Purposing and Repurposing of Antimalarial Agents
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2020) | Viewed by 46373
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drug design; synthesis of biologically active agents; antimalarial agents; anticancer agents; prodrugs; polymer–drug conjugates; biofilm eradication; antiviral agents
Interests: antimalarial and anticancer agents
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Dear Colleagues,
Despite enormous efforts made by the scientific community, malaria remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in tropical areas. Increasing resistance to the currently available antimalarial drugs has made the need to develop new and efficient agents even more urgent. Practically all currently used antimalarial drugs were developed directly or indirectly from two naturally occurring substances: quinine and artemisinin. Derivatization of clinically approved antimalarial drugs is still a popular strategy in the search of novel antiplasmodial agents. For example, modification of primaquine led to the discovery of tafenoquine and bulaquine, while derivatization of artemisinin was awarded by several clinically important drugs (dihydroartemisinin, artesunate, and artemether).
Finding novel therapeutic indications for already approved drugs is one of possible strategies in the search of novel medicines. Antimalarial drugs and/or their derivatives are useful in the treatment of autoimmune diseases, parasitemia, and tuberculosis. In addition, anticancer effects of 14 registered antimalarial drugs have been reported, and many of them are under evaluation in clinical trials, alone or in combination with conventional anticancer drugs.
Contributions to this Special Issue may cover the rational design and synthesis of novel compounds with antiplasmodial activity or derivatives of known antimalarial agents with antimalarial (purposing) or other applications (repurposing). Short communications, original research papers or review articles are welcomed.
Prof. Dr. Branka Zorc
Prof. Dr. Zrinka Rajić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Novel antiplasmodial agents
- Repurposing of antimalarial drugs
- Antimalarial agents in cancer therapy
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