Navarro Maribel, Daniel Luana Vanessa, Colina-Vegas Legna, Visbal Gonzalo
Laboratório de Químicas Bioinorgânica e Catalise (LaQBIC), Departamento de Química, Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora 36036-900, Brazil.
Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre 91501-970, Brazil.
ACS Omega. 2025 Jan 17;10(3):2393-2414. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.4c07331. eCollection 2025 Jan 28.
Tropical parasitic diseases affect millions of people around the world, particularly in poor countries. The human parasitic diseases that will be covered in this review are malaria and neglected diseases, such as leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and African trypanosomiasis. The current treatments for these diseases present several problems, such as the development of drug resistance, very limited drugs available in the clinic, significant side effects of the drugs, and a long treatment period. For these reasons, there is an urgent need to develop new chemotherapeutics to eradicate or eliminate these diseases. Zinc-based drugs against parasitic diseases could be an alternative therapy to overcome the difficulties of the approved metallodrugs as antiparasitic agents. Zinc-based drugs are becoming an exciting field of research because zinc is an essential element that can lead to the development of multitarget antiparasitic agents, which are reviewed here.
热带寄生虫病影响着全球数百万人,尤其是在贫穷国家。本综述将涵盖的人类寄生虫病包括疟疾以及一些被忽视的疾病,如利什曼病、恰加斯病和非洲锥虫病。目前针对这些疾病的治疗方法存在若干问题,例如耐药性的产生、临床可用药物非常有限、药物副作用严重以及治疗周期长。由于这些原因,迫切需要开发新的化学疗法来根除或消除这些疾病。针对寄生虫病的锌基药物可能是一种替代疗法,以克服已获批的金属药物作为抗寄生虫剂所面临的困难。锌基药物正成为一个令人兴奋的研究领域,因为锌是一种必需元素,可促使开发多靶点抗寄生虫剂,本文将对此进行综述。