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Charles Mutai
Researcher at Kenya Medical Research Institute
Publications - 34
Citations - 806
Charles Mutai is an academic researcher from Kenya Medical Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Antimicrobial & Medicinal plants. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 33 publications receiving 695 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles Mutai include University of Science and Technology & Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology.
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An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the Nandi people in Kenya.
TL;DR: It was demonstrated that local people tend to agree with each other in terms of the plants use and that leaf material form the major component of plant parts exploited.
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Phytochemical constituents of some medicinal plants used by the Nandis of South Nandi district, Kenya.
TL;DR: Alkaloids, saponins, anthraquinones, glycosides, phenolics, terpenoids and flavonoids distribution in ten medicinal plants belonging to different families were assessed and compared to discuss the significance of the plants in traditional medicine and the importance of the distribution of these constituents.
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Cytotoxic lupane-type triterpenoids from Acacia mellifera.
Charles Mutai,Dennis Abatis,Constantinos Vagias,Dimitri Moreau,Christos Roussakis,Vassilios Roussis +5 more
TL;DR: One new and eight previously described lupane-type metabolites were isolated for the first time from Acacia mellifera (Leguminosae) and cytotoxicity of the isolated metabolites was evaluated on the NSCLC-N6 cell line, derived from a human non-small-cell bronchopulmonary carcinoma.
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Antimicrobial activity of Acacia mellifera extracts and lupane triterpenes.
TL;DR: These results may partly explain and support the use of Acacia mellifera stem barks for the treatment of infectious diseases in traditional Kenya medicine.
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Antiplasmodial potential of traditional phytotherapy of some remedies used in treatment of malaria in Meru-Tharaka Nithi County of Kenya.
C.N. Muthaura,J. M. Keriko,Charles Mutai,Abiy Yenesew,J.W. Gathirwa,Beatrice Irungu,Ruth M Nyangacha,G.M. Mungai,Solomon Derese +8 more
TL;DR: The results seem to indicate that ethnopharmacological inquiry used in search for new herbal remedies as predictive and could be used as the basis for search of new active principles.