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This study highlights opportunities for developing programs and initiatives to assist Black men in understanding leadership and seeing themselves as leaders, and for decreasing low college retention and persistence rates. The themes from this qualitative narrative inquiry highlight leader identity, capacity, and efficacy for undergraduate Black men. Narrative inquiry was appropriate for this study because the researchers sought to better understand how Black undergraduate male student leaders make meaning of their experience in higher education related to their comprehension of leadership and identity as leaders.
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Black or African American , Leadership , Students , Humans , Male , Universities , Young Adult , Adult , Social Identification , Qualitative ResearchABSTRACT
This article explores who is participating in leadership learning initiatives in higher education and how they are represented in research, assessment, and evaluation. The article is useful to leadership educators because it explores who is conducting leadership research, assessment, evaluation, and scholarship (i.e., positionality)-and how these factors may influence methods and findings.
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Leadership , Learning , Humans , Fellowships and ScholarshipsABSTRACT
A series of novel 5-aminomethyl-1H-benzimidazole based inhibitors of Itk were prepared. Structure-activity relationships, selectivity and cell activity are reported for this series. Compound 2, a potent and selective antagonist of Itk, inhibited anti-CD3 antibody induced IL-2 production in vivo in mice.
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Benzimidazoles/administration & dosage , Benzimidazoles/chemistry , Benzimidazoles/chemical synthesis , Chemistry, Pharmaceutical/methods , Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors , Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/chemistry , Administration, Oral , Animals , Benzimidazoles/pharmacology , CD3 Complex/biosynthesis , Drug Design , Humans , Inhibitory Concentration 50 , Lymphocyte Activation , Mice , Mice, Inbred BALB C , Models, Chemical , Structure-Activity Relationship , T-Lymphocytes/cytologyABSTRACT
Previously, we reported a series of novel benzimidazole based Itk inhibitors that exhibited excellent enzymatic potency and selectivity but low microsomal stability. Employing a structure based approach a new series of inhibitors with comparable potency and selectivity to the original series and with a potential for improved microsome stability was identified.
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Benzimidazoles/chemistry , Benzimidazoles/chemical synthesis , Chemistry, Pharmaceutical/methods , Enzyme Inhibitors/chemical synthesis , Microsomes, Liver/metabolism , Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors , Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/chemistry , Adenosine Triphosphate/chemistry , Administration, Oral , Binding Sites , CD3 Complex/chemistry , Crystallography, X-Ray/methods , Drug Design , Enzyme Inhibitors/chemistry , Humans , Inhibitory Concentration 50 , Microsomes, Liver/chemistry , Structure-Activity Relationship , T-Lymphocytes/metabolismABSTRACT
A series of novel potent benzimidazole based inhibitors of interleukin-2 T-cell kinase (Itk) were prepared. In this report, we discuss the structure-activity relationship (SAR), selectivity, and cell-based activity for the series. We also discuss the SAR associated with an X-ray structure of one of the small-molecule inhibitors bound to ITK.
