Professor Simon mbua Ngale Efange
University of Buea
Professor, Chemistry
Cameroon
My co-authors include
Dr Smith B. Babiaka
Sergey Bachurin
Robert H. Mach
My Publications
ConMedNP: a natural product library from Central African medicinal plants for drug disc...
RSC Advances
January 2014
1-Aryl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolines as potential antimalarials: synthesis, in vitro ...
RSC Advances
January 2014
How “drug-like” are naturally occurring anti-cancer compounds?
Journal of Molecular Modeling
January 2014
AfroDb: A Select Highly Potent and Diverse Natural Product Library from African Medicin...
PLoS ONE
October 2013
Isolation and identification of an antiparasitic triterpenoid estersaponin from the ste...
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease
October 2013
In silico drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic profiles of natural products from medicin...
In Silico Pharmacology
August 2013
Cameroonian medicinal plants: a bioactivity versus ethnobotanical survey and chemotaxon...
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
June 2013
CamMedNP: Building the Cameroonian 3D structural natural products database for virtual ...
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
April 2013
Bioactive natural products derived from the Central African flora against neglected tro...
Natural Product Reports
January 2013
Assessing the pharmacokinetic profile of the CamMedNP natural products database: an in ...
Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
January 2013
Bioassay-guided discovery of antibacterial agents: in vitro screening of Peperomia vulc...
Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
January 2012
ChemInform Abstract: Flexible N-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine Analogues: S...
ChemInform
August 2010
ChemInform Abstract: Interaction of Tetrahydrostilbazoles with Monoamine Oxidase A and B.
ChemInform
August 2010
ChemInform Abstract: Modified Ibogaine Fragments: Synthesis and Preliminary Pharmacolog...
ChemInform
June 2010
Synthesis and<i>in Vitro</i>Biological Evaluation of Carbonyl Group-Containing Inhibito...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
April 2010
UPLC/TOF-MS methodology for the on-line identification of secondary metabolites in four...
Planta Medica
July 2009
Synthesis and in Vitro and in Vivo Evaluation of <sup>18</sup>F-Labeled Positron Emissi...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
February 2009
Okundoperoxide, a Bicyclic Cyclofarnesylsesquiterpene Endoperoxide from <i>Scleria stri...
Journal of Natural Products
February 2009
Oxidation Products Arising from the Action of Monoamine Oxidase B on 1-Methyl-4-Benzyl-...
Journal of Neurochemistry
June 2008
In vitro anti-Helicobacter pylori activity of extracts of selected medicinal plants fro...
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
December 2007
Isolation and structure eucidation of novel antimalarial compounds from the Cameroonian...
Planta Medica
January 2007
Nature-inspired indolyl-2-azabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-7-ene derivatives as promising agents fo...
Natural Product Research
July 2006
Corporate Governance
September 2004
Natural Products: A Continuing Source of Inspiration for the Medicinal Chemist
ChemInform
July 2003
Ibogaine analogues. Synthesis and preliminary pharmacological evaluation of 7-heteroary...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
March 2003
Chromaproline and Chromaperidine, nicotine agonists, and Donepezil, cholinesterase inhi...
Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior
December 2002
Natural products: a continuing source of inspiration for the medicinal chemist
January 2002
2-(2-Piperidyl)- and 2-(2-Pyrrolidyl)chromans as Nicotine Agonists: Synthesis and Prel...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
November 2001
Morphine-induced spinal cholinergic activation: in vivo imaging with positron emission ...
Pain
March 2001
In<i>vivo</i>imaging of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter and the vesicular monoa...
The FASEB Journal
December 2000
Synthesis and biological characterization of stable and radioiodinated (±)-trans-2-hydr...
Nuclear Medicine and Biology
November 2000
Late Shakespeare
January 2000
Cholinergic activity of aged rhesus monkeys revealed by positron emission tomography
Synapse
January 2000
EVesamicolffects of a Novel Vesamicol Receptor Ligand, m-(Iodobenzyl)trozamicol, on the...
The Japanese Journal of Pharmacology
January 2000
Direct Cardiac Effects of a Novel Vesamicol Receptor Ligand, m-Iodobenzyl-Trozamicol, A...
Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
December 1999
N-(3-iodophenyl)trozamicol (IPHT) and related inhibitors of vesicular acetylcholine tra...
Nuclear Medicine and Biology
August 1999
Hydroxylated Decahydroquinolines as Ligands for the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
July 1999
(+)-p-([18F]fluorobenzyl)spirotrozamicol {(+)-[18F]Spiro-FBT}: synthesis and biological...
