Liquid‐assisted grinding mechanochemistry in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals

P Ying, J Yu, W Su - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanochemical reactions by milling, grinding or other types of mechanical action have
emerged as a salient green approach because of its wide applications towards academic …

Praziquantel for schistosomiasis: single-drug metabolism revisited, mode of action, and resistance

N Vale, MJ Gouveia, G Rinaldi… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2017 - journals.asm.org
Schistosomiasis, a major neglected tropical disease, affects more than 250 million people
worldwide. Treatment of schistosomiasis has relied on the anthelmintic drug praziquantel …

Mechanism of praziquantel action at a parasitic flatworm ion channel

SK Park, L Friedrich, NA Yahya, CM Rohr… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Praziquantel (PZQ) is an essential medicine for treating parasitic flatworm infections such as
schistosomiasis, which afflicts over 250 million people. However, PZQ is not universally …

Metal compounds against neglected tropical diseases

YC Ong, S Roy, PC Andrews, G Gasser - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Many first-line treatments for neglected tropical diseases identified by the World Health
Organization (WHO) are limited by one or more of the following: the development of drug …

Perspective on schistosomiasis drug discovery: highlights from a schistosomiasis drug discovery workshop at Wellcome Collection, London, September 2022

N Caldwell, R Afshar, B Baragaña… - ACS infectious …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In September 2022, the Drug Discovery Unit at the University of Dundee, UK, organised an
international meeting at the Wellcome Collection in London to explore the current clinical …

Life cycle maintenance and drug-sensitivity assays for early drug discovery in Schistosoma mansoni

FC Lombardo, V Pasche, G Panic, Y Endriss… - Nature Protocols, 2019 - nature.com
Drug discovery for schistosomiasis is still limited to a handful of academic laboratories
worldwide, with only a few novel antischistosomal lead compounds being actively …

Praziquantel: An update on the mechanism of its action against schistosomiasis and new therapeutic perspectives

RA Nogueira, MGS Lira, ICL Licá, GCCG Frazão… - Molecular and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Praziquantel (PZQ) is the drug of choice for the treatment of all forms of schistosomiasis,
although its mechanisms of action are not completely understood. PZQ acts largely on adult …

Natural variation in the binding pocket of a parasitic flatworm TRPM channel resolves the basis for praziquantel sensitivity

CM Rohr, DJ Sprague, SK Park, NJ Malcolm… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
The drug praziquantel (PZQ) is the key clinical therapy for treating schistosomiasis and other
infections caused by parasitic flatworms. A schistosome target for PZQ was recently …

Alternatives to praziquantel for the prevention and control of schistosomiasis

T Spangenberg - ACS Infectious Diseases, 2020 - ACS Publications
Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease provoked by infection with parasitic blood
flukes of the genus Schistosoma, affects almost 240 million people worldwide, and more …

Combining incompatible processes for deracemization of a Praziquantel derivative under flow conditions

G Valenti, P Tinnemans, I Baglai… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An efficient deracemization method for conversion of the racemate to the desirable (R)‐
enantiomer of Praziquantel has been developed by coupling incompatible racemization and …