| mutagenicity of wood smoke condensates in the salmonella/microsome assay. | smoke condensates of woods used for food preservation and aromatization in nigeria were tested for mutagenic activity using salmonella typhimurium ta98 and ta100. the woods were: white mangrove (avicennia nitida), red mangrove (rhizophora racemosa), mahogany khaya sp.), abura (mitragyna ciliata), alstonia (alstonia boonei) and black afara (terminalia ivorensis). cigarette tar was tested for comparison. the condensates induced dose-dependent increases in the number of his+ revertants mainly with ... | 1991 | 1881415 |
| phytotherapeutic profile of nigerian herbs. i: anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic agents. | from a survey of anti-arthritic remedies used in igbo tribal ethnomedicine, three plants--lonchocarpus cyanescens, costus afar and terminalia ivorensis--were selected for closer study. twenty-five volunteers were monitored while receiving treatment from two reputable herbalists, and the result of the clinical investigation prompted the pharmacological and phytochemical studies on the herbs. differential solvent extracts of the herbs reduced carragenin-induced oedema of the rat paw, checked diarr ... | 1982 | 7154695 |
| ethno-veterinary medicine: screening of nigerian medicinal plants for trypanocidal properties. | trypanosoma congolense and t. brucei bloodstream form parasites were propagated axenically in suitable standard media at 34 degrees c. the effects of 33 plant extracts, fractions and pure compounds were evaluated on two clones of t. brucei and drug-sensitive and multi-drug-resistant clones of t. congolense. the cytotoxic activity of the trypanocidal extracts was also evaluated on calf aorta endothelial cells in vitro. of the extracts tested, 22% killed t. congolense il 1180 at a concentration of ... | 2001 | 11483373 |
| cultivation of lentinus subnudus berk (polyporales: polyporaceae) on woodlogs. | studies were carried out on the cultivability of lentinus subnudus on woodlogs of various hardwood trees and the effect of chemical treatments of these woodlogs with citric, tartaric, indole-3-acetic (iaa) and gibberellic (ga3) acids on fruitbody production and yield. of the four hardwood species of chlorophora excelsa, terminalia ivorensis, terminalia superba and spondias mombin tried, woodlogs of c. excelsa were the best in supporting l. subnudus fructification, followed by those of s. mombin. ... | 2004 | 15081489 |
| rostraureum tropicale gen. sp. nov. (diaporthales) associated with dying terminalia ivorensis in ecuador. | terminalia ivorensis, a tree of central african origin, is planted in several tropical countries for timber and veneer production. during the course of a recent disease survey, an unknown fungus was found associated with basal cankers on dying t. ivorensis in ecuador. the fungus has orange fruiting structures and septate, fusoid ascospores, similar to those of cryphonectria, a well-known genus of canker pathogens. the aim of this study was to identify the fungus and to assess its pathogenicity. ... | 2005 | 16209308 |
| aurifilum, a new fungal genus in the cryphonectriaceae from terminalia species in cameroon. | native terminalia spp. in west africa provide a popular source of construction timber as well as medical, spiritual and social benefits to rural populations. very little is, however, known regarding the diseases that affect these trees. during an investigation into possible diseases of terminalia spp. in cameroon, orange to yellow fungal fruiting structures, resembling those of fungi in the cryphonectriaceae, were commonly observed on the bark of native terminalia ivorensis, and on dead branches ... | 2010 | 20559872 |
| dimeric antioxidant and cytotoxic triterpenoid saponins from terminalia ivorensis a. chev. | three saponins, including two dimeric triterpenoid glucosides possessing an unusual skeleton, ivorenosides a and b, and a monomeric triterpenoid saponin (ivorenoside c), together with the known sericoside, were isolated from the bark of terminalia ivorensis. their structures were established on the basis of 1d and 2d nmr data, chemical methods and tandem ms-ms spectrometry as a dimer of β-d-glucopyranosyl-18,19-seco-2α,3β,19,19,24-pentahydroxyolean-12-en-28-oate and β-d-glucopyranosyl-2α,3β,19α, ... | 2010 | 20850160 |
| novel 3-oxo- and 3,24-dinor-2,4-secooleanane-type triterpenes from terminalia ivorensis a. chev. | two new oleanane-type triterpenes named ivorengenin a (=3-oxo-2a,19a,24-trihydroxyolean-12-en-28-oic acid; 1) and ivorengenin b (=4-oxo-19a-hydroxy-3,24-dinor-2,4-secoolean-12-ene-2,28-dioic acid; 2), together with five known compounds, arjungenin, arjunic acid, betulinic acid, sericic acid, and oleanolic acid, were isolated from the barks of terminalia ivorensis a. chev. (combretaceae). their structures were established on the basis of 1d- and 2d-nmr data, and mass spectrometry. a biogenetic pa ... | 2011 | 21766451 |
| antiplasmodial activity of selected medicinal plants used to treat malaria in ghana. | the use of medicinal plants for the treatment of diseases including malaria is commonplace in ghanaian traditional medicine, though the therapeutic claims for most plants remain unvalidated. antiplasmodial activity of the aqueous extracts and successively obtained petroleum ether, ethyl acetate and methanol fractions of the whole phyllanthus fraternus plant, the leaves of tectona grandis, terminalia ivorensis and bambusa vulgaris, and roots of senna siamea were studied against plasmodium falcipa ... | 2016 | 27174028 |
| in vitro anti-plasmodial activity of three herbal remedies for malaria in ghana: adenia cissampeloides (planch.) harms., termina liaivorensis a. chev, and elaeis guineensis jacq. | herbal remedies of adenia cissampeloides, terminalia ivorensis, and elaeis guineensis among others have been used in ghana for the treatment of various ailments including malaria. however, most of these remedies have not been scientifically investigated. | 2012 | 23225967 |
| antibacterial properties studies of trunk barks of terminalia ivorensis, a commercial and medicinal species on some methicillin-resistant staphylococci species strains. | methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus epidermidis and coagulase-negative staphylococcus infections are a worldwide concern. terminalia ivorensis, of combretaceae family plant, is widely used traditional medicinal in côte d'ivoire to treat dermal diseases (affection in which staphylococci are implied) including local inflammation and also to treat voice-loss. | 2014 | 25352898 |
| evaluation of antitrypanosomal and anti inflammatory activities of selected nigerian medicinal plants in mice. | the extracts of nine selected nigerian medicinal plants were investigated on trypanosoma brucei brucei infected mice. the anti-inflammatory properties of hexane fraction of the most promising u. chamae extract was assessed by acute oedema of the mice paw model while the modulatory effect of the extract on delayed-type hypersensitivity (dth) response on in vivo leucocytes mobilization was evaluated. 'dose-probing acute toxicity tests' established an oral and intraperitoneal ld50 for t. ivorensis ... | 2013 | 24311871 |