Transcriptional phenotype of the anti-parasitic benzodiazepine meclonazepam on the blood fluke <i>Schistosoma mansoni</i>

Abstract excerpt

There are limited control measures for the disease schistosomiasis, despite the fact that infection with parasitic blood flukes affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The current treatment, praziquantel, has been in use since the 1980’s and there is a concern that drug resistance may emerge with continued monotherapy. Given the need for additional antischistosomal drugs, we have re-visited an old lead,...

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• Anthelmintics
• Benzodiazepines
• Gene Expression Profiling
• Mice
• Parasites and Host Interactions
• Phenotype
• Schistosoma mansoni
• Schistosomiasis mansoni

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Literature Corpus work

09065fb1-5ad7-5f0f-8905-9510df03e08c

DOI

10.1101/2024.10.29.620505