| Literature DB >> 18669023 |
Margareth B C Gallo1, Anna Sylvia F Marques, Paulo C Vieira, Maria Fátima das G F da Silva, João B Fernandes, Márcio Silva, Rafael V Guido, Glaucius Oliva, Otávio H Thiemann, Sérgio Albuquerque, Alan H Fairlamb.
Abstract
Hexanic, methanolic, and hydroalcoholic extracts, and 34 isolated compounds from Vitex polygama Cham. (Lamiaceae, formely Verbenaceae) and Siphoneugena densiflora O. Berg (Myrtaceae) were screened for their trypanocidal effects on bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma cruzi and T brucei, as well as for their enzymatic inhibitory activities on glycosomal glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gGAPDH) and trypanothione reductase (TR) enzymes from T cruzi and adeninephosphoribosyl transferase (APRT) enzyme from Leishmania tarentolae. In general, polar extracts displayed strong effects and some of the tested compounds have shown good results in comparison to positive controls of the bioassays.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18669023 PMCID: PMC3428908 DOI: 10.1515/znc-2008-5-611
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Z Naturforsch C J Biosci ISSN: 0341-0382