Drug Discovery for Chagas Disease: Impact of Different Host Cell Lines on Assay Performance and Hit Compound Selection

Cell-based screening has become the major compound interrogation strategy in Chagas disease drug discovery. Several different cell lines have been deployed as host cells in screening assays. However, host cell characteristics and host-parasite interactions may play an important role when assessing a...

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Main Authors: Caio Haddad Franco, Laura Maria Alcântara, Eric Chatelain, Lucio Freitas-Junior, Carolina Borsoi Moraes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/4/2/82