Diloxanide

Diloxanide is an anti-protozoal agent and can be used for the research of asymptomatic-intestinal amebiasis caused by Entamoeba histolytica or some other protozoal infections. Diloxanide is an active luminal amebicide and hydrolyzed in the gastrointestinal tract from its prodrug Diloxanide furoate (HY-B1147)[1].

Research Areas >> Infection

Diloxanide is hydrolyzed in the gastrointestinal tract from its prodrug Diloxanide furoate[1]. Diloxanide furoate (oral administraion; 75-200 mg/kg; 3 days; once daily) is effective at different dose of dayin weanling rats. At 200 mg/kg, 100% of the treated rats are cured and no amoebic lesions are observed in the caecum. Besides, 85%,77%, and 44.4% of the treated rats are cured at the dose 150 mg/kg, 100 mg/kg, and 75 mg/kg, respectively. The ED50 value is 77.9 mg/kg for this agent in rats[2].

[1]. DB08792

[2]. D K Chatterjee, et al. Antiamoebic activity of chonemorphine, a steroidal alkaloid, in experimental models. Parasitol Res. 1987;74(1):30-3.

MOLECULAR FORMULA :

C9-H9-Cl2-N-O2

MOLECULAR WEIGHT :

234.09

HEALTH HAZARD DATA

ACUTE TOXICITY DATA

TYPE OF TEST :

LD - Lethal dose

ROUTE OF EXPOSURE :

Oral

SPECIES OBSERVED :

Rodent - rat

DOSE/DURATION :

>12500 mg/kg

TOXIC EFFECTS :

Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value

REFERENCE :

BJPCAL British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy. (London, UK) V.1-33, 1946-68. For publisher information, see BJPCBM. Volume(issue)/page/year: 18,128,1962

TYPE OF TEST :

LD50 - Lethal dose, 50 percent kill

ROUTE OF EXPOSURE :

Oral

SPECIES OBSERVED :

Rodent - mouse

DOSE/DURATION :

2 gm/kg

TOXIC EFFECTS :

Details of toxic effects not reported other than lethal dose value

REFERENCE :

BJPCAL British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy. (London, UK) V.1-33, 1946-68. For publisher information, see BJPCBM. Volume(issue)/page/year: 18,128,1962