Plasmodium berghei: uptake of clindamycin and its metabolites by mouse erythrocytes with clindamycin-sensitive and clindamycin-resistant parasites. |
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Authors: | L C Koontz R L Jacobs W L Lummis L H Miller |
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Institution: | 1. Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014 U.S.A.;2. The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Tritiated Clindamycin was used to compare the uptake of Clindamycin in plasma and red cells of mice infected with clindamycin-sensitive or clindamycin-resistant Plasmodium berghei and in uninfected mice. Red cells infected with either sensitive or resistant parasites have a higher concentration of 3H]clindamycin and its active metabolites 1 hr after drug administration than uninfected red blood cells. There was no significant difference in uptake of Clindamycin by red blood cells parasitized by sensitive or resistant parasites. Levels of Clindamycin and its metabolites were consistently higher in red cells than in plasma, both in infected and uninfected mice, but the drug was readily removed by washing red cells with phosphate buffered saline in either case. It is concluded that resistance to Clindamycin is not due to an impaired uptake of the drug by the parasitized red cell as has been shown for chloroquine resistance in P. falciparum and P. berghei. |
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Keywords: | Protozoa parasitic malaria rodent clindamycin Mouse erythrocytes Resistant parasite strains |
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