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In vivo antimalarial activity of the crude leaf extract and solvent fractions of Croton macrostachyus Hocsht. (Euphorbiaceae) against Plasmodium berghei in mice

BACKGROUND: The issue of resistance in malarial infection makes development of novel drugs a necessity. An alternative source for discovering such drugs is natural products. Croton macrostachyus H. (Euphorbiaceae) is used in Ethiopian folklore medicine for the treatment of malaria and found to posse...

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Autores principales: Bantie, Laychiluh, Assefa, Solomon, Teklehaimanot, Tilahun, Engidawork, Ephrem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3943266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24580778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-14-79