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Bernard Pirotte

Bernard Pirotte

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Chemistry

D-Index
41
Citations
5431
World Ranking
17804
National Ranking
207

Overview

Bernard Pirotte is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium and has a significant body of research in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, and Medicine. Their work delves into several specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The research topics covered by Bernard Pirotte encompass Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Phenothiazines and Benzothiazines Synthesis and Activities, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, and Bioactive Compounds and Antitumor Agents.

Their recent scholarly output includes notable papers such as:

  • Valine aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase promotes therapy resistance in melanoma, 2024, Nature Cell Biology
  • Development of Thiochroman Dioxide Analogues of Benzothiadiazine Dioxides as New Positive Allosteric Modulators of α-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic Acid (AMPA) Receptors, 2021, ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • Inhibition of LTβR signalling activates WNT-induced regeneration in lung, 2020, Nature
  • GPR101 drives growth hormone hypersecretion and gigantism in mice via constitutive activation of Gs and Gq/11, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Compared Phenolic Compound Contents of 22 Commercial Fruit and Vegetable Juices: Relationship to Ex-Vivo Vascular Reactivity and Potential In Vivo Projection, 2020, Antioxidants

Bernard Pirotte has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Pierre Francotte, Eric Goffin, J.S. Kastrup, Yasmin Bay, and Karla Frydenvang.

Their publications frequently appear in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSRN Electronic Journal, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Nature, and the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • New Trends in Dual 5-LOX / COX Inhibition

    Xavier de Leval;Fabien Julemont;Jacques Delarge;Bernard Pirotte

  • Study of the Influence of Both Cyclodextrins and L-Lysine on the Aqueous Solubility of Nimesulide; Isolation and Characterization of Nimesulide–L-Lysine–Cyclodextrin Complexes

    Géraldine Piel;Bernard Pirotte;Isabelle Delneuville;Philippe Neven

  • New developments on thromboxane and prostacyclin modulators part I: thromboxane modulators.

    Jean-Michel Dogne;Xavier de Leval;Julien Hanson;Michel Frederich

  • 3-(Alkylamino)-4h-Pyrido[4,3-E]-1,2,4-Thiadiazine 1,1-Dioxides as Powerful Inhibitors of Insulin Release from Rat Pancreatic B-Cells: A New Class of Potassium Channel Openers?

    Bernard Pirotte;Pascal de Tullio;Philippe Lebrun;Marie Helene Antoine

  • Design, Synthesis, and Pharmacology of Novel 7-Substituted 3,4-Dihydro-2H-1,2,4-benzothiadiazine 1,1-Dioxides as Positive Allosteric Modulators of AMPA Receptors†

    Pierre Francotte;Pascal de Tullio;Eric Goffin;Gaëlle Dintilhac

  • Esters and Amides of 6-(Chloromethyl)-2-oxo-2<i>H</i>-1-benzopyran-3-carboxylic Acid as Inhibitors of α-Chymotrypsin: Significance of the “Aromatic” Nature of the Novel Ester-Type Coumarin for Strong Inhibitory Activity

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  • Recent advances in inducible cyclooxygenase (COX-2) inhibition

    Xavier de Leval;Jacques Delarge;Fabian Somers;Pascal de Tullio

  • 4H-1,2,4-Pyridothiadiazine 1,1-Dioxides and 2,3-Dihydro-4H-1,2,4-pyridothiadiazine 1,1-Dioxides Chemically Related to Diazoxide and Cyclothiazide as Powerful Positive Allosteric Modulators of (R/S)-2-Amino-3-(3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazol-4-yl)propionic Acid Receptors: Design, Synthesis, Pharmacology, and Structure−Activity Relationships

    Bernard Pirotte;Tchao Podona;Ousmane Diouf;Pascal de Tullio

  • 3- and 4-substituted 4H-pyrido[4,3-e]-1,2,4-thiadiazine 1,1-dioxides as potassium channel openers: synthesis, pharmacological evaluation and structure-activity relationships

    Pascal de Tullio;Bernard Pirotte;Philippe Lebrun;Jeanine Fontaine

  • Toward Tissue-Selective Pancreatic B-Cells KATP Channel Openers Belonging to 3-Alkylamino-7-halo-4H-1,2,4-benzothiadiazine 1,1-Dioxides

    Pascal de Tullio;Bénédicte Becker;Stéphane Boverie;Michael Dabrowski

  • New fluorinated 1,2,4-benzothiadiazine 1,1-dioxides: discovery of an orally active cognitive enhancer acting through potentiation of the 2-amino-3-(3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazol-4-yl)propionic acid receptors.

