside flavonoids in grape leaves: Compound Range of content (μg/g) quercetin-3-O-rutinoside 41,79 - 1576,58 quercetin-glucuronide 1385,49 - 7284,86 quercetin-3-O-galactoside 95,49 - 1152,52 quercetin-3-O-glucoside 83,51 - 4665,55 quercetin-pentoside 1 <LOD - 1022,68 kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside <LOQ - 913,51 kaempferol-hexoside 1 <LOQ - 1348,04 quercetin-3-O-rhamnoside <LOQ - 1307,75 kaempferol-hexoside 2 <LOQ - 2380,98 It was found, that the highest contained flavonoid was: quercetin-glucuronide, the content of which ranged from 1385 to 7284 μg/g. The amount of other components varied from 41,79 μg/g to maximum value of 4665 μg/g. The method validation confirmed sufficient linearity, precision, accuracy and separation efficiency. Low limits of detection and limit of quantification (LOD = 1,12 μg/ml, LOQ = 3,73 μg/ml for quercetin and LOD = 2,35 μg/ml, LOQ = 7,84 μg/ml for kaempferol) were detected. Conclusions It was confirmed that the proposed method is suitable for the comprehensive analysis of complex plant matrices, such as grape leaves. The results of research will contribute to the creation of profiles of pharmaceutically active substances contained in the leaves of nearly 30 Slovak vine varieties that could be used in the future to prepare nutraceuticals. Research was supported by grant: APVV-0550-11 Liu, C. et al. Food chem., 2013; 136, 643-649. FROM AN OLD DRUG TO A NEW ONE: SYNTHESIS OF VALPROATE FROM 5,5-DIPROPYLBARBITURIC ACID OLDŘICH FARSA, PAVOL BRKA Department of Chemical Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech Republic; Introduction Barbiturates are old-fashioned and mainly obsolete sedatives, hypnotics and antiepileptics. On the contrary, valproic acid and its salts are modern and popular therapeutics used not only as antiepileptics. That is why we have proposed usage of our old department reserves of 5,5-dipropylbarbituric acid as a as the strarting material for new experiment in our Medicinal Chemistry practical courses in which valproic acid will be prepared. Experimental methods Experiments involved optimization of two synthetic steps: hydrolysis of 5,5-dipropylbarbituric acid to 2,2-dipropylmalonic acid and decarboxylation of the latter to 2-propylpentanoic, eg. valproic acid. Results and discussion The two-stage synthetic procedure for synthesis of valproic acid has been developed. The first stage is the basic hydrolysis of 5,5-dipropylbarbituric acid to 2,2-dipropylmalonic acid in larger amount1). This step will be performed by a laboratory technician to avoid the contact of students with the barbiturate. The second stage is the thermal decarboxylation of 2,2dipropylmalonic acid to valproic acid 2). This step will be performed by students either in a microwave reactor or by a conventional heating. After the reserve 5,5-dipropylbarbituric acid will be consumed the first stage will be replaced with a conventional synthesis of 2,2dipropylmalonic acid from diethyl malonate. Conclusions A simple two-step synthetic procedure which enables the synthesis of valproic acid from 5,5dipropylbarbituric acid suitable for practical courses has been developed. 1) Aspelund H., Skoglund L. Acta Acad. Aboensis Math. et Phys. 1937; 10, 14-36. 2) Helavi V. B., et al. J. Chem. Research (S), 2003; 174-175. MOBILE APPLICATIONS AND THEIR POTENTIAL FOR USE IN PHARMACEUTICAL PRACTICE TOMÁŠ FAZEKAŠ, JURAJ MIČIAN Dept. of Physical Chemistry of Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, [email protected] Mobile health (m-health) applications installed on smartphones appear as a good possibility for improvement of specific interactions between and within healthcare providers and patients. Smartphones, integrating phone, browser, e-mail, media player, camera, GPS, voice recognition, are currently experiencing perhaps a greater boom than in his time internet had. Thus m-health exhibits a growing potential for use in pharmaceutical theory and practice. Only to little information exists about patients m-health preferences in Slovak Republic, mainly because the development of this technology is relatively new and rapid. The aim of the presented work was to identify interest in using m-health related applications among Slovak patients. Demographic data, experiences, interest, preferences and empowerment were collected and processed with statistical software PSPP. A questionnaire with 4 dimensions was designed, pretested and validated by factor analysis and Cronbach alpha (>0.86). The questionnaire was administered to 200 persons with 97% response rate. The majority of identified users were younger and belonged to the age group 18-29 years old. The expected impact of higher education and / or professional qualification on more intensive use of electronic services not was not been proven. M-health applications are still not been used by the majority of Slovak patients, because of poor awareness and language barriers. Initiative in this field expected from the state regulator respectively from a professional organization. Development and implementation of such applications should be supervised by pharmacists, pharmacies, importers and distributors or customers themselves. Expected functionalities of m-health applications are mainly these: product information and comparison, generics checker, product availability checker, pricing, ability to evaluate medicines and pharmacies, drug reminder, pill identifier, drug interaction checker. The lowest interest by respondents was given to the opportunity to contact the pharmacist trough an application, so customers still prefer personal consultations with a pharmacist. Based on results of our research we think that a typical Slovak customer is ready to utilize electronic pharmacy services. His requirements are exactly defined but he expects that these will be provided to him free of charge. It will be interesting to follow up, how these customer needs will be reflected by the domestic market in the near future.1,2 1) BAILEY, Stacy Cooper, et al. JAMIA, 2014, 21.3: 542-546 2) POWER, Jessica MH, et al. Health Pol. Tech., 2014, 3.4: 296-305. PREPARATION AND COMPLEXES WITH ANALYSIS OF GALLIUM AMINOCARBOXYLATES (III) AND SULFONAMIDES 1 ANDREA FORGÁCSOVÁ, 1,2PETER MIKUŠ, 1EMIL HAVRÁNEK AND 1,3MILAN MELNÍK 1 Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia 2 Toxicological and Antidoping Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia 3 Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia [email protected]; Gallium complexes has shown efficacy in the treatment of several apparently diverse disorders. Gallium has some medically useful radionuclides which have made extensive contribution in both the diagnosis and therapy of some diseases especially with usage in oncology, for example 67 Ga, 68 Ga. Besides platinum, gallium is also very promising for the treatment of some cancer diseases. Specificity of the Ga pharmaceuticals toward the target is usually applied as a complex. Complexation with organic ligands has been recognized as a promising strategy for creating new diagnostic and tumour-inhibiting compounds with a number of advantages. Chelating agents like macrocyclic chelators (DOTA, NOTA) are used to form more stabile complexes. Radiolabeled amino acids and peptides are of increasing interest in nuclear medicine with special emphasis to peptides labelled with positron emitters. Our research was aimed at the development of ternary Ga complexes with selected amino carboxylates and sulphonamides as potential diagnostic and/or therapeutic agents in nuclear medicine and oncology. Acknowledgement: This work was supported by the projects VEGA 1/0873/15, KEGA 022UK4/2015, FaFUK/14/2015 and carried out in the Toxicological and Antidoping Center and at the Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava. DETERMINATION OF CMC OF CATIONIC TENSIDE IN AQUEOUS AND MIXED WATER-ALCOHOL SOLUTIONS ANDREA GÁLUSOVÁ, FILS ANDRIAMAINTY, ROMAN MIKLÁŠ Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia The aim of this paper was to determine influence of short-chain alcohols on CMC of cationic tenside which belongs to the group of quaternary ammonium compounds (1182-RM-12-14). CMC was determined in aqueous and mixed water-alcohol solutions methanol, ethanol and propanol with concentration 0,1M, 0,2M and 0,5M by measuring absorbance of pyrene in tenside solution. The dependence of absorbance vs. surfactant concentration for unmasked pyrene peaks has exhibited typical sigmoidal plot. The Sigmoidal-Boltzmann equation was used to determine the CMC of studied compound in solutions with different alcohol concentrations. In studied concentration range the CMC was decreased by increasing concentration of alcohol, the most by methanol, less by ethanol and the least by propanol. The work was supported by the grant No. UK/265/2015. 1) Tanford C. The Hydrophobic Effect: Formulation of Micelles and Biological Membranes. 2nd edition. New York: Wiley-Interscience Publication 1980; 233 p. 2) Huang J., Mao M., Zhu B. Colloids surf. A 1999; 155, 339-348. 3) Bielawska M., et al. Colloids Surf. A 2013; 424, 81-88. 4) Basu Ray G., Chakraborty I., Moulik S. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2006; 294, 248-254. 5) Kalyansundaram K., Thomas J. K. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1977; 99, 2039-2044. 6) Khan Z. H., Hhanna B. N. J. Chem. Phys. 1973; 59, 3015. 7) Aguiar J., et al. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2003; 258, 116-122. VIRTUAL SCREENING OF COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY OF 1,3,5-TRIAZINE MOIETY SUBSTITUTED WITH BENZENESULFONAMIDES AND DIFFERENT AMINES VLADIMÍR GARAJ Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy UK, Bratislava, Slovakia [email protected] Carbonic anhydrase (CA) IX is one of the proteins that are involved in cancerogenesis in hypoxic breast tumors. Indeed, it is present in high amounts in hypoxic tumor cells, where it plays a crucial role in metabolic reprogramming due to the scarcity of oxygen, triggered by the hypoxia inducible factor 1 transcription factor. In such tumors, CA IX is involved, along with other proteins, in tumor pH regulation and its survival in a harsh environment (including hypoxia and acidity). CA IX is also validated as an imaging and treatment target for hypoxic tumors and metastasis1). A virtual library of novel benzenesulfonamides was formed by substitution of Cl on cyanurchloride with 18 different amines similarly to previous experimental works 2). The library of virtually assembled compounds was computationally screened against human CA IX and CA II using Glide and quantum polarized ligand docking workflow from Schrödinger. ADMET properties were predicted for compounds with best score from docking to CA IX and best ratio of CA IX / CA II score using QuickProp. This research was financed by grant VEGA No. 1/0743/13. 1) Supuran C. T., Winum J. Y. Expert. Opin. Drug Discov. 2015; 10, 591–597. 2) Carta F., et al. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2011; 19, 3105–3119. SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF SELECTED CINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVES MARTIN GAZVODA, SLOVENKO POLANC Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; [email protected] The enzymes AKR1C1‒AKR1C4, members of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily, catalyse the interconversions of 3-, 17- and 20-ketosteroids with the corresponding 3α/β-, 17β-, 20αhydroxysteroids to varying extents, using NADPH as a cofactor 1). In this way they can control the ligand occupancy and trans-activation of androgen, estrogen and progesterone receptors by modulating the concentrations of the active steroids. The AKR1C enzymes are also involved in the prostaglandin and neurosteroid production and inactivation, and in the metabolism of xenobiotics. Among them, AKR1C3 preferentially acts as a 17-ketosteroid reductase and converts a weak androgen 4-androstene-3,17-dione to a potent androgen testosterone, and estrone to a potent estrogen 17β-estradiol. AKR1C3 also catalyses the reduction of prostaglandin H2 (PGH2) into PGF2α, and PGD2 into 11β-PGF2, thereby diverting the biosynthesis of prostanoids away from the antiproliferative J-series. Catalysing these reactions AKR1C3 represents an important target enzyme for the development of potential drugs for a treatment of the hormone dependent and hormone independent forms of cancer. 1) Penning T. M., Byrns, M. C. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 2009, 1155, 33‒42 and references therein. 2) Byrns M. C., et al. J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol. 2010, 118, 177‒187. SYNTHESIS AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF N- (HALOGEN-PHENYL)-1-HYDROXYNAPHTHALENE-2CARBOXAMIDES TOMÁŠ GONĚC, JURAJ KMEŤKO, JIŘÍ KOS, ŠÁRKA POSPÍŠILOVÁ, IVETA ZADRAŽILOVÁ, JOSEF JAMPÍLEK Department of Chemical Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech Republic, [email protected] Introduction Recent studies have shown that, despite antibacterial therapy, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are still associated with serious clinical consequences, especially treatment failure, higher morbidity and mortality, prolonged hospitalization, increased health care costs, etc. Activity against MRSA is of a great importance in the new generation of antibacterial agents because of the worldwide increasing prevalence of this pathogen, more frequent antibiotic resistance to available antiMRSA drugs, their toxicity and general lack of oral agents 1). Some recently published derivatives with halogen substitution showed promising activities. 2) Results and discussion The aim of recent work was to synthetize series of N-(phenyl)-1-hydroxynaphthalene-2carboxamides with more halogen atoms on anilide fragment (Fig. 1). 39 compounds with di-, tri-, tetra- and penta- halogen-substituted anilide ring were prepared according to well approved microwave-assisted synthetic method2). The identities of compounds were confirmed by 1 H and 13 C NMR, HRMS and IR spectroscopy. Preliminary results of antibacterial activity against four strains of Staphylococcus aureus (among them 3 are methicillin-resistant) showed that 10 compounds have comparable or even higher MIC than standards ciprofloxacin and ampicillin. NH R OH O Fig. 1. Studied compounds. R: di-, tri-, tetra-, penta-,-F, -Cl, -Br Project was supported by IGA 320/2015/FAF 1) Goněc T., et al. Molecules 2015, 20, 9767-9787. 2) Goněc T., et al. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2013, 21, 6531-6541 SOLUBILITY AND DISSOLUTION RATE IMPROVEMENT OF CANDESARTAN CILEXETIL LUCIE GRUBEROVÁ1, BOHUMIL KRATOCHVÍL1, LENKA SEILEROVÁ1 1 Department of Solid State Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic; [email protected] Candesartan cilexetil (CC) is a antagonist of angiotensin II receptor, commonly used to treat hypertension. Based on solubility and absorption characteristics, CC is classified as a class II drug in the Biopharmaceutics Classification System. Candesartan cilexetil is highly lipophilic compound and is practically insoluble in water. Low solubility of CC across the physiological pH range resulted in an incomplete absorption from the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). Solubility and rate of dissolution are the most important determinants of candesartan cilexetil absorption in the GIT. The aim of this investigation is to improve solubility and dissolution rate using solid dispersion of candesartan cilexetil prepared by hot-melt extrusion. Creation of sink conditions for poorly soluble compounds is limited by a large volume of medium. Volume of the medium can be decreased by addition of surfactants which can significantly increase drug solubility. The first objective of the study was to investigate the solubility of candesartan cilexetil in a phosphate buffer with different ionic strength, pH value, type and amount of surfactant (Tween 20 or 80). Tween 20 has significantly increased the solubility of CC, with a bigger effect observed at higher concentration (0,70 %, w/w). Higher concentration of Tween 80 resulted in slightly increase of CC solubility. It was observed that the increased ionic strength of phosphate salts allows to increase solubility of CC. The solubilization of candesartan cilexetil is more effective at higher pH. Results demonstrate that at least 240 ml of 0,05 mol/l of phosphate buffer at pH 6.5 with 0,35 % of Tween 20 is required for 8 mg content of CC in tablets in order to achieve minimal sink conditions in dissolution studies (according to the US Pharmacopeia). The second aim of this study was to characterize the solid dispersion of candesartan cilexetil prepared by hot-melt extrusion (HME). HME is currently generating more and more interest, as the percentage of newly produced poorly soluble drugs is constantly increasing. Hot-melt extrusion is still an emerging technology and its potential in pharmaceutical technology has not yet been fully explored. In this study, extruder with single screw was used. Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP 25) and meglumine as carrier material, CC and selected excipients were used to create different batches for extrusion. The extruded material was pulverized and then sifted through sieve to obtain uniform size particles. Subsequently, the powder was compressed to tablets (0,5-2,0 t) or filled into gelatin capsules (4 or 8 mg CC). The physicochemical properties of solid dispersions were determined by XRDP, DSC and FTIR. All prepared tablets were evaluated for hardness, friability and disintegration time. Dissolution studies were carried out on samples with suitable characteristics. For these samples was proved enhanced dissolution profile in comparison to physical mixture and pure drug. The highest amount of candesartan cilexetil dissolved after 120 minute was 89 %. The faster dissolution rate and higher solubility of solid dispersions can be attributed to entrapped CC into the hydrophilic coat of carriers and excipients and its crystallinity changes. Financial support fromspecific university research (MSMT No 20/2015). ESTIMATION OF LIPOHYDROPHILIC PROPERTIES OF MOLECULES WITH POTENTIAL β3-AGONISTIC ACTIVITY ĽUBICA HAVRANOVÁ SICHROVSKÁ1, LUKÁŠ STANZEL1, IVAN MALÍK1, MATEJ MARUNIAK1, IVA KAPUSTÍKOVÁ1, EVA SEDLÁROVÁ1, JOZEF CSӦLLEI2 1 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovak Republic 2 Department of Chemical Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic [email protected] The paper present the lipophilicity study of four newly syntethized substances potentially active as β3-adrenergic receptor agonists labelled as BL-14S2-BL-44S2. Partition coefficient (log P) was estimated in three systems consisted of lipophilic and hydrophilic medium. Generally accepted shake-flask method for obtaining the log P values in these mediums was used. The non-polar phase was composed of octan-1-ol, cyclohexane, heptane, whereby the aqueous phase was always represented by phosphate buffer with pH = 7,4. Into the lipophilic enviroment of octan-1-ol, all of the substances were able to penetrate and the values of log PO were from 0,90 to 1,70. With the elongation of alkoxylcarbonylamino fragment, the log PO values increases constantly. As cyclohexane and heptane are highly lipophile solvents, only the substance BL-44S2 with butoxylcarbonylamino moiety was able to penetrate into them. Partition coefficient in medium cyclohexane/phosphate buffer (log PC) system was of value 0,22 and was higher than partition coefficient estimated in heptane/phosphate buffer, which was of value 0,17, in consequence of different structural character of molecules of the solvents metioned above. 3-{4-[(alkoxycarbonyl)amino]phenoxy}-N-{2-[4-(aminosulfonyl)phenyl]ethyl}-2-hydroxypropan-1-ammonium chlorides BL-14S2: R = CH3 BL-34S2: R = C3H7 BL-24S2: R = C2H5 BL-44S2: R = C4H9 Figure 1. Structure of evaluated molecules BL-14S2-BL-44S2 ANTIPROLIFERATIVE EFFECT OF 1-METHOXYBRASSININ 1 MARTINA CHRIPKOVÁ, 1NATALIA ANTOLIKOVÁ, 2FRANTIŠEK ZIGO, 3MARIANA BUDOVSKÁ, 4JÁN MOJŽIŠ, 5LADISLAV TAKÁČ, 6DENISA TOROPILOVÁ* 1 Department of Human and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Kosice, Slovakia 2 Department of Animal husbandry, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Kosice, Slovakia 3 Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia 4 Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia 5 Department of the Environment, Veterinary legislation and Economy, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Kosice, Slovakia 6 Department of Biology, Zoology and Radiobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Kosice, Slovakia [email protected] Several epidemiologic studies suggest that consumption of cruciferous vegetables may be particularly effective in reducing cancer risk at several organ sites 1), 2). Indole phytoalexins represent a specific group of phytoalexins synthesized by plants of the family Cruciferae. Phytoalexins are anti-microbial secondary metabolites of low molecular weight produced by plants "de novo" after exposure to biological, physical or chemical stress 3). These substances are usually produced in small quantities. Chemical synthesis can provide access to reasonable amounts of phytoalexins that are necessary to evaluate their biological activities. Indole phytoalexins have been reported to exhibit several biological activities, including chemopreventive4) antiproliferative, antifungal5), antiprotozoal6) and anticarcinogenic7) activities. The unique structural feature of the majority of indole phytoalexins is the presence of an indole ring and side chain or another heterocycle, containing a nitrogen atom and one or two sulpfur atoms8). Until now 44 indole phytoalexins, i.e. metabolites have been isolated and their structure elucidated9). 1-methoxybrassinin, brassinin and cyclobrassinin were the first cruciferous phytoalexins, isolated from the Chinese cabbage after infection with the bacterium Pseudomonas cichorii 10) . These natural substances have been suggested as a potential anti-tumor agents but little is known about their inhibitory mechanism on the growth of cancer cells. The present study was conducted to examine the effects of 1-methoxybrassinin on cell proliferation in the different human cancer cell lines. This work was supported by VEGA 1/0322/14 and KEGA 008UVLF-4/2014 1) Talalay P., Fahey J. W. J Nutr. 2001; 131, 3027-3033. 2) Tse G., Eslick G. D. Nutr. Cancer. 2014; 66, 128-139. 3) Dixon R. A., Lamb, C. J. Annu Rev Plant Biol. 1990; 41, 339-367. 4) Mehta R. G., et al. Carcinogenesis. 1995; 16, 399-404. 5) Pedras M. S., et al. J Org Chem. 2004; 69, 4471-4476. 6) Mezencev R., et al. Exp Parasitol. 2009; 122, 66–69. 7) Izutani Y., et al. In.t J. Oncol. 2012; 40, 816-824. 8) Pedras M. S., et al. Phytochemistry. 2000; 53, 161-176. 9) Pedras M. S., Yaya E. E. Phytochemistry. 2010; 71, 1191–1197. 10) Takasugi M., et al. J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.1986; 14, 1077–1078. SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF CHOSEN SYMMETRICAL AMIDES AND THIOAMIDES OF TEREPHTHALIC ACID AGNIESZKA JĘDRZEJOWSKA1, MAREK MATUSSEK1, VIOLETTA KOZIK1, ANDRZEJ BĄK1, IVETA ZADRAŽILOVÁ2, JOSEPH JAMPÍLEK2 1 University of Silesia, Institute of Chemistry, Katowice, Poland 2 University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic [email protected] The modern Organic Chemistry is a research area, which connects not only the synthesis of new chemical compounds which have interesting properties, but also to design and predict of attractive structures and properties. The new compounds are widely used in various industries such as pharmaceutical, electronics, chemical and others. Diamides of terephthalic acid obtained in the reactions with amino acids have interesting properties. Functionalization using bioactive compounds is attractive in terms of synthetic, as is possible in this way to get new active analogs. Marek Matussek is co-financed by the European Social Fund, the project DoktoRIS. STUDY OF STRUCTURE AND ADMET PROPERTIES OF AT 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS PAVOL JEŽKO, ZUZANA SÁRAZOVÁ Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia; [email protected] The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system plays a key role in the regulation of blood pressure. This system is involved in the pathogenesis of hypertension, congestive heart failure, and chronic renal failure. The main effector peptide, the angiotensin II, interacts with AT1 and AT2 angiotensin receptors. AT1 receptors antagonists are useful in the treatment of hypertension, heart failure, and renal disease. For the study of the structure was used program Jaguar. Lipinsky rules of five, polar surface area and ADME properties were studied in QikProp program. Toxicity of studied drugs was calculated in program VirtualToxLab. After geometry optimalization, by method HF/6-31G(d), were found the most stable conformers. The ortho position of the acid group is responsible for the non-coplanar conformation of the biphenyl part of AT1 receptors antagonists. Some drugs are absorbed in lower amount. Drugs which contain two acidic groups and have higher polar surface area are used as prodrugs. Low toxicity of AT1 receptor antagonists is in good agreement with low affinity to hERG K+ channel. Agonistic effect on PPARγ receptor was shown in some AT 1 receptor antagonists (irbesartan, telmisartan a valsartan). A COMPARISON OF SIO2-, CU-, AND NI-SUPPORTED AU NANOPARTICLES FOR SELECTIVE GLYCEROL OXIDATION TO ACETIC ACID MACIEJ KAPKOWSKI, MONIKA SŁOTA, JAROSŁAW POLAŃSKI University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland [email protected] We tested for the first time the efficiency of SiO 2-, Cu-, and Ni-supported Au in deep glycerol oxidation in a diluted and viscous H2O2/H2O liquid phase. Acetic acid (AA), the C 2 oxidate, was preferentially formed in such a system. High conversion (100%) and AA yields (90%) were observed for the sol-gel SiO2-suppported Au in diluted solutions. Although with the increase of glycerol concentration in the viscous liquid phase these values decreased to ca. 40% (conversion) and 20% (AA yield), the addition of acetonitrile improved the AA yield to ca. 40%, while the surfactants were found to be capable of a many-fold enhancement of the catalyst activity at the room temperature highly-viscous liquid phase. High performances were also observed for the bimetallic Au/Cu and Au/Ni catalysts obtained by nano-Au transfer; however, these catalysts were destroyed during the reaction by the Cu or Ni leaching effect. The research was co-financed by the National Research and Development Center (NCBiR) under Grant ORGANOMET No: PBS2/A5/40/2014. Author Maciej Kapkowski expresses his appreciation for the support of the DoktoRIS - Scholarship program for innovative Silesia, which is co-financed by the European Union within the framework of the ESF. DETERMINATION CONSTANTS OF OF ACID-BASE DISSOCIATION NEWLY SYNTHESIZED ARYLETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVES USING CAPILLARY ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS IVA KAPUSTÍKOVÁ, MATEJ MARUNIAK, ĽUBICA HAVRANOVÁ-SICHROVSKÁ, LUKÁŠ STANZEL, IVAN MALÍK, EVA SEDLÁROVÁ Dep. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia; [email protected] The acid-base dissociation constant (pKa) is an important physico-chemical parameter which affects drug pharmacokinetics and toxicity (ADMET: absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, toxicity). The early-obtained information about these drug properties may decrease costly development process of a compound with poor pharmaceutical prospect. Determination of pKa using capillary zone electrophoresis was based on measurement of the effective electrophoretic mobility of studied substances as a function of separation electrolyte pH. This relationship was then fitted by a sigmoidal curve, where pKa is the value of pH in the sigmoid inflection point. pKa values obtained in buffer solution were recalculated to thermodynamic p𝐾aT witch correspond to water medium. Dissociation constants of eight newly synthesized arylethanolamine derivatives, with potential α and β-adrenolytic properties, were determined. As was assumed previously from their chemical structure, pKa correspond to protonated piperazine nitrogen proximal to the arylethanolamine chain. The pKa values of compounds does not refer about evident influence of chemical structure (substituents pyridine-2-yl or pyrimidine-2-yl; methyl–butyl) on acidity of the molecule. SYNTHESIS AND STUDY OF CARDIOPROTECTIVE ACTIVITY OF NEW DEXRAZOXANE ANALOGS GALINA KARABANOVICH, JAROSLAV ROH, ANNA JIRKOVSKÁ-VÁVROVÁ, KATEŘINA VÁVROVÁ, TOMÁŠ ŠIMŮNEK Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic; [email protected]. Anthracycline antibiotics (doxorubicin, daunorubicin) are widely used anti-neoplastic agents. However, they have the serious drawback – cardiotoxicity, which may be caused by inhibition and/or poisoning of topoisomerase-IIβ in cardiomyocytes, the iron-mediated generation of reactive oxygen species or accumulation of metabolic products of the anthracyclines in the heart. The only substance, which is effective against anthracycline induced cardiotoxicity is dexrazoxane (DEX). Nowadays, there are two theory about of its mechanism of action: protection of cardiomyocytes via its metal-chelating hydrolysis product ADR-925 or through the interaction with topoisomerase IIβ (TOP2B). As the mechanism of DEX action is not still clearly known, the intensive structure – cardioprotective activity study is needed. Figure. 1 Dexrazoxane (DEX) and its metabolite ADR-925 Our work is focused on the study of the effects of changes in linker between two piperazine2,6-dionecycles of razoxane (racemic form of DEX), replacement of one or both piperazine2,6-diones for other cycles and the influence of terminal alkylation of razoxane on cardioprotective activity. The study was supported by the Czech Science Foundation project 13-15008S and Charles University in Prague (SVV 260 183). HPLC METHOD FOR STABILITY EVALUATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATION CONTAINING SODIUM PICOSULFATE PETR KASTNER, KATEŘINA BURDOVÁ, PAVLA PILAŘOVÁ Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Drug Control, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University, Czech Republic; [email protected] Introduction Nowadays, HPLC is the most spread and powerful analytical tool in drug control. It is the first choice method for the solution of all problems connected with evaluation of related substances and assay of the active substance as well as preservative. This separation method was thus used for development of analytical method which enables evaluation of oral liquid drug preparation containing sodium picosulfate as favorite laxative drug. Experimental method HPLC separation of components was achieved with LiChroCART®, 250x4,0, Purospher® STAR, RP – 18C, 5μm column using UV detector at 263 nm. The mobile phase consisted of a buffer, acetonitrile and isopropylalcohol in the ratio of 55:43:2 (v/v/v). The buffer contained sodium dihydrogen phosphate, water R and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide. The pH value was adjusted by phosphoric acid to 7.0. The temperature of the column was 40 °C, injection volume 4 μl, the flow rate was adjusted to 1.0 ml/min. Results and discussion The developed method was based on valid pharmacopoeial one 1), it was optimized for and then it was validated 2) as sufficiently selective, precise, accurate, linear and sensitive. Robustness was tested by means of Plackett-Burman design 3) and it was found, that ratio of the acetonitrile in the mobile phase has the biggest influence on separation from all proved parameters. On the other hand, flow, buffer concentration and ratio of propan-2-ol in the mobile phase little affect the separation. Fig. 1. A typical chromatogram of pharmaceutical preparation containing sodium picosulfate as active ingredient, sodium benzoate as preservative and impurity A, which is the main hydrolytical degradation productof the aktive substance. Conclusions The developed method enables simultaneous evaluation of the content of active ingredient, its related substances and preservative. It was sufficiently validated from the point of selectivity, linearity, precision, accuracy, sensitivity and robustness and can be used for release control of the pharmaceutical preparation and for its stability studies, too. This work was supported by a research project SVV 260062 1) European pharmacopoeia. 8th ed. Strasbourg: Council Of Europe, 2013. ISBN 978-92-871-7525-0 2) ICH [online]. 2013 [cit. 2013-12-11]. Available from: http://www.ich.org/products/guidelines/quality/quality-single/article/validation-of-analytical-procedurestext-and-methodology.html 3) Holík M. Chem. listy. 