Therapeutic effects of Sophora moorcroftiana alkaloids in combination with albendazole in mice experimentally infected with protoscolices of Echinococcus granulosus

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1403-1408

  Ma, X M ^a   Bao, G Sh ^a   Wan, J M ^b   Liao, D J ^b   Yin, Sh F ^a   Meng, X Q ^a   Zhou, G K ^a   Lu, X M ^c   Li, H Y ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Lanzhou Tongjian Biotechnology Company   (China)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Cytokines; Echinococcus granulosus; Ethnobotany; Sophora moorcroftiana; Therapeutics

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ALKALOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; PLANT EXTRACT; SOPHORA MOORCROFTIANA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; FEMALE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HYDATID CYST; IN VIVO STUDY; INOCULATION; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; SOPHORA; SOPHORA MOORCROFTIANA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; MUS; SOPHORA;

EID: 35548972016     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2006005000167     Document Type: Article

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