In vivo monitoring of intracellular ATP levels in Leishmania donovani promastigotes as a rapid method to screen drugs targeting bioenergetic metabolism

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1121-1125

  Luque Ortega, J R ^a   Rivero Lezcano, O M ^a   Croft, S L ^a   Rivas, L ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 NAPHTHOQUINONE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ATOVAQUONE; BUPARVAQUONE; DIMINAZENE ACETURATE; JUGLONE; LAPACHOL; LAWSONE; LUCIFERASE; LUCIFERIN; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE; MENADIONE; MEPACRINE; NIFURTIMOX; PENTAMIDINE; PLUMBAGIN; PYRONARIDINE;

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TARGETING; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LUMINESCENCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENERGY METABOLISM; FIREFLY LUCIFERIN; KINETICS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MITOCHONDRIA; NAPHTHOQUINONES; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0035077737     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.4.1121-1125.2001     Document Type: Article

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