Auranofin effective against amoebas in lab and animal studies - News-Medical.Net

Because of the need for an oxygen-free environment, most tests on amoebas are conducted in small batches, testing one or two compounds at a time. The modern approach to these tests - conducting thousands of screens at once - had never been done ...

Auranofin Can Treat Amoebic Dysentery - TopNews United States

As per a research, which has been published in the Nature Medicine, it has been revealed that auranofin, which is used to treat arthritis, can now used to fight amoebic dysentery as well. Amoebic dysentery is generally caused by Entamoeba histolytica ...

Old drug for arthritis is effective against killer parasites - YAHOO!

Researchers in California found that auranofin, an oral therapy for arthritis that has been around since 1985, is highly effective against the parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Carried in water and food, the parasite is a major but often neglected hazard in ...

Dysentery May Be Treatable With Cheap Arthritis Drug - Medical News Today

The antirheumatic drug is called auranofin, marketed as ridaura, and is a form of the precious metal gold. The researchers were screening already approved drugs to find new treatments for the developing world when they made their discovery.

Arthritis Drug Effective Against Global Parasite, Study Suggests - Science Daily

Based on these results, the team has received Orphan Drug Status for the drug, known as auranofin, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and has applied for approval to start clinical trials to treat both amebiasis and the parasite Giardia in humans.

Arthritis Drug Effective Against Amoebic Parasites - Med India

Researchers in California found that auranofin, an oral therapy for arthritis that has been around since 1985, is highly effective against the parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Carried in water and food, the parasite is a major but often neglected ...

RA drug effective against Entamoeba histolytica - News-Medical.Net

"Because auranofin has already been approved by the FDA for use in humans, we can save years of expensive development," said Reed. "In our studies in animal models, auranofin was ten times more potent against this parasite than metronidazole."

Drug for parasite behind major cause of death worldwide found - Smash Hits.com

Using a high-throughput screen for drugs developed by them, a collaborative group of scientists from UC San Diego School of Medicine, UC San Francisco and Wake Forest School of Medicine discovered that auranofin - a drug approved by the US Food ...

Drug Found for Parasite That Is Major Cause of Death Worldwide - Newswise

Using a high-throughput screen for drugs developed by the research team, they discovered that auranofin – a drug approved by the US Food and Drug Administration 25 years ago for rheumatoid arthritis – is very effective in targeting an enzyme that ...