Antileishmanial activities associated with plants used in the Malian traditional medicine |
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Authors: | Ahua Kouassi Maximin Ioset Jean-Robert Ioset Karine Ndjoko Diallo Drissa Mauël Jacques Hostettmann Kurt |
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Affiliation: | Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie et Phytochimie, Ecole de Pharmacie Genève-Lausanne, Université de Genève, Quai Ernest Ansermet 30, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland. |
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Abstract: | Sixty-four extracts issued from twenty-one plants used in the Malian traditional medicine--several of them as antiparasitic drugs--were assayed for their antileishmanial effects against both extracellular and intracellular forms of Leishmania major. Seven extracts from six different plants--Sarcocephalus latifolius, Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides, Entada africana, Bobgunnia madagascarensis, Pseudocedrela kotschyi and Psorospermum guineense--were found to be significantly active against the intracellular form of the parasite. |
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Keywords: | TM, traditional medicine HAT, human African trypanosomiasis DCM, dichloromethane MeOH, methanol H2O, water WHO/TDR, World Health Organisation/Tropical Diseases Research TP, true positive FP, false positive FN, false negative TN, true negative |
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