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. 2013 Oct;57(10):4882–4893. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00508-13

Table 1.

Resistance and cross-resistance characterization of the R0.8 bloodstream form cell line, compared to the parental wild-type T. brucei brucei strain Lister 427

Compound Average EC50 (μM)
Resistance factor P valuea
Lister 427 R0.8
PDE inhibitors
    CpdA 0.08 ± 0.01 1.4 ± 0.2 17.2 0.004
    CpdB 0.13 ± 0.03 1.28 ± 0.25 9.7 0.016
    Dipyridamole 17.9 ± 2.7 9.2 ± 0.8 0.5 0.059
cAMP analogues
    Dibutyryl cAMP 263 ± 13 1890 ± 314 7.2 0.011
    8-Bromo-cAMP 271 ± 8 1133 ± 185 4.2 0.014
    8-(4-chlorophenylthio)-cAMP 1.24 ± 0.4 0.25 ± 0.05 0.2 0.201
Known trypanocides
    Suramin 0.0212 ± 0.0008 0.0156 ± 0.0005 0.7 0.001
    Diminazene 0.022 ± 0.007 0.011 ± 0.001 0.5 0.133
    Pentamidine 0.0016 ± 0.0004 0.0014 ± 0.0002 0.9 0.683
    Cymelarsen 0.0038 ± 0.0004 0.0038 ± 0.0003 1.0 1.000
    Phenylarsine oxide 0.00083 ± 0.00006 0.00088 ± 0.00011 1.1 0.783
    Nifurtimox 2.01 ± 0.24 1.61 ± 0.08 0.8 0.246
a

For comparison of R0.8 and Lister 427.