Antimalarial activity of allicin, a biologically active compound from garlic cloves

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1731-1737

  Coppi, Alida ^a   Cabinian, Melissa ^a   Mirelman, David ^b   Sinnis, Photini ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c Department of Medical Parasitology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLICIN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; N [N (3 CARBOXYOXIRANE 2 CARBONYL)LEUCYL]AGMATINE; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TARGETING; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GARLIC; HOST CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROZOITE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIMALARIALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GARLIC; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PARASITEMIA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRECIPITIN TESTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROZOITES; SULFINIC ACIDS; SULFUR RADIOISOTOPES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646447331     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.50.5.1731-1737.2006     Document Type: Article

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