Brine shrimp toxicity and antiplasmodial activity of five Kenyan medicinal plants
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Brine shrimp toxicity and antiplasmodial activity of five Kenyan medicinal plants.
The organic extracts of leaves and roots of five plants used for treating malaria in Central, Nairobi and Rift Valley Provinces, Kenya were tested for brine shrimp lethality and in vitro antiplasmodial activity against chloroquine sensitive and resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum. Of the plants tested, 60% were toxic to the brine shrimp (LC(50)<30 microg/ml) and eight out of ten plant pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ethnopharmacology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0378-8741
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2003.09.047