Plasmodium: Assessment of the antimalarial potential of trifluralin and related compounds using a rat model of malaria, Rattus norvegicus

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 155-160

  Dow, G S ^a   Armson, A ^a   Boddy, M R ^b   Itenge, T ^a   McCarthy, D ^a   Parkin, J E ^b   Thompson, R C A ^a   Reynoldson, J A ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Dinitroaniline (DN); Malaria; Microtubule; Plasmodium; Trifluralin; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

4 CHLORO 3,5 DINITROBENZOTRIFLUORIDE; BENFLURALIN; CHLOROQUINE; COLCHICINE; HERBICIDE; ORYZALIN; PENDIMETHALIN; TRIFLURALIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; MALARIA; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHLOROQUINE; DINITROBENZENES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; MALARIA; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SULFANILAMIDES; TRIFLURALIN;

MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036525509     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(02)00016-4     Document Type: Article

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