New horizons for old drugs and drug leads

GM Cragg, PG Grothaus… - Journal of natural products, 2014 - ACS Publications
There is mounting urgency to find new drugs for the treatment of serious infectious diseases
and cancer that are rapidly developing resistance to previously effective drugs. One …

Cryo-EM structure of the Plasmodium falciparum 80S ribosome bound to the anti-protozoan drug emetine

W Wong, X Bai, A Brown, IS Fernandez, E Hanssen… - Elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Malaria inflicts an enormous burden on global human health. The emergence of parasite
resistance to front-line drugs has prompted a renewed focus on the repositioning of clinically …

Know your enemy: understanding the role of PfCRT in drug resistance could lead to new antimalarial tactics

RL Summers, MN Nash, RE Martin - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2012 - Springer
The prevention and treatment of malaria is heavily dependent on antimalarial drugs.
However, beginning with the emergence of chloroquine (CQ)-resistant Plasmodium …

[HTML][HTML] Repurposing of approved drugs from the human pharmacopoeia to target Wolbachia endosymbionts of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis

KL Johnston, L Ford, I Umareddy, S Townson… - International Journal for …, 2014 - Elsevier
Lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis are debilitating diseases caused by parasitic filarial
nematodes infecting around 150 million people throughout the tropics with more than 1.5 …

Anti-parasitic peptides from arthropods and their application in drug therapy

AF Lacerda, PB Pelegrini, DM de Oliveira… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Africa, Asia, and Latin America are regions highly affected by endemic diseases, such as
Leishmaniasis, Malaria, and Chagas' disease. They are responsible for the death of 1000s …

PharmGKB summary: very important pharmacogene information for cytochrome P-450, family 2, subfamily A, polypeptide 6

EM McDonagh, C Wassenaar, SP David… - Pharmacogenetics …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Human cytochrome P-450 (CYP-450), family 2, subfamily A, polypeptide 6 (CYP2A6) is a
monooxygenase enzyme that metabolizes xenobiotic compounds and activates toxins [1–3] …

Praziquantel, Mefloquine-Praziquantel, and Mefloquine-Artesunate-Praziquantel against Schistosoma haematobium: A Randomized, Exploratory, Open-Label Trial

J Keiser, KD Silué, LK Adiossan… - PLoS neglected …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Treatment and morbidity control of schistosomiasis relies on a single drug,
praziquantel. Hence, there is a pressing need to develop additional therapeutics against …

Antimalarial activity of 80 % methanolic extract of Brassica nigra (L.) Koch. (Brassicaceae) seeds against Plasmodium berghei infection in mice

AB Muluye, E Melese, GM Adinew - BMC Complementary and Alternative …, 2015 - Springer
Background Resistances to currently available drugs and insecticides, significant drug
toxicities and costs and lack of vaccines currently complicated the treatment of malaria. A …

New quinoline derivatives demonstrate a promising antimalarial activity against Plasmodium falciparum in vitro and Plasmodium berghei in vivo

RR Soares, JMF da Silva, BC Carlos… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2015 - Elsevier
Malaria continues to be an important public health problem in the world. Nowadays, the
widespread parasite resistance to many drugs used in antimalarial therapy has made the …

Evaluation of Antimalarial Activity of the Leaf Latex and TLC Isolates from Aloe megalacantha Baker in Plasmodium berghei Infected Mice

G Hintsa, GG Sibhat, A Karim - … ‐Based Complementary and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria is a devastating parasitic disease which caused around 216 million cases and
445,000 deaths worldwide in 2016. This might be attributed to a wide spread of drug …