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quinacrine

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quinacrine /quin·a·crine/ (kwin´ah-krin) an antimalarial, antiprotozoal, and anthelmintic, used as the hydrochloride salt, especially for suppressive therapy of malaria and in the treatment of giardiasis and tapeworm infestations.
quinacrine [kwin´ah-krin]
an anthelmintic and antiprotozoal agent used especially for treatment of malaria, giardiasis, and tapeworm infestations. It is a yellow fluorescent dye also used in chromosome banding.

quinacrine (kwin´krēn, -krin),
n an anthelmintic and antiprotozoal agent used to treat giardiasis and tapeworm infections. It is not effective in treating malaria.

quinacrine
an antimalarial, antiprotozoal and anthelmintic used especially for suppressive therapy of malaria in humans and also in the treatment of giardiasis in dogs. Called also mepacrine.

quinacrine
Classic cytogenetics A fluorescent dye used to stain chromosomes, especially Y chromosome Gynecology Tropical medicine An antiparasitic agent once used to manage giardiasis, helminths, malaria, protozoa, tapeworms


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Doctors tested the drug among 107 patients with prion disease, who were assigned to a group that either took a 300-milligram dose of quinacrine daily or to another that did not take the treatment.
At this point the UCSF researchers are still recruiting patients to help them determine if quinacrine helps, does nothing, or even worsens human prion diseases, Dr.
From experiments with cell cultures, they found that both quinacrine (a malaria drug) and chlorpromazine (Thorazine, an antipsychotic agent) showed substantial anti-prion properties at concentrations that were safe in humans.
 
 
 
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