98, 2004. SYNTHESIS OF QUINOLINE DERIVATIVES BY USING NANO-PD/CU CATALYST IN THE SEARCH OF NEW FLUOROPHORES. MATEUSZ KORZEC1, ROKSANA RZYCKA1, SANDRA SENKAŁA1, EWELINA SZPACZYŃSKA1, BARBARA MROZEK-WILCZKIEWICZ2, CZAPLIŃSKA1, MARZENA WIOLETTA RAMS-BARON2, CIEŚLIK1, ROBERT ANNA MUSIOŁ1, JAROSŁAW POLAŃSKI1 1 Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 2 Silesian Center for Education and Interdisciplinary Research, Chorzow, Poland [email protected] The application of fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging in biological systems has expanded tremendously over the past decades. Fluorescence spectroscopy and timeresolved fluorescence are considered to be primarily research tools in biochemistry and biophysics. Fluorescence is now a dominant methodology used in many fields of science i.e., biotechnology, flow cytometry, medical diagnostics, DNA sequencing, forensics, genetic analysis and other 1). Imaging of biological structures by fluorescence microscopy acquires special importance in the diagnosis of cancer, for example, in photodynamic diagnosis (PDD) in urology 2, 3) or brain imaging 4, 5) . Recently, fluorescent properties of styrylochinolines have been discovered and used, for example, for quantification of zinc in urban runoff combined therapeutic and diagnostic in protein misfolding diseases in brain cells 6) 5) , in , as fluorescent sensor for Fe2+ 7), demonstrates multicolor fluorescence upon addition of different metal cations 8) . Fluorescent properties of dye can be dependent on perturbation of their emission by proximity to conducting particles or surfaces DNA 11, 12) 9, 10) and the cyanine determination oligonucleotides interactions with fluorescent dyes have also been investigated , as shown in the studies of 13, 14) . Recently, metal ions 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) A series of quinoline derivatives were designed based on the styrylquinoline system (Fig. 1). The results indicated that representative compounds are biologically inactive (cell culture, MTS assay) but have promising physicochemical properties (Stokes shift, quantum yield) and preferentially incorporated into the plasma membrane or any other intracellular organelles 20). The financial support of the National Center for Science NCN grants 2014/13/D/NZ7/00322 (A.M.W.), 2012/07/N/NZ7/02110 (W.C.), 2013/09/B/NZ700423 (R.M.) is greatly appreciated. E.S. and M.K. appreciate the DoktoRIS studentship and W.C appreciate the CITTRFUŚ fellowship. Nano-Pd/Cu was prepared under National Research and Development Center (NCBiR) Grant ORGANOMET no: PBS2/A5/40/2014. 1) Lakowicz J. R. Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy. 3rd edition Boston: Springer, 2006. 2) Pytel A., Schmeller N. Adult Urology. 2002; 59, 216-219. 3) Jichlinski P., Jacqmin D. Eur. ur. suppl. 2008; 7, 529–535. 4) Gomer Ch. J. Photodynamic Therapy . In: Kostron H. Photodynamic diagnosis and therapy and the brain. 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Advances in Chemistry. 2014, 1-16. 20) Rams-Baron M., et al. Plos One. 2015; 10, 1-17. RING-SUBSTITUTED CARBOXANILIDES 1-HYDROXYNAPHTHALENE-2AS POTENTIAL ANTIBACTERIAL AGENTS JIŘÍ KOS1,*, TOMÁŠ GONĚC1, IVETA ZADRAŽILOVÁ1, MIROSLAVA VALEŠOVÁ1, ŠÁRKA POSPÍŠILOVÁ1, EWELINA SPACZYŃSKA1, JOSEF JAMPÍLEK1 1 Department of Chemical Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackeho 1/3, 612 42 Brno, Czech Republic [email protected] The antibiotic resistance of important Gram-positive pathogen, Staphylococcus aureus, has become one of the most challenging and persistent worldwide health problems. Because of the changing features of MRSA, it is one of the most difficult bacteria for clinicians to treat. The emergence of resistance to currently available drugs, their toxicity and general lack of oral agents justify an urgent need for new anti-MRSA agents 1,2. In this study, a series of twenty-six ring-substituted 1-hydroxynaphthalene-2-carboxanilides was prepared and characterized. In vitro antibacterial activity of the discussed compounds was evaluated against three clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA 63718, MRSA SA 630 and MRSA SA 3202). S. aureus ATCC 29213 was used as reference and quality control strain. Some of the tested compounds (for example, N-[4chloro-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1-hydroxynaphthalene-2-carboxamide, (trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1-hydroxynaphthalene-2-carboxamide (trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1-hydroxynaphthalene-2-carboxamide) and showed activity comparable with or higher than that of the standard ampicillin. This study was supported by the IGA VFU Brno 322/2015/FaF 1, Kallen, A.J.; et al. JAMA 2010, 304, 641–647. 2, Liu, C.; et al. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2011, 52, 285–292. N-[3-fluoro-4N-[4-bromo-3the antibacterial SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL CARBAMATES AND THIOSEMICARBAZONES AS POTENTIAL ANTICANCERS DARIUSZ KOZAKIEWICZ, JAROSŁAW POLAŃSKI University of Silesia, Institute of Chemistry, Department of Organic Chemistry, Katowice, Poland Carbamate and thiosemicarbazone moieties are one of the privileged structural arrangements, widely deployed within pharmaceutical and crop protection industries. Their broad scope of utility, especially as anticancers or antimicrobial drugs, rendered them as an object of great interest for many years and recent 20 years of 1-3 . Thus, their area of utility was broadly explored, research has proven that junction of carbamate or thiosemicarbazone moieties with aromatic ketones and phenylethylamines yield a series of structures that display a wide scope of bioactivity 4-6 . Our research objective is a synthesis of carbamates and thiosemicarbazones based on the 1-phenyl-2-amine-1-ketone moieties as shown on scheme below. O O R1 Cl HN O R1 O N O H2 N NH H2 N R2 R1 NH S R2 NH 2 S H2 N O NH R2 NH N NH 2 S S N HN NH NH 2 R1 O O Scheme 1 | Synthesis of carbamates and thiosemicarbazones Such a structure has its origins in the nature. Extensive studies displayed [7], that functionalization of naturally occurring products by means of diverse substituents would lead to novel compounds with diverse bioactivity profile. An example of such approach is the lead structure of natural chrysanthemic acid, a molecular fragment used as a skeleton of many novel insecticides. Additionally derivatives of cathinone, substance derived from Khat plant, are convenient starting materials in synthesis of tetrahydroisochinolines. Cathinones itself have a good synthetic availability. We have synthesized a series of the above mentioned compounds as potential anticancer drug candidates. At the moment the obtained compounds are tested for their biological activity. 1. Morgan, L. R. et al. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2009, 64, 829–835 2. Janganati, V. et al. Bioorg.Med. Chem. Lett. 2014, 24, 3499–3502 3. Cravatt, B. et al. WO 2012/058115 4. Turan-Zitouni, G. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2008, 43, 981-985 5. Fatondji, H. R. Med Chem Res, 2013, 22, 2151–2162 6. Du, X. J. Med. Chem. 2002, 45, 2695-2707 7. Deng, Li, et al. J. Integr. Agricult. 2014, 13, 1320-1330 STUDY OF EPR AND UV-VIS JUICES FROM POMEGRANATE VIOLETTA KOZIK1, ANDRZEJ BAK2 1 Department of Organic Synthesis, Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 2 Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland [email protected] Pomegranate products show great differences in the contents and quality of polyphenols. This concerns both juices and juice extracts 1). Main active ingredients include fatty acids (saturated, 20%; monounsaturated, 10%; punicic acid, 70%; phytosterols, 0.40.6%, with beta-sitosterol, stigmasterol and campesterol prevailing), phytoestrogens (genistein, daidzein, coumestans), steride estrogens (17-alpha estradiol, 0.3%, and estrone), gammatocopherol and polyphenols, 0.015%. Both pomegranate juice and pomegranate seed oil show strong antioxidant properties, comparable with those of green tea and superior to red wine2). 1) Fischer-Zorn, M., Ara, V. Flüssiges Obst., 2007, 08, 386-393 2) Gil, M.I., et al. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2000, 48, 4581-4589 PREPARATION COMPLEXES AND WITH ANALYSIS OF COPPER AMINOCARBOXYLATES (II) AND SULFONAMIDES 1 DOMINIKA KRAJČIOVÁ, 1,2PETER MIKUŠ, 1EMIL HAVRÁNEK, 1,3MILAN MELNÍK 1 Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia 2 Toxicological and Antidoping Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia 3 Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia [email protected] There have been some notable developments in several areas of organometallic pharmaceuticals that have potentially far-reaching importance for future medical applications and a research as well. One of the significant developments in the field of oncology and hematology is the application of copper complexes. The chemistry of copper compounds has been extensively investigated, and the relationship between structure and reactivity is of a major importance. Copper creates stable complexes with a wide variety of organic molecules (in our review work they are amino carboxylates and sulfonamides in the presence of macrocyclic chelators). The aim of our experimental investigation is designing and preparation of ternary copper (II) complexes with selected amino carboxylates and sulfonamides. Although such ternary complexes have not been prepared and characterized so far, one can expect of their inhibition activity toward carbonic anhydrase IX. This work was supported by the projects VEGA 1/0873/15, KEGA 022UK-4/2015, FaFUK/20/2015 and carried out in the Toxicological and Antidoping Center and at the Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava. SYNTHESIS AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF NOVEL SULFONAMIDE DERIVATIVES MARTIN KRÁTKÝ1, JIŘINA STOLAŘÍKOVÁ2, JARMILA VINŠOVÁ1 1 Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic 2 Laboratory for Mycobacterial Diagnostics and Tuberculosis, Regional Institute of Public Health in Ostrava, Czech Republic [email protected] The alarming progression of drug resistance among human pathogens justifies the development of novel antimicrobial agents. Research studies should provide new antimicrobial molecules active against, e.g., Mycobacterium tuberculosis, nontuberculous mycobacteria, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and polyresistant Gramnegative species 1). The modification of known drugs represents an effective approach in drug design. Sulfonamides have been widely used for the therapy of various bacterial infections. However, they share some disadvantages. More recently, sulfonamides were considered useless for the treatment of tuberculosis but concomitantly useful for the therapy of some nontuberculous mycobacterial infections. Based on the findings that M. tuberculosis strains are susceptible in vitro to clinically achievable concentrations of sulfamethoxazole 1, this molecule has been “resurrected” and novel sulfonamides have recently been reported as potential antimycobacterial agents 1), 2) . Additionally, a wide range of urea derivatives were found to display antimycobacterial activity 3). That´s why sulfamethoxazole-based ureas 2 and their cyclic analogues imidazolidine-2,4,5triones 3 have been designed, synthesised, and evaluated as potential antimicrobial agents. In our previous paper 1), we found that N-heptyl sulfamethoxazole-based urea displayed a significant activity against nontuberculous mycobacteria. Based on this finding, we involved also N-alkyl derivatives with a various length of alkyl chain. The work was financially supported by the Research Project IGA NT 13346 (2012). 1) Krátký M., et al. Chem. Pap. 2015; 69, 1108–1117. 2) Krátký M., et al. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2012; 50, 433–440. 3) Brown J. R., et al. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2011; 19, 5585–5595. SYNTHESIS OF ARYLOXYAMINEPROPANOLES AND ARYLAMINEPROPANOLES ALEŠ KROUTIL, JOSEF CSÖLLEI Department of Chemical Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Science Brno, Czech Republic Introduction: Aryloxyaminepropanole and arylaminepropanole dervatives, containing a carbamate group with potential antidysrythmic activity were synthesised. Experimental methods: The starting material for aryloxyaminepropanole derivatives was 4aminophenole, which gives the carbamate byl reaction with alkylchloroformiate. From this intermediate were prepared a aryloxyaminopropanole derivatives by two step reaction with epichlorhydrine and consequently with an secondary amine. In case of arylaminopropanoles was the starting material 4-aminoacetophenone. By reaction with alkylchloroformiate were obtained apropriate carbamates. The next step was the Mannich reaction, provided with paraformaldehyde and a secondary amine. These compounds were isolated and consequently reduced by NaBH 4 to final products. From all mentioned final products were prepared salts with hydrochloric acid or fumaric acid. OH 2 N O O R R R 3 1 O NH Fig. 1 – Aryloxyaminopropanoles structure OH R O R N 1 O 2 NH R 3 Fig. 2 – Arylaminopropanoles structure Results and discussion: The final compounds ant their salts were characterised by common analytical methods (IR, NMR). For the Mannich reactions were used different solvents and conditions with various yields. The hydrochlorides or fumarates prepared were crystalline solids. THE USE OF 2,6-DICHLOROQUINONE-4-CHLORIMIDE FOR QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF PHENYLEPHRINE HYDROCHLORIDE IN COMBINED TABLETS WITH PARACETAMOL AND CHLORPHENIRAMINE MALEATE OLEKSANDR KRYVANYCH, NATALIIA BEVZ, NATALIIA HARNA, OLENA BEVZ National Univerzity of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine; [email protected] This work is devoted to development and study of the validation characteristics of the method for quantitative determination of phenylephrine hydrochloride in such dosage forms as tablets in combination with other active ingredients based on the reaction with Gibbs reagent. It has been found that unlike paracetamol, phenylephrine hydrochloride interacts with 2,6dichloroquinone-4-chlorimide in the alkaline medium forming a coloured compound with the absorption maximum at the wavelength of 615 nm. It has been experimentally proven that other active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients of tablets do not impede the quantitative determination of phenylephrine hydrochloride. When studying the validation characteristics of the method the following results have been obtained: linearity a=|-0.4251|<7.7, b=1.0054, precision, the correlation coefficient r=0.9995. The results allow to recommend this method for analysis of phenylephrine hydrochloride in other laboratories. FLAVONOIDS FROM TAGETES PATULA L. AS INHIBITORS OF ACETYL/BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE RENATA KUBÍNOVÁ, HANA SRNÁNKOVÁ Department of Natural Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic; [email protected] Introduction: Tagetes patula L. (Asteraceae), popularly known as dwarf marigold or French marigold, is an annual plant with 20–30 cm height, native to North America and widely disseminated worldwide. The extract from plant has antibacterial and antifungal activity and acts as insecticide. The phytochemical study of T. patula has resulted in the isolation of the chemical constituents, such as flavonoids, benzofurans and thiophenes. 1) Alzheimer's disease (AD), a very common form of dementia among the elderly, is in relation to brain deficits in acetylcholine. Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) predominates in healthy brain and with butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) considered to play role in regulating brain acetylcholine levels. Both enzymes therefore represent legitimate therapeutic targets for symptomatic treatment of AD.2) Experimental methods: Aerial section of T. patula was extracted with methanol at room temperature for 30 minutes in an ultrasonic bath. The extract was concentrated in vacuo to a dark gum and lyophilized. The lyophilized extract was column chromatographed on silica gel by eluting with mobile phase chloroform-methanol with increasing polarity. Biological activities were measured by Microplate Reader (inhibition AChE/BuChE using Ellman method, antioxidant activity using method of DPPH radical). Results and discussion: Fraction 13 yielded patuletin (2 mg), fraction 26 its hexoside probably patulitrin (4 mg). These compounds were identified by HPLC-DAD-MS and FT-IR and by comparison with literature data. Isolated flavonoids acted particularly as inhibitors of BuChE, their activity was better than standard galantamine. Antioxidant activity of isolated flavonoids was lower than standard quercetin. Conclusions: In consideration of fact that BuChE activity is progressively increased in patients with AD, it may not be an advantage for a cholinesterase inhibitor to be selective for AChE.2) Good balance in AChE/BuChE inhibition of flavonoids from T. patula may result in higher efficacy. Antioxidant activity of compounds can contribute to a better beneficial effect in the treatment of AD. 1) Maresa D., et al. Microbiol Res 2004; 159; 295–304. 