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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bioorg Med Chem. 2009 May 9;17(13):4496–4502. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2009.05.011

Table 1.

Antimalarial Efficacy and Toxicity Evaluationa

Test Compounds In Vitro W2 Strain In Vivo P. berghei (ED50, mg/kg) MCD (mg/kg) MTD (mg/kg) TIb
7 0.56 1.6 8.4 144 17
8 0.12 0.44 3.1 345 111
9 0.14 0.49 2.9 310 107
10 0.31 1.2 6.6 338 51
11 0.34 1.3 5.9 439 74
12 0.29 1.0 7.1 399 56
13 0.26 1.1 6.8 425 63
14 0.40 1.7 8.9 379 43
15 0.23 0.74 4.7 335 71
16 0.28 1.5 7.9 440 56
17 2.9 8.7 39 429 11
18 3.4 10 42 504 12
19 0.14 0.14 0.77 102 132
20 0.19 0.12 0.69 88 128
21 0.62 1.7 5.6 55 10
22 0.57 1.5 4.9 51 10
Febrifugine 0.76 2.3 12 35 3
Chloroquine 224 4.5 40.0 240 6
a

Antimalarial activities were determined after i.p. administration of the compounds once daily for 4 days to infected mice.

b

Therapeutic indices were calculated as MTD divided by MCD.