targets, screens, drugs and vaccines Caffrey, Conor R. text bibliography Electronic books. gw Weinheim, Germany Wiley-VCH 2012 monographic eng 1 online resource (xxiii, 516 pages :) : illustrations (some color). Part one: targets -- Ligand-gated ion channels as targets for anthelmintic drugs: past, current, and future perspectives -- How relevant is Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for the analysis of parasitic nematode biology? -- Integrating and mining helminth genomes to discover and prioritize novel therapeutic targets -- Recent progress in transcriptomics of key gastrointestinal nematodes of animals: fundamental research toward new intervention strategies -- Harnessing genomic technologies to explore the molecular biology of liver flukes-major implications for fundamental and applied research -- RNA interference: a potential discovery tool for therapeutic targets of parasitic nematodes -- RNA interference as a tool for drug discovery in parasitic flatworms -- Part two: screens -- Mechanism-based screening strategies for anthelmintic discovery -- Identification and profiling of nematicidal compounds in veterinary parasitology -- Quantitative high-content screening-based drug discovery against helmintic diseases -- Use of rodent models in the discovery of novel anthelmintics -- To kill a mocking worm: strategies to improve Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system for use in anthelmintic discovery -- Part three: drugs -- Anthelmintic drugs: tools and shortcuts for the long road from discovery to product -- Antinematodal drugs: modes of action and resistance: and worms will not come to thee (Shakespeare: Cymbeline: iv, ii) -- Drugs and targets to perturb the symbiosis of Wolbachia and filarial nematodes -- Promise of Bacillus thuringiensis crystal proteins as anthelmintics -- Monepantel: from discovery to mode of action -- Discovery, mode of action, and commercialization of derquantel -- Praziquantel: too good to be replaced? -- Drug discovery for trematodiases: challenges and progress -- Part four: vaccines -- Barefoot thru' the valley of darkness: preclinical development of a human hookworm vaccine -- Vaccines linked to chemotherapy: a new approach to control helminth infections -- Antifilarial vaccine development: present and future approaches -- Proteases as vaccines against gastrointestinal nematode parasites of sheep and cattle -- Schistosomiasis vaccines: new approaches to antigen discovery and promising new candidates -- Sm14 Schistosoma mansoni fatty acid-binding protein: molecular basis for an antihelminth vaccine -- Mechanisms of immune modulation by Fasciola hepatica: importance for vaccine development and for novel immunotherapeutics -- Prospects for immunoprophylaxis against Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) -- Vaccines against cestode parasites. edited by Conor R. Caffrey. Includes bibliographical references and index. Helminths Parasites Parasitic diseases Treatment Parasitic diseases Diagnosis Helminths Parasites Parasitic diseases Diagnosis Parasitic diseases Treatment RC119.7 .P37 2012eb 616.96061 9783527652969 3527652965 9783527652938 3527652930 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9783527652969 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9783527652969 E7B 120713 20170612141630.0 ocn802056669 eng