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Voacanga africana

About: Voacanga africana is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 82 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1482 citations.


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TL;DR: Results from the in vitro antiamoebic activity of some Congolese plant extracts used as antidiarrhoeic in traditional medicine indicated that of 45 plant extracts tested, 35 (77.78%) exhibited an antiamoscular activity and 10 (22.22%) were inactive.

481 citations

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TL;DR: Forty six aqueous extracts from 38 medicinal plant species belonging to different families, selected on the basis of their traditional medicinal use as antidiarrhoeic agents, exhibited some level of antibacterial, antiamoebic and antispasmodic activity respectively.

165 citations

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TL;DR: The screening of the antimicrobial activity of 33 medicinal plants from Senegal showed none of these plants showed activity against the gram-negative test bacteria and against Candida albicans, but extracts of Cnestis ferruginea and Voacanga africana showed strong activity against Aspergillus niger.

57 citations

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TL;DR: All of the plants except A. laxiflora exerted sedative activity by strongly increasing the total duration of sleep induced by diazepam by strongly reducing the number of convulsions and turning behavior in mice.

56 citations

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TL;DR: The antimicrobial activities of 10 plant species, each of which is currently used in the traditional medicine of Cameroon, were investigated in vitro, and the extract with the greatest antimicrobial activity was that of Pl. africana (Euphorbiaceae).
Abstract: The antimicrobial activities of 10 plant species (Voacanga africana, Crepis cameroonica, Plagiostyles africana, Crotalaria retusa, Mammea africana, Lophira lanceolata, Ochna afzelii, Ouratea elongata, Ou. flava and Ou. sulcata), each of which is currently used in the traditional medicine of Cameroon, were investigated in vitro. The activities of a methanol extract of each plant were tested, in disc-diffusion assays, against 37 reference or laboratory strains of seven species of microorganism (Staphylococcus aureus, S. epidermidis, Enterococcus hirae, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans). The minimal inhibitory concentrations of each extract were then estimated, against each of the more susceptible microorganisms (i.e. those giving an inhibition zone measuring at least 9 mm in diameter in the disc-diffusion assays), by agar dilution. Although, in the disc-diffusion assays, each of the 10 methanol extracts investigated displayed some degree of antimicrobial activity against at least one species of microorganism, no activity against the Gram-negative bacteria (Es. coli, K. pneumoniae and Ps. aeruginosa) was observed. The extract with the greatest antimicrobial activity was that of Pl. africana (Euphorbiaceae).

42 citations


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