Chemical composition, antiparasitic and cytotoxic activities of aqueous extracts of Ziziphus joazeiro Mart.

Objective: To compare the in vitro antiparasitic activity of aqueous extracts from Ziziphus joazeiro leaves and stem bark against Trypanosoma cruzi, Leishmania braziliensis, and Leishmania infantum, as well as to evaluate its cytotoxicity in mammalian cells, in addition to identifying the chemical c...

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Main Authors: Jacqueline Cosmo Andrade, Ana Raquel Pereira da Silva, Antônia Thassya Lucas dos Santos, Maria Audilene Freitas, Yedda Maria Lobo Soares de Matos, Maria Flaviana Bezerra Morais Braga, Camila Fonseca Bezerra, Maria Isabeli Pereira Gonçalo, Maria Celeste Vega Gomez, Míriam Rolóm, Cathia Coronel, Paulo Riceli Vasconcelos Ribeiro, Edy Sousa de Brito, Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2019-01-01
Series:Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
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Online Access:http://www.apjtb.org/article.asp?issn=2221-1691;year=2019;volume=9;issue=5;spage=222;epage=226;aulast=Andrade