Antimalarial effects of eight African medicinal plants.
Crude hot water extracts from eight medicinal plants collected in Togo, West Africa, were examined for antimalarial properties against Plasmodium falciparum using an in vitro test. The activity differed with the plant species with extracts of Cassia siamea, Jatropha gossypiifolia and Pavetta crassipes capable of 100% inhibition.
Gbeassor
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Département de Physiologie Animale, Université du Bénin, Ecole des Sciences, Lomé, Togo, West Africa.
Kossou
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Y
Amegbo
K
K
de Souza
C
C
Koumaglo
K
K
Denke
A
A
D000818:Animals; D000962:Antimalarials / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008288:Malaria / Q000628:therapy; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000032:analysis*; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000187:drug effects; D014037:Togo
D000962:Antimalarials