Antimalarial Activity of Tetrahydrohomopteroic Acid
R. L. Kisliuk 1,
M. Friedkin 1,
L. H. Schmidt 2, and
R. N. Rossan 2
1 Department of Pharmacology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111
2 National Center for Primate Biology, University of California, Davis 95616
Tetrahydrohomopteroic acid, an analog of tetrahydrofolic acid, shows antimalarial activity against Plasmodium cynomolgi and a pyrimethamine-resistant variant of this organism.