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Cynthia Selassie

Professor of Chemistry, Pomona College
Verified email at pomona.edu
Cited by 2547

Chem-bioinformatics: comparative QSAR at the interface between chemistry and biology

…, D Hoekman, A Leo, D Weininger, CD Selassie - Chemical …, 2002 - ACS Publications
This is a review of an approach to organizing data on chemical-chemical and chemical-biological
reactions in numerical mechanistic terms such that numerous comparisons can easily …

[PDF][PDF] History of quantitative structure-activity relationships

CD Selassie, RP Verma - Burger's medicinal chemistry and drug discovery, 2003 - Citeseer
It has been nearly 40 years since the quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR)
paradigm first found its way into the practice of agrochemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, …

Comparative QSAR and the radical toxicity of various functional groups

CD Selassie, R Garg, S Kapur, A Kurup… - Chemical …, 2002 - ACS Publications
This review sets out to survey the important contributions of physicochemical descriptors
that are utilized to characterize chemical reactivity as well as biological activity and to focus …

QSAR: then and now

CD Selassie, SB Mekapati… - Current Topics in …, 2002 - ingentaconnect.com
In this review, the evolution of QSAR is traced from the insightful observations of Crum-Brown
and Frazier to Hammett's critical equations and finally Hansch's seminal contributions on …

The relative toxicity of substituted phenols reported in cigarette mainstream smoke

…, A Rodgman, R Garg, CD Selassie… - Toxicological …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
… The predicted log 1/C value from Table 3 is 5.62, while the experimental log 1/C value
recently measured by Selassie et al. (in press) is 3.86. While the mechanistic reason for this …

Cellular apoptosis and cytotoxicity of phenolic compounds: a quantitative structure− activity relationship study

CD Selassie, S Kapur, RP Verma… - Journal of medicinal …, 2005 - ACS Publications
In this comprehensive study on the caspase-mediated apoptosis-inducing effect of 51
substituted phenols in a murine leukemia cell line (L1210), we determined the concentrations …

Phenol toxicity in leukemia cells: a radical process?

CD Selassie, TV DeSoyza, M Rosario, H Gao… - Chemico-Biological …, 1998 - Elsevier
The multiple functions of the phenol moiety that are widely present in disparate sources such
as drugs, pesticides, teas, fuel additives and surfactants have not been clearly delineated. …

Thiopurine methyltransferase. Aromatic thiol substrates and inhibition by benzoic acid derivatives.

LC Woodson, MM Ames, CD Selassie, C Hansch… - Molecular …, 1983 - ASPET
Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) catalyzes the S-methylation of thiopurine and
thiopyrimidine drugs. If potent TPMT inhibitors were available, studies of the regulation and …

Mechanism of toxicity of esters of caffeic and dihydrocaffeic acids

…, C Hansch, S Kapur, CD Selassie - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2001 - Elsevier
Ten esters each of caffeic acid and dihydrocaffeic acid have recently been synthesized.
Cytotoxicity evaluations of these esters versus L1210 leukemia and MCF-7 breast cancer cells in …

Comparative QSAR studies on PAMPA/modified PAMPA for high throughput profiling of drug absorption potential with respect to Caco-2 cells and human intestinal …

RP Verma, C Hansch, CD Selassie - Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular …, 2007 - Springer
Despite the dramatic increase in speed of synthesis and biological evaluation of new chemical
entities, the number of compounds that survive the rigorous processes associated with …