Lectins from Synadenium carinatum (ScLL) and Artocarpus heterophyllus (ArtinM) are able to induce beneficial immunomodulatory effects in a murine model for treatment of Toxoplasma gondii infection

Lectins from Synadenium carinatum (ScLL) and Artocarpus heterophyllus (ArtinM) are able to induce beneficial immunomodulatory effects in a murine model for treatment of Toxoplasma gondii infection

Infection by Toxoplasma gondii affects around one-third of world population and the treatment for patients presenting toxoplasmosis clinically manifested disease is mainly based by a combination of sulfadiazine, pyrimethamine and folinic acid. However, this therapeutic protocol is significantly toxi...

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Main Authors: Leandro Peixoto Ferreira Souza, Eliézer Lucas Pires Ramos, Silas Silva Santana, Murilo Vieira Silva, Fernanda Maria Santiago, Tiago WP Mineo, Maria Cristina Roque-Barreira, José Roberto Mineo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
Lectins
Therapeutics
ArtinM
Toxoplasma gondii
SCLL
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcimb.2016.00164/full

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