Imipramine is an orally active drug against both antimony sensitive and resistant Leishmania donovani clinical isolates in experimental infection.

<h4>Background</h4>In an endeavor to find an orally active and affordable antileishmanial drug, we tested the efficacy of a cationic amphiphilic drug, imipramine, commonly used for the treatment of depression in humans. The only available orally active antileishmanial drug is miltefosine...

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Main Authors: Sandip Mukherjee, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Rupkatha Mukhopadhyay, Kshudiram Naskar, Shyam Sundar, Jean Claude Dujardin, Anjan Kumar Das, Syamal Roy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0001987&type=printable
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