Are West African plants a source of future antimalarial drugs?

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 130-140

  Soh, Patrice Njomnang ^a,b   Benoit Vical, Françoise ^a,b  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Antiplasmodial assays; Traditional medicine; West African plants

Indexed keywords

AMARANTHUS SPINOSUS EXTRACT; ARTEMISININ; AZADIRACHTA INDICA EXTRACT; BOERHAAVIA ERECTA EXTRACT; CASSIA SINGUENA EXTRACT; CROSSOPTERYX FEBRIFUGA EXTRACT; CYLICODISCUS GABUNENSIS EXTRACT; ERYTHRINA SENEGALENSIS EXTRACT; HIPPOCRATEA AFRICANA EXTRACT; MOMORDICA BALSAMINA EXTRACT; PICRALIMA NITIDA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; QUASSIA AMARA EXTRACT; QUININE; SOLANUM ENANTHUM EXTRACT; STRIGA HERMONTHICA EXTRACT; TAPINANTHUS SESSILIFOLIUS EXTRACT; TITHONIA DIVERSIFOLIA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVARIA CHAMAE EXTRACT;

AFRICA; ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL CELL; ANNONACEAE; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; APOCYNACEAE; ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ASTERACEAE; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BIXACEAE; CINCHONA; COCHLOSPERMUM; COMBRETUM; CRYPTOLEPSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; EUPHORBIA; GUIERA; IC 50; LEGUME; MALARIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VINCKEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; RESEARCH; REVIEW; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; HUMANS; MALARIA; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

AZADIRACHTA; COCHLOSPERMUM; GUIERA;

EID: 35148849743     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2007.08.012     Document Type: Review

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