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Turning Bonding Into Function: The Emerging Role of the Bioactive Selenium─Metal Motif in Toxicology and Medicinal Chemistry

Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.
Balancing Act: Se─M bond serving as the fulcrum of the balance scale to compare the different weight of toxicity and therapeutic effects in biological environment. ABSTRACT The synthesis and characterization of organo‐selenium compounds have attracted considerable interest for decades, driven by the search for efficient catalysts and bioinspired ...
Matteo Filippi, Alessandro Rubbi, Pablo A. Nogara, Giovanni Ribaudo, Vito Lippolis, João B. T. Rocha, Laura Orian   +6 more
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Therapeutic Strategies against Leishmania and Trypanosoma

Pathogens, 2023
Human African trypanosomiasis (also known as sleeping sickness, with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense as etiological agents), American trypanosomiasis (also known as Chagas disease, with Trypanosoma cruzi as the etiological
André L. S. Santos, Igor A. Rodrigues, Claudia M. d’Avila-Levy, Cátia L. Sodré, Koert Ritmeijer, Marta H. Branquinha   +5 more
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Phytochemistry, Chemotypic Diversity and Antimicrobial Potential of Essential Oils From Native Aromatic Plants of the Americas: A Systematic Review

Flavour and Fragrance Journal, EarlyView.
This review bridges ancestral indigenous knowledge with modern pharmacology, summarizing the phytochemistry and antimicrobial properties of essential oils from seven native American species. It highlights their significant activity against bacterial, fungal and parasitic pathogens, emphasizing their potential as sustainable therapeutic and agricultural
Arley Rey Páez, Mozaniel Santana de Oliveira, João Paulo Viana Leite   +2 more
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Disulfidptosis‐ and Ferroptosis‐Related Gene Signatures in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Association Analysis and Diagnostic Model Construction

The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by persistent synovial inflammation and progressive joint damage. Although ferroptosis has been implicated in RA progression, the role of disulfidptosis and its interaction with ferroptosis remains unclear.
Ting‐Ting Wang, Dong‐Mei Wang, Xue Li, Yuan‐Li Wei, Ping‐Dan Liu, Shi‐Lin Li, Si‐Ying Xiong, Cai‐Zhen Liu, Fan‐Xin Zeng, Jian‐Hong Wu, Lin Tang   +10 more
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Nanobodies as next‐generation targeting platforms: From discovery technologies to translational biomedicine

VIEW, EarlyView.
Nanobodies, derived from the variable domains of camelid heavy‐chain‐only antibodies, have emerged as transformative biomedical tools due to their nanoscale size, exceptional stability, and unique capacity to recognize cryptic epitopes. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the field, outlining the structural and biochemical features of ...
Zhenrui Ye, Xianyang Li, Meixiao Zhan
wiley   +1 more source

Biological and pharmacological investigations of novel diamidines in animal models of human African trypanosomiasis [PDF]

, 2013
"African sleeping sickness, also called human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), results from the infection of humans with either of two protozoan parasites, Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and T. b. rhodesiense. HAT is transmitted by tsetse flies (Glossina spp)
Kibuthu, John Thuita
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Reemergence of Human African Trypanosomiasis Caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, Ethiopia

Emerging Infectious Diseases
We report 4 cases of human African trypanosomiasis that occurred in Ethiopia in 2022, thirty years after the last previously reported case in the country. Two of 4 patients died before medicine became available.
Adugna Abera, Tihitina Mamecha, Ebise Abose, Belachew Bokicho, Agune Ashole, Tesfahun Bishaw, Abinet Mariyo, Buzayehu Bogale, Haileyesus Terefe, Henok Tadesse, Mahlet Belachew, Hailemariam Difabachew, Araya Eukubay, Solomon Kinde, Abraham Ali, Feyesa Regasa, Fikre Seife, Zeyede Kebede, Mesfin Wossen, Getachew Tollera, Mesay Hailu, Nigus Manaye, Nick Van Reet, Gerardo Priotto, Johan van Griensven, Myrthe Pareyn, Geremew Tasew   +26 more
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Challenges facing the elimination of sleeping sickness in west and central Africa: sustainable control of animal trypanosomiasis as an indispensable approach to achieve the goal

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
African trypanosomiases are infectious diseases caused by trypanosomes. African animal trypanosomiasis (AAT) remains an important threat for livestock production in some affected areas whereas human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is targeted for ...
Gustave Simo, Jean Baptiste Rayaisse
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Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
wiley   +1 more source

Stage progression and neurological symptoms in Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense sleeping sickness: role of the CNS inflammatory response [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Human African trypanosomiasis progresses from an early (hemolymphatic) stage, through CNS invasion to the late (meningoencephalitic) stage.
MacLean, L., Peter G. E. Kennedy (126080), MacLean Lorna, Sternberg, J.M., Sternberg, Jeremy M, Peter G E Kennedy, Hansotto Reiber (126078), Sternberg Jeremy M., Reiber, H., Kennedy Peter G. E., Jeremy M Sternberg, Kennedy, Peter G E, Lorna MacLean, MacLean, Lorna, Lorna MacLean (126077), Jeremy M. Sternberg (126082), Reiber Hansotto, Kennedy, P.G.E., Reiber, Hansotto, Hansotto Reiber   +19 more
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