Toxocara canis: Search for a potential drug amongst β-carboline alkaloids-in vitro and mouse studies

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 134-139

  Satou, Tadaaki ^a   Horiuchi, Akiko ^a   Akao, Nobuaki ^b   Koike, Kazuo ^a   Fujita, Koichiro ^b   Nikaido, Tamotsu ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carboline; Chemotherapy; Liposome; Toxocara canis

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ALKALOID; BETA CARBOLINE; LIPOSOME; MACROGOL; TIABENDAZOLE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; HOST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LARVA MIGRANS; LIVER; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; CARBOLINES; CELL LINE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LARVA; LARVA MIGRANS; LIPOSOMES; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NITRIC OXIDE; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

CANIS; TOXOCARA CANIS;

EID: 18844453391     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.02.006     Document Type: Article

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