Targeted killing of leishmania donovani in vivo and in vitro with amphotericin β attached to functionalized carbon nanotubes

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 874-879

  Prajapati, Vijay Kumar ^a   Awasthi, Kalpana ^b   Gautam, Shalini ^a   Yadav, Thakur Prasad ^b   Rai, Madhukar ^a   Srivastava, Onkar Nath ^b   Sundar, Shyam ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

L. donovani; Nanomedicine; VL

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMPHOTERICIN B; CREATININE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; UREA;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMASTIGOTE; AMIDATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXYLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HAMSTER; IC 50; IN VIVO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INJECTION SITE REACTION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 79952802870     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr002     Document Type: Article

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