Assessment of antimalarial medicinal plants used in Nigerian ethnomedicine reveals antimalarial potential of Cucurbita pepo leaf extract

Medicinal plants are often used to treat malaria in different parts of Nigeria and exploiting these can unravel new therapeutic leads. This study evaluated the antiplasmodial potential of selected plants used to treat malaria in Nsukka, Enugu state, Nigeria. Leaves of three different plants (Cucurbi...

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Main Authors: Chinelo Ezeani, Ifeoma Ezenyi, Nekpen Erhunse, Dinkar Sahal, Theophine Akunne, Charles Okoli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-07-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402201204X