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Antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activity induced by loperamide in mycobacterial infections

• Loperamide modulates macrophages immune responses towards mycobacteria. • Loperamide is an immunoregulator of inflammation during mycobacterial infection. • Loperamide induces immunomodulatory responses and bactericidal mechanisms. • The activation of opioid receptors by loperamide is involved in...

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Autores principales: Juárez, Esmeralda, Ruiz, Andy, Cortez, Omar, Sada, Eduardo, Torres, Martha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier B.V. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30268801
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intimp.2018.09.013
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author Juárez, Esmeralda
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description • Loperamide modulates macrophages immune responses towards mycobacteria. • Loperamide is an immunoregulator of inflammation during mycobacterial infection. • Loperamide induces immunomodulatory responses and bactericidal mechanisms. • The activation of opioid receptors by loperamide is involved in its immunomodulatory activity.
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spelling pubmed-71854702020-04-28 Antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activity induced by loperamide in mycobacterial infections Juárez, Esmeralda Ruiz, Andy Cortez, Omar Sada, Eduardo Torres, Martha Int Immunopharmacol Article • Loperamide modulates macrophages immune responses towards mycobacteria. • Loperamide is an immunoregulator of inflammation during mycobacterial infection. • Loperamide induces immunomodulatory responses and bactericidal mechanisms. • The activation of opioid receptors by loperamide is involved in its immunomodulatory activity. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2018-12 2018-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7185470/ /pubmed/30268801 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intimp.2018.09.013 Text en © 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activity induced by loperamide in mycobacterial infections
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title_fullStr Antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activity induced by loperamide in mycobacterial infections
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30268801
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intimp.2018.09.013
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