In vitro and in vivo antimalarial activity and cytotoxicity of extracts, fractions and a substance isolated from the amazonian plant tachia grandiflora (Gentianaceae)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 501-507

  e Silva, Luiz Francisco Rocha ^a,b,c   Lima, Emerson Silva ^b   De Vasconcellos, Marne Carvalho de ^b   Aranha, Ellen Suzany Pereira ^b   Costa, David Siqueira ^a,c   Mustafa, Elba Vieira ^a,c   de Morais, Sabrina Kelly Reis ^a,b   Alecrim, Maria das Graças Costa ^d   Nunomura, Sergio Massayoshi ^a   Struwe, Lena ^e   de Andrade Neto, Valter Ferreira ^f   Pohlit, Adrian Martin ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c Centro Universitário Do Norte   (Brazil)

^d FUNDAÇÃO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL DR HEITOR VIEIRA DOURADO   (Brazil)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amplexine (djalonenol); Decussating; Human fibroblasts; Plasmodium berghei; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FIBROBLAST; GENTIANACEAE; HUMAN; IC 50; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; FIBROBLASTS; GENTIANACEAE; HUMANS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; MICE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

GENTIANACEAE; MUS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TACHIA; TACHIA GRANDIFLORA;

EID: 84878751197     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108042013017     Document Type: Article

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