Amebicidal activity of plant extracts from Southeast Asia on Acanthamoeba spp.

Parasitology Research

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 746-752

  Chu, Dan My ^a   Miles, Howard ^b   Toney, Denise ^a   Ngyuen, Chi ^b   Marciano Cabral, Francine ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBICIDES; ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CELL SURVIVAL; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; NEUROBLASTOMA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ACANTHAMOEBA CULBERTSONI; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ANIMALIA; CANANGA ODORATA; GASTROCHILUS; IPOMOEA; KAEMPFERIA GALANGA; MURINAE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031655714     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050480     Document Type: Article

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