Evaluation of flavonoids from Dorstenia barteri for their antimycobacterial, antigonorrheal and anti-reverse transcriptase activities

Acta Tropica

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 100-104

  Kuete, V ^a,c   Ngameni, B ^b   Mbaveng, A T ^b   Ngadjui, B ^b   Meyer, J J Marion ^c   Lall, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c Faculty of Agricultural and Biological Science   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anti reverse transcriptase; Antigonorrheal; Antimycobacterial; Dortenia barteri; Flavonoids

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYLONCHOCARPIN; AMENTOFLAVONE; DORSTENIA BARTERI EXTRACT; FLAVONOID; ISOBACHALCONE; KANZANOL C; PLANT EXTRACT; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; STIPULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; METABOLITE; PATHOGEN; PLANT; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BROTH DILUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; DORSTENIA BARTERI; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GONORRHEA; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORACEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; RADIOMETRY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FLAVONOIDS; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MORACEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OXAZINES; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS; TUBERCULOSIS; XANTHENES;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; DORSTENIA BARTERI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77955274098     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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