Open AccessMechanism of action of quinine in malaria. Alexeev (Vrach. Delo, 1924, No. 20-23)
Publication year - 1925
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj80215
Subject(s) - quinine , malaria , mechanism of action , action (physics) , pharmacology , biology , chemistry , political science , medicine , immunology , biochemistry , physics , in vitro , quantum mechanics
The author concluded that quinine acts on malaria plasmodium as a specific chemotherapeutic agent in the Ehrlichʹov sense, i.e. here we are dealing with a parasitotropic killing effect on the parasite.