Artemisinin Antimalarials Do Not Inhibit Hemozoin Formation
Open Access
- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 47 (3), 1175
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.47.3.1175.2003
Abstract
The mechanism of action of artemisinin antimalarials may be ascribed to C-centered radicals that alkylate biomolecules or to the peroxide moiety, which inhibits a specific, as yet undefined, target ([4][1]). It is also proposed that artemisinins kill the parasite through inhibition of hemozoinThis publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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