Current Antimalarial Therapies and Advances in the Development of Semi-Synthetic Artemisinin Derivatives



Título del documento: Current Antimalarial Therapies and Advances in the Development of Semi-Synthetic Artemisinin Derivatives
Revista: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000419776
ISSN: 0001-3765
Autors: 1
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Institucions: 1Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Farmacos, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
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Període: May
Volum: 90
Número: 1
Paginació: 1251-1272
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental, aplicado
Resumen en inglés According to the World Health Organization, malaria remains one of the biggest public health problems in the world. The development of resistance is a current concern, mainly because the number of safe drugs for this disease is limited. Artemisinin-based combination therapy is recommended by the World Health Organization to prevent or delay the onset of resistance. Thus, the need to obtain new drugs makes artemisinin the most widely used scaffold to obtain synthetic compounds. This review describes the drugs based on artemisinin and its derivatives, including hybrid derivatives and dimers, trimers and tetramers that contain an endoperoxide bridge. This class of compounds is of extreme importance for the discovery of new drugs to treat malaria
Disciplines Medicina,
Química
Paraules clau: Química farmacéutica,
Paludismo,
Diseño de fármacos,
Artemisinina,
Derivados semi-sintéticos
Keyword: Medicinal chemistry,
Malaria,
Drug design,
Artemisinine,
Semi-synthetic derivatives
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