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Leishmania infantum amastigotes resistant to nitric oxide cytotoxicity: Impact on in vitro parasite developmental cycle and metabolic enzyme activities.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 May 2006
Holzmuller Philippe, Hide Mallorie, Sereno Denis, Lemesre Jean-Loup
Abstract excerpt
Nitric oxide (NO) has been demonstrated to be the principal effector molecule mediating intracellular killing of Leishmania. The free radical characteristic of NO prevented direct induction of resistance in Leishmania wild-type parasites. Starting from the previous observation that antimony-resistant amastigotes of Leishmania infantum were not affected by NO-induced apoptotic death, we used a continuous NO...
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