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ArticleScientific reports2025

Discovery of clocinizine as a potential oral drug against Schistosoma mansoni infection.

Thalitta Castro, Thainá R Teixeira, Mariana Siegl, Flávia B Lopes, Maria Cristina C Espírito-Santo, João Paulo S Fernandes, Josué de Moraes

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Thalitta CastroNúcleo de Pesquisas em Doenças Negligenciadas, Universidade Guarulhos, Guarulhos, SP, 07023‑070, Brazil.
Thainá R TeixeiraNúcleo de Pesquisas em Doenças Negligenciadas, Universidade Guarulhos, Guarulhos, SP, 07023‑070, Brazil.
Mariana SieglDepartamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, SP, 09913-030, Brazil.
Flávia B LopesDepartamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, SP, 09913-030, Brazil.
Maria Cristina C Espírito-SantoLaboratório de Imunopatologia da Esquistossomose (LIM-06), Departamento de Moléstias Infecciosas e Parasitárias, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 01246-903, Brazil.
João Paulo S FernandesDepartamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, SP, 09913-030, Brazil. joao.fernandes@unifesp.br.
Josué de MoraesNúcleo de Pesquisas em Doenças Negligenciadas, Universidade Guarulhos, Guarulhos, SP, 07023‑070, Brazil. moraesnpdn@gmail.com.

Funding

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior 001Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo 2023/08418-6
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Schistosomiasis, a disease caused by parasitic worms, imposes a significant global health burden, affecting over 240 million people, particularly in low-income regions. To meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasize the need for novel antischistosomal agents. In previous work we identified that cinnarizine, a first-generation antihistamine, has promising antischistosomal activity. This study investigates the therapeutic potential of clocinizine, a chlorinated analogue of cinnarizine, against Schistosoma mansoni. Both in vitro and in vivo studies were conducted to assess its efficacy and compare it to the standard-of-care drug, praziquantel. Clocinizine exhibited potent in vitro antiparasitic activity, with an EC

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CinnarizineSchistosoma mansoniSchistosomiasis mansoniSchistosomicidesAdministration, OralAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalFemaleMaleMicePraziquantelCinnarizinePraziquantelSchistosomicides

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PMID40841386
PMCPMC12371007

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