Antimalarial drug resistance: a threat to malaria elimination

D Menard, A Dondorp - Cold Spring …, 2017 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Increasing antimalarial drug resistance once again threatens effective antimalarial drug
treatment, malaria control, and elimination. Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) are …

Current and future use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in infectious, immune, neoplastic, and neurological diseases: a mini-review

D Plantone, T Koudriavtseva - Clinical drug investigation, 2018 - Springer
The process of finding new therapeutic indications for currently used drugs, defined as
'repurposing', is receiving growing attention. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, with an …

Decreased susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to both dihydroartemisinin and lumefantrine in northern Uganda

PK Tumwebaze, MD Conrad, M Okitwi, S Orena… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Artemisinin partial resistance may facilitate selection of Plasmodium falciparum resistant to
combination therapy partner drugs. We evaluated 99 P. falciparum isolates collected in 2021 …

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in antitumor therapies based on autophagy-related mechanisms

PMP Ferreira, RWR de Sousa… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) are the most common drugs used to
relieve acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. In this article, we present a review about …

[HTML][HTML] Hesperidin and hesperetin against heavy metal toxicity: Insight on the molecular mechanism of mitigation

AC Famurewa, K Renu, MA Eladl… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Toxic heavy metals (THMs) are non-essential hazardous environmental pollutants with
intractable health challenges in humans and animals. Exposure to lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd) …

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 …

Host-directed therapies for infectious diseases: current status, recent progress, and future prospects

A Zumla, M Rao, RS Wallis, SHE Kaufmann… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Despite extensive global efforts in the fight against killer infectious diseases, they still cause
one in four deaths worldwide and are important causes of long-term functional disability …

Cytokines and chemokines in cerebral malaria pathogenesis

J Dunst, F Kamena, K Matuschewski - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Cerebral malaria is among the major causes of malaria-associated mortality and effective
adjunctive therapeutic strategies are currently lacking. Central pathophysiological processes …

Antimicrobial drugs bearing guanidine moieties: A review

SH Kim, D Semenya, D Castagnolo - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Compounds incorporating guanidine moieties constitute a versatile class of biologically
interesting molecules with a wide array of applications. As such, guanidines have been …

Drug Resistance in Toxoplasma gondii

M Montazeri, S Mehrzadi, M Sharif, S Sarvi… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a global protozoan parasite infecting up to one-third of the
world population. Pyrimethamine (PYR) and sulfadiazine (SDZ) are the most widely used …