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Imipramine Is an Orally Active Drug against Both Antimony Sensitive and Resistant Leishmania donovani Clinical Isolates in Experimental Infection
BACKGROUND: In an endeavor to find an orally active and affordable antileishmanial drug, we tested the efficacy of a cationic amphiphilic drug, imipramine, commonly used for the treatment of depression in humans. The only available orally active antileishmanial drug is miltefosine with long half lif...
Autores principales: | Mukherjee, Sandip, Mukherjee, Budhaditya, Mukhopadhyay, Rupkatha, Naskar, Kshudiram, Sundar, Shyam, Dujardin, Jean Claude, Das, Anjan Kumar, Roy, Syamal |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23301108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001987 |
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