Antimalarial activities and toxicities of three plants used as traditional remedies for malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Croton mubango, Nauclea pobeguinii and Pyrenacantha staudtii

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 345-357

  Mesia, G K ^a   Tona, G L ^a   Penge, O ^a   Lusakibanza, M ^a   Nanga, T M ^a   Cimanga, R K ^b   Apers, S ^b   Van Miert, S ^b   Totte, J ^b   Pieters, L ^b   Vlietinck, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALOID; ANTHOCYANIN; ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; CREATININE; CROTON MUBANGO EXTRACT; DICHLOROMETHANE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; METHANOL; NAUCLEA POBEGUINII EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PYRENACANTHA STAUDTII EXTRACT; SAPONIN; STEROID; TANNIN; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BARK; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CROTON; CROTON MUBANGO; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; FEMALE; HERB; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MOUSE; NAUCLEA POBEGUINII; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLANT LEAF; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRENACANTHA STAUDTII;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CREATININE; CROTON; FEMALE; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RUBIACEAE; UREA;

NAUCLEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRENACANTHA;

EID: 21044458196     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X36325     Document Type: Article

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