Alkaloids induce programmed cell death in bloodstream forms of trypanosomes (Trypanosoma b. brucei)

Molecules

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2462-2473

  Rosenkranz, Vera ^a   Wink, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Apoptosis; Jurkat APO S; Leukemia; Programmed cell death; Trypanosoma brucei; Trypanosomiasis

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; INTERCALATING AGENT;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MICROTUBULE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMANS; INTERCALATING AGENTS; JURKAT CELLS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; MICROTUBULES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 55249117688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules13102462     Document Type: Article

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