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Anti-amebic effects of Chinese rhubarb (Rheum palmatum) leaves' extract, the anthraquinone rhein and related compounds

Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people worldwide and causes 55 thousand fatalities every year. Current anti-amebic drugs (e.g. paromomycin) work either at the level of the intestinal lumen (where trophozoites proliferate via cell divisions) or on the invasive trophozoites that have penetrat...

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Autores principales: Espinosa, Avelina, Paz-y-Miño-C, Guillermo, Santos, Yoly, Ma, Hang, Nadeau, Michael, Seeram, Navindra P., Rowley, David C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7118315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32258515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03693