Drug screening and development cascade for Chagas disease: an update of in vitro and in vivo experimental models.
Maria de Nazaré Correia SoeiroPolicarpo Ademar Sales-JuniorValeria Rêgo Alves PereiraMarcos André Vannier-SantosSilvane Maria Fonseca MurtaAndrea Silvestre de SousaLuiz Henrique Conde SangenisAlejandro Marcel Hasslocher MorenoNúbia BoechatFrederico Silva Castelo BrancoFabíola Barbieri HoletzAndrea Rodrigues ÁvilaMirian Claudia de Souza PereiraPublished in: Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (2024)
Chagas disease is a tropical neglected disease that affects millions of people worldwide, still demanding a more effective and safer therapy, especially in its chronic phase which lacks a treatment that promotes substantial parasitological cure. The technical note of Romanha and collaborators published in 2010 aimed establish a guideline with the set of minimum criteria and decision gates for the development of new agents against Trypanosoma cruzi with the focus on developing new antichagasic drugs. In this sense, the present review aims to update this technical note, bringing the state of the art and new advances on this topic in recent years.