Trypanosoma cruzi genetic diversity: Something new for something known about Chagas disease manifestations, serodiagnosis and drug sensitivity

B Zingales - Acta tropica, 2018 - Elsevier
The genetic diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi, the protozoan agent of Chagas disease, is
widely recognized. At present, T. cruzi is partitioned into seven discrete typing units (DTUs) …

Chagas disease drug discovery: toward a new era

E Chatelain - Journal of biomolecular screening, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
American trypanosomiasis, or Chagas disease, is the result of infection by the Trypanosoma
cruzi parasite. Endemic in Latin America where it is the major cause of death from …

Bioluminescence imaging of chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infections reveals tissue‐specific parasite dynamics and heart disease in the absence of locally persistent …

MD Lewis, A Fortes Francisco, MC Taylor… - Cellular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic T rypanosoma cruzi infections lead to cardiomyopathy in 20–30% of cases. A
causal link between cardiac infection and pathology has been difficult to establish because …

Innovation in neglected tropical disease drug discovery and development

HB Weng, HX Chen, MW Wang - Infectious diseases of poverty, 2018 - mednexus.org
Background: Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are closely related to poverty and affect
over a billion people in developing countries. The unmet treatment needs cause high …

B2(OH)4-Mediated Reductive Transamidation of N-Acyl Benzotriazoles with Nitro Compounds En Route to Aqueous Amide Synthesis

J Bai, S Li, R Zhu, Y Li, W Li - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
We herein developed a reductive transamidation reaction between N-acyl benzotriazoles
(AcBt) and organic nitro compounds or NaNO2 under mild conditions. This protocol …

Effective data-balancing methods for class-imbalanced genotoxicity datasets using machine learning algorithms and molecular fingerprints

SY Bae, J Lee, J Jeong, C Lim, J Choi - Computational Toxicology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning and deep learning approaches have been increasingly used in
the field of toxicology through prediction models developed using various toxicity data …

A New Experimental Model for Assessing Drug Efficacy against Trypanosoma cruzi Infection Based on Highly Sensitive In Vivo Imaging

MD Lewis, AF Francisco, MC Taylor… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, one of the
world's major neglected infections. Although development of improved antiparasitic drugs is …

[HTML][HTML] Drug strategies targeting CYP51 in neglected tropical diseases

JY Choi, LM Podust, WR Roush - Chemical Reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
CYP51 is considered one of the most ancient P450 protein families. 1 It is perhaps the only
P450 protein family whose members are spread across all biological kingdoms, although it …

[HTML][HTML] Synergy Testing of FDA-Approved Drugs Identifies Potent Drug Combinations against Trypanosoma cruzi

JD Planer, MA Hulverson, JA Arif… - PLoS Neglected …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
An estimated 8 million persons, mainly in Latin America, are infected with Trypanosoma
cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease. Existing antiparasitic drugs for Chagas disease …

Putting infection dynamics at the heart of Chagas disease

MD Lewis, JM Kelly - Trends in parasitology, 2016 - cell.com
In chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infections, parasite burden is controlled by effective, but
nonsterilising immune responses. Infected cells are difficult to detect because they are …