Anti-Plasmodium activity of imidazolium and triazolium salts

JZ Vlahakis, C Lazar, IE Crandall, WA Szarek

Index: Vlahakis, Jason Z.; Lazar, Carmen; Crandall, Ian E.; Szarek, Walter A. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 2010 , vol. 18, # 16 p. 6184 - 6196

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Abstract

We have previously reported that tetrazolium salts were both potent and specific inhibitors of Plasmodium replication, and that they appear to interact with a parasite component that is both essential and conserved. The use of tetrazolium salts in vivo is limited by the potential reduction of the tetrazolium ring to form an inactive, neutral acyclic formazan. To address this issue imidazolium and triazolium salts were synthesized and evaluated as Plasmodium ...