Photodynamic therapy for American cutaneous leishmaniasis: The efficacy of methylene blue in hamsters experimentally infected with Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 353-356

  Peloi, Lílian Somenci ^a   Biondo, Carlos Eduardo Guerino ^a   Kimura, Elza ^a   Politi, Mario José ^b   Lonardoni, Maria Valdrinez Campana ^a   Aristides, Sandra Mara Alessi ^a   Dorea, Regina Coeli Cunha ^c   Hioka, Noboru ^a   Silveira, Thaís Gomes Verzignassi ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Leishmania amazonensis; Light Emitting Diode; Methylene Blue; Photodynamic Therapy

Indexed keywords

METHYLENE BLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FOOT PAD; HAMSTER; IRRADIATION; LEISHMANIA; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LYMPH NODE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE MIGRATION; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SPLEEN; THERAPY EFFECT;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; METHYLENE BLUE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SPLEEN;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS;

EID: 79960555232     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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