Abstract:
:Optimization of desferrioxamine B (DFO) delivery for the treatment of malaria was studied in Plasmodium vinckei infected mice. DFO was administered by three different treatment regimens: (1) multiple subcutaneous injections of free DFO, (2) intraperitoneal infusion of free DFO, or (3) multiple subcutaneous injections of liposomal DFO. In a first series of experiments, DFO treatment was started prior to infection. Multiple subcutaneous injections of free DFO before and during infection suppressed parasitemia, whereas injections only prior to infection did not. Suppression of parasitemia and long-term survival (>1 month after infection) of mice were obtained by intraperitoneal infusion starting 1 day before infection (14 days, 130 mg DFO/kg/day) or by subcutaneous injections of liposomal DFO prior to infection (days -1 and 0, 400 or 800 mg DFO/kg/day). The efficacy of the antimalarial activity of liposomal DFO was influenced by the drug-to-lipid ratio but was hardly affected by bilayer rigidity. In a second series of experiments, DFO treatment was started at days 6 and 7 after infection. Parasitemia was reduced by all three treatment regimens; however, long-term survival was obtained only by treatment with liposomal DFO (days 7 and 8, 400 mg/kg/day). The present results indicate that continuous exposure of the parasite to low doses of DFO suffice to clear parasitemia, whereas high doses of free DFO administered intermittently do not. A right balance between dose of DFO, time of exposure to DFO, and parasitemia suppresses parasitemia even in the treatment of late-stage malaria. It was shown that liposomes are suitable carrier systems for DFO in experimental malaria therapy when given prior to infection and, moreover, in the treatment of advanced stages of malaria.
journal_name
Exp Parasitoljournal_title
Experimental parasitologyauthors
Postma NS,Hermsen CC,Zuidema J,Eling WMdoi
10.1006/expr.1998.4282subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-07-01 00:00:00pages
323-30issue
3eissn
0014-4894issn
1090-2449pii
S0014-4894(98)94282-5journal_volume
89pub_type
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