Leishmaniasis: current status of available drugs and new potential drug targets

N Singh, M Kumar, RK Singh - Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
The control of Leishmania infection relies primarily on chemotherapy till date. Resistance to
pentavalent antimonials, which have been the recommended drugs to treat cutaneous and …

Natural product based leads to fight against leishmaniasis

N Singh, BB Mishra, S Bajpai, RK Singh… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2014 - Elsevier
The growing incidence of parasitic resistance against generic pentavalent antimonials,
specifically for visceral disease in Indian subcontinent, is a serious issue in Leishmania …

Antileishmanial drug discovery: Comprehensive review of the last 10 years

JN Sangshetti, FAK Khan, AA Kulkarni, R Arote… - Rsc Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Leishmaniasis, a group of diseases caused by hemoflagellate obligate intracellular protozoa
(trypanosomatids) from the genus Leishmania, has not received the attention it deserves …

[HTML][HTML] The leishmanicidal flavonols quercetin and quercitrin target Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis arginase

ER da Silva, C do Carmo Maquiaveli… - Experimental …, 2012 - Elsevier
Polyamine biosynthesis enzymes are promising drug targets for the treatment of
leishmaniasis, Chagas' disease and African sleeping sickness. Arginase, which is a …

Polyamine metabolism in Leishmania: from arginine to trypanothione

G Colotti, A Ilari - Amino acids, 2011 - Springer
Polyamines (PAs) are essential metabolites in eukaryotes, participating in a variety of
proliferative processes, and in trypanosomatid protozoa play an additional role in the …

Emerging therapeutic targets for treatment of leishmaniasis

S Sundar, B Singh - Expert opinion on therapeutic targets, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Parasitic diseases that pose a threat to human life include leishmaniasis–
caused by protozoan parasite Leishmania species. Existing drugs have limitations due to …

Induction of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in Leishmania donovani by orally active clerodane diterpene

M Kathuria, A Bhattacharjee… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
This study was performed to investigate the mechanistic aspects of cell death induced by a
clerodane diterpene (K-09) in Leishmania donovani promastigotes that was previously …

The repositioned drugs disulfiram/diethyldithiocarbamate combined to benznidazole: Searching for Chagas disease selective therapy, preventing toxicity and drug …

J Almeida-Silva, DS Menezes… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chagas disease (CD) affects at least 6 million people in 21 South American countries
besides several thousand in other nations all over the world. It is estimated that at least …

[HTML][HTML] The effects on Trypanosoma cruzi of novel synthetic naphthoquinones are mediated by mitochondrial dysfunction

RFS Menna-Barreto, RLS Goncalves, EM Costa… - Free Radical Biology …, 2009 - Elsevier
Despite ongoing efforts, the current treatment for Chagas disease is still unsatisfactory,
mainly because of the severe side effects and variable efficacy of the available …

Polyamine homoeostasis as a drug target in pathogenic protozoa: peculiarities and possibilities

LM Birkholtz, M Williams, J Niemand… - Biochemical …, 2011 - portlandpress.com
New drugs are urgently needed for the treatment of tropical and subtropical parasitic
diseases, such as African sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease, leishmaniasis and malaria …