Ellagic acid derivatives from Syzygium cumini stem bark: Investigation of their antiplasmodial activity

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1371-1376

  Simões Pires, Claudia A ^a   Vargas, Sandra ^a   Marston, Andrew ^a   Ioset, Jean Robert ^a,b   Paulo, Marçal Q ^c   Matheeussend, An ^d   Maes, Louis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative   (Switzerland)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antiplasmodial; Ellagic acid derivatives; Myrtaceae; Syzygium cumini; hematin

Indexed keywords

3 O METHYLELLAGIC ACID 3' O ALPHA LEVO GAMMA RHAMNOPYRANOSIDE; 3 O METHYLELLAGIC ACID 3' O BETA DEXTRO GLUCOPYRANOSIDE; 4 O ALPHA LEVO GAMMA 2'' ACETYLRHAMNOPYRANOSIDE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ELLAGIC ACID; ELLAGIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HEMATIN; HYDROXYL GROUP; TAMOXIFEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIPLASMODIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BARK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FIBROBLAST; FRACTIONATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SYZYGIUM CUMINI'; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; EUGENIA; PLANT STEM;

MYRTACEAE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SYZYGIUM CUMINI;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CELL LINE; ELLAGIC ACID; EUGENIA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLANT BARK; PLANT STEMS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 73449096485     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900401012     Document Type: Article

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