Screening antifungal activities of selected medicinal plants
| Autor: | Emma Nelly Quiroga, Marta Amelia Vattuone, Antonio Rodolfo Sampietro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Pharmacology
Antifungal Agents Plants Medicinal Microfungi Traditional medicine Plant Extracts fungi Argentina Drug Evaluation Preclinical Fungi food and beverages Biological activity Pharmacognosy Biology Yeast chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Drug Discovery Botany Bioassay Medicine Traditional Growth inhibition Medicinal plants Larrea divaricata |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 74:89-96 |
| ISSN: | 0378-8741 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0378-8741(00)00350-0 |
| Popis: | Plants synthesise a vast array of secondary metabolites that are gaining importance for their biotechnological applications. The antifungal activity of the ethanolic extracts of ten Argentinean plants used in native medicine is reported. Antifungal assays included radial growth inhibition, disk and well diffusion assays and growth inhibition by broth dilution tests. The chosen test fungi were yeasts, microfungi and wood-rot causing Basidiomycetes. Extracts of Larrea divaricata, Zuccagnia punctata and Larrea cuneifolia displayed remarkable activity in the assays against the majority of the test fungi. In addition to the former plants, Prosopanche americana also inhibited yeast growth. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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