it is suggested that the antimalarial effect of chloroquine is due to the formation of ferriprotoporphyrin ix-chloroquine complex which prevents the sequestration of ferriprotoporphyrin ix into malarial pigment , thereby providing both ferriprotoporphyrin ix and its chloroquine complex as inhibitors of one of the proteases required for the degradation of hemoglobin .
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antimalarial
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chloroquine