| screening of new caledonian and vanuatu medicinal plants for antiprotozoal activity. | sixty-seven extracts of 30 medicinal plants traditionally used in new caledonia or vanuatu by healers to treat inflammation, fever and in cicatrizing remedies were evaluated in vitro for their antiprotozoal activity against leishmania donovani, leishmania amazonensis and trypanosoma cruzi. among the selected plants, pagiantha cerifera was the most active against both leishmania species; four extracts were active against promastigotes of leishmania donovani at ec(50) values inferior to 5 microg/m ... | 2004 | 15619580 |
| antiparasitic activity of some new caledonian medicinal plants. | twenty-nine extracts of 18 medicinal plants used in new caledonia by traditional healers to treat inflammation, fever and in cicatrizing remedies were evaluated in vitro against several parasites (leishmania donovani, trypanosoma brucei brucei, trichomonas vaginalis and caenorhabditis elegans). among the selected plants, scaevola balansae and premna serratifolia l. were the most active against leishmania donovani with ic(50) values between 5 and 10microg/ml. the almond and aril extracts from myr ... | 2007 | 17329051 |