New Uses for Old Drugs: The Tale of Artemisinin Derivatives in the Elimination of Schistosomiasis Japonica in China

Artemisinin (qinghaosu), extracted from the Chinese herb Artemisia annua L. in 1972, and its three major derivatives—artemether, artesunate and dihydroartemisinin—were firstly identified as antimalarials and found active against all species of the malaria parasite. Since the early 1980s, artemisinin...

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Autores principales: Liu, Yi-Xin, Wu, Wei, Liang, Yue-Jin, Jie, Zu-Liang, Wang, Hui, Wang, Wei, Huang, Yi-Xin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6271675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25244286
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules190915058

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6271675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25244286
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules190915058

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