Recent progress in the development of indole-based compounds active against malaria, trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis

PAF Pacheco, MMM Santos - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Human protozoan diseases represent a serious health problem worldwide, affecting mainly
people in social and economic vulnerability. These diseases have attracted little investment …

Melatonin: A review of its physiopathological and therapeutic relationship with parasitic diseases

RJ Cardenas, L Chacín-Bonilla… - Melatonin …, 2023 - melaonin-research.com
Melatonin (MEL), an indoleamine hormone synthesized in almost all organisms including
humans, has been the object of a considerable body of research due to its pleiotropic …

Potential repurposing of four FDA approved compounds with antiplasmodial activity identified through proteome scale computational drug discovery and in vitro assay

BN Diallo, T Swart, HC Hoppe, Ö Tastan Bishop… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Malaria elimination can benefit from time and cost-efficient approaches for antimalarials
such as drug repurposing. In this work, 796 DrugBank compounds were screened against …

Novobiocin–ferrocene conjugates possessing anticancer and antiplasmodial activity independent of HSP90 inhibition

M Mbaba, JA de la Mare, JN Sterrenberg… - JBIC Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
A series of tailored novobiocin–ferrocene conjugates was prepared in moderate yields and
investigated for in vitro anticancer and antiplasmodial activity against the MDA-MB-231 …

Effects of seasonal variation on phytochemicals contributing to the antimalarial and antitrypanosomal activities of Breonadia salicina using a metabolomic approach

D Tlhapi, I Ramaite, C Anokwuru, T van Ree, N Madala… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
This study involves the investigation of various plant parts of Breonadia salicina (Vahl)
Hepper and JRI Wood across multiple consecutive seasons. It aims to delve into the …

Parasitic Protozoans: Exploring the Potential of N,N'-Bis[2-(5-bromo-7-azabenzimidazol-1-yl)-2-oxoethyl]ethylene-1,3-Diamine and Its Cyclohexyl-1,2-diamine Analogue as …

KA Oluwafemi, OE Oyeneyin, DD Babatunde… - Acta Parasitologica, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Major human parasitic protozoans, such as Plasmodium falciparum and
Trypanosoma brucei, cause malaria and trypanosomiasis also known as sleeping sickness …

[HTML][HTML] Melatonin as a Circadian Marker for Plasmodium Rhythms

BKM Dias, A Mohanty, CRS Garcia - International Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Plasmodium, a digenetic parasite, requires a host and a vector for its life cycle completion.
Most Plasmodium species display circadian rhythmicity during their intraerythrocytic cycle …

Role of Melatonin in the Synchronization of Asexual Forms in the Parasite Plasmodium falciparum

MK Singh, BKM Dias, CRS Garcia - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The indoleamine compound melatonin has been extensively studied in the regulation of the
circadian rhythm in nearly all vertebrates. The effects of melatonin have also been studied in …

The Plasmodium falciparum eIK1 kinase (PfeIK1) is central for melatonin synchronization in the human malaria parasite. Melatotosil blocks melatonin action on …

BKM Dias, M Nakabashi, MRR Alves… - Journal of Pineal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Melatonin and its indoles derivatives are central in the synchronization of malaria parasites.
In this research, we discovered that melatonin is unable to increase the parasitemia in the …

In vitro antiplasmodium and antitrypanosomal activities, β-haematin formation inhibition, molecular docking and DFT computational studies of quinoline-urea …

OE Oyeneyin, R Moodley, C Mashaba, LF Garnie… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Quinoline-urea-benzothiazole hybrids exhibited low to sub-micromolar in vitro activities
against the Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) 3D7 chloroquine (CQ)-sensitive strain …