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ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 61, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01169-16
Keywords
Leishmania donovani; oral nanoparticle-based formulation; curcumin; miltefosine; combination therapy; in vivo efficacy; nanocurcumin
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- CSIR-Network Project HOPE [BSC0114]
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-Network Project HOPE) [BSC0114]
- Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-Network Project NanoSHE) [BSC0112]
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Leishmaniasis chemotherapy remains very challenging due to high cost of the drug and its associated toxicity and drug resistance, which develops over a period of time. Combination therapies (CT) are now in use to treat many diseases, such as cancer and malaria, since it is more effective and affordable than monotherapy. CT are believed to represent a new explorable strategy for leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease caused by the obligate intracellular parasite Leishmania. In the present study, we investigated the effect of a combination of a traditional Indian medicine (ayurveda), a natural product curcumin and miltefosine, the only oral drug for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) using a Leishmania donovani-hamster model. We developed an oral nanoparticle-based formulation of curcumin. Nanoformulation of curcumin alone exhibited significant leishmanicidal activity both in vitro and in vivo. In combination with miltefosine, it exhibited a synergistic effect on both promastigotes and amastigotes under in vitro conditions. The combination of these two agents also demonstrated increased in vivo leishmanicidal activity accompanied by increased production of toxic reactive oxygen/nitrogen metabolites and enhanced phagocytic activity. The combination also exhibited increased lymphocyte proliferation. The present study thus establishes the possible use of nanocurcumin as an adjunct to antileishmanial chemotherapy.
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