Antiplasmodial activities of some Ghanaian plants traditionally used for fever/malaria treatment and of some alkaloids isolated from Pleiocarpa mutica; in vivo antimalarial activity of pleiocarpine

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 99-103

  Addae Kyereme, Jonathan ^a   Croft, Simon L ^b   Kendrick, Howard ^b   Wright, Colin W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Artemia salina; Plasmodium falciparum; Pleiocarpa mutica; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CLEISTOPHOLIS PATENS EXTRACT; EBURNAMINE; KOPSININE; PLANT EXTRACT; PLEIOCARPA MUTICA EXTRACT; PLEIOCARPAMINE; PLEIOCARPINE; PLEIOMUTININE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVARIA CHAMAE EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLANT; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMIA; FEMALE; GHANA; LINEAR MODELS; MALARIA; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0034994134     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(01)00212-4     Document Type: Article

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