Nuclear Medicine and Biology
February 1999
In Vivo Imaging of the Spinal Cord Cholinergic System with PET
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
January 1999
Modified Ibogaine Fragments: Synthesis and Preliminary Pharmacological Characterizatio...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
September 1998
<i>N</i>-Hydroxyalkyl Derivatives of 3β-Phenyltropane and 1-Methylspiro[1<i>H</i>-indol...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
November 1997
Pharmacological characterization of the vesamicol analogue (+)-[ ]MIBT in primate brain
European Journal of Pharmacology
November 1997
Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter Density and Alzheimer’s Disease
Neurobiology of Aging
July 1997
Imaging of cholinergic terminals using the radiotracer [18F](+)-4-fluorobenzyltrozamico...
Synapse
April 1997
Vesicular acetylcholine transport inhibitor suppresses REM sleep
Neuroreport
January 1997
Measurement of functional cholinergic innervation in rat heart with a novel vesamicol r...
Nuclear Medicine and Biology
October 1996
The vesamicol receptor ligand (+)-meta-[1251]iodobenzyltrozamicol {(+)-[125¦]-MIBT} rev...
Life Sciences
March 1996
Comparative tissue distribution of conformationally restricted radioiodinated vesamicol...
Nuclear Medicine and Biology
May 1995
Vesamicol analogues as sigma ligands
Biochemical Pharmacology
March 1995
Spirovesamicols: Conformationally Restricted Analogs of 2-(4-Phenylpiperidino)cyclohexa...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
August 1994
p-[18F]fluorobenzyltrozamicol ([18F]FBT): Molecular decomposition-reconstitution approa...
Applied Radiation and Isotopes
April 1994
Interaction of tetrahydrostilbazoles with monoamine oxidase A and B
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
January 1994
Synthesis and tissue distribution of iodine-125-labeled (m-[125I]iodobenzyl)trozamicol ...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
June 1993
Synthesis and biological evaluation of radioiodinated N-2-(4-piperidyl)ethyl benzamides
Nuclear Medicine and Biology
May 1993
Nonsymmetrical bipiperidyls as inhibitors of vesicular acetylcholine storage
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
April 1993
Molecular size and flexibility as determinants of selectivity in the oxidation of N-met...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
April 1993
Lipophilic amino alcohols with calcium channel blocking activity
Biochemical Pharmacology
November 1992
Computer-Aided Radiopharmaceutical Design
Investigative Radiology
August 1992
Interaction of flexible analogs of N-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine and of ...
Biochemistry
June 1992
Radioiodinated 2-hydroxy-3-(4-iodophenyl)-1-(4-phenylpiperidinyl)propane: Potential rad...
International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation Part B Nuclear Medi...
April 1992
Textbook of Radiopharmacy: Theory and Practice
Radiology
January 1992
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY IN RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL DESIGNE
Investigative Radiology
December 1991
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY IN RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL DESIGN
Investigative Radiology
December 1991
Molecular determinants in the bioactivation of the dopaminergic neurotoxin N-methyl-4-p...
Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design
October 1991
Synthesis and Biological Activity of 5-halo-2-Pyrimidinone 3′-Azido-2′,3′-Dideoxyribosides
Nucleosides and Nucleotides
October 1991
Acyclic analogs of 2-(4-phenylpiperidino)cyclohexanol (vesamicol): conformationally mob...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
August 1991
Characterization and Distribution of Transferrin Receptors in the Rat Brain
Journal of Neurochemistry
December 1990
THE CALCULATED EFFECTS OF N-FLUOROALKYLATION OF RACLOPRIDE ON MOLECULAR CONFORMATION AN...
Investigative Radiology
December 1990
Flexible N-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine analog: synthesis and monoamine o...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
December 1990
Synthesis and Applications of Isotopically Labelled Compounds
Radiology
August 1990
Potential environmental neurotoxins related to 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium: Selective t...
Experimental Neurology
May 1990
Pargyline-Sensitive selective accumulation of a radiolabeled MPTP analog in the primate...
Synapse
January 1990
Radiopharmacy and Radiopharmacology Yearbook
Radiology
November 1989
Selective Visualization of Rodent Locus Ceruleus by a Radiolabeled N-Methyl-4-Phenyl-1,...
Journal of Neurochemistry
August 1989
Anti-herpes simplex virus activity of 5-substituted 2-pyrimidinone nucleosides.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
March 1989
Synthesis and biodistribution of 99mTc-labeled piperidinyl bis(aminoethanethiol) comple...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
May 1988
Toxicity of Structural Analogs of 1-methyl-4-Phenyl Pyridinium (MPP+) and Related Compo...
January 1988
Synthesis and biological activities of 2-Pyrimidinone Nucleosides. III.1,25-Alkynyl-2-P...
Nucleosides and Nucleotides
December 1985
Synthesis and biological activities of 2-pyrimidinone nucleosides. 2. 5-Halo-2-pyrimidi...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
July 1985
Caney, Simon