Table 2.
Host-targeted therapeutics for Chagas disease.
Host-targeted Drug | Classification | Mode of action | Reference |
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Cannabinoids, SQ29548 | inhibitors | G protein couple receptor | Scharfstein et al., 2000; Todorov et al., 2003; Croxford et al., 2005;Ashton et al., 2007; Wallukat et al., 2010; Kawano et al., 2011 |
Carvedilol | β-adrenergic receptor blocker | β-adrenergic receptor | Botoni et al., 2007 |
SB-431542 compound | inhibitor | TGF-β type I receptor kinase | Silva et al., 1991; Araujo-Jorge et al., 2002; Waghabi et al., 2005; Waghabi et al., 2007 |
Terpenoides | Inhibitors | NF-κB signaling | Petersen et al., 2006; Ronco et al., 2010; da Silva et al., 2013; Sulsen et al., 2013 |
Lycopodium clavatum | immunomodulator | Induces Th1 immune responses | Brustolin Aleixo et al., 2017; Lovo-Martins et al., 2017; Otta et al., 2018 |