Development and Application of New Anti-protozoan Agents
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chemical biology; marine natural products; functional food science; epigenetics; stem cell biology; (including all above words in a concept of) chemical epigenomics
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There is a growing need for new anti-protozoan agents to treat neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). So far, a number of lead compounds have been discovered from natural sources, some of which have been successfully developed as anti-protozoan drugs. However, the emergence of resistance against existing drugs or the unavailability of treatments for some NTDs forces us to search for new anti-protozoan drugs. Therefore, in this Special Issue titled “Development and Application of New Anti-protozoan Agents”, we would like to examine the development of new treatments against NTDs.
Prof. Dr. Yoichi Nakao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- NTDs
- anti-protozoan agents
- natural products
- synthetic compounds
- SAR study
- mode of action
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