Antimalarial drug discovery: Progress and approaches

JL Siqueira-Neto, KJ Wicht, K Chibale… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent antimalarial drug discovery has been a race to produce new medicines that
overcome emerging drug resistance, whilst considering safety and improving dosing …

Plasmodium asexual growth and sexual development in the haematopoietic niche of the host

K Venugopal, F Hentzschel, G Valkiūnas… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Plasmodium spp. parasites are the causative agents of malaria in humans and animals, and
they are exceptionally diverse in their morphology and life cycles. They grow and develop in …

An overview of drug resistance in protozoal diseases

R Capela, R Moreira, F Lopes - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Protozoan diseases continue to be a worldwide social and economic health problem.
Increased drug resistance, emerging cross resistance, and lack of new drugs with novel …

Transmission-blocking drugs for malaria elimination

LM Birkholtz, P Alano, D Leroy - Trends in parasitology, 2022 - cell.com
Preventing human-to-mosquito transmission of malaria parasites provides possible
solutions to interrupt the malaria parasite life cycle for malaria elimination. The development …

[HTML][HTML] Primaquine and chloroquine nano-sized solid dispersion-loaded dissolving microarray patches for the improved treatment of malaria caused by Plasmodium …

QK Anjani, F Volpe-Zanutto, KA Hamid… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Malaria is a global parasitic infection that leads to substantial illness and death. The most
commonly-used drugs for treatment of malaria vivax are primaquine and chloroquine, but …

The clinical pharmacology of tafenoquine in the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria: An individual patient data meta-analysis

JA Watson, RJ Commons, J Tarning, JA Simpson… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Tafenoquine is a newly licensed antimalarial drug for the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax
malaria. The mechanism of action and optimal dosing are uncertain. We pooled individual …

Potential anti-COVID-19 therapeutics that block the early stage of the viral life cycle: structures, mechanisms, and clinical trials

RA Al-Horani, S Kar, KF Aliter - International Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is being caused by severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease continues to present …

Primaquine loaded solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN), nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC), and nanoemulsion (NE): effect of lipid matrix and surfactant on drug …

KW Wu, C Sweeney, N Dudhipala, P Lakhani… - AAPS …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Primaquine (PQ), an 8-aminoquinoline antimalarial drug, has been widely used for
the eradication of hypnozoites from the liver and, therefore, recognized as the radical cure of …

Pathogenicity and virulence of malaria: Sticky problems and tricky solutions

IS Walker, SJ Rogerson - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Infections with Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax cause over 600,000 deaths
each year, concentrated in Africa and in young children, but much of the world's population …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular basis of antimalarial drug resistance in Plasmodium vivax

LE Buyon, B Elsworth, MT Duraisingh - International Journal for …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plasmodium vivax is the most geographically widespread cause of human malaria and is
responsible for the majority of cases outside of the African continent. While great progress …