Multipurpose effectiveness of Couroupita guianensis-synthesized gold nanoparticles: high antiplasmodial potential, field efficacy against malaria vectors and synergy with Aplocheilus lineatus predators

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 7543-7558

  Subramaniam, Jayapal ^a   Murugan, Kadarkarai ^a   Panneerselvam, Chellasamy ^a   Kovendan, Kalimuthu ^a   Madhiyazhagan, Pari ^a   Dinesh, Devakumar ^a   Kumar, Palanisamy Mahesh ^a   Chandramohan, Balamurugan ^a   Suresh, Udaiyan ^a   Rajaganesh, Rajapandian ^a   Alsalhi, Mohamad Saleh ^b   Devanesan, Sandhanasamy ^b   Nicoletti, Marcello ^c   Canale, Angelo ^d   Benelli, Giovanni ^d  

^a BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chloroquine; Flower mediated nanosynthesis; Golden wonder killifish; Malaria; Nanobiotechnology; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CYPRINID; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; GOLD; MALARIA; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; NANOPARTICLE; PLANT EXTRACT; PREDATOR;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; APLOCHEILUS LINEATUS; COUROUPITA GUIANENSIS; CYPRINODONTOIDEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; GOLD; INSECTICIDE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CHEMISTRY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DRUG EFFECTS; FLOWER; INSECT VECTOR; LARVA; LECYTHIDACEAE; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDATION; PUPA; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIMALARIALS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FLOWERS; GOLD; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; LECYTHIDACEAE; MALARIA; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PUPA;

EID: 84953251758     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-6007-0     Document Type: Article

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