Online article for Non-subscribers

Pay per view

Heterocycles has a pay-per-view service for Non-subscribers.
You will be able to directly purchase the full text article through PayPal.
Your purchased Paper can be downloaded after the payment is completed.
An e-mail will be sent the URL to download the paper.
If you have any questions, please contact: purchase@heterocycles.com

Price: ¥ 4,400 (Yen only)
Period: This Article can be accessed for 7 days.

Review | Regular issue | Vol 83, No. 8, 2011, pp.1727-1756
Published online, 8th April, 2011
DOI: 10.3987/REV-11-706
■ Discovery of New Anti-Protozoan Agents Having Novel Mode of Action

Masataka Ihara*

*Research Centre of Medicinal Sciences, Hoshi University, 2-4-41 Ebara, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan

Abstract

Malaria, leishmaniasis, African sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) and Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) are caused by different protozoan parasites. Although many people suffer from these diseases in tropical and subtropical areas, efficient medicines against these protozoan diseases are very few or absent. Efforts to develop new drugs against these neglected diseases led us to the discovery of SSJ-127 (62), which cured malaria and African trypanosomiasis mouse models by treatment with injection, SJL-01 (74) as a hit compound for leishmaniasis, and SSJ-183 (109) as a candidate against malaria, respectively. These compounds displayed novel modes of actions different from those of conventional medicines.