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ion remains unclear. It has been reported that oxidized polyunsaturated fatty acids had a parasiticidal effect. Kumaratilake et al. [40] demonstrated that oxidized docosahexaenoic acid (C22:six,n-3) and arachidonic acid (C20:4,n-6) inhibit the development of P. falciparum in erythrocyte. This antiparasitic activity of oxidized fatty acids was lowered when parasitized erythrocyte had been preincubaed with antioxidant, butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) or -tocopherol, after which exposed to the fatty acids. These final results that malaria parasite was vulnerable to lipid oxidation products help our present results. Unexpectedly, the increment of the ratio of lipid peroxidation products to parent lipids in erythrocytes, in which malaria parasites develop, was undetectable. Hence, it appears that the oxidative stress in plasma is more harmful to malaria parasites than that in erythrocytes. It has been reported that P. falciparum parasites invade erythrocytes and promptly modify their membrane [41,42]. In addition, these alterations facilitate the movement of nutrients and waste products into and from erythrocytes, respectively. Additionally, malaria parasites can uptake nutrients in the atmosphere via ion channels [43] and tubovesicular membrane networks extending in the parasite vacuole membrane [41,42,44]. Therefore, the active interaction involving parasite and atmosphere is evident and suggests that ROS and oxidation solutions in plasma attain malaria parasites inside erythrocytes and harm them. Blood-stage plasmodium parasite is reported to demand high-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles for supply of cholesterol [45,46]. Around the other hand, probucol has a reduction impact with the HDL concentration in circulation by means of inactivation of ABCA1 transporter [25,26]. In summary, probucol pre-treatment disrupts the redox balance and reduces plasma lipid nutrients for instance tCh and LA (Fig four), that are important for parasite proliferation immediately after invading the erythrocytes. Consequently, both events may perhaps have an effect on the proliferation of the parasites or make the parasites extra susceptible for the oxidative damage. The fact that simultaneous probucol remedy and parasite infection couldn't rescue the mice from death but substantially enhanced their survival may suggest that each -tocopherol concentration and the redox status are crucial determinants for parasite proliferation. In addition, probucol therapy drastically improved the survival price of mice infected with P. berghei ANKA plus the death of those mice was attributed to anemia. This result suggests that it is achievable that probucol treatment exerts other functions related to the modulation in the antiinflammatory response in the host [47]. In addition, the present study demonstrated that probucol remedy in mixture with DHA reduces parasite proliferation (Fig 3). These outcomes recommend that the dosages of DHA can be decreased after they are combined with probucol. Moreover, these combinations may Equations 1 and 2 are derived in the Supporting Materials section (S1 Text) making use of the two-parameter formalism possibly decrease the toxic effects of these agents and suppress the look of resistance strains against these antimalarial agents. Mainly because probucol impacts malaria parasites indirectly, it's presumed that it will be difficult for malaria parasites to acquire resistance against it. The probucol dosage utilized within this study converted by the physique surface location was five.3 instances higher than the maximum dosage used in the treatment of hyperlipidemia [47]. The oral 50% lethal dose (LD50) of probucol in rats and mice was reported to b