Mechanisms of drug-induced tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

SN Goossens, SL Sampson… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Successful treatment of tuberculosis (TB) can be hampered by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
populations that are temporarily able to survive antibiotic pressure in the absence of drug …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic host-directed strategies to improve outcome in tuberculosis

C Young, G Walzl, N Du Plessis - Mucosal immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the only licenced tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, but
has limited efficacy against pulmonary TB disease development and modest protection …

Drug repurposing for the treatment of bacterial and fungal infections

A Miró-Canturri, R Ayerbe-Algaba… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens pose a well-recognized global health threat that
demands effective solutions; the situation is deemed a global priority by the World Health …

Selenocysteine in mammalian thioredoxin reductase and application of ebselen as a therapeutic

X Ren, L Zou, J Lu, A Holmgren - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Thioredoxin system is a ubiquitous disulfide reductase system evolutionarily conserved
through all living organisms. It contains thioredoxin (Trx), thioredoxin reductase (TrxR) and …

Comprehensive review on mechanism of action, resistance and evolution of antimycobacterial drugs

A Chauhan, M Kumar, A Kumar, K Kanchan - Life sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis is one of the deadliest infectious diseases existing in the world since ancient
times and still possesses serious threat across the globe. Each year the number of cases …

Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis activity of viridiflorol: The major constituent of Allophylus edulis (A. St.-Hil., A. Juss. & Cambess.) …

LNF Trevizan, KF do Nascimento, JA Santos… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance The leaves of Allophylus edulis (A. St.-Hil., A. Juss. &
Cambess.) Radlk.(Sapindaceae) are traditionally used as a natural anti-inflammatory agent; …

Optimizing Bedaquiline for cardiotoxicity by structure based virtual screening, DFT analysis and molecular dynamic simulation studies to identify selective MDR-TB …

I Ahmad, H Jadhav, Y Shinde, V Jagtap, R Girase… - In Silico …, 2021 - Springer
Since the last 4 decades, Bedaquiline has been the first drug discovered as a new kind of
anti-tubercular agent and received FDA approval in December 2012 to treat pulmonary multi …

[HTML][HTML] The immune response in tubercular uveitis and its implications for treatment: From anti-tubercular treatment to host-directed therapies

I Putera, B Schrijver, JCEM Ten Berge, V Gupta… - Progress in Retinal and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tubercular uveitis (TB-uveitis) remains a conundrum in the uveitis field, which is mainly
related to the diverse clinical phenotypes of TB-uveitis. Moreover, it remains difficult to …

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as host-directed therapy for tuberculosis: a systematic review

VM Kroesen, MI Gröschel, N Martinson… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Lengthy, antimicrobial therapy targeting the pathogen is the mainstay of conventional
tuberculosis treatment, complicated by emerging drug resistances. Host-directed therapies …

Platelet activation and the immune response to tuberculosis

DE Kirwan, DLW Chong, JS Friedland - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In 2019 10 million people developed symptomatic tuberculosis (TB) disease and 1.2 million
died. In active TB the inflammatory response causes tissue destruction, which leads to both …