2) Katalinic M., et al. Europ J Med Chem 2010; 45; 186-192. RADIONUCLIDE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY IN ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL PLANTS AND MEDICINES IN USE TO LOWER CHOLESTEROL LEVELS OĽGA LUKAČOVIČOVÁ1, EMIL HAVRÁNEK1 1 Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava.Slovakia; [email protected] Man receives portion of total cholesterol from food, or is formed directly in the body. When cholesterol levels in the blood exceeds a certain amount, can occur in the body harmful and very serious changes. Patients in addition to medication often used phytotherapy. In order to rapidly achieve the desired effect, they drink tea in large volumes. Tea, although they are medicinal plants, may contain not desirable and dangerous elements. It is therefore necessary to select an appropriate analytical method for quality control of all the preparations that a person is taking. For elemental analysis (Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Pb) of commercial tea on cholesterol, plant Veronica officinalis, L. and Radix taraxaci and drug ATORIS® was used Radionuclide X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry. For analysis the excitation radiation source was used 238 Pu, semiconductor detector Si/Li for detection and for signal processing was used multichannel analyzer ORTEC® (the arrangement of the sample-source-detector: reflective side geometry). Samples for analysis were compressed into tablets of defined shape and weight. In the measured spectra were presented energy maxima (peaks), corresponding to specific elements. The areas of evaluated peaks in samples were compared with areas in prepared standards. They were calculated detection limits from prepared standards/calibration curves on plants (Cr-1.31/1.40 μg/g; Mn-1.20/1.31 μg/g; Fe1.34/1.22 μg/g; Ni-1.37/1.45μg/g; Cu-1.72/1.80 μg/g; Zn-1.59/1.65 μg/g; Pb-1.89/1.96 μg/g), also from calibration curves on ATORIS® (Cr-1.62 μg/g; Mn-1.05 μg/g; Fe-1.99 μg/g; Ni-1.57 μg/g; Cu-1.77 μg/g; Zn-1.03 μg/g; Pb-1.93μg/g). The content of elements in biological samples was evaluated from results of prepared standard addition of selected elements on plant matrix and by parameters of calibration curves. ATORIS ® was evaluated by similar standard and calibration curves, but for its distinct character (organic matrix) was for their preparation benzoic acid selected as a matrix, except the own matrix. Because of the high content of titanium were prepared special standards, using solid Ti2O3 mixed in benzoic acid and constructed calibration curve for the high content of this element. The content of titanium in the tablet of drug was 2.13 mg in 1 g of tablet. Financial support this study was provided by the Slovak Grant Agency for Science under the project VEGA No.1/0873/15 and UK/195/2015. EFFECTS OF THIOSEMICARBAZONES ANALOGS ON OXIDATIVE STRESS AND CELLS DEATH IN HUMAN COLON CANCER. KATARZYNA MALARZ1, MARZENA RAMS-BARON2,3, ANNA MROZEK- WILCZKIEWICZ2,3, MACIEJ SERDA1, JAROSŁAW POLAŃSKI1, ROBERT MUSIOŁ1 1 Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 2 Department of Solid State Physics, A. Chełkowski Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 3 Silesian Center for Education and Interdisciplinary Research, Chorzów, Poland [email protected] Introduction Iron plays an important role in the life cycle of the cell. This essential element is required for several key processes such as DNA synthesis, mitochondrial electron transport, synthesis of heme, and as a co-factor for many redox enzymes1). Furthermore, iron is involved in the Fenton and the Haber-Weiss reactions, whose lead to generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS together with antioxidants may also play a key role in anti-cancer therapies that exploit oxidative stress. Accumulation of ROS in response to external stimuli may affect the regulation and expression of certain genes. This in consequence modulate the cellular response through cell cycle arrest, activation of transcription factors and the triggering of apoptosis2). Currently, most of chemotherapeutic agents causes cancer cells death by stimulating ROS generation as at least one part of the mechanism. Induction of oxidative stress by drugs accompanied reduction of the level of oxidative enzymes and their ability to restore homeostasis. Glutathione (GSH) is one of the most prevalent reducing agents thiols in living cells, making it one of the most important cellular antioxidants. During oxidative stress reduced form of GSH is oxidized to glutathione disulfide (GSSG). Decreases in cellular GSH levels triggers the unfolding protein response, peroxidation lipids and apoptosis3). Thiosemicarbazones are compounds, which are characterized by a wide spectrum of biological properties including the antiproliferative activities. The most possible mechanism of action includes generation of reactive oxygen species, iron chelation or inhibition of the ribonucleotide reductase (RR) - enzyme necessary in the synthesis of DNA4). Experimental methods Obtained series of novel derivatives thiosemicarbazones have been tested for cytotoxic activity on two cell lines of human colon carcinoma: HCT116 wild type and HCT116 with knockout TP53 gene. The antiproliferative activities were determined using the MTS assay. Then, selected derivatives thiosemicarbazones showing the highest antiproliferative activity have been tested for generation reactive oxygen species, and the subsequent impact on levels of mitochondrial GSH. Formation of reactive oxygen species was evaluated using the oxidation-sensitive dye CellROX® Green Reagent. A qualitative analysis carried out using fluorescence microscopy techniques and a qualitative analysis were performed using multiplate reader (Synergy4, Biotek). The changes of intracellular GSH levels were determined using a commercial GSH-Glo™ Glutathione Assay. The next step was to determine of caspases 3/7 activation and their participation on the apoptosis pathway. Results and discussion To understand the overall mechanism of action of these compounds we focused on their ability to induce oxidative stress, DNA damages and apoptosis. The series of novel thiosemicarbazone derivatives, that have been tested, exhibited significant ability to inhibit proliferation of cancer cells. In particular, di-2-pyridylketone, and 8-hydroxyquinoline moieties induce a high antiproliferative activity on nanomolar level. The analysis of quantitative and qualitative confirmed the generation of reactive oxygen species by selected compounds. The increase of ROS above baseline we demonstrated after 3 or 6 hours of application of the compounds. Generation of ROS was correlated with significant decreased the levels intracellular GSH. This result suggests that the cell death induced by derivatives thiosemicarbazones was not associated with caspase-3/7 activation. Conclusions In summary, the present data reveal that selected investigated derivatives thiosemicarbazones affect the ability to induce oxidative stress in human colon carcinoma cells. Thiosemicarbazones induced reduction in intracellular GSH levels, without significantly increasing ROS concentration. ROS-mediated oxidative damage and significant reduction in the level of intracellular GSH may lead to mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death by apoptosis, which is the desired effect of the cancer therapy. The reported studies are financial supported by the Polish National Center for Science (NCN, grant no 2014/13/D/NZ7/00322). 1) Rao V. A. Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, 2013; 18(8), 930–55. 2) Manda G.,et al. Curr Chem. Biol. 2009; 3: 342-366. 3) Circu M. L., Aw T. Y. Free Rad. Bio.&Med., 2010; 48: 749–762. 4) Richardson D. R., Kalinowski D. S. et. al. Biochim. et Biophys. Acta, 2009; 1790: 702-17. ON-LINE HYPHENATION OF CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS AND MASS SPECTROMETRY USED FOR THE ANALYSIS OF BIOGENIC AMINES IN GRAPE LEAVES KATARÍNA MARÁKOVÁ, JURAJ PIEŠŤANSKÝ, PETER MIKUŠ Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic [email protected] The quality and safety of food products have a great impact on human health. The grape and its products contain a wide range of substances. Biogenic amines (BA) are nitrogencontaining low molecular weight organic bases with aliphatic (putrescine, cadaverine), aromatic (phenylethylamine, tyramine) or heterocyclic (histamine) structure, which are commonly found in various foodstuff. BAs can be formed in food by decarboxylation of corresponding amino acids by microbial enzymes. Under normal conditions, exogenous amines ingested as part of the diet are absorbed from the food and quickly detoxified in the organism via amine oxidases or by conjugation. However, if normal catabolic routes of amines are inhibited or if the amount uptaken is large, this can result in several physiological effects (migraines, headaches, nausea, hypo- or hypertension, cardiac palpitations and anaphylactic shock)1. Histamine and tyramine are known to be the main cause of food intoxication, although other amines such as putrescine, cadaverine and phanylethylamine may intensify the undesirable effect of histamine. The content of biogenic amines in food should be monitored for their potential toxicity and the fact that the quantity of biogenic amines can be used as the food quality marker, while it is difficult to degrade BAs by high temperature treatment. Due to the current importance of food BAs in quality control and consumer safety, there is still a challenge to develop new methods for their fast, reliable analysis in samples of different foods 1,2. The research was supported by the projects APVV-0550-11, VEGA No. 1/0873/15, KEGA No. 022UK4/2015 and carried out in the Toxicological and Antidoping Center (TAC) of Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University. 1 Simo, C., Moreno-rribas, M.V., Cifuentes, A. J. Chromatogr. A 1195 (2008) 150-156. 2 Beneduce, L., Romano, A., Capozzi V., Lucas, P. Ann. Microbiol. 60 (2010) 573-578. SYNTHESIS OF NEW ARYLCARBONYLOXYAMINOPROPANOL DERIVATIVES AS POTENTIAL CARDIOVASCULAR DRUGS PAVLÍNA MARVANOVÁ, PETR MOKRÝ, TEREZA PADRTOVÁ, OTAKAR HUMPA 1 Department of Chemical drugs, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical sciences Brno, Czech republic 2 Josef Dadok National NMR Centre, CEITEC, Masaryk University Brno, Czech republic [email protected] Antagonists of β-adrenergic receptors are widely used in therapy of many cardiovascular indications because of their positive effects on cardiovascular system. Moreover, newly synthesized compounds have also other beneficial effects such as vasodilatory activity, antioxidant activity and ultrashort effect. These features can improve haemodynamic and metabolic profile, prevent atherosclerosis complication or ischaemia-reperfusion injury and can be used for treatment of urgent cases. 1 The aim of this study was synthesis and evaluation of 4 hydrochlorides of 2-hydroxy-3-(4phenylpiperazin-1-yl) propyl 4-alkoxybenzoates (Fig. 1), new (arylcarbonyloxy)aminopropanol derivatives as potential β-blockers for treatment of cardiovascular diseases and their complications. OH O O H+ N Cl N R: -CH 3 to -CH 2CH2CH2CH3 Fig.1 O R This study was supported by Open access project, ID number LM2011020, funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. 1 Tengler, J. et al. Cent. Eur. J. Chem. 2013, 11, 1757-1767 NEW DERIVATIVES OF CURCUMIN WITH POTENTIAL ANTICANCER AND ANTIRADICAL ACTIVITY NATALIA MIKLÁŠOVÁ, LUCIA RIŠIAŇOVÁ, JINDRA VALENTOVÁ, SAMUEL VARÉNYI, FERDINAND DEVÍNSKY Department of Chemical Theory of Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; [email protected] Introduction Curcumin (1,7-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxy phenyl)hepta-1,6-diene-3,5-dione) the yellow spice used for anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antioxidant activities, AIDS and Alzheimer´s disorders1), exhibits a poor bioavailability. This issue might be improved by using adjuvants like piperine, liposomal curcumin, nanoparticles, phospholipid complex and structural analogues of curcumin.2) Different derivatives of curcumin can coordinate with metallic ions to form complexes with various biological potential, for example palladium complexes of curcumin describe the antitumoral and antioxidant activities on human prostate cancer cells.3) Several Knoevenagel condensates of curcumin and their copper complexes inhibit the TNF-α induced NF-κB activation and proliferation of human leukemic cells. Schiff bases of such derivatives induce the cell growth inhibition in colon and pancreatic cancer cells. Therefore, these compounds are interesting for a chemopreventive and therapeutic activity against cancer and for their increasing bioavailability.4) Experimental methods Fourteen Knoevenagel condensates of two curcuminoids were synthesized and structurally characterized by NMR, IR, UVspectra and their antiradical activity was determined. Knoevenagel condensates were synthesised by general procedure 5)1 mmol of curcumin dissolved in toluene was reacted with a corresponding aromatic aldehyde (2 mmol) in a dropwise manner with continuous stirring, in the presence of a catalytic amount of piperidine and acetic acid. The reaction mixture was refluxed overnight and the final product was isolated by column chromatography. Results and discussion Literature studies shown that 4-arylidene curcumin analogues inhibit growth of lung cancer cells with less concentrations than curcumin, acting as potential compounds for development against cancer and inflammatory diseases.5) In our laboratory fourteen curcuminoids were synthesised, as Fig.1 illustrates, with the expectation that the condensates will exhibit significant antiradical activity. Fig 1: Synthesis of Knoevenagel condensates of curcumin and its analogue O O H O OH R R R 140 oC R1 OH R=OCH3; OCH2CH3 R1= OCH3; OCH2CH3; OH; H R2= OCH3; OCH2CH3; OH; H R piperidine/AcOH + HO O HO OH R2 R1 R2 We are grateful to Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava and Department of Chemical Theory of Drugs for support. This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract No. APVV-0516-12 and FaF UK/10/2015, FaF UK/11/2015. 1) Zambre A.P., et al. Synth. React. Inorg., Met.-Org., Nano-Met. Chem. 37(1), 2007; 19-27. 2) Anand P., et al. Mol. pharm. 2007; 4(6), 807-818. 3) Miklášová N., et al. Inorg. Chem. Commun., 2014; 46, 229-233. 4) Padhye S., et al. Pharm. research, 2009; 26(8), 1874-1880. 5) ZuO Y., et al. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2012; 55, 346–357. TARGET-SPECIFIC RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS: L-TRYPTOPHAN AS A RADIONUCLIDE CARRIER MÁRIA MIKULOVÁ, MIROSLAVA SÝKOROVÁ, EMIL HAVRÁNEK Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia; [email protected] In recent years a lot of attention has been paid to development and evaluation of radiopharmaceuticals in the field of nuclear medicine and pharmacy. Radiopharmaceuticals based on peptides have come to the foreground because of their high affinity with transporters or receptors overexpressed in many tumours. Many amino acids, short peptides and polypeptides are labeled with radionuclides for use in a diagnosis and therapy of various diseases. The most frequently used radiolabeled target-specific peptides are analogues related to hormone somatostatine. This work is focused on an initial amino acid L-tryptophan, the significant serotonine and melatonine precursor. Radiolabeling procedure of L-tryptophan with technetium-99m by direct method, using stannous chloride as reducing agent, is described in this work. The aim of this work is to observe convenient reaction conditions for the complex preparation and labeling efficiency control of resulting complex. Analytical separation methods as paper chromatography, thin-layer chromatography and paper electrophoresis with radiometric detection were used for radiolabeling efficiency control. Complex preparation was carried out under various pH conditions, where the pH 6,83 was proved to be the most appropriate, using the acetate buffer. The formation of two complexes of 99m Tc-L-tryptophan was observed. Since radiolabeled tryptophan and its metabolites are accumulated in the brain and various tumour cells, it can be used for brain activity imaging, diagnosis of serious diseases and futher peptide structures studies. This work was supported by the grant UK/195/2015 and project VEGA 1/0873/15. Dijkgraaf I., Boerman O.C. et al. Med. Chem. 2007; 7, 543-551. Jager P.L. et al. J. Nucl. Med. 2001; 42, 432-445. HPLC ANALYSIS OF SOME NON-STEROIDAL ANTIFLOGISTICS MILAN MOKRÝ, MARKÉTA ŠRÁMKOVÁ Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Drug Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University, Czech Republic; [email protected] Introduction A chromatographic method was developed for the detection and quatification of four nonsteroidal antiflogistic drugs – ketorolac, tiaprofenic acid, suprofen and ketoprofen. The HPLC analysis is carried out using a C18 column and UV detection at 314 nm. Experimental methods The aim of this work was to elaborate chromatographic conditions for simultaneous analytical evaluation of mixture of these drugs. Standard stock solutions at a concentration of 1 mg/ml were prepared by dissolving the appropriate amount of individual drug in 10 ml of methanol and stored at 4 °C, working solutions by dilution of standard stock solutions with mobile phase. The concentrations of the standard stock solutions were 0.05 mg/ml. Separations of ketorolac, tiaprofenic acid, suprofen and ketoprofen were performed on a Discovery HS C18 (150 x 4.6 mm) column (Supelco, Bellefonte, USA). The mobile phase was acetonitrile and 0.01 M potassium dihydrogen phosphate buffer adjusted to pH 3.0 by addition of phosphoric acid (40/60, v/v) and was pumped with a flow rate of 1 ml/min. Results and discussion A typical chromatogram of resolved components is shown in Fig. 1. Elaborated chromatographic condition, ambient temperature for column and HPLC system inclusive were found to best for analysis. The described method has been validated for specifity, linearity, system suitability, accuracy and intermediate precision. Fig. 1. A typical chromatogram of mixture of antiflogistics (all 50 μg/ml). Sequence of peaks:ketorolac, suprofen, tiaprofenic acid, ketoprofen. Conclusions A simple HPLC method with UV detection has been succesfully developed to determine ketorolac, tiaprofenic acid, suprofen and ketoprofen. The method has linear response in working range and is accurate and precise. This work was supported by a research project SVV 260062 1) Maboundou C., et al. J. Chromatogr. B. 1994; 657, 173-183. 