Quinoline--a promising fragment in the search for new antimalarials

Mini Rev Med Chem. 2014 Apr;14(4):332-44. doi: 10.2174/1389557514666140220123226.

Abstract

Malaria continues to be a potentially fatal threat to almost half of the world's population. In the present review, efforts have been made to provide a literature concerning the study of quinoline as a privilege structure for search of new malarials. The review covers advances in that field made in few last years.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antimalarials / chemistry*
  • Antimalarials / pharmacology
  • Antimalarials / therapeutic use
  • Drug Design
  • Humans
  • Malaria / drug therapy
  • Plasmodium falciparum / drug effects
  • Quinolines / chemistry*
  • Quinolines / pharmacology
  • Quinolines / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Quinolines
  • quinoline