Plasmodium berghei: Parasite clearance after treatment with dihydroartemisinin in an asplenic murine malaria model

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 458-467

  Moore, Brioni R ^a   Jago, Jeffrey D ^a   Batty, Kevin T ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

alanine transaminase; ALT; aspartate transaminase; Asplenic; AST; DHA; dihydroartemisinin; Drug efficacy; Liver; Malaria; Mouse; P. berghei; Plasmodium berghei

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROARTEMISININ;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPLENIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ERYTHROCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER FUNCTION; MALARIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SWISS WEBSTER MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMEPROTEINS; HEMOGLOBINS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER; LUNG; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLATELET COUNT; SESQUITERPENES; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY;

MURINAE; MUS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 40649125563     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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