2) Kulo A., et al. Chromatographia 2014; 77, 803-812. ANTIFUNGAL STYRYLQUINOLINES PROBABLY ACT AS A CELLULAR RAZOR BLADE JACEK MULARSKI, WIOLETA CIEŚLIK, JOANNA SZCZEPANIAK*, ANNA KRASOWSKA*, ROBERT MUSIOŁ Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland * Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland Ergosterol, a fungal specific cellular building block, is most abundand in the plasma membrane, but has been found within membranes of many organelles as well. Its ubiquity allows to design ergosterol specific drug therapies. Azoles are the most widely deployed antifungals in clinics and were found to inhibit the biosynthesis of ergosterol. Nonetheless, multi drug resistance has arisen from their excessive use. On the other hand polyenes such as amphotericin (AmB) primarily kill yeast by simply binding plasma membrane ergosterol [1]. Such agregates form ion channels what leads to cell damage. Unfortunatelly, some AmB affinity for cholesterol has been observed and intrinsic high toxicity correlates with exceptional activity profile, limiting its use only to fight systemic fungal infections as the last line of defense. Despite azoles are in treatment more than two decades, our understanding of the processes specific cellular disrupted ergosterol by deprivation HO evaluating we have O been styrylquinolines (SQ) bioactivity profile [2]. It Cl O OH OH OH OH O O OH Cl O remains insufficient. Recently, OH HO HO N OH O HO O OH NH 2 amphotericin B [AmB] styrylquinoline [SQ] appears that these small molecules reveal excellent antifungal activity. The ongoing research has already exposed some mechanistic diversity. For instance, resembling some AmB structural relationships, such as conjugated molecular π orbitals, which are known for creating a rigid molecular surface. Therefore, it can be assumed that SQ may act as ergosterol-selective cellular razor blade. There is also evidence of intracellular ergosterol complexation. As an assistance to those observations and development of further lead optimization we've designed NMR – based experiment. 1H NMR has been chosen for preliminary studies. This sensitive technique enables maintenance of solutes at marginal desired level. Chemical shifts as well through-space coupling constants of SQ – ergosterol supramolecular complexes should be a measure of their antifungal activity and SQ – cholesterol as a toxicity coefficient. The experiment can also illustrate qualitatively how the drug interacts with its particular sterol ligand, and quantitatively, determining its complexation ratio at particular concentration. Acknowledgement: National science centre grant no 2013/09/B/NZ7/00423 1 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109 (2012) 11156-11159 2 Bioorg. Med. Chem. (2012) 6960-6968 VALIDATION OF SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHOD OF ASSAYING METRONIDAZOLE IN CAPSULES ARTEM MYHAL, ANNA DOBROVA, OLGA GOLOVCHENKO, VICTORIYA GEORGIYANTS The National University of Pharmacy, Ukraine, Kharkiv; [email protected] Introduction The international community imposes stringent requirements for the quality and safety of products. Nevertheless, counterfeiting of medicines is a special social danger and an urgent problem. Therefore, the suggested methods of quality control must comply with regulatory requirements and fully confirm the quality of goods. Validation of quality control methods is recommended by the State Pharmacopoeia of Ukraine (SPhU) and the world's leading Pharmacopoeias during the registration of medicines. This procedure aims to experimentally verify the correctness and accuracy of the above methods1-3, 6, 7, 10-13. The guarantee of the safety and effectiveness of drugs is also their stability and absence of side effects of interaction that can take place in the organism, with different active ingredients. This applies to simultaneously appointed drugs and components of food, drinks, mineral water, food additives that people use independently in their daily diet. Patients rarely adhere to the recommended diet, without changing their eating habits. Therefore, the study of influence of the most common cases of interaction on bioavailability and pharmacological activity of prescribed drugs is relevant. In order to experimentally prove the expediency or inadmissibility of the combined use of metronidazole as a helicobacter drug with others drugs, food, mineral water and other beverages rich in metal cations, we carried out validation of analytical method of assaying metronidazole in capsules by the standard method within the UV-spectrophotometric method according to the SPhU requirements, which is planned for use in studying the bioavailability of products of metronidazole interaction with metal salts. 1) Bagirov V.L., et al. Pharm. Ind. 2007; 58 p. 2) Bezugly P.O., et al. ed. NUPh, Golden pages 2013; 552 p. 3) Chung Ch. Ch. et al. Analytical method validation and instrument performance verification. John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2004, 11–51. 6) Grizodub O.I., et al. Pharmakom 2004; 3, 3-17. 7) Grizodub O.I., et al. Pharmakom 2004; 2, 20-34. 10) State Pharmacopoeia of Ukraine. State Enterprise "Scientific and expert pharmacopoeia center". 1st ed. Kharkiv: RIREH 2001; 556 p. 11) State Pharmacopoeia of Ukraine. State Enterprise "Scientific and expert pharmacopoeia center". App. 1., 1st ed. Kharkiv: RIREH 2004; 494 p. 12) State Pharmacopoeia of Ukraine. State Enterprise "Scientific and expert pharmacopoeia center". App. 2., 1st ed. Kharkiv: RIREH 2008; 608 p. 13) State Pharmacopoeia of Ukraine. State Enterprise "Scientific and expert pharmacopoeia center". App. 4., 1st ed. Kharkiv: RIREH 2011; 538 p. BARGELLINI REACTION IN FUNCTIONALIZATION OF HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS L.V. MYZNIKOV, Y.V. MELNIKOVA, Y.E. ZEVATSKII Saint-Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, Russia The progress in chemistry of heterocyclic compounds is impossible without the use of innovative approaches to their functionalization. One of such approaches is application multicomponent reactions for synthesis and functionalization of heterocyclic compounds. Multicomponent reactions very attractive because they allow several simple molecules assemble to complex multifunctional structures which difficult to prepare with other methods. One of such multicomponent reactions - Bargellini reaction - was discovered for more than 100 years ago1. Bargellini reaction up to date was not applied for fuctionalization of heterocyclic compounds. We have found that heterocyclic thiols and NH heterocycles may act as nucleophiles in Bargellini reaction: O CHCl3 + + Het-SH Het S + OH O O CHCl3 O + Het(NH) Het OH Bargellini reaction can be used for functionalization series structure divergent heterocyclic thioles and NH heterocycles. The reaction is carried out without solvent with excess of a ketone and chloroform at 0°C. At this temperature reaction is completed in 12 h, the yields of carboxylic acids 64-95%. Substances which can be prepared by the presented procedure are interesting in consequence of their biological activity. It was shown that such compounds are useful for treatment of glaucoma2, diabetes3 and metabolic diseases4. 1 Bargellini, G. Gazz. Chim. Ital. 1906, 36, 329. 2 Bartels, S.P. Pat. 20080058373 USA. 3 Bigge, C.F., et al. Pat. 20030171377 USA. 4 Jomard, A., et al. Pat. 20070065471 USA. STABLE GOLD NANOPARTICLES – SYNTHESIS, BIOCONJUGATION AND APPLICATION PAWEŁ NALEPA1, ANNA MROZEK-WILCZKIEWICZ2, JAROSŁAW POLAŃSKI1 1 Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland 2 Silesian Center for Education and Interdisciplinary Research, Chorzów, Poland [email protected] Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are good biocompatible materials due to their special physical and chemical properties1. There is more and more research where GNPs are used in the medical imaging and in the cancer therapy. Nanotechniques, the usage and production of nanomaterials has been developed in our team for many years 2,3,4. Furthermore, we synthesise various compounds which have anticancer activity and can be developed into novel anticancer treatment5,6. Therefore, it is not surprising that we decided to combine these two paths of our studies. Indeed, there are many examples described in the literature of chemically 9 and biologically10 functionalized GNPs; however, these conjugates are very often instable. Although GNPs are rather stable in period of many months, modified nanoparticles – conjugates GNPs to drug, dye or antibody are often instable in a long period, particularly in the presence of high salts and proteins, which is the essence of human body11. There exist some reports where glycerol is used as an efficient reducing agent 13,14. Glycerol is an environmental friendly and completely biocompatible reagent. Thus we decided to use glycerol and synthesise GNPs with various concentration of cross-linked polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as a stabilizing agent. We also wanted to determine size, shape, dispersity and stability of the obtained GNPs. Our aim was to obtain stable GNPs with diameter less than 60 nm because these GNPs have the most appropriate physical and biological properties 1. The next step will be coupling nanoparticles with our potential drugs. These bioconjugates will be examinated in the in vivo biological studies. The experiments were conducted under National Research and Development Center (NCBiR) Grant ORGANOMET no: PBS2/A5/40/2014 (J.P.). The financial support of the National Center for Science NCN grants 2014/13/D/NZ7/00322 (A.M.W.) is also greatly appreciated. 1) Dreaden E.C., et al. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2011; 40, 3391-3404 2) Kapkowski M., et al. J. Catal. 2014; 319, 110–118. 3) Korzec M., et al. J. Catal. 2014; 313, 1–8. 4) Bujak P., et al. J. of Catal. 2012; 295, 15–21. 5) Mrozek-Wilczkiewicz A., et al. ACS Med. Chem. Lett. 2014; 5, 336–339. 6) Serda M., et al. 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Commun. 2013; 49, 692-694 NITRO GROUP-CONTAINING OXA- AND THIADIAZOLES AS POTENTIAL ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS JAN NĚMEČEK,1 GALINA KARABANOVICH,1 JAROSLAV ROH,1 LENKA VALÁŠKOVÁ,1 KATEŘINA VÁVROVÁ,1 JIŘINA STOLAŘÍKOVÁ,2 PETR PÁVEK,1 VĚRA KLIMEŠOVÁ,1 ALEXANDR HRABÁLEK1 1 Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic 2 Department of Bacteriology and Mycology, Regional Institute of Public Health, Ostrava, Czech Republic [email protected] Tuberculosis (TB) occurs in every part of the world and in 2013, 1.5 million people died from TB. Although TB is curable disease, increasing amount of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant strains, which respond to only few available medicines, underline the need for new antiTB agents with different modes of action. Based on our lead compounds, 5-(dinitrobenzylsulfanyl)tetrazoles, we prepared a series of 1,3,4-oxadiazoles and 1,3,4-thiadiazoles and studied the effect of the individual structural fragments of these compounds on the antimycobacterial activity, selectivity towards mycobacteria and toxicity. Antimycobacterial activity of all prepared compounds were evaluated against four mycobacterial strains, compounds with the most promising activities were further evaluated against six MDR/XDR-TB strains. To study the selectivity of these compounds, their IC 50 on human cell lines and MIC for selected bacterial and fungal strains were evaluated. Furthermore, acute oral toxicity and 14-days repeated dose toxicity experiments were performed. Selected compounds showed excellent antimycobacterial activity with MIC values reaching 0.03 µM against drug susceptible and MDR/XDR-TB strains. Furthermore, these compounds showed high selectivity and low in vitro and in vivo toxicity. This work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation project (14-08423S), “Pre-seed activities of CU out of Prague“, reg. n. CZ.1.05/3.1.00/13.0284 and "Pre-seed activities of CU out of Prague II", reg. n. CZ.1.05/3.1.00/14.0299 INFLUENCE OF Β-CAROTENE ON ANTIGENIC EFFECTIVENESS OF INACTIVATED RABIES VACCINE WITH SQUALENE ADJUVANT ONDREJKOVÁ A. 1, SÜLI J.2, KOLČÁKOVÁ L.2, ONDREJKA R.1, ČECHVALA P.1, BENKÖ Z.1, PROKEŠ M.1 1 Department of Epizootology and Parasitology 2 Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biophysics University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Slovakia [email protected] Squalene adjuvants are successfully used for potentiating the efficacy of inactivated vaccines for human and veterinary use. Commercially produced squalene adjuvant formulations are added to vaccines either liquid or lyophilized 1). The experimental squalene adjuvant is a formulation that allows the preparation of adjuvanted vaccine in one step – aqueous phase of adjuvant is formed directly by inactivated viral suspension 2;3). This adjuvant has proved to be effective in the application for the target species of domestic animals4;5). In view of the increased sensitivity to oxidation, α-tocopherol – an effective in vivo antioxidant for the lipids is added to some of the squalene adjuvant formulations. Several types of squalene emulsions with α-tocopherol are developed for the preparation of vaccines, e.g. SE (stable emulsion) or SB62, which is suitable for human influenza vaccines 6;7). However, in in vitro systems α-tocopherol can cause prooxidation, while the β-carotene effectively protects against oxidation of squalene8-10). Various inactivated adjuvant vaccines with αtocopherol induced faster and higher production of antibodies in tested animals compared to control vaccines11;12). However, we have no data about vaccines containing β-carotene. Antioxidant protection of squalene by β-carotene is satisfactory9;10), but it is also important to know, whether the addition of the antioxidant alter the effectiveness of vaccines. In this work we examined how is the antigenic activity of inactivated rabies vaccine with squalene adjuvants affected by β-carotene. This work was financed by scientific project APVV-0605-12 (Slovak Republic). 1) Fox C.B. Molecules 2009; 14, 3286–3312. 2) Süli J., et al. Vaccine 2004; 22, 3464–3469. 3) Beníšek Z., et al. Vaccine 2004; 22, 3470–3474. 4) Süli J., et al. A new adjuvant inactivated rabies vaccine. In: Dodet, B., et al. eds. Rabies in Europe. Dev. Biol. Basel: Basel Karger 2006; 125, 313. 5) Süli J., et al. Acta Vet. Beograd 2010; 60, 597–603. 6) Leesman G. D. US Patent 6630161 B1, 2003. http://www.google.com/patents/US6630161. 7) Reed S. G., et al. Trends Immunol. 2009; 30, 23–32. 8) Mueller L., Boehm V. Molecules 2011; 16, 1055–1069. 9) Süli J., et al. Folia Vet. 2012; 56, Suppl. II, 56–58. 10) Süli J., et al. Influence of β-carotene on antigenic effectiveness of inactivated rabies vaccine with squalene adjuvant. In: Sborník 44. Konference Syntéza a analýza liečiv. Brno: 2015. 11) Tengerdy R. P. Vaccine 1991; 9, 273–276. 