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lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
3
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pubmed:dateCreated |
1980-6-16
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pubmed:abstractText |
After oral administration of furazolidone in doses of 5 x 50 mg/kg and 1 x 100 mg/kg body weight to Litomosoides carinii--infected Mastomys natalensis microfilaraemia decreased continuously and was reduced by more than 98% 42 days after start of treatment. After the 5-day treatment all adult female and male worms were found dead and encapsulated within 2 weeks, whereas after the single dose 100% of the female parasites were encapsulated 28 days after treatment. In untreated animals quantiative examinations of the intrauterine stages showed an average number of 500 x 103 embryos per adult female worm. Following the 5-day treatment the number of embryos per female parasite was reduced after 42 days to 12.5 x 103, and after the single treatment to 26.9 x 103. By classification into 5 different stages (2- and 4-cell stages, Morula stage, "Horse-shoe" stage, "Ring" and "Brezel" stages, and intruterine microfilariae) an embryogram showed a continuous increase in pathologically-altered embryos during the whole observation period. The 2- and 4-cell stages suffered the most damaged. By 16 days after the end of the 5-day treatment and by 28 days after the single treatment all embryonic stages in the uteri were found to be pathologically altered. Furazolidone possessess high macrofilaricidal activity together with a considerable adverse effect on embryognesis and some delayed effect on microfilaraemia.
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pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:chemical | |
pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Sep
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pubmed:issn |
0303-4208
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:volume |
30
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
376-82
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2003-11-14
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Animals,
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Ascitic Fluid,
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Blood,
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Embryo, Nonmammalian,
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Filariasis,
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Filarioidea,
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Furazolidone,
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Microfilaria,
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Pleural Effusion,
pubmed-meshheading:543002-Rodentia
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pubmed:year |
1979
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Chemotherapeutic studies on Litomosoides carinii infection of Mastomys natalensis. 8. The action of furazolidone on adult worms and microfilariae.
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article
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