Antiplasmodial activity of extracts and quassinoids isolated from seedlings of Ailanthus altissima (Simaroubaceae)

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 675-677

  Okunade, Adewole L ^a   Bikoff, Rachel E ^a   Casper, Steven J ^a   Oksman, Anna ^a   Goldberg, Daniel E ^a   Lewis, Walter H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

6 tigloyloxychaparrinone; Ailanthus altissima; Antiplasmodial activity; Quassinoids

Indexed keywords

6ALPHA TIGLOYLOXYCHAPARRINONE; AILANTHINONE; AILANTHUS ALTISSIMA EXTRACT; CHLOROQUINE; PLANT EXTRACT; QUASSINOID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AILANTHUS ALTISSIMA; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIPLASMODIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEEDLING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VERO CELL;

AILANTHUS; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; QUASSINS; SEEDLING; VERO CELLS;

AILANTHUS ALTISSIMA; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; SIMAROUBACEAE;

EID: 0038801739     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1336     Document Type: Article

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