The effects of different plant extracts on intestinal cestodes and on trematodes

Parasitology Research

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 979-984

  Abdel Ghaffar, Fathy ^a   Semmler, Margit ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^b   Strassen, Bianca ^c   Fischer, Katja ^c   Aksu, Gülendem ^c   Klimpel, Sven ^d   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^c  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICESTODAL AGENT; ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; CHICORY EXTRACT; CHLOROFORM; CISTROSE EXTRACT; COCONUT EXTRACT; COCONUT OIL; DATE TREE EXTRACT; FIG EXTRACT; GARLIC EXTRACT; MACROGOL; ONION EXTRACT; PINEAPPLE EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PROPYLENE CARBONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CAT; CHICORY; CISTROSE; COCONUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATE TREE; DIET THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FIG; HYMENOLEPIASIS; HYMENOLEPIS; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; HYMENOLEPIS MICROSTOMA; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PINEAPPLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TAENIA TAENIAEFORMIS; TAENIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CESTODA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; MICE; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMATODA;

ALLIUM CEPA; ALLIUM SATIVUM; ANANAS; CESTODA; CICHORIUM INTYBUS; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; MUS; RATTUS; TAENIA TAENIAEFORMIS; TREMATODA;

EID: 79956188769     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-2167-5     Document Type: Article

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