Chloroquine
"Chloroquine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The prototypical antimalarial agent with a mechanism that is not well understood. It has also been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and in the systemic therapy of amebic liver abscesses.
| Descriptor ID |
D002738
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.438.810.050.180
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| Concept/Terms |
Chloroquine Sulfate- Chloroquine Sulfate
- Sulfate, Chloroquine
- Chloroquine Sulphate
- Sulphate, Chloroquine
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| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Chloroquine" by people in Profiles.
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Cramer EY, Bartlett J, Chan ER, Gaedigk A, Ratsimbasoa AC, Mehlotra RK, Williams SM, Zimmerman PA. Pharmacogenomic variation in the Malagasy population: implications for the antimalarial drug primaquine metabolism. Pharmacogenomics. 2023 07; 24(11):583-597.
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Iyamu E, Perdew H, Woods G. Growth inhibitory and differentiation effects of chloroquine and its analogue on human leukemic cells potentiate fetal hemoglobin production by targeting the polyamine pathway. Biochem Pharmacol. 2009 Mar 15; 77(6):1021-8.
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Iyamu EW, Jamal S, Ekekezie C, Woods GM. In vitro evidence of the inhibitory capacity of chloroquine on arginase activity in sickle erythrocytes. Br J Haematol. 2007 10; 139(2):337-43.