Chemotherapeutic Targets in Parasites

Contemporary Strategies

Tag E. Mansour (Stanford University, California), Joan MacKinnon Mansour

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Cambridge University Press
30 August 2005

Medical microbiology & virology; Parasitology (non-medical)

Parasitic infections are the most prevalent of human diseases, and researchers continue to face the challenge of designing drugs to successfully counteract them. Chemotherapeutic Targets in Parasites analyzes the critical metabolic reactions and structural features essential for parasite survival, and advocates the latest molecular strategies with which to identify effective antiparasitic agents. An introduction to the early development of parasite chemotherapy is followed by an overview of biophysical techniques and genomic and proteomic analysis. Several chapters are devoted to specific types of chemotherapeutic agents and their targets in malaria, trypanosomes, leishmania and amitochondrial protists. Chapters on helminths include metabolic, neuromuscular, microtubular and tegumental targets. Emphasized throughout is the design of more selective and less toxic drugs than in the past. This up-to-date book will be especially relevant to medical and clinical researchers and to graduate students in parasitology, pharmacology, medicine, microbiology, and biochemistry.

By: Tag E. Mansour (Stanford University California)
With: Joan MacKinnon Mansour
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 506g
ISBN: 9780521018364
ISBN 10: 0521018366
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 30 August 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface; 1. The search for antiparasitic agents; 2. Biophysical, genomic, and proteomic analysis of drug targets; 3. Energy metabolism in parasitic helminths: targets for antiparasitic agents; 4. Antimalarial agents and their targets; 5. Antitrypanosomal and antileishmanial targets; 6. Targets in amitochondrial protists; 7. Neuromuscular structures and microtubules as targets; 8. Targets in the teguments of flatworms; Index.

Reviews for Chemotherapeutic Targets in Parasites: Contemporary Strategies

'... will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and will hopefully stimulate renewed interest in this important area of research.' John Barrett, Parasitology 'Students of parasitology, research workers interested in drug development and practitioners in tropical medicine will find this book an invaluable guide to the theory of the chemical treatment of parasitic infections.' Chemistry in Australia