Inactivation of trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigote forms in blood components with a psoralen and ultraviolet a light

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 562-565

  Gottlieb, Paul ^a   Margolis Nunno, Henrietta ^a   Robinson, Richard ^a   Shen, Li Gang ^a   Chimezie, Eleanor ^a   Horowitz, Bernard ^a   Ben Hur, Ehud ^a  

^a NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINOMETHYLTRIOXSALEN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; TRIOXYSALEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; PARASITOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; THROMBOCYTE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PLATELETS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PLASMA; TRIOXSALEN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0030139296     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1996.tb05656.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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