Drug Development
"Glycoside-Bearing Liposomal Delivery Systems Against Macrophage-Associated Disorders Involving Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 24th, 1995
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Indian Journal of Biochemistry & Biophysics, "Asiaticoside, a plant glycoside with rhamnose as end sugar and having microbicidal properties was tested against Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis both in vivo and in vitro. As rhamnose is reported to have no tissue specificity, corchorusin D having glucose as end sugar was used for targeting with an equimolar proportion of asiaticoside in liposomal form for testing the drug value. Results showed that liposomal asiaticoside had better microbicidal property against M. leprae and M. tuberculosis when compared to that of free asiaticoside...
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