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. 1980 Jan;39(1):190-4.

Immunopotentiation by pyrimethamine in the mouse

Y H Thong, A Ferrante

Immunopotentiation by pyrimethamine in the mouse

Y H Thong et al. Clin Exp Immunol. 1980 Jan.

Abstract

Pyrimethamine, a 2,4-diaminopyrimidine useful in the treatment of malaria and toxoplasmosis, was found to enhance antibody and delayed-type hypersensitivity responses to sheep red cells in mice. The immunodepression of tumour-bearing mice was also reversed by pyrimethamine. This drug may prove useful as a general immunostimulant in clinical situations where the immune system has been compromised by cancer or other debilitating illnesses.

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