Anti-Acanthamoebic properties of resveratrol and demethoxycurcumin

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 519-523

  Aqeel, Yousuf ^a   Iqbal, Junaid ^a   Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah ^a   Gilani, Anwar H ^a   Khan, Naveed Ahmed ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Blood brain barrier; Demethoxycurcumin; Encephalitis; Human brain microvascular endothelial cells; Keratitis; Resveratrol

Indexed keywords

CURCUMIN; DEMETHOXYCURCUMIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; RESVERATROL; STILBENE DERIVATIVE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MICROVASCULATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; BRAIN; CELL ADHESION; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; CURCUMIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MICROVESSELS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; STILBENES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872763215     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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