The antimalarial activity of some bisbenzylisoquinoline (BBIQ) alkaloids were studied using in vitro culture of both chloroquine (CQ)-sensitive and chloroquine-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum. The combination of chloroquine and tetrandrine gave a 44 fold potentiation of malarial killing. Fangchinoline, hernandezine, pycnamine, berbamine and isotetrandrine had similar antimalarial act...

Many drugs have been found to induce oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is responsible for a large number of diseases. Chloroquine one the drugs, which can stress, when it given at higher dose. Purpose: To find effect chloroquine as inducer on albino mice. Study Design: Randomized clinical trial. Methodology: Sixty male mice were taken into this randomized controlled study. Those divided two gr...

"4C-amodiaquin and "4C-chloroquine were used to study drug binding by preparations of owl monkey erythrocytes infected either with a chloroquine-susceptible (CS) or with a chloroquine-resistant (CR) strain of P. falciparum. Both of these drugs are derivatives of 4-aminoquinoline, but they differ in their side chains, and there are differences in the way they are handled by preparations of eryth...

Chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum is primarily conferred by mutations in pfcrt. Parasites resistant to chloroquine can display hypersensitivity to other antimalarials; however, the patterns of crossresistance are complex, and the genetic basis has remained elusive. We show that stepwise selection for resistance to amantadine or halofantrine produced previously unknown pfcrt mutati...

The effect of Aspirin, paracetamol and analgin on the kinetic profile of a single oral dose of chloroquine was studied in 8 healthy subjects. Aspirin did not alter the kinetic parameters of chloroquine whereas paracetamol and analgin significantly enhanced the Cmax and AUC0-alpha of chloroquine (P < 0.01, < 0.05 respectively).

INTRODUCTION Chloroquine, in combination with primaquine, is used as the firstline treatment for uncomplicated P. vivax malaria in Thailand. In view of the declining efficacy of chloroquine in many P. vivax endemic areas, the possibility of emergence of chloroquine- resistant P. vivax in Thailand is a concern. The aim of this study was to assess the trends in therapeutic efficacy of chloroquine...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Bitter-tasting chloroquine can suppress T cell activation by inhibiting Ca(2+) signaling. However, the mechanism of inhibition remains largely unclear. METHODS In this study, CD4(+) T cells were isolated from the thymus, and the calcium content of CD4(+) thymocytes was measured using fura-2 AM and a TILL imaging system. Pyrazole-3 (Pyr3), thapsigargin (TG), and caffeine were u...

OBJECTIVE To examine the role of hemochromatosis (HFE) gene mutations, which are associated with porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT), in the therapeutic response to chloroquine. DESIGN We retrospectively analyzed a database (Excel version 2001 [Microsoft Excel, Redmond, Wash]; date range of search, 1985-1999) of chloroquine-treated patients with PCT on whether HFE mutations (C282Y and H63D) might h...

background: malaria is one of the most important parasitic diseases in iran. due to importantce of drug policy, monitoring of chloroquine therapeutic efficacy in uncomplicated falciparum cases was carried out in south and south-east of iran in 2003. materials and methods: this discriptive study was carried out in five centers of sistan-baluchestan, hormozgan and kerman provinces (south and sout...

Oral chloroquine is the treatment of choice for uncomplicated Plasmodium malariae infections worldwide. We did a prospective 28-day in-vivo assessment of the efficacy of chloroquine for treatment of P malariae on Legundi Island in Lampung Bay, Sumatra, Indonesia. Of 28 patients, one had recurrent parasitaemia on day 28, and two had persistent parasitaemia to day 8. Whole-blood chloroquine and d...