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Article: Quantification the bioactivity of plant extracts during screening and bioassay guided fractionation.(Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Our research group is involved in the screening of plants for antimicrobial and anti-oxidative activity and isolation of compounds responsible for these activities by bioassay guided fractionation. In some cases, we are following up on ethnoveterinary leads, but we also investigate many taxa of one family the Combretaceae.
There are three main reasons for doing screening studies i.e. to find new lead compounds for developing pharmaceuticals, to confirm the ethnomedicinal use of plants or to develop phytomedicines for use as herbal medicine. Apparently, little effort has gone into developing low technology techniques to use medicinal plants in rural communities. In ...