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      Modes of action of anthelmintic drugs.

      Veterinary Journal (London, England : 1997)
      Animals, Anthelmintics, chemistry, pharmacology, therapeutic use, Calcium Channel Agonists, Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Diethylcarbamazine, Drug Resistance, genetics, physiology, GABA Agonists, Helminthiasis, drug therapy, physiopathology, Helminthiasis, Animal, Helminths, drug effects, Ionophores, Microtubules, metabolism, Nicotinic Agonists, Phosphoglycerate Kinase, antagonists & inhibitors, Phosphoglycerate Mutase, Structure-Activity Relationship, Tubulin

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          Modes of action of anthelmintic drugs are described. Some anthelmintic drugs act rapidly and selectively on neuromuscular transmission of nematodes. Levamisole, pyrantel and morantel are agonists at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors of nematode muscle and cause spastic paralysis. Dichlorvos and haloxon are organophosphorus cholinesterase antagonists. Piperazine is a GABA (gamma-amino-butyric acid) agonist at receptors on nematode muscles and causes flaccid paralysis. The avermectins increase the opening of glutamate-gated chloride (GluCl) channels and produce paralysis of pharyngeal pumping. Praziquantel has a selective effect on the tegument of trematodes and increases permeability of calcium. Other anthelmintics have a biochemical mode of action. The benzimidazole drugs bind selectively to beta-tubulin of nematodes, cestodes and fluke, and inhibit microtubule formation. The salicylanilides: rafoxanide, oxyclozanide, brotianide and closantel and the substituted phenol, nitroxynil, are proton ionophores. Clorsulon is a selective antagonist of fluke phosphoglycerate kinase and mutase. Diethylcarbamazine blocks host, and possibly parasite, enzymes involved in arachidonic acid metabolism, and enhances the innate, nonspecific immune system.

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