Pre-clinical study of iron oxide nanoparticles fortified artesunate for efficient targeting of malarial parasiteResearch in context

Background: Artesunate the most potent antimalarial is widely used for the treatment of multidrug-resistant malaria. The antimalarial cytotoxicity of artesunate has been mainly attributed to its selective, irreversible and iron- radical-mediated damage of parasite biomolecules. In the present resear...

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Main Authors: Deepika Kannan, Nisha Yadav, Shakeel Ahmad, Pragya Namdev, Souvik Bhattacharjee, Bimlesh Lochab, Shailja Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-07-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396419304074