›› 2007, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (5): 15-421.

• 综述 • Previous Articles     Next Articles

New Channels and Transporters as Anti-malaria Drug Targets

XU Tao;ZHU Huai-min*   

  1. Department of Parasitology, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-10-30 Published:2007-10-30
  • Contact: ZHU Huai-min

Abstract: In order to get more nutrition from outside the erythrocyte, new channels were induced by malaria par-asite. These channels play an important role in physiology of the parasitized cell. They are of interest both as potential targets in their own right and as potential drug targeting routes capable of mediating the entry of cytotoxic drugs into the app-ropriate compartment of the infected cell. It is hoped that this new anti-malarial strategy will help to create a sustainable anti-malaria-drug-development portfolio for the treatment of malaria.

Key words: Malaria parasite, Transport, Target