Targeting the liver stage of malaria parasites: a yet unmet goal

T Rodrigues, M Prudêncio, R Moreira… - Journal of medicinal …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Malaria remains one of the world's most prevalent tropical diseases because of its high
mortality and morbidity burden, as well as its economic and social impacts on the …

Liver-stage malaria parasites vulnerable to diverse chemical scaffolds

ER Derbyshire, M Prudêncio… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Human malaria infection begins with a one-time asymptomatic liver stage followed by a
cyclic symptomatic blood stage. All high-throughput malaria drug discovery efforts have …

[HTML][HTML] Malaria medicines: a glass half full?

TNC Wells, RH Van Huijsduijnen… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
Despite substantial scientific progress over the past two decades, malaria remains a
worldwide burden that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. New, affordable …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in malaria drug discovery

MA Biamonte, J Wanner, KG Le Roch - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry …, 2013 - Elsevier
This digest covers some of the most relevant progress in malaria drug discovery published
between 2010 and 2012. There is an urgent need to develop new antimalarial drugs. Such …

[HTML][HTML] The next opportunity in anti-malaria drug discovery: the liver stage

ER Derbyshire, MM Mota, J Clardy - PLoS pathogens, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Humans have suffered from the burden of malarial infections for thousands of
years, and the disease has greatly influenced human evolution and history [1]–[3]. Malaria …

Novel rational drug design strategies with potential to revolutionize malaria chemotherapy

FW Muregi, PG Kirira, A Ishih - Current medicinal chemistry, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Efforts to develop an effective malaria vaccine are yet to be successful and thus
chemotherapy remains the mainstay of malaria control strategy. Plasmodium falciparum, the …

Multistage inhibitors of the malaria parasite: Emerging hope for chemoprotection and malaria eradication

Poonam, Y Gupta, N Gupta, S Singh… - Medicinal Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over time, several exciting advances have been made in the treatment and prevention of
malaria; however, this devastating disease continues to be a major global health problem …

[HTML][HTML] Current therapies and future possibilities for drug development against liver-stage malaria

R Raphemot, D Posfai… - The Journal of clinical …, 2016 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Malaria remains a global public health threat, with half of the world's population at risk.
Despite numerous efforts in the past decade to develop new antimalarial drugs to surmount …

Host-targeted interventions as an exciting opportunity to combat malaria

K Vijayan, L Wei, EKK Glennon, C Mattocks… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Terminal and benign diseases alike in adults, children, pregnant women, and others are
successfully treated by pharmacological inhibitors that target human enzymes. Despite …

Imaging of Plasmodium Liver Stages to Drive Next-Generation Antimalarial Drug Discovery

S Meister, DM Plouffe, KL Kuhen, GMC Bonamy, T Wu… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Most malaria drug development focuses on parasite stages detected in red blood cells, even
though, to achieve eradication, next-generation drugs active against both erythrocytic and …