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Unloaded polyisobutylcyanoacrylate nanoparticles: efficiency against bloodstream trypanosomes
C Lherm1, P Couvreur, P Loiseau
1Laboratorie de Pharmacie Galénique et de Biopharmacie, Université de Paris XI, Chatenay-Malabry, France.
The Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
|August 1, 1987
Abstract:
The potential use of polyisobutylcyanoacrylate nanoparticles in antiparasitic chemotherapy is described. The nanoparticles on their own proved to have trypanocidal activity against Trypanosoma brucei brucei in-vitro but not against Trichomonas vaginalis or Entamoeba histolytica. The trypanocidal activity was partly confirmed in-vivo with T. brucei-infected mice.