Anti-Giardia activity of Syzygium aromaticum essential oil and eugenol: Effects on growth, viability, adherence and ultrastructure

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 732-739

  Machado, M ^a,b   Dinis, A M ^c   Salgueiro, L ^a   Custódio, José B A ^d   Cavaleiro, C ^a   Sousa, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b Instituto Politécnico de Saúde do Norte   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Drug action; Drug development; Essential oils; Giardia lamblia; In vitro activity; Infectious diseases (ID); Medicinal plants; Protozoa; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FARNESENE; BETA PINENE; CALAMENENE; CAMPHENE; CARVACROL; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; CINEOLE; CLOVE OIL; DELTA CADINENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENOL; GAMMA CADINENE; GAMMA MUUROLENE; HUMULENE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; LINALYL ACETATE; PARA CYMENE; PHENYLPROPANOID DERIVATIVE; PINENE; SELINENE; SESQUITERPENE; TERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL ADHESION; CELL GRANULE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SHAPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG SCREENING; FLAGELLUM; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GROWTH INHIBITION; IC 50; INCUBATION TIME; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE VIABILITY; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EUGENIA; EUGENOL; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT OILS;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA; SYZYGIUM AROMATICUM;

EID: 79952363456     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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