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ArticleJournal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology2025

Evaluation of metformin's effect on the adult and juvenile stages of

Heba Nasser Abdel Menaem, Marmar Ahmed Hanafy, Marwa Abou El Dahab, Khalifa El Sayed Khalifa Mohamed

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Article in Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Heba Nasser Abdel MenaemDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Marmar Ahmed HanafyDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.ORCID 0009-0007-2156-8163
Marwa Abou El DahabDepartment of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Khalifa El Sayed Khalifa MohamedDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metformin (Met), a well-known anti-diabetic drug with a potent autophagy induction property, has been proven to be effective against several parasitic diseases. In the present in vitro study, the effect of Met on the viability and ultrastructure of

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Metformin-autophagyScanning electron microscopy- transmission electron microscopySchistosoma mansoni

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PMID39975621
PMCPMC11832992

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