Antiamoebic activity of iridoids from Morinda morindoides leaves

Planta Medica

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 751-753

  Cimanga, Kanyanga ^a   Kambu, Kabangu ^b   Tona, Lutete ^b   Hermans, Nina ^a   Apers, Sandra ^a   Totté, Jozef ^a   Pieters, Luc ^a   Vlietinck, Arnold J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLGAERTNEROSIDE; EPOXYGAERTNEROSIDE; GAERTNERIC ACID; GAERTNEROSIDE; IRIDOID; METHANOL EXTRACTION RESIDUE; METHOXYGAERTNEROSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; MORINDA; MORINDA MORINDOIDES;

AMEBIASIS; AMEBICIDES; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MORINDA; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; MORINDA MORINDOIDES; RUBIACEAE;

EID: 33746065664     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-931581     Document Type: Article

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