12) Franchini A. et al. Poultry Sci. 1995; 74, 666–671. SYNTHESIS AND EVALUATION OF HETEROARYLCARBONYLOXYAMINOPROPANOLS AND THEIR QUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALTS TEREZA PADRTOVÁ1, MARKÉTA DALECKÁ1, PETR MOKRÝ1, KLÁRA ODEHNALOVÁ1, PAVLÍNA MARVANOVÁ1, OTAKAR HUMPA2 1 Department of Chemical Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic 2 Josef Dadok National NMR Centre, CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic [email protected] Introduction Recent WHO document shows that about 33.3% of the world population suffers from diseases related to the cardiovascular system.1 Beta blockers are among the drugs of first choice in the therapy of these diseases, but unfortunately they have a wide range of adverse effects. Synthesis of new derivatives with ultrashort effect aims to reduce the adverse effects of these substances and their improved pharmacological profile. Experimental methods Preparation of the final compounds was carried out by microwave iradiation and the method was compared with conventional techniques. The structure of the compounds was determined by measuring the 1D and 2D-NMR, IR and MS. Physicochemical parameters of the resulting compounds were also determined: lipophilicity parameter (LogP) by HPLC, and acid-base dissociation constant (pKa) by capillary electrophoresis. Quaternary amines was determined by surface activity. Results and discussion HO HO + O Z - - R 3 N X X N R 4 O Z 2 R + N 2 R 3 R O O 1 1 R R Fig. 1: structure of final compounds This study was supported by the IGA VFU Brno 315/2015/FaF and Open access project, ID number LM2011020, funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. 1) World health organization, World health statistics 2014, Geneva. http://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/2014/en/ HYDRODYNAMICALLY CLOSED CITP-CZE COUPLED WITH TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR DETERMIANTION OF ANTIGRIPAL DRUGS IN HUMAN URINE JURAJ PIEŠŤANSKÝ, KATARÍNA MARÁKOVÁ, PETER MIKUŠ Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia;[email protected] Introduction Paracetamol, pheniramine, and phenylephrine are typical drugs presented in over-thecounter (OTC) medicines against cough, cold and flu. These three drugs with different pharmacotherapeutic activity can be described as antigripal drugs. Paracetamol (PCM) is an analgesic and antipyretic, pheniramine (PHM) is a H1-antihistamine, and phenylephrine (PHE) is a α1-adrenergic receptor agonist, that is used as a nasal decongestant. Theraflu ® is a typical commercial OTC medicine with presence of these drugs. Experimental methods A modular capillary electrophoresis analyzer EA-102 (Villa Labeco, Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia), assembled in the column-coupling configuration (hydrodynamically closed) of the separation unit, was used in this work for performing the CITP-CZE runs (cationic regime of the separation). The samples were injected by a 10 µL Hamilton syringe via a rubber septum into the injection block of the analyzer. An CITP column was provided with an 800 µm I.D. polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) capillary tube of a 90 mm length and a contactless conductivity detector. A CZE column was the same as the CITP one except for a 300 µm I.D. and a 160 mm length. The CZE column was provided with an on-column conductivity detector (Villa Labeco). Win ACES software, ver. 1.4 (Faculty of Natural Sciences Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia) was used for controlling the analytical protocol. The experiments were performed in constant current mode at 20ºC. The driving currents applied were 300 µA (ITP) and 40 µA (CZE). Identification and quantification of the analytes were performed on a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (QqQ) Agilent 6410 Series Triple Quadrupole (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA) coupled to the CE analyzer through an ESI interface and an elution block (coupling CE with ESI) proposed by Foret et al.1). The mass spectrometer operated in the positive-ion mode. The MS detection was carried out in the multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode. Results and discussion CITP-CZE-ESI-QqQ system was optimized in order to obtain sufficient sample clean-up and good performance parameters so the method could be used in the direct analysis of antigripal drugs in human urine. The optimum CITP-CZE conditions were: i) CITP – LE = 10 mM NH4Ac + 20 mM HAc (pH = 4,5), TE = 10 mM HAc (pH = 3,1), driving current 300 µA; ii) CZE – BGE = 10 mM HAc (pH = 3,1), driving current 40 µA. PCM did not migrate properly in the CE system without electroosmotic flow (EOF) and it could not be detected in hydrodynamically closed CE separation system under given CITP conditions. Therefore, PCM was not considered further in this study. The optimum composition of the spray liquid was methanol/water (50/50, v/v) with 0,1% (v/v) HAc and its flow rate was 2 µL.min -1. For the ESI-QQQ mass spectrometer, optimum parameters were as follows: i) nebulizer pressure (15 psi); ii) drying gas temperature (300°C); iii) drying gas flow rate (5 L.min -1); iv) capillary voltage (5000 V); v) fragmentor voltage (100 V) and vi) collision energy (10 eV – PHM, 8 eV – PHE). Mass spectrometry measurements were carried in MRM mode with the following transitions for pheniramine: m/z 241.2 → 196.1 (quantifier) and 241.2 → 168.1 (identifier) and for phenylephrine: m/z 168.1 → 150.3 (quantifier) and 168.1 → 135.1 (identifier). For validation of the proposed method, a model human matrix spiked with PHM and PHE standards was used. Calculated performance parameters confirmed good linearity (r 2 ˃ 0,999), accuracy (R ˃ 98.0%) and precision (RSD tm ˂ 1.50% and RSDarea ˂ 8.00%) of the proposed method. Finally, the CITP-CZE-MS/MS method was applied to monitor the level of excreted PHM and PHE in human urine after oral administration of one dose of Theraflu ® (20 mg pheniramine maleate, 10 mg phenylephrine hydrochloride per one dose – sachet) to the volunteers. Samples were collected in various time intervals (0-24h). The concentration profiles of excreted pheniramine and phenylephrine in human urine were successfully obtained by means of the studied method. Pheniramine metabolite, monodesmethylpheniramine, was also identified in the real urine samples (identifier – m/z 227.2 → 118.2 and quantifier – m/z 227.2 → 196.1). Conclusions The presented CITP-CZE-ESI-MS/MS combination represent a powerful tool for the analysis of relative unpretreated (only diluted) biological samples containing different trace and/or ultratrace concentration levels of cationic drugs and their metabolic products. This work was supported by the projects VEGA 1/0873/15, KEGA 022UK-4/2015 and by the grant from the Faculty of Pharmacy Comenius University (FP CU), namely FaF UK/3/2015 and carried out in the Toxicological and Antidoping Center (TAC) FP CU. 1) Tomáš R., et al. J. Chromatogr. A 2010; 1217, 4144–4149. HPLC EVALUATION OF PIROXICAM IN PLASMA USING SPME AND PRECIPITATION PAVLA PILAŘOVÁ, KRISTÝNA KUŽELOVÁ, PETR KASTNER Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Drug Control, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University, Czech Republic; [email protected] Introduction Work is focused on the development, validation and comparison of two bioanalytical methods for the determination of piroxicam in plasma. SPME and protein precipitation was tested. Evaluation isolation procedures were performed using HPLC with UV detection. Experimental method Piroxicam was isolated from spiked plasma using SPME and protein precipitation. Plasma was always adjusted to pH 2,5. SPME was composed of 20 minutes sorption on PDMS/DVB fiber and 20 minutes desorption into 200 ul of methanol. After desorption to 200 μl of methanol was added 50 μl of acid purified water and this solution was injected on the column. In the second method the sample of plasma was precipitated with acetonitril, 30 seconds was shaken and then 5 minutes centrifuged at 5 000 G. Then the supernatant was removed and it was analyzed with HPLC. HPLC separation of piroxicam and IS was carry out on the column with reversed phase C 18 Nova-Pak (4μm) 150 x 3,9 mm, Waters. The mobile phase consisted of water and acetonitrile (60:40 v/v), pH of solution was adjusted to 2,5 using the formic acid. The flow rate was 1 ml/min, the injection volume was 20 μl and the temperature was set at 40°C. For detection was used 333 nm. Results and discussion SPME and protein precipitation were validated according to FDA. Specificity, accuracy, precision, recovery, linearity, limit of detection a quantification and stability were monitored. uV 11000 10000 9000 8000 7000 IS 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 -1000 -2000 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 7.0 7.5 8.0 8.5 9.0 9.5 min Fig. 1. A typical chromatogram of piroxicam (5 μg/ml) and IS (5 μg/ml) after precipitation of acetonitrile. Conclusions After comparison, validation parameters, it was found that the isolation of piroxicam using protein precipitation was more precise, more sensitive, it was provided more accurate results. This method gave higher recovery. However, SPME can also use for evaluation of piroxicam in plasma. This work was supported by a research project SVV 260062 1) Lord, H., Pawliszyn, J. J. of Chrom.A. 2000, 885, 153–193 2) Juntinga, L., Peng, Ch., Suzukib, O. Forensic Sci. Int.. 1998, 97, 93–100 3) Guidance for Industry, Bioanalytical Method Validation. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM). May 2001. BP AN OPTIMIZED AND SCALABLE SYNTHESIS OF PROPYLPHOSPHONIC ANHYDRIDE HANA PÍŽOVÁ, PAVEL BOBÁĽ Department of Chemical Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech Republic; [email protected] Introduction Propylphosphonic anhydride (T3P) is a powerful water scavenger and coupling reagent, which has been used for a large number of chemical transformations. A convenient four steps synthesis of propylphosphonic anhydride (T3P) is described, in an overall yield of 51%. Experimental methods All of the synthesized compounds were characterized by 1H, 13 C and 31 P NMR, LC-MS and GC-MS. Results and discussion Commercially available diethyl phosphonate was transformed by Michaelis-Becker reaction to diethyl propylphosphonate, followed by acidic hydrolysis to propylphosphonic acid. The transformation into T3P was carried out in refluxing acetic anhydride with subsequent distillation of oligomeric phosphonic acid anhydride intermediate. Although propylphosphonic anhydride is commercially available as 50 wt % solution the solvent range is quite limited (DMF, Ethyl acetate). For many applications, these two solvents are not appropriate. Therefore we investigate the synthesis of T3P in neat form with further application in a solvent of choice. Conclusions We have developed an optimized method for the synthesis of cyclic propylphosphonic anhydride (T3P), which can be conveniently applied to a wide variety of chemical transformations. This process represents a superior alternative method to produce this important green reagent in comparison with literature reports 1. 1) Pizova H., Bobal P. Tetrahedron Lett. 2015; 56, 2014-2017. DETERMINATION OF SELENIUM AND ZINC IN CLINICAL PLASMA SAMPLES OF PATIENTS WITH ATOPIC DERMATITIS PLANKOVÁ, A., HAVRÁNEK, E. , MIKUŠ, P. Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; [email protected] Galvanostatic stripping chronopotentiometry (GSC) was developed and applied for the determination of selenium (Se) and zinc (Zn) in human plasma. In this work GSC based on composite carbon electrode coated by a gold layer was optimized concerning various electrochemical parameters. Along with this, the sample preparation was optimized with respect to mineralization conditions. The human plasma samples mineralized in an autoclave under the optimized conditions (160◦C, 100 min, 22 mol/l HNO3) were appropriately diluted by background electrolyte solution (0.100 mol/l H2SO4 + 0.001 mol/l HCl). The proposed method was characterized by excellent performance parameters, the limit of detection was 0.2 ng/ml, accuracy < 5 %, reproducibility < 4 %. The proposed method was applied for the investigation of the relationship between atopic dermatitis and Se and Zn concentration in human plasma. Here, patients suffering from atopic dermatitis were monitored during their treatment with a pharmaceutical preparation containing inorganic Se and Zn (Zinkosel®). At the beginning of the experiment, the concentration level of Se in plasma of 100 dermatitic patients was in the interval 25.20–56.56 ng/ml (average - 40.28 ng/ml) and of Zn of 20 dermatitic patients was in the interval 571.20-726.20 ng/ml (average - 651.30 ng/ml). After 24 months therapy increased levels of Se in plasma 47.39–75.17 ng/ml (average - 63.15 ng/ml) and of Zn 581.30–777.10 ng/ml (average - 712.90 ng/ml) were detected in 76% of the patients with an improvement of the clinical state in 65% of the patients (dermatitic symptoms were suppressed). Great advantage of the proposed method is its extremely high sensitivity (sub ng/ml concentrations). It allows performing not only ultratrace but also microscale analyses that could be essential when limited amounts of sample are available. Simple analytical procedure and relatively short analysis time provide good conditions for a routine use of the proposed method. This work was supported by grants VEGA MŠVVaŠ 1/0664/12. Planková A., et al. Pharmazie 5, 2010; 327 - 330. Haid J., et al. Slov. Lekár 14, 2004; 242 - 243. MICROWAVE – ASSISTED SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THIOSEMICARBAZONES BASED ON 3-AMINOPYRIDINE-2-CARBOXALDEHYDE MARTA REJMUND, JAROSŁAW POLAŃSKI Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland; [email protected] Introduction Thiosemicarbazones (TSC) are an important class of organic compounds with great pharmaceutical value. TSC exhibit anticancer, antifungal and antibacterial activity 1) . They are a versatile ligands due to possess potential donor atoms – especially sulfur and nitrogen and they could chelating transition metal ions. The presence of multiple donor atoms within the same ligand multiplying coordination modes and affects the properties of ligands and complexes. Considering all of the properties it is important to be able to synthesize new series of thiosemicarbazones which shows high biological activity 2). Triapine is already used in medical practice, but several clinical phase II studies proved that Triapine is inactive against solid tumors like advanced adenocarcinoma of the pancreas or non-small-cell lung cancer. It is the reason why scientists still investigate a new series of thiosemicarbazones which should shows biological activity without any side effects 3,4) . Experimental methods In synthesis of thiosemicarbazones we used three steps method. In the first step we have synthesized the derivative of (1,1’-thiocarbonyl)bis-1-H-imidazole and in the next step we added hydrazine hydrate. In the third and final step we condensed the obtained thiosemicarbazides with corresponding aldehyde. General method for the synthesis of thiosemicarbazides: Into a glass tube provided with magnetic stirrer we inserted a suitable derivative piperazine, morpholine or thiomorpholine and (1,1'-thiocarbonyl) bis-1H-imidazole. A tub was sealed with a septum capped and stirred for 24 h at room temperature. The obtained intermediate was extracted three times with distilled water. The collected organic phase was dried and evaporated on a rotary evaporator. Obtained derivative of thioketone was heated 2 h under reflux of the solvent with hydrazine hydrate in ethanol. The final thiosemicarbazide was allowed to stayed overnight in temperature -20 ºC and after 24 h was crystallized from methanol. General method for the synthesis of thiosemicarbazones: Into a glass tube provided with magnetic stirrer, we inserted equimolar amounts of 3aminopyridine-2-carboxaldehyde and the corresponding thiosemicarbazide. We used ethanol as a solvent and two drops of concentrated acetic acid as a catalyst. The glass tube was sealed and placed in to a microwave reactor at 83 ºC for 20 minutes. The obtained thiosemicarbazones was crystallized from methanol. Results and discussion In result of our research twelve thiosemicarbazides were prepared by using a reflux method (2h in ethanol). Twelve thiosemicarbazones were synthesized by using a microwave – assisted methodology, all of them are novel compounds. The method using a microwave irradiation permits to obtain products in high purity in a short time with satisfactory yields. The obtained thiosemicarbazides and thiosemicarbazones were fully characterized by 1H- and 13 C-NMR spectroscopy. Thiosemicarbazones were characterized also by two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (HMQC and COSY ). The structures of the received TSCs were confirmed by using Mass Spectrometry (MS) and the purity were confirmed by using TLC and HPLC technique. The examination for the biological of these compounds is in progress. Conclusions In summary we presented twelve never described before in the literature thiosemicarbazones obtained from piperazine, morpholine and thiomorpholine derivatives with 3-aminopyridine-2carboxaldehyde. The structures of the synthesized compounds (based on the same aldehyde as Triapine) suggests a potentially high biological activity both in relation to the tumor and fungal cells, as confirmed by studies performed initially. 