Biological screening of Annonaceous Brazilian Medicinal Plants using Artemia salina (brine shrimp test).
Eighteen different extracts from five Annona species collected in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, were submitted to the brine shrimp lethality test in order to detect potential sources of novel cytotoxic, antitumor, pesticidal and anti-Trypanosoma cruzi compounds. All of the Annonaceous species tested showed good larvicidal activity as compared to a reference compounds and literature data.
Santos Pimenta
L P
LP
Departamento de Química-ICEx--Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, M.G., Brazil. lpimenta@dedalus-lcc.ufmg.br
Pinto
G B
GB
Takahashi
J A
JA
e Silva
L G F
LG
Boaventura
M A D
MA
D000818:Animals; D029061:Annonaceae; D001156:Artemia / Q000187:drug effects*; D001688:Biological Products / Q000494:pharmacology; D001938:Brazil; D007814:Larva / Q000187:drug effects; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal
D001688:Biological Products; D010936:Plant Extracts