Selection, synthesis and evaluation of novel drug-like compounds from a library of virtual compounds designed from natural products with antiplasmodial activities
Magister Pharmaceuticae - MPharm === Malaria is an infectious disease which continues to kill more than one million people every year and the African continent accounts for most of the malaria death worldwide. New classes of medicine to combat malaria are urgently needed due to the surge in resistan...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Other Authors: | |
Language: | en |
Published: |
University of the Western Cape
2021
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7950 |
id |
ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uwc-oai-etd.uwc.ac.za-11394-7950 |
---|---|
record_format |
oai_dc |
spelling |
ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uwc-oai-etd.uwc.ac.za-11394-79502021-03-13T05:10:56Z Selection, synthesis and evaluation of novel drug-like compounds from a library of virtual compounds designed from natural products with antiplasmodial activities Pokomi, Rostand Fankam Joubert, Jacques Malan, Sarel Egieyeh, Samuel Malaria Plasmodium falciparum Chloroquine resistance Drug resistance Cheminformatics Magister Pharmaceuticae - MPharm Malaria is an infectious disease which continues to kill more than one million people every year and the African continent accounts for most of the malaria death worldwide. New classes of medicine to combat malaria are urgently needed due to the surge in resistance of the Plasmodium falciparum (the parasite that causes malaria in humans) to existing antimalarial drugs. One approach to circumvent the problem of P. falciparum resistance to antimalarial drugs could be the discovery of novel compounds with unique scaffolds and possibly new mechanisms of action. Natural products (NP) provide a wide diversity of compounds with unique scaffolds, as such, a library of virtual compounds (VC) designed from natural products with antiplasmodial activities (NAA) can be a worthy starting point. 2021-03-09T10:12:51Z 2021-03-09T10:12:51Z 2020 http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7950 en University of the Western Cape University of the Western Cape |
collection |
NDLTD |
language |
en |
sources |
NDLTD |
topic |
Malaria Plasmodium falciparum Chloroquine resistance Drug resistance Cheminformatics |
spellingShingle |
Malaria Plasmodium falciparum Chloroquine resistance Drug resistance Cheminformatics Pokomi, Rostand Fankam Selection, synthesis and evaluation of novel drug-like compounds from a library of virtual compounds designed from natural products with antiplasmodial activities |
description |
Magister Pharmaceuticae - MPharm === Malaria is an infectious disease which continues to kill more than one million people every year and the African continent accounts for most of the malaria death worldwide. New classes of medicine to combat malaria are urgently needed due to the surge in resistance of the Plasmodium falciparum (the parasite that causes malaria in humans) to existing antimalarial drugs. One approach to circumvent the problem of P. falciparum resistance to antimalarial drugs could be the discovery of novel compounds with unique scaffolds and possibly new mechanisms of action. Natural products (NP) provide a wide diversity of compounds with unique scaffolds, as such, a library of virtual compounds (VC) designed from natural products with antiplasmodial activities (NAA) can be a worthy starting point. |
author2 |
Joubert, Jacques |
author_facet |
Joubert, Jacques Pokomi, Rostand Fankam |
author |
Pokomi, Rostand Fankam |
author_sort |
Pokomi, Rostand Fankam |
title |
Selection, synthesis and evaluation of novel drug-like compounds from a library of virtual compounds designed from natural products with antiplasmodial activities |
title_short |
Selection, synthesis and evaluation of novel drug-like compounds from a library of virtual compounds designed from natural products with antiplasmodial activities |
title_full |
Selection, synthesis and evaluation of novel drug-like compounds from a library of virtual compounds designed from natural products with antiplasmodial activities |
title_fullStr |
Selection, synthesis and evaluation of novel drug-like compounds from a library of virtual compounds designed from natural products with antiplasmodial activities |
title_full_unstemmed |
Selection, synthesis and evaluation of novel drug-like compounds from a library of virtual compounds designed from natural products with antiplasmodial activities |
title_sort |
selection, synthesis and evaluation of novel drug-like compounds from a library of virtual compounds designed from natural products with antiplasmodial activities |
publisher |
University of the Western Cape |
publishDate |
2021 |
url |
http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7950 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT pokomirostandfankam selectionsynthesisandevaluationofnoveldruglikecompoundsfromalibraryofvirtualcompoundsdesignedfromnaturalproductswithantiplasmodialactivities |
_version_ |
1719383608787992576 |