This thesis outlines problems in the estimation of concentration value of an absorber present in a medium that is scattering and shortcomings of using the currently available techniques for the characterisation of such a scattering medium. The work describes experiment and analytic techniques used to overcome these problems. This thesis explored experimentally the practicality of using polarisation subtraction technique to minimise the effects of scattering components on the measured data.

A screening cascade comprised of an MTT assay, a caspase 3 activation assay, a p53 stabilization assay and a mitotic index assay was developed to classify compounds and identify lead transcriptional CDK inhibitors from a novel class of 2,4,5 trisubstituted pyrimidines. Compounds S3 41 and CDKI 71 are the most potent CDK9 inhibitors identified by the screening cascade. They showed potent anti proliferative activity in the MTT assay and induce both caspase 3 activity and p53 protein level at the GI50 concentration.

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