Evaluation of four Cameroonian medicinal plants for anticancer, antigonorrheal and antireverse transcriptase activities

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 162-167

  Mbaveng, Armelle T ^a   Kuete, Victor ^b,c   Mapunya, Brenda M ^c   Beng, Veronique P ^a   Nkengfack, Augustin E ^a   Meyer, Jacobus J Marion ^c   Lall, Namrita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

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

Author keywords

Anti gonorrheal; Anti reverse transcriptase; Anticancer; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

2,3 BIS[2 METHOXY 4 NITRO 5 SULFOPHENYL] 2H TETRAZOLIUM 5 CARBOXYANILIDE INNER SALT; ANILIDE; ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BERSAMA ENGLERIANA EXTRACT; CUPRESSUS LUSITANICA EXTRACT; DOXORUBICIN; FLAVONOID; GUIBOURTIA TESSMANNII EXTRACT; METHANOL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLARIA PARADOXA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BARK; BERSAMA ENGLERIANA; CAMEROON; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL STRAIN DU145; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CELL STRAIN THP 1; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUPRESSUS; CUPRESSUS LUSITANICA; DILUTION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GUIBOURTIA TESSMANNII; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERO CELL; VITELLARIA PARADOXA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CAMEROON; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; GONORRHEA; HIV REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEOPLASMS; PHENOLS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS; TERPENES; VERO CELLS;

BERSAMA; CUPRESSUS LUSITANICA; GUIBOURTIA TESSMANNII; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; VITELLARIA PARADOXA;

EID: 80051578942     PISSN: 13826689     EISSN: 18727077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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