"Hydroxychloroquine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A chemotherapeutic agent that acts against erythrocytic forms of malarial parasites. Hydroxychloroquine appears to concentrate in food vacuoles of affected protozoa. It inhibits plasmodial heme polymerase. (From Gilman et al., Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 9th ed, p970)
| Descriptor ID |
D006886
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.633.100.810.050.180.350
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hydroxychloroquine" by people in Profiles.
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Comment on Arshad et al.: Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Combination in Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 10; 99:373.
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Retinal toxicity secondary to Plaquenil therapy. Optometry. 2008 Feb; 79(2):90-4.