Drugs in development for toxoplasmosis: advances, challenges, and current status

PH Alday, JS Doggett - Drug design, development and therapy, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Toxoplasma gondii causes fatal and debilitating brain and eye diseases. Medicines that are
currently used to treat toxoplasmosis commonly have toxic side effects and require …

Ocular toxoplasmosis past, present and new aspects of an old disease

M Maenz, D Schlueter, O Liesenfeld, G Schares… - Progress in retinal and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Ocular toxoplasmosis (OT) is considered the most frequent form of infectious posterior
uveitis and is caused by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. The resulting vision loss …

Global initiative for congenital toxoplasmosis: an observational and international comparative clinical analysis

K El Bissati, P Levigne, J Lykins… - Emerging microbes & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Globally, congenital toxoplasmosis remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality,
and outbreaks of infection with T. gondii represent a significant, emerging public health …

Small-molecule kinase inhibitors for the treatment of nononcologic diseases

Z Xie, X Yang, Y Duan, J Han… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Great successes have been achieved in developing small-molecule kinase inhibitors as
anticancer therapeutic agents. However, kinase deregulation plays essential roles not only …

Drug resistance in Giardia: Mechanisms and alternative treatments for Giardiasis

R Argüello-García, D Leitsch, T Skinner-Adams… - Advances in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The use of chemotherapeutic drugs is the main resource against clinical giardiasis due to
the lack of approved vaccines. Resistance of G. duodenalis to the most used drugs to treat …

The calcium signaling toolkit of the Apicomplexan parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium spp

S Lourido, SNJ Moreno - Cell calcium, 2015 - Elsevier
Apicomplexan parasites have complex life cycles, frequently split between different hosts
and reliant on rapid responses as the parasites react to changing environmental conditions …

Human toxoplasmosis–Searching for novel chemotherapeutics

M Antczak, K Dzitko, H Długońska - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2016 - Elsevier
The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular parasite, is an etiological agent
of human and animal toxoplasmosis. Treatment regimens for T. gondii-infected patients …

Biologically Driven Synthesis of Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines As Protein Kinase Inhibitors: An Old Scaffold As a New Tool for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical …

S Schenone, M Radi, F Musumeci, C Brullo… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION Nitrogen-containing heterocycles are widely distributed in nature and
essential for life, playing a vital role in the metabolism of all living cells. Among the many …

Screening the medicines for malaria venture pathogen box across multiple pathogens reclassifies starting points for open-source drug discovery

S Duffy, ML Sykes, AJ Jones, TB Shelper… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Open-access drug discovery provides a substantial resource for diseases primarily affecting
the poor and disadvantaged. The open-access Pathogen Box collection is comprised of …

TgCDPK3 Regulates Calcium-Dependent Egress of Toxoplasma gondii from Host Cells

JM McCoy, L Whitehead, GG van Dooren… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The phylum Apicomplexa comprises a group of obligate intracellular parasites of broad
medical and agricultural significance, including Toxoplasma gondii and the malaria-causing …