Carolina Arruda Braz- PhD Student
- PhD Student at University of São Paulo
Carolina Arruda Braz
- PhD Student
- PhD Student at University of São Paulo
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Introduction
Carolina Arruda Braz currently works as Graduated Student at Department Biochemical - Pharmaceutical Technology, USP. Their current project is 'Inhibition properties of 5-nitrofuran analogs against Leishmania spp..'
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September 2016 - present
January 2014 - April 2016
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The spread of antimalarial drug resistance and lack of effective vaccines into consideration drive significant role to develop novel antimalarial agents for the treatment of malaria. The Plasmodium falciparum deoxyuridine 5′-triphosphate nucleotidohydrolase (dUTPase) has been identified as a promising target for new drug development. In this study,...
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Question (1)
I'm trying to make an inhibition assay for a library using MTT against Leishmania promastigotes. Every plate I read has a different growth rate even though I seeded the same concentration on controls. My Ic50 values are the same besides this problem, should I try to fix it, or Leishmania has that much of inconsistency of MTT.
