Background Melasma treatment remains challenging with variable response to conventional lightening agents. Polyamine inhibition via ornithine decarboxylase 1 (ODC1) may offer an alternative approach, with eflornithine hydrochloride being an established ODC1 inhibitor. Objectives To compare the efficacy and safety of eflornithine hydrochloride 13% cream
Jonathan Yongwei Boey +7 more
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Neopterin is a cerebrospinal fluid marker for treatment outcome evaluation in patients affected by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness [PDF]
Background: Post-therapeutic follow-up is essential to confirm cure and to detect early treatment failures in patients affected by sleeping sickness (HAT). Current methods, based on finding of parasites in blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and counting
Courtioux, B. +4 more
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On the Stereoselective Pharmacokinetics of Eflornithine and Prediction of Drug Tissue to Plasma Concentration Ratios [PDF]
Eflornithine is one of two registered drugs for the treatment of late-stage human African trypanosomiasis, a uniformly fatal neglected disease with sixty million people are at risk of being infected.
Jansson Löfmark, Rasmus
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A tryparedoxin-coupled biosensor reveals a mitochondrial trypanothione metabolism in trypanosomes
Trypanosomes have a trypanothione redox metabolism that provides the reducing equivalents for numerous essential processes, most being mediated by tryparedoxin (Tpx).
Samantha Ebersoll +4 more
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Drug Resistance in Eukaryotic Microorganisms [PDF]
Eukaryotic microbial pathogens are major contributors to illness and death globally. Although much of their impact can be controlled by drug therapy as with prokaryotic microorganisms, the emergence of drug resistance has threatened these treatment ...
A Abdolrasouli +193 more
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The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: Enzymes
The Concise Guide to Pharmacology 2025/26 marks the seventh edition in this series of biennial publications in the British Journal of Pharmacology. Presented in landscape format, the guide provides a comparative overview of the pharmacology of drug target families. The concise nature of the Concise Guide refers to the style of presentation, being clear,
Stephen P. H. Alexander +31 more
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Front-line glioblastoma chemotherapeutic temozolomide is toxic to Trypanosoma brucei and potently enhances melarsoprol and eflornithine [PDF]
Sleeping sickness is an infectious disease that is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei. The second stage of the disease is characterised by the parasites entering the brain.
Rushworth, Stuart A. +1 more
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BACKGROUND:The plenteous resistance to and undesirable consequences of the existing antipiroplasmic therapies have emphasized the urgent need for new chemotherapeutics and drug targets for both prophylaxis and chemotherapy.
Gaber El-Saber Batiha +6 more
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This chapter reports the study results to determine percutaneous absorption and pharmacokinetics of eflornithine following topical treatment with eflornithine hydrochloride 13.9% cream and “eflornithine–armenicum” composition in rats. The model of aerobic wounds was developed. Eflornithine hydrochloride cream (dose of 460 mg/kg) was applied in group I,
Hovhannes, Ghazaryan, +1 more
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Effectiveness of melarsoprol and eflornithine as first-line regimens for gambiense sleeping sickness in nine Médecins Sans Frontières programmes [PDF]
This paper describes the effectiveness of first-line regimens for stage 2 human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) due to Trypanosoma brucei gambiense infection in nine Médecins Sans Frontières HAT treatment programmes in Angola, Republic of Congo, Sudan and ...
Balasegaram, Manica +5 more
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