Screening of African medicinal plants for antimicrobial and enzyme inhibitory activity

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-35

  Tshibangu, Jeannette Ndaya ^a   Chifundera, Kusamba ^b   Kaminsky, Ronald ^c   Wright, Anthony David ^a   König, Gabriele Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles/Lwiro   (Congo)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Inhibitory activity; Malaria; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOPHALLUS BEQUAERTII EXTRACT; CHLOROQUINE; CISSAMPELOS MUCRONATA EXTRACT; DICHLOROMETHANE; METHANOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; RUBUS RIGIDUS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENZYME;

AFRICA; AMORPHOPHALLUS BEQUAERTII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CISSAMPELOS MUCRONATA; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG SCREENING; ENZYME INHIBITION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IC 50; MEDICINAL PLANT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RUBUS RIGIDUS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONGO; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HIV-1 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HUMANS; KB CELLS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES;

EID: 0036118341     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(01)00409-3     Document Type: Article

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