Evaluation of efficacy and safety of a herbal medicine used for the treatment of malaria

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 697-701

  Ankrah, Nii Ayi ^a   Nyarko, Alexander K ^a   Addo, Phyllis G A ^a   Ofosuhene, Mark ^a   Dzokoto, Comfort ^b   Marley, Ethel ^c   Addae, Michael M ^a   Ekuban, Frederick A ^a  

^a University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use   (Ghana)

Author keywords

AM 1; Malaria; P. falciparum; P. malariae

Indexed keywords

4 NITROPHENOL HYDROXYLASE; CYTOCHROME P450 ISOENZYME; DELONIX REGIA EXTRACT; ETHOXYRESORUFIN DEETHYLASE; ETHYLPHOSPHONOTHIOIC ACID S DIETHYLAMINOETHYL O ETHYL ESTER; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; JATROPHA CURCAS EXTRACT; PENTOXYRESORUFIN DEALKYLASE; PHYSALIS ANGULATA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELONIX REGIA; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG SAFETY; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JATROPHA CURCAS; MALARIA; MALE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSALIS ANGULATA; PLANT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FABACEAE; FEMALE; GOSSYPIUM; HUMANS; JATROPHA; LIVER; MALARIA; MALE; PHYSALIS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; DELONIX REGIA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HIRSUTUM; JATROPHA CURCAS; PHYSALIS ANGULATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0038463930     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1196     Document Type: Article

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