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Author Mansour, Tag E

Title Chemotherapeutic targets in parasites : contemporary strategies / Tag E. Mansour ; with the assistance of Joan MacKinnon Mansour
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Search for Antiparasitic Agents; 2 Biophysical, Genomic, and Proteomic Analysis of Drug Targets; 3 Energy Metabolism in Parasitic Helminths; 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 Tegument of Flatworms; Epilogue; Index
Summary 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. Emphasized throughout is the design of more selective and less toxic drugs than in the past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Antiparasitic agents.
Parasitic diseases -- Chemotherapy
Parasites.
Parasitic Diseases -- drug therapy
Antiparasitic Agents -- therapeutic use
Parasites
Antiparasitic Agents
MEDICAL -- Parasitology.
Parasites
Antiparasitic agents
Parasitic diseases -- Chemotherapy
Form Electronic book
Author Mansour, Joan MacKinnon
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