Table 3. Drug sensitivity profile against Leishmania donovani wild-type, drug resistant and field isolated intracellular amastigote cell lines.
Drug | IC50 (mean ± SD for atleast 4 replicates) µMa | |||||||||||
Cellular AG83 evaluation model | Cellular GE1 evaluation model | |||||||||||
Wild-type | SIf | SSGresistantb | RIc | SIf | PMMresistantb | RIc | SIf | Fieldisolate | RId | SIf | CytotoxicityCC50 (µM)(Macrophagecells) | |
Amphotericin B | 0.15±0.05g | 93 | 0.2±0.05g | 1.3 | 70 | 0.20±0.05g | 1.3 | 68 | 0.16±0.05g | 1.06 | 87.5 | 14±2.1h |
SSG(SbV)e | 1.6±0.20 | 17 | 18.1±3g | 11.2 | 1.5 | 17.3±2.60 | 10.8 | 1.6 | 7.7±0.65 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 27±3.9 |
PMM | 8±2g | 31 | 125±15g | 15.6 | 2 | 115±13g | 14.4 | 2.1 | 18±3g | 2.2 | 13.8 | 248±32g |
AG | 141±20g | 7.1 | 230±25g | 1.6 | 4.3 | 200±30g | 1.4 | 5 | 165±27g | 1.2 | 6.1 | 1000±160g |
AGnp with TPGS | 28±2g | 71.4 | 60±9g | 2.1 | 33.3 | 49±6g | 1.8 | 40.8 | 42±5g | 1.5 | 47.6 | 2000±300g |
AGnp without TPGS | 54±5g | 22.2 | 120±10g | 2.2 | 10 | 107±8g | 2 | 11.2 | 83±9g | 1.5 | 14.4 | 1200±220g |
a Assays are described in Materials and Methods.
in vitro as given in Materials and Methods.b SSG and PMM resistant strains were generated
50 of AG83 phenotype generated at maximum drug pressure/IC50 of wild-type.c RI, Resistance Index was IC
50 of field isolate/IC50 of wild-type.d RI, Resistance Index was IC
µg Sb/ml.e Values for antimonial agents are in
50/IC50.f SI, Selectivity Index was CC
g p<0.001, significant difference compared with SSG.
h p<0.5, no significant difference compared with SSG.