In vitro activities of plant extracts from Saudi Arabia against malaria, leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness and Chagas disease

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1322-1328

  Abdel Sattar, Essam ^a   Maes, Louis ^b   Salama, Maha Mahmoud ^c  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Antileishmanial; Antimalarial; Antitrypanosomal; Cytotoxicity; In vitro

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; CHLOROFORM; PETROLEUM ETHER; PLANT EXTRACT;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; FIBROBLAST; IN VITRO STUDY; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SAUDI ARABIA; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; ARGEMONE; CAPPARIS; CHAGAS DISEASE; HELIOTROPIUM; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SAUDI ARABIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

ARGEMONE OCHROLEUCA; CAPPARIS SPINOSA; HELIOTROPIUM CURASSAVICUM; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 77957264578     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3108     Document Type: Article

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