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SUBMITTER: Vazquez-Jimenez LK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10058926 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vázquez-Jiménez Lenci K LK Juárez-Saldivar Alfredo A Chan-Bacab Manuel J MJ Delgado-Maldonado Timoteo T González-Morales Luis D LD Palos Isidro I Ortiz-Pérez Eyra E Lara-Ramírez Edgar E EE Ramírez-Moreno Esther E Rivera Gildardo G
Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) 20230303 3
<i>Leishmania mexicana</i> (<i>L. mexicana</i>) is a causal agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), a "<i>Neglected disease</i>", for which the search for new drugs is a priority. Benzimidazole is a scaffold used to develop antiparasitic drugs; therefore, it is interesting molecule against <i>L. mexicana</i>. In this work, a ligand-based virtual screening (LBVS) of the ZINC15 database was performed. Subsequently, molecular docking was used to predict the compounds with potential binding at the di ...[more]