The intifilarial activity of a marine red alga, Botryocladia leptopoda, against experimental infections with animal and human filariae

Parasitology Research

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 468-474

  Lakshmi, V ^a   Kumar, R ^a   Gupta, P ^a   Varshney, V ^a   Srivastava, M N ^a   Dikshit, M ^a   Murthy, P K ^a   Misra Bhattacharya, S ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; BOTRYOCLADIA LEPTOPODA EXTRACT; HEXANE; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACANTHOCHEILONEMA VITEAE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOTRYOCLADIA LEPTOPODA; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MALE; MASTOMYS; MASTOMYS COUCHA; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RED ALGA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIPETALONEMA; DRUG EFFECT; ELEPHANTIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MURIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; SIGMODONTINAE;

ACANTHOCHEILONEMA VITEAE; ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BOTRYOCLADIA; BRUGIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LITOMOSOIDES; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MASTOMYS; MASTOMYS COUCHA; RHODOPHYTA; RODENTIA; SIGMODON;

ALGAE, RED; ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; DIPETALONEMA; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; FILARICIDES; FILARIOIDEA; HUMANS; MALE; MICROFILARIA; MURIDAE; SIGMODONTINAE;

EID: 4544261351     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1159-8     Document Type: Article

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