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Ali Mohamed Kaou1, Valérie Mahiou-Leddet, Sébastien Hutter
1Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie, EA864, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II), 13385 Marseille, Cedex 5, France.
Abstract:
An ethnobotanical study was conducted in Comores (Ngazidja) about plant species used traditionally for the treatment of various diseases, including malaria. Antimalarial activity of 76 vegetal extracts obtained from 17 species traditionally used to treat malaria symptoms, was evaluated in vitro using Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine-resistant strain (W2). Antiproliferative activity was evaluated on human monocytic THP1 cells and the selectivity index of the plant extracts was calculated. The results showed that 10 plant extracts had a moderate activity (5
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