In vivo antifungal effect of Combretum and Terminalia species extracts on cutaneous wound healing in immunosuppressed rats

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 621-632

  Masoko, P ^a,b   Picard, J ^a   Howard, R L ^b   Mampuru, L J ^b   Eloff, J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Combretaceae; Crust formation; Erythema; Exudate; Wistar rats; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARJUNOLIC ACID; ASIATIC ACID; COMBRETUM ABLOPUNCTATUM EXTRACT; COMBRETUM EXTRACT; COMBRETUM IMBERBE EXTRACT; COMBRETUM NELSONII EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; TERMINALIA EXTRACT; TERMINALIA SERICEA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WOUND HEALING PROMOTING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BODY WEIGHT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMBRETUM; COMBRETUM ABLOPUNCTATUM; COMBRETUM IMBERBE; COMBRETUM NELSONII; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SCREENING; ERYTHEMA; EXUDATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROSPORUM CANIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; RAT; SKIN INJURY; SKIN SWELLING; SKIN ULCER; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA SERICEA; WISTAR RAT; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; FUNGUS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; COMBRETUM; FUNGI; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOSES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINALIA; TIME FACTORS; TOXICITY TESTS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77952901323     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: 17445116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13880200903229080     Document Type: Article

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