Effect of plant extracts used in folk medicine on cell growth and differentiation of Herpetomonas samuelpessoai (kinetoplastida, trypanosomatidae) cultivated in defined medium

Acta Scientiarum - Biological and Health Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 657-662

  Barbieri Holetz, Fabíola ^a   Ueda Nakamura, Tânia ^a   Dias Filho, Benedito Prado ^a   Garcia Cortez, Diógenes Aparício ^a   Palazzo Mello, João Carlos ^a   Vataru Nakamura, Celso ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Herpetomonas samuelpessoai; Medicinal plants; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM EXTRACT; ARCTIUM LAPPA EXTRACT; ERYTHRINA SPECIOSA EXTRACT; EUGENIA UNIFLORA EXTRACT; LIPPIA ALBA EXTRACT; MIKANIA GLOMERATA EXTRACT; OCIMUM GRATISSIMUM EXTRACT; PIPER REGNELLII EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANTAGO MAJOR EXTRACT; PSIDIUM GUAJAVA EXTRACT; PUNICA GRANATUM EXTRACT; SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS EXTRACT; SPILANTHES ACMELLA EXTRACT; TANACETUM VULGARE EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG ACTIVITY; FLAGELLATE; HERPETOMONAS SAMUELPESSOAI; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICROSCOPY; STRYPHNODENDRON ADSTRINGENS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ACHILLEA; ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM; ACMELLA; ARCTIUM; ARCTIUM LAPPA; ERYTHRINA SPECIOSA; EUGENIA; EUGENIA UNIFLORA; HERPETOMONAS; HERPETOMONAS PESSOAI; KINETOPLASTIDA; LIPPIA ALBA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); MIKANIA; OCIMUM; OCIMUM GRATISSIMUM; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO MAJOR; PROTOZOA; PSIDIUM; PSIDIUM GUAJAVA; PUNICA GRANATUM; SAMBUCUS; SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS; SPILANTHES ACMELLA; STRYPHNODENDRON; STRYPHNODENDRON ADSTRINGENS; TANACETUM; TANACETUM VULGARE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0036626670     PISSN: 14156814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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