Antimicrobial Activity and Probable Mechanisms of Action of Medicinal Plants of Kenya: Withania somnifera, Warbugia ugandensis, Prunus africana and Plectrunthus barbatus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Mwitari, Peter G ^a,b   Ayeka, Peter A ^b,c   Ondicho, Joyce ^a   Matu, Esther N ^a   Bii, Christine C ^a  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c EGERTON UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; FLUCONAZOLE; INTERLEUKIN 7; MESSENGER RNA; METICILLIN; PLANT EXTRACT; PLECTRUNTHUS BARBATUS EXTRACT; PYGEUM AFRICANUM EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WARBUGIA UGANDENSIS EXTRACT; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTHRODERMA GYPSEUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BARK; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG SAFETY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNOPOTENTIATION; IN VITRO STUDY; KENYA; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLECTRUNTHUS BARBATUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PYGEUM; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; WARBUGIA UGANDENSIS; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE (PHOSPHORYLATING); INTERLEUKIN-7; KENYA; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PYGEUM; TRACHEOBIONTA; WITHANIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PRUNUS AFRICANA; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA;

EID: 84878971317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065619     Document Type: Article

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