Quantitative structure - Antiprotozoal activity relationships of sesquiterpene lactones

Molecules

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2062-2076

  Schmidt, Thomas J ^a   Nour, Amal M M ^a   Khalid, Sami A ^b   Kaiser, Marcel ^c   Brun, Reto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antiprotozoal activity; Plasmodium; QSAR; Sesquiterpene lactone; Trypanosoma; leishmania

Indexed keywords

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; LACTONE; SESQUITERPENE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; LEISHMANIA; PLASMODIUM; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RAT; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; LACTONES; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLASMODIUM; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; RATS; SESQUITERPENES; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 67649845983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules14062062     Document Type: Article

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