The hemozoin conundrum: is malaria pigment immune-activating, inhibiting, or simply a bystander?

M Boura, R Frita, A Góis, T Carvalho, T Hänscheid - Trends in parasitology, 2013 - cell.com
In malaria, hemozoin (Hz) is released during erythrocyte rupture, and subsequent
phagocytosis appears to cause important immune-modulatory effects. Hz obtained from …

Quinoline containing side-chain antimalarial analogs: recent advances and therapeutic application

MC Joshi, TJ Egan - Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 2020 - benthamdirect.com
The side-chains of quinoline antimalarial agents are the major concern of focus to build
novel and efficaciaous bioactive and clinical antimalarials. Bioative antimalarial analogs …

Heme determination and quantification methods and their suitability for practical applications and everyday use

MT Hopp, BF Schmalohr, T Kühl, MS Detzel… - 2020 - ACS Publications
Many research institutions, clinical diagnostic laboratories, and blood banks are desperately
searching for a possibility to identify and quantify heme in different physiological and …

Fatty Acid Esters and Acyclic Monoterpenoid from Justicia insularis Leaf Fractions Attenuated Malaria Pathogenesis Through Docking with Plasmodium falciparum …

VJ Enyiekere, EE Asanga, JE Okokon… - Natural Product …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Justicia insularis (Acanthaceae) T. Anderson is ethnopharmacologically used in
Nigeria for the treatment of diseases including malaria. Therefore, this study was designed …

Antimalarial NADPH-consuming redox-cyclers as superior glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency copycats

M Bielitza, D Belorgey, K Ehrhardt… - Antioxidants & Redox …, 2015 - liebertpub.com
Aims: Early phagocytosis of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)-deficient
erythrocytes parasitized by Plasmodium falciparum were shown to protect G6PD-deficient …

A class of valuable (pro-) activity-based protein profiling probes: application to the redox-active antiplasmodial agent, plasmodione

BA Cichocki, V Khobragade, M Donzel, L Cotos… - JACS Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Plasmodione (PD) is a potent antimalarial redox-active drug acting at low nM range
concentrations on different malaria parasite stages. In this study, in order to determine the …

Anti-protozoal and anti-fungal evaluation of 3, 5-disubstituted 1, 2-dioxolanes

A Pinet, S Cojean, LT Nguyen… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Endoperoxides are a class of compounds, which is well-known for their antimalarial
properties, but few reports exist about 3, 5-disubstituted 1, 2-dioxolanes. After having …

[HTML][HTML] Biodereplication of Antiplasmodial Extracts: Application of the Amazonian Medicinal Plant Piper coruscans Kunth

PG Vásquez-Ocmín, JF Gallard, AC Van Baelen… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Improved methodological tools to hasten antimalarial drug discovery remain of interest,
especially when considering natural products as a source of drug candidates. We propose a …

A chemically stable fluorescent mimic of dihydroartemisinin, artemether, and arteether with conserved bioactivity and specificity shows high pharmacological …

A Sissoko, P Vásquez-Ocmín, A Maciuk… - ACS Infectious …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Three novel tracers designed as fluorescent surrogates of artemisinin-derived antimalarial
drugs (ie, dihydroartemisinin, artemether, arteether, and artemisone) were synthesized from …

Correlation study on methoxylation pattern of flavonoids and their heme-targeted antiplasmodial activity

S Ortiz, PG Vásquez-Ocmín, S Cojean, C Bouzidi… - Bioorganic …, 2020 - Elsevier
A library of 33 polymethoxylated flavones (PMF) was evaluated for heme-binding affinity by
biomimetic MS assay and in vitro antiplasmodial activity on two strains of P. falciparum …