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SUBMITTER: Mainolfi N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4834667 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20160202 4
Anti-VEGF therapy is a clinically validated treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). We have recently reported the discovery of oral VEGFR-2 inhibitors that are selectively distributed to the ocular tissues. Herein we report a further development of those compounds and in particular the validation of the hypothesis that aminoheterocycles such as aminoisoxazoles and aminopyrazoles could also function as effective "hinge" binding moieties leading to a new class of KDR (kinase insert d ...[more]