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Plumieride from Allamanda cathartica as an antidermatophytic agent
T N Tiwari1, V B Pandey, N K Dubey
1Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India.
Phytotherapy Research : PTR
|July 12, 2002
Abstract:
Plumieride has been isolated as an active principle of the leaves of Allamanda cathartica. It showed strong fungitoxicity against some dermatophytes causing dermatomycosis to animals and human beings. It exhibited a noncytotoxic nature against a P(388) mouse leukaemia cell line.