Synthesis and biological evaluation of 8-substituted berberine derivatives as novel anti-mycobacterial agents

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease which kills two million people every year and infects over one-third of the world′s population. Eighteen new 8-substituted berberine derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their anti-mycobacterial activities against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis)...

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Main Authors: Yanxiang Wang, Haigen Fu, Yinghong Li, Jiandong Jiang, Danqing Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-12-01
Series:Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211383512001475