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Search for antiprotozoal activity in herbal medicinal preparations : new natural leads against neglected tropical diseases
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 3199312
Author(s) Llurba Montesino, Nśria; Kaiser, Marcel; Brun, Reto; Schmidt, Thomas J
Author(s) at UniBasel Kaiser, Marcel
Brun, Reto
Year 2015
Title Search for antiprotozoal activity in herbal medicinal preparations : new natural leads against neglected tropical diseases
Journal Molecules
Volume 20
Number 8
Pages / Article-Number 14118-38
Keywords neglected tropical diseases, antiprotozoal activity, Plasmodium falciparum, Trypanosoma cruzi, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, Leishmania donovani, herbal medicinal preparations (HMPs)
Abstract

Sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, Leishmaniasis, and Malaria are infectious diseases caused by unicellular eukaryotic parasites ("protozoans"). The three first mentioned are classified as Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) by the World Health Organization and together threaten more than one billion lives worldwide. Due to the lack of research interest and the high increase of resistance against the existing treatments, the search for effective and safe new therapies is urgently required. In view of the large tradition of natural products as sources against infectious diseases [1,2], the aim of the present study is to investigate the potential of legally approved and marketed herbal medicinal products (HMPs) as antiprotozoal agents. Fifty-eight extracts from 53 HMPs on the German market were tested by a Multiple-Target-Screening (MTS) against parasites of the genera Leishmania, Trypanosoma, and Plasmodium. Sixteen HMPs showed in vitro activity against at least one of the pathogens (IC50 < 10 µg/mL). Six extracts from preparations of Salvia, Valeriana, Hypericum, Silybum, Arnica, and Curcuma exhibited high activity (IC50 < 2.5 µg/mL). They were analytically characterized by UHPLC/ESI-QqTOF-MSMS and the activity-guided fractionation of the extracts with the aim to isolate and identify the active compounds is in progress.

Publisher MDPI
ISSN/ISBN 1420-3049
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A6420014
Full Text on edoc No
Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.3390/molecules200814118
PubMed ID http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26248069
ISI-Number WOS:000361375400038
Document type (ISI) Journal Article
 
   

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