Artemisinin inhibits inducible nitric oxide synthase and nuclear factor NF‐kB activation
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- 27 August 2003
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 552 (2-3) , 141-144
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00905-0
Abstract
Artemisinin is a natural product used as an alternative drug in the treatment of severe and multidrug‐resistant malaria. In the present work we show that artemisinin shares with other sesquiterpene l...Keywords
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