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Robert Weis

0000-0002-7174-6673

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Synthesis of 3-azabicyclo[3.2.2]nonanes and their antiprotozoal activities.

2015

Several bicyclic compounds, 3-azabicyclo[3.2.2]nonanes, have been prepared. The new compounds were tested for their activities against one strain of the causative organism of Malaria tropica, Plasmodium falciparum K1, which is resistant against chloroquine and pyrimethamine. In addition, their cytotoxicity and their activity against the pathogen of the East African form of sleeping sickness, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, were investigated. Structure-activity relationships are discussed considering data of readily prepared compounds. For the first time, a distinct in vivo activity was observed against Plasmodium berghei in a mouse model. The active compound was further investigated.

MaleTrypanosoma brucei rhodesiensemedicine.drug_classPlasmodium bergheiClinical BiochemistryPlasmodium falciparumAntiprotozoal AgentsPharmaceutical ScienceAdministration OralBiochemistryMiceStructure-Activity RelationshipParasitic Sensitivity TestsChloroquineparasitic diseasesDrug DiscoverymedicineAnimalsPlasmodium bergheiTissue DistributionMolecular BiologyPathogenbiologyBicyclic moleculeDose-Response Relationship DrugMolecular StructureChemistryOrganic ChemistryPlasmodium falciparumTrypanosoma brucei rhodesiensebiology.organism_classificationRatsDisease Models AnimalPyrimethamineTrypanosomiasis AfricanBiochemistryInjections IntravenousAntiprotozoalMolecular MedicineAzabicyclo Compoundsmedicine.drugBioorganicmedicinal chemistry letters
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Biogeographic patterns of belemnite body size responses to episodes of environmental crisis

2019

Body size changes have been investigated through episodes of environmental crisis among several groups of organisms but the relative contribution of within-lineage size changes, selective extinction and origination of taxa on these patterns is still being debated. Rapid warming, anoxia, and perturbations of the carbon cycle linked with volcanic activity, as well as their impact on marine diversity are well documented for the Pliensbachian-Toarcian (Pli-Toa) boundary and for the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE). Belemnites were a very abundant and successful cephalopod group in the Mesozoic oceans playing a paramount role in the oceanic trophic webs. Belemnites have mainly been studied …

Geographic distributionOceanographyGeographyBody sizeTethys OceanEnvironmental crisis
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Gastropods from upper Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) sediments of Causses Basin, southern France and their recovery after the early Toarcian…

2015

AbstractA gastropod fauna has been studied from upper Pliensbachian – upper Toarcian deposits of two sections of the Causses Basin (southern France) in order to investigate the mode of recovery after the early Toarcian anoxic event. The fauna consists of 15 species, one of which is new (Bathrotomaria kronzwilmesorumsp. nov.). Their stratigraphical distribution shows two peaks of diversity – in the Bifrons Zone (Bifrons Subzone) and in the Aalensis Zone (Mactra Subzone) – which reflect brief times during which the oxygen content and bottom consistency favoured the settlement of a relatively diversified fauna. In the Variabilis–Pseudoradiosa zones, gastropods are only represented by two speci…

MactraSystematicsbiologyearly Toarcian anoxic eventFaunaGastropodaSpecies diversityGeologyStructural basinbiology.organism_classificationAnoxic watersGastropoda; Lower Jurassic; PalaeobiogeographyPaleontologyPalaeobiogeographyTaxonLower JurassicGastropodaFrancesystematicsGeology[ SDU.STU.PG ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology
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