An overview on target-based drug design against kinetoplastid protozoan infections: Human African trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease and leishmaniases

V Kourbeli, E Chontzopoulou, K Moschovou, D Pavlos… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The protozoan diseases Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), Chagas disease (CD), and
leishmaniases span worldwide and therefore their impact is a universal concern. The …

New drugs for human African trypanosomiasis: a twenty first century success story

EA Dickie, F Giordani, MK Gould, P Mäser… - Tropical medicine and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The twentieth century ended with human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) epidemics raging
across many parts of Africa. Resistance to existing drugs was emerging, and many programs …

Fexinidazole–a new oral nitroimidazole drug candidate entering clinical development for the treatment of sleeping sickness

E Torreele, B Bourdin Trunz, D Tweats… - PLoS neglected …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a
fatal parasitic disease caused by trypanosomes. Current treatment options for HAT are …

N-myristoyltransferase inhibitors as new leads to treat sleeping sickness

JA Frearson, S Brand, SP McElroy, LAT Cleghorn… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
African sleeping sickness or human African trypanosomiasis, caused by Trypanosoma
brucei spp., is responsible for∼ 30,000 deaths each year. Available treatments for this …

The trypanosome flagellar pocket

MC Field, M Carrington - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009 - nature.com
Trypanosomes are important disease agents and excellent models for the study of
evolutionary cell biology. The trypanosome flagellar pocket is a small invagination of the …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of recent advances in duplex DNA recognition by small molecules

S Bhaduri, N Ranjan, DP Arya - Beilstein journal of organic …, 2018 - beilstein-journals.org
As the carrier of genetic information, the DNA double helix interacts with many natural
ligands during the cell cycle, and is amenable to such intervention in diseases such as …

Antitrypanosomal activity of fexinidazole, a new oral nitroimidazole drug candidate for treatment of sleeping sickness

M Kaiser, MA Bray, M Cal… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fexinidazole is a 5-nitroimidazole drug currently in clinical development for the treatment of
human sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis [HAT]), caused by infection with …

Inhibitory activity of marine sponge-derived natural products against parasitic protozoa

I Orhan, B Şener, M Kaiser, R Brun, D Tasdemir - Marine drugs, 2010 - mdpi.com
In this study, thirteen sponge-derived terpenoids, including five linear furanoterpenes:
furospinulosin-1 (1), furospinulosin-2 (2), furospongin-1 (3), furospongin-4 (4), and …

Synthesis and Antiprotozoal Activity of Cationic 1,4-Diphenyl-1H-1,2,3-triazoles

SA Bakunov, SM Bakunova, T Wenzler… - Journal of medicinal …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Novel dicationic triazoles 1− 60 were synthesized by the Pinner method from the
corresponding dinitriles, prepared via the copper (I)-catalyzed azide− alkyne cycloaddition …

State of the art in African trypanosome drug discovery

R T. Jacobs, B Nare, M A. Phillips - Current topics in medicinal …, 2011 - benthamdirect.com
African sleeping sickness is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa where the WHO estimates that
60 million people are at risk for the disease. Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is 100 …