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Evaluation of plant extracts for antileishmanial activity using a mechanism-based radiorespirometric microtechnique
M M Iwu1, J E Jackson, J D Tally
1Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. 20307.
Planta Medica
|October 1, 1992
Abstract:
Extracts of eleven plants used in Nigerian traditional medicine have been evaluated for possible antileishmanial activity using a radiorespirometric microtest technique based on in vitro inhibition of catabolism of 14CO2 from a battery of 14C-substrates by promastigotes. Of 13 methanol extracts tested, 5 from Gongronema latifolia, Dorstenia multiradiata, Picralima nitida, Cola attiensis, and Desmodium gangeticum, were active at concentrations of 50 micrograms/ml or less against a visceral Leishmania isolate.