Flavonoid dimers as bivalent modulators for pentamidine and sodium stiboglucanate resistance in Leishmania

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 930-940

  Wong, Iris L K ^a,b   Chan, Kin Fai ^a,b   Burkett, Brendan A ^a,b   Zhao, Yunzhe ^a,b   Chai, Yi ^c   Sun, Hongzhe ^c   Chan, Tak Hang ^a,b   Chow, Larry M C ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b State Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; APIGENIN; DIMER; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FLAVONOID; MEPACRINE; MONOMER; PENTAMIDINE; QUINIDINE; QUININE; RESERPINE; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG SENSITIZATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MITOCHONDRION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIMONY SODIUM GLUCONATE; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; APIGENIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE; FLAVONOIDS; LEISHMANIA ENRIETTII; MASS SPECTROMETRY; P-GLYCOPROTEIN; PENTAMIDINE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 33847607921     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00998-06     Document Type: Article

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