Antileishmanial activity and ultrastructural alterations of Leishmania (L.) chagasi treated with the calcium channel blocker nimodipine

Parasitology Research

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 499-505

  Tempone, André Gustavo ^a   Taniwaki, Noemi Nosomi ^a   Reimão, Juliana Quero ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE; NIMODIPINE;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HAMSTER; INCUBATION TIME; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMONY; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MACACA MULATTA; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITOCHONDRIA; NIMODIPINE; NITRIC OXIDE;

LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MAMMALIA;

EID: 67649537556     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1427-8     Document Type: Article

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