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Article: Reports on life sciences findings from Kenyatta University provide new insights.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- September 9, 2009
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"Indigenous rural communities in the tropics manage parasitic diseases, like malaria and leishmaniasis, using herbal drugs. The efficacy, dosage, safety and active principles of most of the herbal preparations are not known," scientists in Nairobi, Kenya report (see also Life Sciences).
"Extracts from 6 selected plant species, used as medicinal plants by indigenous local communities in Kenya, were screened for in vitro anti-plasmodial and anti-leishmanial activity, against 2 laboratory-adapted Plasmodium falciparum isolates (D6, CQ-sensitive and W2, CQ-resistant) and Leishmania major (IDU/KE/83 = NLB-144 strain), respectively. The methanol extract of Suregada ...
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