[HTML][HTML] Experimental and clinical treatment of Chagas disease: a review

PAS Junior, I Molina, SMF Murta… - The American journal …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chagas disease (CD) is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi that infects a
broad range of triatomines and mammalian species, including man. It afflicts 8 million …

The role of the phosphorus atom in drug design

JB Rodriguez, C Gallo‐Rodriguez - ChemMedChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Although the phosphorus atom is found in a variety of oxidation states, most of the
phosphorus‐containing molecules of pharmacological importance possess phosphorus in …

Recent clinical trials for the etiological treatment of chronic Chagas disease: advances, challenges and perspectives

JA Urbina - Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Chagas disease, a chronic systemic parasitosis caused by the Kinetoplastid protozoon
Trypanosoma cruzi, is the first cause of cardiac morbidity and mortality in poor rural and …

Potentiality of vanadium compounds as anti-parasitic agents

D Gambino - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Research efforts on the medicinal chemistry of vanadium have been mainly focused whether
on improving biodistribution and tolerability of the vanadium insulin-enhancing core or on …

Searching for new chemotherapies for tropical diseases: Ruthenium–clotrimazole complexes display high in vitro activity against Leishmania major and Trypanosoma …

A Martínez, T Carreon, E Iniguez… - Journal of medicinal …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Eight new ruthenium complexes of clotrimazole (CTZ) with high antiparasitic activity have
been synthesized, cis, fac-[RuIICl2 (DMSO) 3 (CTZ)](1), cis, cis, trans-[RuIICl2 (DMSO) 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in sterol 14-demethylase inhibitors for Chagas disease

FS Buckner, JA Urbina - International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, causes the most prevalent parasitic infection in
the American continent. It gives rise to life-long infection in humans and results in severe …

Reversible cysteine protease inhibitors show promise for a Chagas disease cure

M Ndao, C Beaulieu, WC Black, E Isabel… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The cysteine protease cruzipain is essential for the viability, infectivity, and virulence of
Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease. Thus, inhibitors of cruzipain are …

Targeting Trypanosoma cruzi sterol 14α-demethylase (CYP51)

GI Lepesheva, F Villalta, MR Waterman - Advances in parasitology, 2011 - Elsevier
There are at least two obvious features that must be considered upon targeting specific
metabolic pathways/enzymes for drug development: the pathway must be essential and the …

Design of prospective antiparasitic metal-based compounds including selected organometallic cores

D Gambino, L Otero - Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
A group of seventeen communicable and poverty-related diseases are considered
neglected by the World Health Organization due to the restricted development of diagnostic …

Metal–drug synergy: new ruthenium(II) complexes of ketoconazole are highly active against Leishmania major and Trypanosoma cruzi and nontoxic to human or …

E Iniguez, A Sánchez, MA Vasquez, A Martínez… - JBIC Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
In our ongoing search for new metal-based chemotherapeutic agents against leishmaniasis
and Chagas disease, six new ruthenium–ketoconazole (KTZ) complexes have been …