Schistosoma mansoni: N-acetylcysteine downregulates oxidative stress and enhances the antischistosomal activity of artemether in mice

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 230-235

  Seif el Din, Sayed H ^a   Al Hroob, Amir M ^b   Ebeid, Fatma A ^a  

^a E   (Egypt)

^b AL HUSSEIN BIN TALAL UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Artemether; Mice; N acetylcysteine; Oxidative stress; S. mansoni

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ARTEMETHER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; INFECTION CONTROL; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; ARTEMISININS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MICE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMICIDES;

MUS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 79956101516     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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