A medicinal chemistry perspective on artemisinin and related endoperoxides

PM O'Neill, GH Posner - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2004 - ACS Publications
Currently, nearly two billion people are at risk of contracting malaria and the incidence of this
disease is dramatically increasing because many Plasmodium falciparum strains, the …

Review of the clinical pharmacokinetics of artesunate and its active metabolite dihydroartemisinin following intravenous, intramuscular, oral or rectal administration

CA Morris, S Duparc, I Borghini-Fuhrer, D Jung… - Malaria journal, 2011 - Springer
Artesunate (AS) is a clinically versatile artemisinin derivative utilized for the treatment of mild
to severe malaria infection. Given the therapeutic significance of AS and the necessity of …

Old wine in new bottles: Drug repurposing in oncology

M Antoszczak, A Markowska, J Markowska… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing costs, much time consumption and high risk of failure associated with the process
of de novo development of new anticancer drugs have prompted the pharmaceutical …

[HTML][HTML] Artesunate: A review of its therapeutic insights in respiratory diseases

J Zhang, Y Li, J Wan, M Zhang, C Li, J Lin - Phytomedicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Artesunate, as a semi-synthetic artemisinin derivative of sesquiterpene lactone,
is widely used in clinical antimalarial treatment due to its endoperoxide group. Recent …

Repurposing artemisinin and its derivatives as anticancer drugs: a chance or challenge?

Z Ma, CYN Woon, CG Liu, JT Cheng, M You… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cancer has become a global health problem, accounting for one out of six deaths. Despite
the recent advances in cancer therapy, there is still an ever-growing need for readily …

Randomized, controlled dose-optimization studies of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the treatment of uncomplicated multidrug-resistant falciparum malaria in …

EA Ashley, S Krudsood, L Phaiphun… - The Journal of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background. Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) is a new and relatively
inexpensive artemisinin-containing fixed-combination antimalarial treatment. An adult …

Biological activities of artemisinin derivatives beyond malaria

X Liu, J Cao, G Huang, Q Zhao… - Current Topics in …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Artemisinin is isolated from Artemisia annua L. with peroxide-containing sesquiterpene
lactone structure. Because of its unique structural characteristics and promising anticancer …

Artesunate and dihydroartemisinin (DHA): unusual decomposition products formed under mild conditions and comments on the fitness of DHA as an antimalarial drug

RK Haynes, HW Chan, CM Lung, NC Ng… - ChemMedChem …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Artesunate drug substance, for which a rectal capsule formulation is under development for
the treatment of severe malaria, when heated at 100° C for 39 h gives β‐artesunate …

The artemisinin derivative artemisone is a potent inhibitor of human cytomegalovirus replication

E Oiknine-Djian, Y Weisblum, A Panet… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a major cause of disease in immunocompromised
individuals and the most common cause of congenital infection and neurosensorial disease …

Systematic review of artesunate pharmacokinetics: Implication for treatment of resistant malaria

YI Kouakou, M Tod, G Leboucher, A Lavoignat… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Artesunate (ART) is an artemisinin derivative used as monotherapy for the
treatment of severe malaria and in combination with a partner drug for non-severe malaria …