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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-9-21
pubmed:abstractText
Desoxyfructo-serotonin (DFS) has shown good results in clinical trials of LL patients. After clinical trials in Bamako (Mali) reported in three articles, clinical trials began in India, at Bombay. Acute toxicity tests done in Paris and chronic toxicity tests done in India had shown absence of side effects. This was also confirmed after pre-clinical pharmacology. In vitro tests show that DFS enhances cellular immune response. Receptors for anti-erythrocyte antibody on LL macrophages are demonstrated by erythrocyte rosetting. Infection with M. leprae markedly reduces rosetting. But in the presence of DFS this reduction in rosetting is not observed. Patient's peripheral blood lymphocytes, sensitised with leprosy antigen, show a low level of rosetting with patients' macrophages. DFS greatly enhances the lymphocyte-macrophage interaction. DFS has an important anti-stress activity. Gastric ulcer induced in rats by restraint were reduced by 40% (Mester et al.) and 50% (Das Neves). DFS increased the uptake of serotonin by LL patients platelets. HPLC studies were done to see the level of DFS in the plasma, in the serum and in the urine of LL patients and controls. We are synthetising new lyposoluble derivatives in order to make easier the penetration of DFS and a long time effect.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0001-5938
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7 Suppl 1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
200-2
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
[Desoxyfructo-serotonin: its therapeutic effect in the treatment of leprosy].
pubmed:affiliation
Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, C.N.R.S., Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, English Abstract, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't