Screening for antifungal activity of nineteen Latin American plants

Autor:	Roser Vila, Liliana Vargas, Salvador Cañigueral, Nancy Lozano, Tomás Adzet, Blanca Freixa
Rok vydání:	1998
Předmět:	Pharmacology Polygonum Piper biology Andira inermis Traditional medicine business.industry biology.organism_classification Hedyosmum Ocimum Croton Mansoa alliacea Botany Medicine Hura business
Zdroj:	Phytotherapy Research. 12:427-430
ISSN:	1099-1573 0951-418X
DOI:	10.1002/(sici)1099-1573(199809)12:6<427::aid-ptr338>3.0.co;2-x
Popis:	Dichloromethane and methanol extracts of 19 Latin American plants, most of them selected on the basis of traditional medicine reports, were subjected to screening for antifungal activity, using the agar disk diffusion assay against several fungi. Of the extracts tested, those of Andira inermis, Andira surinamensis, Bixa orellana, Blepharocalyx tweediei, Croton zehtneri, Gallesia integrifolia, Hedyosmum anisodorum, Heterotheca inuloides, Hura crepitans, Mansoa alliacea, Ocimum micranthum, Persea laevigata, Piper elongatum, Piper fulvescens, Polygonum hydropiperoides and Potalia amara exhibited some level of activity. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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