Fishing anti-inflammatories from known drugs: In silico repurposing, design, synthesis and biological evaluation of bisacodyl analogues

Dany Siverio-Mota acknowledges the Laboratory for Molecular Biodiscovery, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Leuven (Belgium) for kind hospitality and VLIR (Vlaamse InterUniversitaire Raad, Flemish Interuniversity Council, Belgium) under the IUC Program VLIR-UCLV for in part financial support of this work. Yovani Marrero Ponce thanks the program ‘Estades Temporals per a Investigadors Convidats’ for a fellowship to work at Universitat de Valencia, Spain. The spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (project SAF2009- 10399) and LabEx LERMIT (ANR-10-LABX-33) are also acknowlwdged for the financial support