Larvicidal and mosquitocidal extracts, a coumarin, isoflavonoids and pterocarpans from Neorautanenia mitis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 451-455

  Joseph, C C ^a   Ndoile, M M ^a   Malima, R C ^b   Nkunya, M H H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Coumarin; Isoflavonoids; Larvicides; Mosquitocides; Neorautanenia; Pterocarpans

Indexed keywords

4 METHOXYNEODULINE; CIPERMETHRIN; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; DELTAMETHRIN; INSECT REPELLENT; ISOFLAVONOID; NEODULINE; NEORAUTANENIA MITIS EXTRACT; NEORAUTANONE; NEOTENONE; NEPSEUDIN; PACHYRRHIZINE; PLANT EXTRACT; PTEROCARPAN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGUME; MALARIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOSQUITO; NEORAUTANENIA MITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; COUMARINS; CULEX; CULICIDAE; DRUG EVALUATION; FILARIASIS; FLAVONOIDS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PTEROCARPANS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; NEORAUTANENIA; NEORAUTANENIA MITIS;

EID: 3242688228     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2003.10.008     Document Type: Article

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