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Degrees:

1978
Alicia Ponte-Sucre > Degrees
Biological Systems and Organisms
1981
Alicia Ponte-Sucre > Degrees
Biological Systems and Organisms
1993
Alicia Ponte-Sucre > Degrees
Biological Systems and Organisms

Publications resulting from Research
Since 2009:
1. Ponte-Sucre, A., Gulder, T., Wegehaupt, A., Albert, C., Rikanović, C., Schaeflein, L., Frank, A., Schultheis, M., Unger, M., Holzgrabe, U., Bringmann, G., Moll, H. Structure-Activity Relationship and Studies on the Molecular Mechanism of Leishmanicidal N,C-Coupled Arylisoquinolinium Salts. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 52:626-36, 2009.
2. Padrón-Nieves, M., Díaz, E., Machuca, C., Romero, A., Ponte-Sucre, A. Glibenclamide modulates glucantime activity and disposition in Leishmania major. Experimental Parasitology, 121:331-337, 2009.
3. Ponte-Sucre A. (Editor) ABC Transporters in Microorganisms: Research, Innovation and Value as Targets against Drug Resistance, Horizon Scientific Press, 2009.
4. Ponte-Sucre A, Padrón-Nieves M, Díaz E. ABC transporter blockers and reversal of drug resistance in microorganisms. In “ABC Transporters in Microorganisms: Research, Innovation and Value as Targets against Drug Resistance, Ed. Alicia Ponte-Sucre, Horizon Scientific Press, pp. 177-195, 2009.
5. Ponte-Sucre, A., Gulder, T., Gulder, T., Vollmers, T., Bringmann, G. Moll, H. Alterations on the structure of Leishmania major induced by N arylisoquinolines correlate with compound accumulation and disposition. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 59:69-75, 2010.
6. Aguilar, C.M., Maldonado, J., Bonfante Garrido, R., Borges, R., Tapia, F.J., Delgado, O., Jorquera, A., D´Suze, C., Rojas, E., Mendoza-León, A., Ponte Sucre, A. Evaluación de Enfermedades Parasitarias en Venezuela. Sugerencias para la Solución de problemas en las distintas parasitosis, caso Leishmaniasis. Documento producido durante las XXVIII Jornadas de la Sociedad Parasitológica Venezolana (SPV) “J W Torrealba” Centro de Investigaciones en Salud Pública “Jacinto Convit”. Sanare, Estado Lara, 2- 4 de Julio de 2009. Salus On Line, 14:1, 2010.
7. Llanes-Coronel, D.S., Gámez-Díaz, L.Y., Suarez-Quintero, L.P. Páez, L.J. Torres, F., Echeverri, F., Ponte-Sucre, A., Patiño, P.J., Trujillo-Vargas, C.M., New promising Euphorbiaceae extracts with activity in human lymphocytes from primary cell cultures. Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology 33:279-90, 2011.
8. Díaz, E., Köhidai, L., Ríos, A., Vanegas, O., Ponte-Sucre, A. Ensayos de quimiotaxis in vitro en Leishmania sp. Evaluación de la técnica de los capilares-dos cámaras en promastigotes”, Revista de la Facultad de Farmacia, UCV, 74: 31-40, 2011.
9. Ponte-Sucre, A., Díaz, E., Padrón Nieves, M. Quantitative Structure-Activity analysis of leishmanicidal compounds. In “Chemoinformatics: Directions Toward Combating Neglected Diseases”, Ed. Teodorico C. Ramalho. E-book, Bentham Sciences ISBN 978-1-60805-183-0. 33-48, 2012. http://benthamscience.com/ebooks/9781608051830/index.htm,
10. Ponte-Sucre, A., Díaz, E., Padrón Nieves, M. (Editors) Drug resistance in Leishmania parasites. Consequences, Molecular Mechanisms, and possible treatments. Springer Verlag Wien, 2012.
11. Ponte-Sucre, A. Leishmaniasis, the biology of a parasite. In Drug resistance in Leishmania parasites. Consequences, Molecular Mechanisms, and possible treatments. Springer Verlag Wien, pp. 1-12, 2012.
12. Zerpa, O., Ponte-Sucre, A. American tegumentary leishmaniasis. In Drug resistance in Leishmania parasites. Consequences, Molecular Mechanisms, and possible treatments. Springer Verlag Wien, pp. 199-111, 2012.
13. Ponte-Sucre, A., Díaz, E., Padrón Nieves, M. The concept of fitness and drug resistance in Leishmania. In Drug resistance in Leishmania parasites. Consequences, Molecular Mechanisms, and possible treatments. Springer Verlag Wien, pp. 431-449, 2012.
14. Padrón-Nieves, M., Ponte-Sucre, A. Marcadores de resistencia en Leishmania: Susceptibilidad in vitro a drogas leishmanicidas vs. retención de calceina en aislados de pacientes venezolanos con Leishmaniasis Cutánea Difusa. Archivos Venezolanos de Farmacología y Terapeutica (en prensa).
15. Díaz, E, Köhidai, L, Ríos A, Vanegas O, Silva, A, Szabó, R, Mező, G, Hudecz, H, Ponte-Sucre, A. Leishmania braziliensis: Cytotoxic and chemotactic effects of branched chain polypeptide conjugates with poly [L-Lysine] backbone. Experimental Parasitology, 135(1):134-141, 2013.
16. Stich, A., Ponte-Sucre, A., Holzgrabe, U. Do we need new drugs against Human African trypanosomiasis? Lancet Infectious Diseases, 13: 733-734, 2013.
17. Padron-Nieves, M., Diaz, E., Machuca, C., Rodriguez, N., Cotrim, P., Ponte-Sucre, A. Correlation between glucose uptake and membrane potential in Leishmania parasites isolated from DCL-patients with therapeutic failure: A proof of concept. Parasitology Research 113(6):2121-2128, 2014.
18. Vanaerschot, M., Dumetz, F., Roy, S., Ponte-Sucre, A., Arevalo, J., Dujardin, J.C. Treatment failure in leishmaniasis: drug-resistance or another (epi-) phenotype? Expert Reviews Anti Infective Therapy, 12(8):937-46, 2014.
19. Alcazar, W., Silva López, A., Alakurtti, S., Tuononen, M.L., Yli-Kauhaluom, J., Ponte-Sucre, A. Betulin derivatives impair Leishmania braziliensis viability and host-parasite interaction" by. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 22:6220-6226, 2014.
20. Ponte-Sucre, A., Bruhn, H., Schirmeister, T., Cecil, A., Albert, C.A., Buechold, C., Tischer, M., Schlesinger, S., Goebel, T., Fuß, A., Mathein, D., Merget, B., Sotriffer, C.A., Stich, A., Krohne, G., Engstler, M., Bringmann, G., Holzgrabe, U. Anti- trypanosomal activities and structural chemical properties of selected compound classes. Parasitology Research 114:501-12, 2015
21. Cecil, A., Ohlsen, K., Menzel, T., Francois, P., Schrenzel, J., Fischer, A., Dörries, K., Selle, M., Lalk, M., Hantzschmann, J., Dittirch, M., Liang, C., Bernhardt, J., Oelschlaeger, T., Bringmann, G., Bruhn, H., Unger, M., Ponte-Sucre, A., Lehmann, L., Dandekar, T. Modelling antibiotic and cytotoxic isoquinoline effects in Staphylococci and human cells. International Journal of Medical Microbiology 305:96-109, 2015.