Trypanosomatids cause important human diseases, like sleeping sickness, Chagas disease,
and the leishmaniases. Unlike in the mammalian host, the metabolism of aromatic amino …

Tyndalized milk of goat, cow, and buffalo was found to be a potential substitute for fetal
bovine serum (FBS) in the medium for the cultivation of Leishmania donovani promastigotes …

Methylglyoxal is a toxic metabolite with growth inhibitory properties against Leishmania
donovani promastigotes. We have shown in the present study that both log and stationary …

Fetal calf serum is the major part and the most expensive ingredient of the Leishmania
culture media. Here, the efficacy of the LB broth-lyophilized Rabbit serum medium (LLR) …

Metabolism of tryptophan by promastigotes of Leishmania donovani donovani was
investigated in cells suspended in a simple buffer solution supplemented with glucose …

Leishmania tropica promastigotes grew slowly but could be maintained for long periods in
serum‐free hemin‐containing media formulated previously for other Leishmania species or …

The cultivation of parasites of the genus Leishmania has been a subject of much interest
due to the necessity of performing biochemical and immunological studies with isolated …

Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Leishmania is endemic in many
parts of tropics an subtropics. In vitro cultivation of the parasite plays an important role in the …

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of chicken serum as an alternative to fetal calf serum
(FCS) in the culture of Leishmania. Methods In the present work, the efficacy of chicken …

The protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania are the causative agents of different
clinical diseases. Fetal calf serum (FCS) is the main part and the most expensive ingredient …