Antimalarial drug discovery: Screening of Brazilian medicinal plants and purified compounds

Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-108

  Krettli, Antoniana Ursine ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antimalarials; Artemisinin derivatives; Chloroquine resistance; Drug discovery; Drug resistance; Malaria; Medicinal plants; Plasmodium falciparum; Quinine

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEETHER; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISIN; ARTESUNATE; ATOVAQUONE; BENFLUMETOL; BIDENS PILOSA EXTRACT; CHLOROQUINE; DOXYCYCLINE; FANSIDAR; FLAVONOID; HALOFANTRINE; LIGNAN DERIVATIVE; MEFLOQUINE; MEPACRINE; MORPHINAN DERIVATIVE; POLYACETYLENE DERIVATIVE; PRIMAQUINE; PROGUANIL; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUININE; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; SULFADOXINE; TAZOPSINE; TRITERPENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; APOCYNACEAE; ARISTOLOCHIACEAE; ASTERACEAE; BRAZIL; CECROPIACEAE; DRUG COST; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; GENTIANACEAE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IC 50; LEGUME; LOGANIACEAE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; OLACACEAE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHAMNACEAE; RUBIACEAE; RUTACEAE;

EID: 67649159976     PISSN: 17460441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17530050802678127     Document Type: Review

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