Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in antitumor therapies based on autophagy-related mechanisms

PMP Ferreira, RWR de Sousa… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) are the most common drugs used to
relieve acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. In this article, we present a review about …

Development of artemisinin resistance in malaria therapy

J Nass, T Efferth - Pharmacological Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Malaria affects 200 million people worldwide. Today, the most successful treatments are
artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACT). Resistance has already been described for …

[HTML][HTML] Artemisinin, the magic drug discovered from traditional Chinese medicine

J Wang, C Xu, YK Wong, Y Li, F Liao, T Jiang, Y Tu - Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Artemisinin and its derivatives represent the most important and influential class of drugs in
the fight against malaria. Since the discovery of artemisinin in the early 1970s, the global …

A temporizing solution to “artemisinin resistance”

J Wang, C Xu, FL Liao, T Jiang… - New England Journal …, 2019 - Mass Medical Soc
A Temporizing Solution to “Artemisinin Resistance” Three-day therapeutic courses are
losing their efficacy against malarial parasites in the Greater Mekong Subregion. But …

Triple artemisinin-containing combination anti-malarial treatments should be implemented now to delay the emergence of resistance: the case against

S Krishna - Malaria journal, 2019 - Springer
Managing multidrug resistant malaria can be problematic if currently available artemisinin-
containing anti-malarial combination treatments are not used appropriately. Here, I debate …

Plasmodium falciparum: Multidrug resistance

S Rout, RK Mahapatra - Chemical biology & drug design, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria is the most lethal and debilitating disease caused by the protozoan parasite
Plasmodium worldwide. The most severe forms of disease and the incidence rates of …

[HTML][HTML] Indole and benzimidazole bichalcophenes: Synthesis, DNA binding and antiparasitic activity

AA Farahat, MA Ismail, A Kumar, T Wenzler… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
A novel series of indole and benzimidazole bichalcophene diamidine derivatives were
prepared to study their antimicrobial activity against the tropical parasites causing African …

[HTML][HTML] Drug-resistant polymorphisms and copy numbers in Plasmodium falciparum, Mozambique, 2015

H Gupta, E Macete, H Bulo, C Salvador… - Emerging infectious …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
One of the fundamental steps toward malaria control is the use of antimalarial drugs. The
success of antimalarial treatment can be affected by the presence of drug-resistant …

A structural view on medicinal chemistry strategies against drug resistance

S Agnello, M Brand, MF Chellat… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The natural phenomenon of drug resistance is a widespread issue that hampers the
performance of drugs in many major clinical indications. Antibacterial and antifungal drugs …

The structure of Plasmodium falciparum multidrug resistance protein 1 reveals an N-terminal regulatory domain

K Si, X He, L Chen, A Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Plasmodium falciparum multidrug resistance protein 1 (PfMDR1), an adenosine
triphosphate (ATP)-binding cassette (ABC) transporter on the digestive vacuole (DV) …