Effects of pentamidine on polyamine level and biosynthesis in wild-type, pentamidine-treated, and pentamidine-resistant Leishmania

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 274-282

  Basselin, Mireille ^a   Badet Denisot, Marie Ange ^a   Lawrence, Françoise ^a   Robert Gero, Malka ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTAMIDINE; POLYAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG TARGETING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI;

EID: 0031105745     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.4131     Document Type: Article

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