1) Moretto dos Reis C., et al. Molecules. 2011; 16, 10668-10684. 2) Cunha S., Silva T. Tetrahedron Lett. 2009; 50, 2090-2093. 3) Kalinowski D.S., Richardson D.R. Pharm. Rev. 2005; 57, 575-577. 4) Heffeter P., et al. Bio. Pharm. 2012; 83,1623-1633. STUDY OF THE CMC OF 1-[3-(3- ALCOXYPHENYLCARBAMOYLOXY)-2-HYDROXYPROPYL]4-(4-FLUOROPHENYL)PIPERAZINIUMCHLORIDE EVA SALANCI, FILS ANDRIAMAINTY, IVAN MALÍK Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Bratislava; Slovakia Introduction: Self-association of surfactants into micelles plays an essential role in various fields of biological applications and industrial processes. Micelles are unstable units created by noncovalent aggregation of individual monomers of surfactant. Several possible methods, for example, surface tension, light scattering, NMR, conductometry and calorimetry can be used for the determination of critical micelle concentration (CMC). Another approach for the study are spectral methods like UV/VIS and fluorescence spectroscopy, which are using different probes for the evaluation of CMC. Aim: Our study was focused on the micellization of 1-[3-(3- alcoxyphenylcarbamoyloxy)-2hydroxypropyl]-4-(4-fluorophenyl)piperaziniumchloride in aqueous solutions and calculation of micellization parameters. Methods: The value of the critical micelle concentration of alcoxyphenylcarbamoyloxy)-2-hydroxypropyl]-4-(4-fluorophenyl)piperaziniumchloride 1-[3-(3in aqueous solution was determined by the method of pyrene absorption and the calculation of pyrene I1/I3 ratio. The absorption spectroscopy in ultraviolet region of spectrum was based on analysis of changes in characteristic absorption spectrum of pyrene in the presence of surfactant molecule. The value of CMC will be determined as a dependence of the plots of the sum of absorbances of visible pyrene peaks from the surfactant concentration. The emission fluorescence spectroscopy using the probe pyrene was applied for determination of the CMC from the detection of the pyrene I1/I3 ratio as a function of the concentration surfactant molecules 1, 2 . Conclusion: The typical absorbtion spectrum of pyrene was described by increasing Boltzmann- type sigmoid. The typical emission spectrum of pyrene I1/I3 ratio was described by decreasing sigmoid, again by Boltzmann- type. The values of CMC determined by both methods were comparable. We would also like to use the method of optical density for the future analysis. The work was supported by the grant No. UK/182/2015. 1 Aguiar J., et al. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2003; 258, 116-122. 2 Basu Ray G., et al. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2006; 294, 248-254. SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF N- BENZYL-3-BENZYLAMINOPYRAZINE-2-CARBOXAMIDES LUCIA SEMELKOVÁ1, ONDŘEJ JANĎOUREK1, PAVLA PATEROVÁ2, KLÁRA KONEČNÁ1, MARTIN DOLEŽAL1, JAN ZITKO1 1 Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic 2 Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic [email protected] Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infectious disease, which has been one of the most common causes of death around the world for a long time. There were 9.0 million new TB cases and 1.5 million TB deaths in 2013.1) Although TB is slowly declining each year and it is estimated that 37 million lives were saved between 2000 and 2013 through effective diagnosis and treatment, there is a danger of resistant forms development and co-infection with HIV.1) Pyrazine ring was chosen as a basic part for drug design because of his presence in many clinically used substances, especially in pyrazinamide (PZA) – first-line antituberculotic drug used in TB treatment. PZA has a multi-target effect: acidification of cytoplasm 2) and its active form pyrazinoic acid inhibits trans-translation3), inhibits Fatty Acid Synthase I4) and Aspartate decarboxylase5). Synthesis of novel PZA derivatives is one of the perspective ways for the new drugs development. Series of 13 new substituted N-benzyl-3-chloropyrazine-2carboxamides and 11 new N-benzyl-3-(benzylamino)pyrazine-2-carboxamides were prepared and evaluated for in vitro anti-infective activity. Experimental methods Starting nitrile compound (I) was hydrolysed to corresponding acid (II), which was converted to precursors 1-13 via aminolysis of its chloride. Final compounds 14-24 were prepared by using microwave-assisted synthesis. Antimycobacterial assays were performed by microdilution panel method. Compounds were tested against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, M. kansasii, M. avium and M. smegmatis. Isoniazid was used as a standard. Antibacterial and antifungal evaluation was performed against eight bacterial or fungal strains by microdilution panel method. Results and discussion The most active compounds against M. tuberculosis were N-(2-methylbenzyl)-3-[(2methylbenzyl)amino]pyrazine-2-carboxamide and N-(3,4-dichlorobenzyl)-3-[(3,4- dichlorobenzyl)amino]pyrazine-2-carboxamide with MIC = 12.5 µg/mL. From the antibacterial assays the most effective compounds were 3-chloro-N-(2-chlorobenzyl)pyrazine-2- carboxamide with MIC = 7.81 µmol/L against Staphylococcus aureus and MIC = 15.31 µmol/L against Staphylococcus epidermidis and N-(4-methoxybenzyl)-3-[ (4- methoxybenzyl)amino]pyrazine-2-carboxamide with MIC = 62.5 µmol/L against MRSA. Conclusions 24 novel compounds were prepared. All compounds were characterized by NMR and IR spectra, melting point, calculated lipophilic parameters (log P, Clog P) and elemental analysis. The most active compounds showed the same antimycobacterial activity as pyrazinamide. This study was supported by the Grant Agency of Charles University, project B-CH/1594214, SVV 260 183 and by the European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic, project TEAB no. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0235. 1) World Health Organization. Global Tuberculosis Report 2014. WHO/HTM/TB/2014.08. 2) Singh, P., et al. J. of Communicable Diseases. 2006; 38, 288. 3) Shi, W., et al. Science. 2011; 333, 1630-1632. 4) Sayahi, H., et al., Chemistry & Biodiversity, 2012; 9, 2582-2596. 5) Shi, W., et al., Emerging Microbes & Infections, 2014; 3. SYNTHESIS, BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY AND FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES OF STYRYLQUINOLINE DERIVATIVES EWELINA SPACZYŃSKA, WIOLETA CIEŚLIK, ANNA MROZEK-WILCZKIEWICZ, MARZENA RAMS-BARON, KATARZYNA MALARZ, ROBERT MUSIOŁ University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland; [email protected] Introduction Compounds bearing a quinoline moiety are well known due to their broad biological activities. A number of them have been widely investigated and clinically used as antifungal or antibacterial agents1,2). Styrylquinoline derivatives have gained strong attention recently due to their activity as perspective HIV integrase inhibitors3). There are many reports on the synthesis and applications of styryl dyes build on quinoline 4,5,6). Recently, some quinolinebased compounds have been synthesized and reported as potent antitumor agents 7). With these in mind we focused our attention on biological activity quinoline analogues and fluorescent compounds capable of staining cancer cells. Experimental methods Novel styrylquinoline was designed by combining molecular fragments from known antiproliferative agents on the diazanaphtalene moiety. Scheme 1 depicts the synthesis of new compounds based on styrylquinoline scaffolds. Series of quinoline derivatives were obtained with the use of microwave-assisted synthesis. Scheme 1. Synthesis of the studied compounds: aldehyde, Ac2O, reflux then Py/H2O or K2CO3/MeOH; or aldehyde, microwave irradiation. The lipophilicity of the compounds was measured by RP-HPLC. All studied compounds were tested for their in vitro antitumor activity. Cellular proliferation was determined using the MTS assay against the human colon carcinoma (HCT 116) cell lines with wild type p53 (p53+/+) and with a p53 deletion (p53-/-). The most active compounds were also tested for their cytotoxicity againts normal cells – human fibroblasts (GM 07492). Compounds localisation in living cell cultures was studied using fluorescence microscopy. Caspase activation (-3 and 7) was measured using the luminescent Caspase-Glo 3/7 assay in HCT116 cells. Additionally we investigated fluorescence properties of the compounds. The absorption and fluorescence spectra were measured at room temperature with a U-2900 spectrophotometer and an F-7000 spectrofluorimeter. The fluorescence quantum yield was determined by the comparative method. Results and discussion A series of thirty six styrylquinoline derivatives were synthesized. All compounds were used for biological assays. In general the compounds have moderate lipophilicity suitable for good penetration through the cell wall. Several styrylquinoline analogues were found to have markedly greater antiproliferative activity than doxorubicin. The most interesting compounds were 2-3 times more active against HCT116 p53-/- cells than the wild type. The subcellular localization of compounds into human colon carcinoma cells (HCT116) suggest the quinoline derivatives accumulate in mitochondria. Subcellular localisation of the compounds and activating the caspase cascade insinuate the mechanism of action through mitochondrial pathway to apoptosis in p53 independent manner. Moreover, spectroscopic characterization for the quinoline was performed. Several quinoline derivatives were found to have interesting fluorescent properties. Conclusions Styrylquinoline derivatives inhibit the proliferation of tumor cells and thus can be used as anticancer drugs. The most active compound makes it promising for further development. A group of quinoline analogues showing good potential as candidates for imaging agents. Several quinoline derivatives can be successfully used as fluorescent dyes. Ewelina Spaczyńska appreciates the support of the DoktoRIS studentship. 1) Roth H.J., Fenner H. Arzneistoffe, 3rd Ed.; Deutscher Apotheker Verlag: Stuttgart, Germany. 2) Harris C.R., Thorarensen A. Curr. Med. Chem. 2004; 11, 2213–2243. 3) Polanski J., et al. J. Med. Chem. 2002; 45, 4647-4654. 4) Li Q., et al. ChemBioChem. 2007; 8, 1679–1687. 5) Staderini M., et al. ACS Med. Chem. Lett. 2012; 4, 225-229. 6) Rams-Baron M., et al. PLoS One. 2015; 10, e0131210. 7) Musiol R., et al. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2007; 15, 1280-1288. Abbreviations: HIV… Human immunodeficiency virus RP-HPLC… Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography HCT116…Human colon carcinoma SOLUBILITY OF VALSARTAN – INFLUENCE OF CATIONIC SURFACTANTS ON THE EXTENT OF SOLUBILIZATION LENKA STOPKOVÁ AND ŽELMÍRA BEZÁKOVÁ Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia; [email protected] Introduction: Valsartan belongs to the sartan drugs, which act at the AT1 angiotensin II receptors as selective antagonists. Valsartan as a highly selective antihypertensive agent, contains in its molecular structure two weak-acidic active groups which play an important role in binding to the AT1 receptor, and a carboxylic group with a value of pKa 3.60 and a tetrazol ring with pKa 4.70. The ionization profile of valsartan shows that at pH<1.60 exist almost exclusively in the undissociated form at pH>6.70 as dianion. Valsartan is a drug poorly soluble in water (0.18 g/l), where the solubility depends on the pH of the medium; it is readily soluble in methanol, ethanol and acetonitrile. According to BCS, the drug belongs to the class III with low permeability, poor metabolism and high solubility1),2). Aim: The aim of the work was to study the solubility of valsartan in micellar solutions of cationic surfactants and calculation of solubilization parameters. Methodics: We studied the solubility of valsartan at pH 7.4 influenced by cationic surfactants (ODTMAB, HDTMAB, TDTMAB) at room temperature 25 °C depending on time, on excess of the drug and concentration of the surfactants (c=1-80 mM). We choose phosphate buffer (c=3 mM) for all types of used surfactants. The samples were evaluated by spectrophotometry and from obtained absorbance values, we calculated the valsartan solubility – S (μg/ml). We calculated the solubilization parameters (χ, K, K M, ∆G°S) for valsartan from the cmc (critical micellar concentration) values of solutions and the solubility (S) of valsartan. Conclusion: Our results showed increased solubility of valsartan in micellar solutions compared to the solubility of drug in water. Based on our calculations, we can say, that the values of solubility valsartan (S) in the presence of surfactants does not increase depending on the number of carbon atoms on the hydrophobic part of the surfactants molecules. The solubility increased in the following order HDTMAB>TDTMAB>ODTMAB. We also confirmed the parameters of solubilization for valsartan, where with increasing values of χ, K, K M the solubility of valsartan increased in the following order HDTMAB>TDTMAB>ODTMAB. The values of ∆G°S were negative, indicating that the solubilization of valsartan was spontaneous. The work was supported by the grant No. FaF UK 18/2015. 1) Saydam M., Takka, S. J. Pharm. Sci. 2007; 32, 185˗196. 2) Tosco, C., et al. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 2008; 91, 468˗482. ANTIOXIDATIVE PROTECTION OF INACTIVATED RABIES VACCINE WITH SQUALENE ADJUVANT BY Β-CAROTENE SÜLI J.1, KOLČÁKOVÁ L.1, HARVANOVÁ J.1, ONDREJKOVÁ A.2 1 Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biophysics 2 Department of epizootiology and parasitology University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Slovakia; [email protected] Introduction When applying the modern inactivated vaccines, it is necessary to use an adjuvant for induction of sufficient immune response. The oldest and still most widely used adjuvants are aluminium compounds. Alum is the principal vaccine adjuvant for clinical applications but it is a poor inducer of cellular immunity and is not an optimal adjuvant for vaccines where Th1 responses are required for protection 1). The security of alum adjuvants2) is questionable. The Freund´s complete and incomplete adjuvants used in the past were on the present replaced by more effective squalene emulsions, which are also easier to handle. Squalene adjuvants are characterized by high adjuvant effect and due to their biocompatibility they are safe 3). Squalene emulsions are generally relatively stable, but the squalene, an effective antioxidant alone can be easily oxidized. The oxidation processes may disturb the stability of the adjuvant emulsion and also affect its efficacy. The greatest risk of squalene oxidation arises in time of the preparation, particularly for homogenization and during the prolonged storage of emulsion. The appropriate solution to eliminate this problem is suggested addition of antioxidants to squalene adjuvant. To some commercially produced adjuvant formulations is added α-tocopherol in order to prevent oxidation of squalene. However, according to our findings, α-tocopherol appeared under in vitro conditions as a pro-oxidant and squalene was effectively protected by β-carotene4). Aim of this study was to find whether β-carotene affects the particle size of the emulsion (emulsion stability indicator) and how affects the antioxidant protection of squalene adjuvant rabies vaccine. This work was financed by scientific project APVV-0605-12 (Slovak Republic). 1) Mori A., et al. Eur. J. Immunol. 2012; 42, 2709–2719. 2) Tomljenovic L., Shaw C. A. Curr. Med. Chem. 2011; 18, 2630–2637. 3) Fox C.B. Molecules 2009; 14, 3286–3312. 