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Selection and phenotype characterisation of sitamaquine-resistant promastigotes of Leishmania donovani.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie - 1 Mar 2008
Bories Christian, Cojean Sandrine, Huteau Françoise, Loiseau Philippe M
Abstract excerpt
A Leishmania donovani promastigote line resistant to 160microM sitamaquine, named SITA-160R, was selected in vitro by continuous stepwise drug pressure. SITA-160R line was able to infect murine peritoneal macrophages in vitro in the same manner as the wild-type line (WT) but was less infective for Balb/c mice than its parent WT clone. This line was about five and three times more resistant to sitamaquine than the...
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