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The current treatment, praziquantel, has been in use since the 1980\u2019s and there is a concern that drug resistance may emerge with continued monotherapy. Given the need for additional antischistosomal drugs, we have re-visited an old lead, meclonazepam. In comparison to praziquantel, there has been relatively little work on its antiparasitic mechanism. Recent findings indicate that praziquantel and meclonazepam act through distinct receptors, making benzodiazepines a promising chemical series for further exploration. Previous work has profiled the transcriptional changes evoked by praziquantel treatment. Here, we examine in detail schistosome phenotypes evoked by\n                  <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>\n                  and\n                  <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                  meclonazepam treatment. These data confirm that meclonazepam causes extensive tegument damage and directly kills parasites, as measured by pro-apoptotic caspase activation.\n                  <jats:italic>In vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                  meclonazepam exposure results in differential expression of many genes that are divergent in parasitic flatworms, as well as several gene products implicated in blood feeding and regulation of hemostasis in other parasites. Many of these transcripts are also differentially expressed with praziquantel exposure, which may reflect a common schistosome response to the two drugs. However, despite these similarities in drug response, praziquantel-resistant parasites retain susceptibility to meclonazepam\u2019s schistocidal effects. These data provide new insight into the mechanism of antischistosomal benzodiazepines, resolving similarities and differences with the current frontline therapy, praziquantel.\n                <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1101\/2024.10.29.620505","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,2]],"date-time":"2024-11-02T03:10:22Z","timestamp":1730517022000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Transcriptional phenotype of the anti-parasitic benzodiazepine meclonazepam on the blood fluke\n                  <i>Schistosoma mansoni<\/i>"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"given":"Clair R.","family":"Henthorn","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Paul","family":"McCusker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Winka Le","family":"Clec\u2019h","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2611-8106","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric D.","family":"Chevalier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0191-0204","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Timothy J.C.","family":"Anderson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9233-1760","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mostafa","family":"Zamanian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4986-972X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"John D.","family":"Chan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"54368","reference":[{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF00389899"},{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41467-021-24958-0"},{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1101\/2024.08.29.610291"},{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.4","first-page":"147","article-title":"Ro 11-3128, a novel schistosomicidal compound","volume":"1","year":"1978","journal-title":"Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Chemotherapy"},{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.5","first-page":"617","article-title":"Preliminary results in human schistosomiasis with Ro 11-3128","volume":"55","year":"1979","journal-title":"S Afr Med J."},{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(81)90251-8"},{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0009189"},{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.1999.60.932"},{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pntd.0000504"},{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.18-0533"},{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijpddr.2023.06.002"},{"key":"2024110510450994000_2024.10.29.620505v1.12","first-page":"685","article-title":"Farghaly AM, el-Azony AS. 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