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Title

Drug targets in kinetoplastid parasites / edited by Hemanta K. Majumder.

Publication

New York : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

Majumder, Hemanta K.

Description

xix, 157 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 625

Uniform Title

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 625.

Subjects

• Drug targeting
• Protozoan Proteins > drug effects
• Antiprotozoal agents
• Kinetoplastida
• Leishmaniasis > drug therapy
• Leishmaniasis > Chemotherapy
• Membrane Glycoproteins > drug effects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Arsenite Resistance in Leishmania and Possible Drug Targets / Gaganmeet Singh, K. G. Jayanarayan and Chinmoy S. Dey -- 2. Unique Characteristics of the Kinetoplast DNA Replication Machinery Provide Potential Drug Targets in Trypanosomatids / Dotan Sela, Neta Milman, Irit Kapeller, Aviad Zick, Rachel Bezalel, Nurit Yaffe and Joseph Shlomai -- 3. Drugs and Transporters in Kinetoplastid Protozoa / Scott M. Landfear -- 4. Selective Lead Compounds Against Kinetoplastid Tubulin / R. E. Morgan and K. A. Werbovetz -- 5. Fishing for Anti-Leishmania Drugs: Principles and Problems / Emanuela Handman, Lukasz Kedzierski, Alessandro D. Uboldi and James W. Goding -- 6. Sterol 14-Demethylase Inhibitors for Trypanosoma Cruzi Infections / Frederick S. Buckner -- 7. Histone Deacetylases / David Horn -- 8. Targeting Glycoproteins or Glycolipids and Their Metabolic Pathways for Antiparasite Therapy / Sumi Mukhopadhyay nee Bandyopadhyay and Chitra Mandal -- 9. DNA Topoisomerases of Leishmania: The Potential Targets for Anti-Leishmanial Therapy / Benu Brata Das, Agneyo Ganguly and Hemanta K. Majumder -- 10. Antiparasitic Chemotherapy: Tinkering with the Purine Salvage Pathway / Alok Kumar Datta, Rupak Datta and Banibrata Sen -- 11. Searching the Tritryp Genomes for Drug Targets / Peter J. Myler -- 12. Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Leishmania / Nicola S. Carter, Phillip Yates, Cassandra S. Arendt, Jan M. Boitz and Buddy Ullman.

ISBN

• 9780387775692
• 0387775692

LCCN

2007049045

OCLC

• ocn182857059
• 182857059
• SCSB-5393112

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries