assessment of antimalarial activity against plasmodium falciparum and phytochemical screening of some yemeni medicinal plants评估对恶性疟原虫抗疟活性和植物化学的一些也门药用植物的筛选.pdfVIP

Advance Access Publication 22 October 2007 eCAM 2009;6(4)453–456 doi:10.1093/ecam/nem148 Original Article Assessment of antimalarial activity against Plasmodium falciparum and phytochemical screening of some Yemeni medicinal plants 1 2 3 3 Mohammed A. Alshawsh , Ramzi A. Mothana , Hassan A. Al-shamahy , Salah F. Alsllami and Ulrike Lindequist4 1Department of Microbiology, Shphaco pharmaceutical ind., Sana’a, Yemen, 2Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Sana’a-University, PO Box 33039, Sana’a, Yemen, 3Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sana’a-University, Sana’a, Yemen and 4Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, F-L-Jahnstr. 15a, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany Developing countries, where malaria is one of the most prevalent diseases, still rely on traditional medicine as a source for the treatment of this disease. In the present study, six selected plants (Acalypha fruticosa, Azadirachta indica, Cissus rotundifolia, Echium rauwalfii, Dendrosicyos socotrana and Boswellia elongata) commonly used in Yemen by traditional healers for the treatment of malaria as well as other diseases, were collected from different localities of Yemen, dried and extracted with methanol and water successfully. The antiplasmodial activity