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Julio A. Urbina
Researcher at Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research
Publications - 138
Citations - 9510
Julio A. Urbina is an academic researcher from Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Trypanosoma cruzi & Chagas disease. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 138 publications receiving 9024 citations. Previous affiliations of Julio A. Urbina include Central University of Venezuela.
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Specific chemotherapy of Chagas disease: controversies and advances.
Julio A. Urbina,Roberto Docampo +1 more
TL;DR: Promising approaches include interference with trypanothione synthesis and redox metabolism, in addition to inhibition of purine salvage, dihydrofolate reductase, phospholipid biosynthesis, and protein prenylation and acylation.
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Specific chemotherapy of Chagas disease: relevance, current limitations and new approaches.
TL;DR: A critical review of the development of specific chemotherapeutic approaches for the management of American Trypanosomiasis or Chagas disease is presented, and the most promising approaches are ergosterol biosynthesis inhibitors such as posaconazole and ravuconazole.
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Chemotherapy of trypanosomiases and leishmaniasis
TL;DR: Financial constraints continue to represent a major hurdle to drug development, however, the appearance of not-for-profit product-development partnerships offers a new paradigm for bringing new drugs to patients.
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Molecular order and dynamics of phosphatidylcholine bilayer membranes in the presence of cholesterol, ergosterol and lanosterol: a comparative study using 2H-, 13C- and 31p-NMR spectroscopy
TL;DR: 13C and 1H spin dynamics studies of these systems showed that the mobility of the different regions of the phospholipid molecules in the binary lipid systems were inversely correlated with the ordering effects induced by the sterols.
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The challenges of Chagas Disease-- grim outlook or glimmer of hope.
TL;DR: The authors discuss the key challenges that undermine the control of Chagas disease and that must be urgently addressed to ensure long-term, sustainable control.