In vivo antioxidant assessment of two antimalarial plants–Allamamda cathartica and Bixa orellana
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Antimalarial evaluation of the chemical constituents of hairy root culture of Bixa orellana L.
Over 216 million malaria cases are reported annually worldwide and about a third of these cases, primarily children under the age of five years old, will not survive the infection. Despite this significant world health impact, only a limited number of therapeutic agents are currently available. The lack of scaffold diversity poses a threat in the event that multi-drug-resistant strains emerge. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2221-1691
DOI: 10.1016/s2221-1691(13)60082-9