Publications by authors named "Alireza Sadeghi Tafreshi"

Methods: Drug assessment was carried out singly or in combination on using the candle jar method at three inhibitory concentrations. Percent parasitemia of live cells was obtained by microscopic counting. Peter's suppression test was carried out on mice infected with after 3 administration of the drugs singly and in combination, and parasites were counted by microscopy for 10 days.

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Background: Recently eosin B was shown to have an effect on the asexual stage of and in this study, its activity against gametocytes and changes in the culture medium metabolites were investigated using anHNMR-based metabolomics approach.

Methods: In the Biochemistry Department of Pasteur Institute of Iran in 2017, parasites were cultured and gametocytogenesis induced by heparin and 5% hematocrit. Sexual stage parasites were tested by eosin B in 90 well plates and IC determined using Lactate Dehydrogenase assay.

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The initial success of any adopted anti-infective strategy to malaria is followed by a descent due to the emergence of resistance to it. The search for new drugs and drug targets is a consistent demand in this disease. Eosin B, a common laboratory dye, is reported to have good antiparasitic properties in vitro.

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