4) Süli J., et al. Folia Vet. 2012; 56, Suppl. II, 56–58. DETERMINATION OF THE COLORANTS IN VITAMIN E BY HPLC WITH PHOTODIODE ARRAY DETECTION MONIKA ŠULEKOVÁ, ALEXANDER HUDÁK Department of chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics, Institute of pharmaceutical chemistry, University of veterinary medicine and pharmacy in Košice, Slovakia; [email protected] Colorants are added to drugs and nutritional supplements for commercial, psychological and practical reasons. According to European Union regulations the content of dyes in pharmaceutical products and food must be observed. Two colorants (Ponceau 4R, E 124 and carmine, E 120) were determined by high-performance liquid chromatography with isocratic elution and diode-array detector. A Polaris C18-A column (250 mm x 4.6 mm), 5 μm particle size was used as stationary phase. Mobile phase contained an Acetonitrile and mixture CH3COONa:CH3OH (85:15 v/v) in the ratio of 20:80, v/v. The samples of vitamin E from five different manufacturers were analyzed. In one sample of vitamin E was provided 79,5 ± 0,01 g/capsule Ponceau 4R. The other two samples contained 495,0 ± 0,02 μg/capsule, respectively 314,8 ± 0,02 μg/capsule of carmine. The obtained results for the determination of Ponceau 4R and carmine on real samples of vitamin E demonstrated that the described method is rather fast with a very good detection limit and quantification limit. PLANTS OF THE GENUS HYLOCEREUS – VOLATILE COMPOUNDS ANALYSIS 1 MIROSLAVA TARHAJOVÁ, 2 ÉVA HÉTHELYI B., 2 ANDREA BÖSZÖRMÉNYI, 1 GÁBOR SZOLGAI, 1JAROSLAV TÓTH, 1SZILVIA CZIGLE 1 Department of Pharmacognosy and Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia 2 Institute of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Semmelweiss University, Budapest, Hungary [email protected] Introduction: Cacti, e.g. Hylocereus (Berger) Britt., Cactaceae, are known mostly as ornamental plants. The dragon fruits – pitaya (Hylocerei fructus) are commonly eaten in some regions of the Americas. The taste has been described as being very bland, with a mild sweetness, resembling a watermelon. The active compounds include betaxanthins, phenolic compounds and terpenes. The aim of this work was the analysis of Hylocerei fructus (Hylocereus sp. Mill., Cactaceae) volatile constituents. Materials: Fruits of two Hylocereus taxa: H. costaricensis (red-fleshed pitaya) and H. undatus (white-fleshed pitaya) were analysed; collected in the Botanical Garden in Bratislava (October, 2012). Methods: The volatile constituents were qualitatively and quantitatively evaluated using SPME GC-MS (Agilent 6890/5973N). Results and discussion: We have identified 13 constituents of red-fleshed fruits, as well as other 12 compounds in white-fleshed fruits. The following constituents were identified in all of the red-fleshed fruits in largest percentage: cetylalcohol (62.4 %), hexadecanol (30.3 %), and nonadecane (8.0 %). The following constituents were identified in all of the white-fleshed fruits in largest percentage: cetylalcohol (60.5 %), hexadecanol (26.9 %), and octadecanol (6.4 %). Conclusions: This pilot study identified some lipophilic constituents of the fruits. Further analyses will be carried out identify nitrogen-containing as well as flavour-bearing compounds to compare with other cacti fruits. This work was supported by the Slovak Grant Agency VEGA Project No. 2/0044/15 and 1/0646/14. NITRO GROUP-CONTAINING SUBSTITUTED TETRAZOLES: NEW HIGHLY EFFICIENT ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS VALÁŠKOVÁ L.1, ROH J.1, KARABANOVICH G.1, NĚMEČEK J.1, STOLAŘÍKOVÁ J.2, VÁVROVÁ K.1, KLIMEŠOVÁ V.1, HRABÁLEK A.1 1 Department of inorganic and organic chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic 2 Laboratory for dg. of mycobacteries, Departement of Bacteriology and Mycology, Regional Institute of Public Heatlh, Ostrava, Czech Republic [email protected] Tuberculosis (TB) is becoming worldwide health and economic problem. Bacterial strains causing this disease have developed resistance against approved antiTB drugs which have been presented several decades ago and since then there was no compound introduced to common clinical practice. Recently, our group have developed heteroaromatic compounds containing 5-(dinitrobenzylsulfanyl)tetrazole moiety with high and selective antimycobacterial activity. Prepared compounds showed high activity against drug-susceptible M. tuberculosis with MIC values comparable with those of the first-line antiTB drugs. Furthermore, studied compounds possess significant activity against multidrug resistant strains, with MIC values as low as 0.25 µM and with no cross resistance with first or second line antiTB drugs. The antimycobacterial effect is highly specific, since the compounds are inactive against bacteria or fungi and possess low cellular toxicity and mutagenicity. This work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation project (14-08423S), “Pre-seed activities of CU out of Prague“, reg. n. CZ.1.05/3.1.00/13.0284 and "Pre-seed activities of CU out of Prague II", reg. n. CZ.1.05/3.1.00/14.0299 BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF SELECTED SPECIES OF MACROMYCETES MARIE VALENTOVÁ, JANA ROHÁLOVÁ Department of Natural Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech Republic; [email protected] Introduction: Many species of macromycetes have been used for many years in nutrition and in traditional medicine1) and in many of them the pharmacological activity has already been proved.2) We focused on analysis of selected macromycetes from Fomitopsidaceae (Polyporales): Climacocystis borealis, Daedalea quercina, Fomitopsis pinicola, Laetiporus sulphureus, Piptoporus betulinus; Polyporaceae (Polyporales): Fomes fomentarius, Trametes versicolor, Polyporus squamosus; and Tricholomataceae (Agaricales): Lepista nuda. We assessed their biological activity and analysed extracts using HPLC-DAD and LCMS. Experimental methods: Material was air-dried at below 35°C. Extracts in ethylacetate and petroleum ether were prepared using microwave extractor. HPLC analysis was performed using Agilent 1100 HPLC system with DAD, LC-MS analysis was performed on Agilent HP1100 LC/MSD Trap VL Series, ESI. Biological activity was measured using Microplate Reader; methods of scavenging of DPPH radical, scavenging of hydroxyl-radical, scavenging of peroxynitrite and determination of total phenolic content were used. Results and discussion: In preparation of extracts, as more effective solvent was found ethyl acetate due to extraction of higher number of substances. Only a part of constituents absorbed in the wavelenghts 280 and 350 nm; in future also other wavelenghts should be used in the analysis. In testing the biological activity of the extracts, significant differences between used methods were found, however, as significantly strongest antioxidant acted Fomes fomentarius in all used methods. Conclusions: Fungi are widely used in traditional medicine of Asian countries. However, in many of them only little scientific information is known. In this work, we aimed to find suitable method for extraction and analysis of fungi, which can be used in future research on higher range of fungi with potential biological activity. 1) Aida F.M.N.A, et al. Trends Food Sci Tech. 2009; 20; 567-575. 2) Zhu F., et al. J. Food Compost. Anal. 2015; 41; 165-173. SYNTHESIS OF TRICLOSAN DERIVATIVES AND THEIR ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL EFFECT RUDOLF VOSÁTKA, MARTIN KRÁTKÝ, JARMILA VINŠOVÁ Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic; [email protected] Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) represents one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Development of new potential drugs is essential because of the existence of latent TB and development of drug-resistant TB forms (multidrug-resistant TB, extensively drug-resistant TB and recently reported totally drug-resistant TB).1,2) Triclosan (irgasan) is a broad spectrum antibacterial agent used in household products. Triclosan has been shown to inhibit InhA, an essential enoyl acyl carrier protein which leads to the lysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.3) Esterification of triclosan to form its prodrugs can produce compounds with improved properties – enhanced bioavailability or absorption, higher activity and/or lower toxicity. Experimental methods We used two synthetic procedures to obtain these esters. The first pathway consists in the reaction of triclosan (1 eq.) with various acyl chlorides (1,3 eq.) in presence of triethylamine (1,5 eq.). The second approach of the preparation triclosan esters is the Steglich esterification. Common yields were around 70 %. Synthesized derivatives were evaluated for their in vitro antimycobacterial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, M. avium and two strains of M. kansasii. Results and discussion It was prepared 28 triclosan esters based on various aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic and heteroaromatic acids. 5-Chloro-2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)phenyl 4-bromobenzoate (TRC-B4Br) showed the best in vitro activity with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) 16 µmol/L against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. Against next strains had the best activity 5chloro-2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)phenyl isonicotinate (TRC-ISO). The MIC of TRC-ISO was similar for M. kansasii 6509/96 and better for M. avium and M. kansasii 235/80 with comparison of INH. Conclusions The in vitro evaluation of 28 triclosan-based esters showed promising antimycobacterial activity. The further research of the most active analogues will continue, particularly with regard to cytotoxicity. Grant dedications: IGA NT 13346 (2012) 1) World Health Organization. Global tuberculosis http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/137094/1/9789241564809_eng.pdf?ua=1 2) Krátký M., Vinšová, J. Chem. Listy. 2010; 104, 998-1005 3) Stec J., Vilchéz C., et al. ChemMedChem. 2014; 9, 2528-2537 report 2014. (30.6.2015) THE DEVELOPMENT OF DENTAL DRUG IN THE FORM OF MEDICATED CHEWING GUM OLEKSII YAKOVENKO, JULIA MASLIY National University of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine; [email protected] Every year the number of people with diseases of the mouth cavity is growing rapidly. Therefore, the necessity for dosage forms, which would effectively contribute to the treatment of these diseases, is an urgent problem today. Medicated chewing gum (MCG), which carry out a role of oral drug delivery, is the optimal formulation for the prevention and treatment of dental diseases, due to their advantages – fast local effect, no need to swallow, the possibility of applying in any convenient place for the patient, as it does not need water, reduced the first-pass metabolism, as well as a better perception of the patient and a more pleasant mode of administration. Besides that, MCGs increase of secretion of saliva, which helps digestion, cleaning and remineralization of teeth, effective in the prevention and treatment of xerostomia, the process of mastication has massaging effect on the gingiva, which leads to greater blood flow and microcirculation of periodontal tissues. Moreover, properly selected active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in the composition of the dosage form provide the appropriate comprehensive treatment and preventive effect on hard tissues of teeth, periodontal tissues and mucous. That is why the aim of our work was to develop a dental drug of comprehensive action in the form of medicated chewing gum. Participants Surname, Name, Title 1. 2. 3. AMBROŻKIEWICZ Weronika BĄK Andrzej Dr. hab BEDLOVIČOVÁ Zdenka RNDr., Ph.D. 4. BEVZ Olena 5. BEVZ Nataliya Ph.D. 6. BOBÁĽ Pavel Ing., CSc. 7. CAHLÍKOVÁ Lucie Ing. 8. CSÖLLEI Jozef Prof. RNDr., CSc. 9. 10. CZAPLIŃSKA Barbara Mgr. ČAVOJSKÝ Tomáš PharmDr. 11. ČERNÍKOVÁ Aneta PharmDr. 12. DAŇKOVÁ Ivana PharmDr. 13. DOKUPILOVÁ Svetlana RNDr., Ph.D. 14. DOLEŽAL Martin prof. PharmDr., Ph.D. 15. FARSA Oldřich doc. PharmDr., Ph.D. 16. 17. 18. 19. FAZEKAŠ Tomáš RNDr., Ph.D. FORGÁCSOVÁ Andrea Mgr. GÁLUSOVÁ Andrea PharmDr. GARAJ Vladimír PharmDr., Ph.D. Organization University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Slovakia National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia Lecture/Poster Nr. P01 P03, P20, P29 P04 P33 P33 P07, P59 L01 P18, P32 P05, P26 P06 P07 P08 P09 P55 P10 P11 P12 P13 P14 20. GAZVODA Martin Dr. 21. GEORGIYANTS Victoriya Prof. 22. GONĚC Tomáš PharmDr., Ph.D. 23. GRUBEROVÁ Lucie Ing. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. HAIDER Norbert Prof. Dr. HAIDER-SALABERGER Ingrid Dr. HARNA Svitlana Dr. HARNA Nataliia Ph.D. HAVRANOVÁ SICHROVSKÁ Ľubica PharmDr. CHRIPKOVÁ Martina MVDr. JAMPÍLEK Josef Doc. PharmDr., Ph.D. JEŽKO Pavol PharmDr., Ph.D. KAPKOWSKI Maciej MSc. 33. KAPUSTÍKOVÁ Iva PharmDr., Ph.D. 34. KARABANOVICH Galina, Ing. Ph.D. 35. KASTNER Petr PharmDr., Ph.D. 36. KORZEC Mateusz MSc. 37. KOS Jiří Mgr. 38. KOSMRLJ Janez Prof. 39. 40. KOZAKIEWICZ Dariusz MSc. KOZIK Violetta Dr. University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Slovenia National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic University of chemistry and technology, Prague, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences, Austria National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Slovakia University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Slovenia University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland P15 L02, P43 P16, P27 P17 L03 P33 P18, P23 P19 P07, P16, P20, P27 P21 P22 P18, P23 P24, P46, P60 P25, P50 P05, P26 P16, P27 L04 P28 P03, P20, P29 41. KRAJČIOVÁ Dominika Mgr. 42. KRÁTKÝ Martin PharmDr. Mgr., Ph.D. 43. KRIUKOVA Anna Dr. 44. KROUTIL Aleš Mgr. 45. KRYVANYCH Oleksandr Ph.D. 46. KUBÍNOVÁ Renata Doc. PharmDr., Ph.D. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. LUKAČOVIČOVÁ Oľga Ing., Ph.D. MALARZ Katarzyna MSc. MALEČEK Jiří Ph.D. MARÁKOVÁ Katarína PharmDr., Ph.D. MARUNIAK Matej PharmDr., Ph.D. MARVANOVÁ Pavlína PharmDr. MATERIIENKO Anna MIKULOVÁ Mária Mgr. MISHCHENKO Volodymyr Dr. 56. MOKRÝ Milan RNDr., CSc. 57. MOKRÝ Petr Mgr., Ph.D. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. MOLNAR Maja MULARSKI Jacek MSc. MUSIOL Robert Dr. hab. MYHAL Artem MYZNIKOV Leonid Dr. Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland Tekro, s.r.o. Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of food technology, Croatia University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine Saint-Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, Russia P30 P31, P62 P32 P33 P34 P35 P36 P37, P49 P18, P23 P38, P48 L05 P40 P41 P38, P48 P02 P42 L06, P05, P26, P36, P42 P43 P44 63. NALEPA Paweł MSc. 64. NĚMEČEK Jan Mgr. 65. ODEHNALOVÁ Klára Ing., Ph.D. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. ONDREJKOVÁ Anna Doc., MVDr., Ph.D. OPATŘILOVÁ Radka Doc. PharmDr. Ing., Ph.D. MBA PADRTOVÁ Tereza PharmDr. PAVIĆ Valentina PAZOUREK Jiří Doc. RNDr. Bc., Ph.D. PIEŠŤANSKÝ Juraj PharmDr. PIETRZYŃSKA Monika Dr. 73. PILAŘOVÁ Pavla PharmDr., Ph.D. 74. PÍŽOVÁ Hana Mgr., Ph.D. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. PLANKOVÁ Alexandra RNDr., Ph.D. POLANSKI Jaroslaw Prof. PROKOPENKO Yuliya Dr. REJMUND Marta RIŠIAŇOVÁ Lucia Mgr. ROH Jaroslav Mgr. SALANCI Eva PharmDr. SAVCHENKO Lesia Dr. 83. SEMELKOVÁ Lucia Mgr. 84. SPACZYŃSKA Ewelina University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Slovakia University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Department of biology, Croatia University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia Poznań University of Technology, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Poland Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of chemistry, Poland National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic University of Silesia in Katowice, P45 P46, P60 P48 P47, P57 P38, P48 P02 L07 P37, P49 L08 P25, P50 P51 P52 L09, P03, P22, P26, P28, P36, P45, P53 P53 L10, P39 P24, P46, P60 P54 P55 P05, P26, P27 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. Mgr. STANIČOVÁ Jana Doc. RNDr., Ph.D. STANZEL Lukáš PharmDr. STOPKOVÁ Lenka PharmDr. SÜLI Judit RNDr., Ph.D. ŠMEJKAL Karel Doc. PharmDr., Ph.D. ŠULEKOVÁ Monika RNDr., Ph.D. TARHAJOVÁ Miroslava PharmDr. 92. VALÁŠKOVÁ Lenka Mgr. 93. VALENTOVÁ Marie PharmDr., Ph.D. 94. VLADYMYROVA Inna Dr. 95. VOSÁTKA Rudolf Mgr. 96. YAKOVENKO Olexii 97. ZITKO Jan PharmDr., Ph.D. 98. ŽEMLIČKA Milan Doc. RNDr., CSc. Institute of chemistry, Poland University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Slovakia Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Slovakia University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Slovakia Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovakia Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic National university of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Czech Republic L11 L12, P18, P23 P56 P47, P57 L13 P58 P59 P46, P60 P61 P62 P63 P55 L14 Elektronický sborník 44. Konference Syntéza a analýza léčiv 2. - 4. září 2015 Brno Vydala Veterinární a Farmaceutická univerzita Brno ISBN: 978-80-7305-760-2 Abstrakty příspěvků byly redakčně kráceny a formátovány. Zaslané celé články vyjdou v časopise Česká a Slovenská Farmacie. Yearbook of 44th Conference Drug Synthesis and Analysis 2th – 4th September 2015 Brno Published by University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical sciences Brno ISBN: 978-80-7305-760-2 Abstracts were shortened and edited by editors. Articles will be published in Journal Česká a Slovenská Farmacie.