| leishmanicidal activity of yucatecan medicinal plants on leishmania species responsible for cutaneous leishmaniasis. | the leishmanicidal activity of 15 extracts and 4 pure metabolites obtained from urechites andrieuxii, colubrina greggii, dorstenia contrajerva, and tridax procumbens was evaluated using the newly developed mts ({3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-5-(3-carboxymethoxyphenyl)-2-(4-sulfophenyl)-2h-tetrazolium, inner salt) assay, optimized for promastigotes of leishmania major, leishmania tropica, and leishmania aethiopica, as well as for l. aethiopica axenic amastigotes. the assay was then used for calcul ... | 2009 | 18771334 |