    Pierre Francotte;Eric Goffin;Pierre Fraikin;Pierre Lestage

  • 3,6-disubstituted coumarins as mechanism-based inhibitors of thrombin and factor Xa.

    Raphaël Frédérick;Séverine Robert;Caroline Charlier;Jérôme de Ruyck

  • Effect on K(ATP) channel activation properties and tissue selectivity of the nature of the substituent in the 7- and the 3-position of 4H-1,2,4-benzothiadiazine 1,1-dioxides.

    Stéphane Boverie;Marie-Hélène Antoine;Fabian Somers;Bénédicte Becker

  • Metabolomics as a Challenging Approach for Medicinal Chemistry and Personalized Medicine.

    Michel Frédérich;Bernard Pirotte;Marianne Fillet;Pascal de Tullio

  • Is thrombin generation the new rapid, reliable and relevant pharmacological tool for the development of anticoagulant drugs?

    Séverine Robert;Jérémie Ghiotto;Bernard Pirotte;Jean-Louis David

  • Ligand effects in the hydrogenation of methacycline to doxycycline and epi-doxycycline catalysed by rhodium complexes molecular structure of the key catalyst [closo-3,3-(η2,3-C7H7CH2)-3,1,2-RhC2B9H11]

    Apostolos Felekidis;M. Goblet-Stachow;Jean-François Liégeois;Bernard Pirotte

  • Toward the first class of suicide inhibitors of kallikreins involved in skin diseases.

    Xiao Tan;Feryel Soualmia;Feryel Soualmia;Laetitia Furio;Jean-François Renard

  • New trends in the design of drugs against Alzheimer's disease.

    P. Francotte;E. Graindorge;S. Boverie;P. de Tullio

  • Design, synthesis, and pharmacological evaluation of pyridinic analogues of nimesulide as cyclooxygenase-2 selective inhibitors.

    Fabien Julémont;Xavier de Leval;Catherine Michaux;Jean-François Renard

  • 6-Substituted 2-oxo-2H-1-benzopyran-3-carboxylic acid derivatives in a new approach of the treatment of cancer cell invasion and metastasis

    Isabelle Kempen;Marc Hemmer;Stéphane Counerotte;Lionel Pochet

  • BPDZ 154 activates adenosine 5'-triphosphate-sensitive potassium channels: in vitro studies using rodent insulin-secreting cells and islets isolated from patients with hyperinsulinism.

    Karen E. Cosgrove;Marie Hélène Antoine;Anne T. Lee;Philippa D. Barnes

  • 3-Alkylamino-4H-pyrido[2,3-e]-1,2,4-thiadiazine 1,1-dioxides structurally related to diazoxide and pinacidil as potassium channel openers acting on vascular smooth muscle cells: design, synthesis, and pharmacological evaluation.

    Bernard Pirotte;Raogo Ouedraogo;Pascal de Tullio;Smail Khelili

Frequent Co-Authors

Agnès Noël
Agnès Noël University of Liège
Jean-Michel Foidart
Jean-Michel Foidart University of Liège
Philippe Hubert
Philippe Hubert University of Liège
Jacques Crommen
Jacques Crommen University of Liège
Otto Dideberg
Otto Dideberg Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yves Henrotin
Yves Henrotin University of Liège
Albert Beckers
Albert Beckers University of Liège
Marianne Fillet
Marianne Fillet University of Liège
Patrizio Lancellotti
Patrizio Lancellotti University of Liège
Robert Kiss
Robert Kiss Université Libre de Bruxelles

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