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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-07-01
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Series: | EBioMedicine |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396419304074 |