W Armand Guiguemde1, Anang A Shelat, David Bouck

  • 1Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA.

Nature
|May 21, 2010
PubMed
まとめ

この研究では,新しいマラリア治療法を見つけるために30万以上の化学物質をスクリーニングしました. いくつかの化合物は,薬剤耐性プラズモディウムファルシパラムに対する強力な活性を示し,抗マラリア薬の発見のための新しい道を開きました.

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