A review of antimalarial plants used in traditional medicine in communities in Portuguese-Speaking countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola

A review of antimalarial plants used in traditional medicine in communities in Portuguese-Speaking countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola

The isolation of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants, based on traditional use or ethnomedical data, is a highly promising potential approach for identifying new and effective antimalarial drug candidates. The purpose of this review was to create a compilation of the phytochemical studies on m...

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Main Authors: Jefferson Rocha de A Silva, Aline de S Ramos, Marta Machado, Dominique F de Moura, Zoraima Neto, Marilene M Canto-Cavalheiro, Paula Figueiredo, Virgilio E do Rosário, Ana Claudia F Amaral, Dinora Lopes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2011-08-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Subjects:
antimalarial
medicinal plants
extracts
malaria
folk medicine
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