Publication Date:
2008-03-14
Description:
Anthelmintic resistance in human and animal pathogenic helminths has been spreading in prevalence and severity to a point where multidrug resistance against the three major classes of anthelmintics--the benzimidazoles, imidazothiazoles and macrocyclic lactones--has become a global phenomenon in gastrointestinal nematodes of farm animals. Hence, there is an urgent need for an anthelmintic with a new mode of action. Here we report the discovery of the amino-acetonitrile derivatives (AADs) as a new chemical class of synthetic anthelmintics and describe the development of drug candidates that are efficacious against various species of livestock-pathogenic nematodes. These drug candidates seem to have a novel mode of action involving a unique, nematode-specific clade of acetylcholine receptor subunits. The AADs are well tolerated and of low toxicity to mammals, and overcome existing resistances to the currently available anthelmintics.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kaminsky, Ronald -- Ducray, Pierre -- Jung, Martin -- Clover, Ralph -- Rufener, Lucien -- Bouvier, Jacques -- Weber, Sandra Schorderet -- Wenger, Andre -- Wieland-Berghausen, Susanne -- Goebel, Thomas -- Gauvry, Noelle -- Pautrat, Francois -- Skripsky, Thomas -- Froelich, Olivier -- Komoin-Oka, Clarisse -- Westlund, Bethany -- Sluder, Ann -- Maser, Pascal -- England -- Nature. 2008 Mar 13;452(7184):176-80. doi: 10.1038/nature06722.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Novartis Centre de Recherche Sante Animale, CH-1566 St Aubin (FR), Switzerland. ronald.kaminsky@novartis.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18337814" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Aging
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Amino Acid Sequence
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Aminoacetonitrile/adverse effects/*analogs &
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derivatives/pharmacokinetics/*pharmacology
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Animals
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Anthelmintics/chemistry/*classification/pharmacokinetics/*pharmacology
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Caenorhabditis elegans/drug effects/genetics/metabolism
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Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Cattle
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Cattle Diseases/drug therapy/parasitology
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*Drug Resistance/genetics
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Larva/drug effects/genetics
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Nematoda/*drug effects/genetics/physiology
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Parasitic Diseases, Animal/drug therapy/*parasitology
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Receptors, Nicotinic/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Sheep/parasitology
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Sheep Diseases/drug therapy/parasitology
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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