Bromopyrrole alkaloids as lead compounds against protozoan parasites

Marine Drugs

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2162-2174

  Scala, Fernando ^a   Fattorusso, Ernesto ^a   Menna, Marialuisa ^a   Taglialatela Scafati, Orazio ^a   Tierney, Michelle ^b   Kaiser, Marcel ^c,d   Tasdemir, Deniz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antiprotozoal activity; Bromopyrrole alkaloids; Enzyme inhibition; Leishmania; Plasmodium; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

AGELONGINE; ALKALOID; BROMOALDISIN; BROMOPYRROLE DERIVATIVE; BROMOPYRROLOHOMOARGININ; DIBROMOPALAUAMINE; DISPACAMIDE B; DISPACAMIDE D; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; HYMENIDIN; LONGAMIDE A; LONGAMIDE B; MANZACIDIN A; MELARSOPROL; MILTEFOSINE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; SCEPTRIN; SPONGIACIDIN B; STEVENSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGELAS; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AXINELLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RAT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE;

AGELAS; AXINELLA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 77955283732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md8072162     Document Type: Article

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