Pharmacological activities of some Argyranthemum species growing in the Canary Islands

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 763-767

  Badisa, R B ^a   Couladis, M ^b   Tsortanidou, V ^b   Chaudhuri, S K ^a   Walker, L ^c   Pilarinou, E ^a   Santos Guerra, A ^d   Francisco Ortega, J ^e  

^a Walker Cancer Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^d Jardin de Aclimatacion de la Orotava   (Spain)

^e FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimalarial activity; Antimicrobial activity; Argyranthemum sp.; Brine shrimps; Cytotoxicity assay

Indexed keywords

ARGYRANTHEMUM ADAUCTUM EXTRACT; ARGYRANTHEMUM FRATETESCENS EXTRACT; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARGYRANTHEMUM ADAUCTUM; ARGYRANTHEMUM FRATETESCENS; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LC 50; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ARTEMIA; ASTERACEAE; CACO-2 CELLS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPAIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ARGYRANTHEMUM; ARGYRANTHEMUM ADAUCTUM; ARTEMIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MINK CELL FOCUS-FORMING VIRUS;

EID: 8344268597     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1530     Document Type: Article

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