by Mackey ZB, Baca AM, Mallari JP, Apsel B, Shelat A, Hansell EJ, Chiang PK, Wolff B, Guy KR, Williams J, McKerrow JH. Chem Biol Drug Des, May 2006, 67(5):355-63.
Summary: One potentially rapid and cost-effective approach to identifying and developing new trypanocidal drugs would be high throughput-screening of existing drugs already approved for other uses, as well as clinical candidates in late development. A screen was performed in a collection of 2160 FDA approved drugs, bioactive compounds and natural products to identify hits that were cytotoxic to cultured Trypanosoma brucei at a concentration of 1lM or less. From the screen, 35 hits from seven different drug categories were identified.
