Drug Development
Oils from Cameroon medicinal plants have potent antimalarial activity
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 30th, 2003
According to recent research from the United States, "In a search for new plant-derived biologically active compounds against malaria parasites, five essential oils extracted from the Cameroonian plants Xylopia phloiodora, Pachypodanthium confine, Antidesma laciniatum, Xylopia aethiopica, and Hexalobus crispiflorus were evaluated in regard to their anti-plasmodial activity against the W2 strain of Plasmodium falciparum."
"The oils were obtained from the plants with 0.12%, 0.13%, 0.18%, 0.6% and 0.1% yields (relatively to...
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