Alkaloid presence and brine shrimp (Artemia salina) bioassay of medicinal species of eastern Nicaragua

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 439-445

  Coe, Felix G ^a   Parikh, Dimpi M ^a   Johnson, Caley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Biological screening; Cytotoxic activity; Ethnomedicinal plants

Indexed keywords

ALIBERTIA EDULIS EXTRACT; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ARRABIDAEA CHICA EXTRACT; BIXA ORELLANA EXTRACT; CALYPTRANTHES CHYTRACULIA EXTRACT; CECROPIA PELTATA EXTRACT; CHAMAESYCE HYSSOPIFOLIA EXTRACT; CNIDOSCOLUS URENS EXTRACT; COCCOLOBA UVIFERA EXTRACT; CONNARUS LAMBERTII EXTRACT; CUPHEA MIMULOIDES EXTRACT; EUGENIA ACAPULCENSIS EXTRACT; HAMELIA AXILLARIS EXTRACT; HELIOTROPIUM INDICUM EXTRACT; HYPTIS VERTICILLATA EXTRACT; JATROPHA GOSSYPIIFOLIA EXTRACT; MANIHOT ESCULENTA EXTRACT; MELOCHIA VILLOSA EXTRACT; OCIMUM CAMPECHIANUM EXTRACT; OCOTEA MEZIANA EXTRACT; OURATEA NITIDA EXTRACT; PALICOUREA TRIPHYLLA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PSYCHOTRIA POEPPIGIANA EXTRACT; SENNA UNDULATA EXTRACT; SOLANUM UMBELLATUM EXTRACT; STRUTHANTHUS CASSYTHOIDES EXTRACT; TIBOUCHINA ASPERA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; WALTHERIA INDICA EXTRACT;

ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; LARVA; LC 50; LORANTHACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEDICINAL SPECIES; NICARAGUA; NONHUMAN; RUBIACEAE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; ARTEMIA; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LETHAL DOSE 50; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; NICARAGUA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

ALIBERTIA EDULIS; ARTEMIA; ARTEMIA SALINA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LORANTHACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RUBIACEAE; RUBIALES; SANTALALES; STRUTHANTHUS;

EID: 77950221022     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: 17445116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13880200903168015     Document Type: Article

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