Natural products as antiparasitic drugs

Parasitology Research

Volumn 90, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Kayser, O ^a   Kiderlen, A F ^b   Croft, S L ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2,4 TRIOXANE DERIVATIVE; 5 CHLORNAPHTHINDAZOLE 4,9 QUINONE; 7 METHOXYAROMADENDRIN; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; AMAROGENTIN; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ARTEFLENE; ARTEMISIN; ARTEMISININ; BERBERINE; BISBENZYLISOQUINOLINE ALKALOID; CHALCONE DERIVATIVE; CHLOROQUINE; CRYPTOTANSHINONE; DIOSPYRIN; DITERPENE; FLAVANOID; INDOLE ALKALOID; LICOCHALCONE A; LIGNAN DERIVATIVE; LIMONOID; MEFLOQUINE; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE; NAPHTHOQUINONE; NIMBOLIDE; QUININE DERIVATIVE; SESQUITERPENE DERIVATIVE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; USAMBARENSINE;

CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; HUMAN; IC 50; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RUTACEAE;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; CHALCONE; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; LIGNANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NAPHTHOQUINONES; PARASITIC DISEASES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; TERPENES;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; RUTACEAE;

EID: 0037963725     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-002-0768-3     Document Type: Review

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