Antileishmanial activity of parthenolide, a sesquiterpene lactone isolated from Tanacetum parthenium

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 176-182

  Tiuman, Tatiana Shioji ^a   Ueda Nakamura, Tânia ^a   Garcia Cortez, Diógenes Aparício ^a   Dias Filho, Benedito Prado ^a   Morgado Díaz, José Andrés ^b   De Souza, Wanderley ^c   Vataru Nakamura, Celso ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILEISHMANIAL AGENT; PARTHENOLIDE; SESQUITERPENE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATED SPECTROSCOPY; DISTORTIONLESS ENHANCEMENT BY POLARIZATION TRANSFER; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; HETERONUCLEAR MULTIPLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; INFRARED RADIATION; LEISHMANIA; MACROPHAGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY; TANACETUM PARTHENIUM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; LACTONES; LEISHMANIA; MACROPHAGES; MICE; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SESQUITERPENES; TANACETUM PARTHENIUM;

EID: 11244341559     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.11.176-182.2005     Document Type: Article

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