Provitamin B5 (Pantothenol) inhibits growth of the intraerythrocytic malaria parasite

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 632-637

  Saliba, Kevin J ^a   Ferru, Isabelle ^a   Kirk, Kiaran ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEXPANTHENOL; PANTOTHENATE KINASE; PANTOTHENIC ACID; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GROWTH INHIBITION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VINCKEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; JURKAT CELLS; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PANTOTHENIC ACID; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 12944286494     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.2.632-637.2005     Document Type: Article

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