Constituents, antileishmanial activity and toxicity profile of volatile oil from berries of Croton macrostachyus

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 975-980

  Tariku, Yinebeb ^a   Hymete, Ariaya ^b   Hailu, Asrat ^b   Rohloff, Jens ^c  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antileishmanial activity; Croton macrostachyus; Cytotoxicity; Essential oil; Hemolytic activity; Human monocytic leukemia (THP 1) cell line; Selectivity index

Indexed keywords

1,3,5 UNDECATRIENE; 2 NONANOL; ALPHA CURCUMENE; ALPHA FARNESENE; ALPHA PHELLANDRENE; ANTILEISHMANIAL AGENT; BENZYL BENZOATE; BETA PHELLANDRENE; BETA PINENE; COPAENE; CROTON MACROSTACHYUS EXTRACT; DECANOL; DELTA CADINENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA MUUROLENE; HEPTYLACETATE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MYRCENE; MYRTENOL; OCTANAL; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; PLANT EXTRACT; SABINENE; TERPINEN 4 OL; TERPINENE; TERPINEOL; TERPINOLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BERRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROTON; CROTON MACROSTACHYUS; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LC 50; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PROMASTIGOTE; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE; TOXICITY TESTING;

CROTON MACROSTACHYUS; LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77954133889     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1000500635     Document Type: Article

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