Recent advances in the fight against leishmaniasis with natural products

Parasite

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-8

  Akendengue, B ^a   Ngou Milama, E ^a   Laurens, Alain ^b   Hocquemiller, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES DE LA SANTÉ   (Gabon)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Acetogenins; Alkaloids; Antileishmanial; Chalcones; Coumarins; Lactone; Leishmaniasis; Lignan; Natural products; Quinones; Terpenes

Indexed keywords

ANNONA SENEGALENSIS; ASPARAGUS AFRICANUS; GALIPEA; GUATTERIA; JATROPHA; JATROPHA GROSSIDENTATA;

ALKALOID; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; CHALCONE; CHALCONE DERIVATIVE; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; ISOMURISOLENIN; LACTONE; LICOCHALCONE A; PLANT EXTRACT; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; SQUAMOCIN; TERPENE;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; PHYTOTHERAPY; REVIEW;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CHALCONE; CHALCONES; COUMARINS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FURANS; LACTONES; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; QUINONES; TERPENES;

EID: 0033092908     PISSN: 1252607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/1999061003     Document Type: Article

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