Argentine plant extracts active against polymerase and ribonuclease H activities of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 206-209

  Hnatyszyn, Oksana ^a   Broussalis, Adriana ^a   Herrera, Gilda ^a   Muschietti, Liliana ^a   Coussio, Jorge ^a   Martino, Virginia ^a   Ferraro, Gabriela ^a   Font, María ^b   Monge, Antonio ^b   Martínez Irujo, Juan José ^b   Sanromán, Marcos ^b   Cuevas, M Teresa ^b   Santiago, Esteban ^b   Lasarte, Juan José ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Achyrocline flaccida Wein. D. C.; Eupatorium buniifolium H. et A.; Gamochaeta simplicaulis Cabr.; HIV 1 RT; Phyllanthus sellowianus Muell. Arg.; RNase H.

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; ENZYME INHIBITOR; PLANT EXTRACT; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS ENZYME;

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FRACTIONATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CELL LINE; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HIV-1 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HUMANS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS;

ACHYROCLINE FLACCIDA; ARGENTINA (FISH); EUPATORIUM; EUPATORIUM BUNIIFOLIUM; GAMOCHAETA; GAMOCHAETA SIMPLICAULIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; PHYLLANTHUS SELLOWIANUS;

EID: 0032917327     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1573(199905)13:3<206::AID-PTR409>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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