Role of Efflux Pumps and Intracellular Thiols in Natural Antimony Resistant Isolates of Leishmania donovani

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Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Rai, Smita ^a   Bhaskar, ^a   Goel, Sudhir K ^b   Nath Dwivedi, Upendra ^c   Sundar, Shyam ^d   Goyal, Neena ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

^d BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIMONY TARTRATE; AQUAPORIN 1; CALMODULIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN A; RHODAMINE 123; THIOL; TRIFLUOPERAZINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERAPAMIL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NONHUMAN; ODC GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TR GENE;

ANTIMONY; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; P-GLYCOPROTEIN; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884257219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074862     Document Type: Article

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