Flow cytometry, a useful tool for detecting the lethal effect of pentamidine on Leishmania Viannia complex promastigote forms

Pharmacological Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 281-286

  Delgado, Gabriela ^a   Puentes, Fabiola ^a   Moreno, Alberto ^a   Patarroyo, Manuel Elkin ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Axenic amastigotes; Flow cytometry; Pentamidine; Promastigotes

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; PENTAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM;

ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE;

EID: 0034773942     PISSN: 10436618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/phrs.2001.0825     Document Type: Article

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