Resistance to pentavalent antimonial drugs and the lack of vaccines make it urgent to find novel therapeutic options to treat Leishmaniasis, a tropical disease caused by the Leishmania protozoan parasite. The study re...
Objective:To investigate the biochemical capacity,and in vitro inhibitory effects of hairy roots from two cultivars of Ficus carica L.(Sabz and Siah)on Leishmania major promastigotes and amastigotes.Methods:In the hai...
supported by Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences(Funding No:97318)。
Objective:Current therapy strategies of leishmaniasis have some problems such as high cost,toxicity and side effects.Plant extracts can be a source of drugs to control leishmaniasis.In this study,the effect of hydroal...
financially supported by the Iran National Science Foundation under Grant ID 95839151 to Saeedeh Farajzadeh
Objective: To explore the antileishmanial effect of tioxolone and its niosomal form against Leishmania tropica. Methods: Tioxolone niosomes were prepared by the hydration method and were evaluated for morphology, size...
supported by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico(CNPq-grant number 424820/2016-1);Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior(CAPES);Edital PAPQ PROPESP-UFPA;the Instituto Nacional de Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagem-INBEB(CNPq-grant number 465395/2014)
Objective: In the present study, we evaluated the effects of the aqueous extract of Physalis angulata root (AEPa) on Leishmania infanturn proliferation, morphology, and the driving mechanism in leishmanicidal activ...
Chalcone derivatives are of immense importance owing to their superior pharmacological profile. Minor changes in their structures create high degree of diversity that results in a broader spectrum of biological activi...
This activity was supported by funds from PATH,USA.The funders had no role in the study’s design,data collection and analysis,decision to publish,or preparation of the paper.
Background:Adverse effects of antileishmanial drugs can affect patients’quality of life and adherence to therapy for visceral leishmaniasis(VL)and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis(PKDL).In Bangladesh,there are 26 ...
Objective: Kigelia africana, a tropical tree, which has long been used in African traditional medicine. The objective of the current study has been identifying the constituents of K. africana and verifying its utiliti...
To study the phytochemical constituents and in vitro biological activities of hydromethanolic extract and fractions from Algerian Sahara Myrtus nivellei (M. nivellei) collected in Hoggar region and to identify the act...
financially supported by Vice Chancellors for Research and Technology of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences(project number:1919)
Objective: To evaluate the effect of doxorubicin and its pegylated liposomal formulation(Doxil, Caelyx) on in vitro susceptibility of promastigote and amastigote stages of Leishmania major. Methods: Throughout in vitr...