Selective activity of extracts of Margaritaria discoidea and Homalium africanum on Onchocerca ochengi

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cho Ngwa, Fidelis ^a   Abongwa, Melanie ^a   Ngemenya, Moses N ^a   Nyongbela, Kennedy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ANTHRAQUINONE; DICHLOROMETHANE; HEXANE; HOMALIUM AFRICANUM EXTRACT; MARGARITARIA DISCOIDEA EXTRACT; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT; STEROL; TERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; PHYTOSTEROL; TERPENE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; DRUG ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HOMALIUM AFRICANUM; IC 50; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; MALE; MARGARITARIA DISCOIDEA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NITROBLUE TETRAZOLIUM TEST; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA OCHENGI; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; HAPLORHINI; KIDNEY; MAGNOLIACEAE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAQUINONES; CATTLE; CELL LINE; FEMALE; FILARICIDES; HAPLORHINI; KIDNEY; MAGNOLIACEAE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PHYTOSTEROLS; PLANT EXTRACTS; TERPENES;

EID: 77958549034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-10-62     Document Type: Article

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