Natural Remedies in the Fight Against Parasites

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Chapter 4 Can the Cure for Chagas’ Disease be Found in Nature? Nelissa Pacheco Vaz Additional information is available at the en ...

chemical defence against fungi, phytopathogens, birds, and other natural predators, being also used by plants to attract pollina ...

infected by parasites around the world. Together with malaria and amoebiasis, the parasitic illnesses are the main cause of ther ...

socioeconomic effects on many nations. It is such a waste that billions of dollars of productivity are lost to NTDs every year i ...

and enlarged esophagus or colon [ 13 ], and these manifestations are occasionally life threatening [ 14 ]. 2.1.1. Trypanosoma cr ...

It is reported that the transmission mechanisms for Chagas’ infection can be divided into two distinct groups [ 9 ]: Principal ...

Depending on medical orientation, drugs benznidazole (4) and nifurtimox (5) can be admin- istered either separately or simultane ...

the hardness to find a selective and more suitable drug for the parasites and; the inefficient fund distribution for research w ...

W. somnifera that showed potent activity for T. cruzi, parasites (IC 50 of 1.93 μg ml−1), after sub- mitted to solvent-solvent p ...

showing potent anti–T. cruzi activity, being able to inhibit the proliferation of the epimastigote forms and lyse of trypomastig ...

(^) containing glycoalkaloids; this helps to control some parasitic diseases that affect it. At least that is believed by some a ...

ethanol extract was selective for T. cruzi and Leishmania panamensis. Meanwhile, the etha- nol and dichloromethane extracts from ...

and oleanolic acid (24) were capable of controlling the peak of parasitemia in infected mice and, interestingly, treated mice di ...

Caryophyllene (25) showed higher percentage of parasite inhibition, being capable of elimi- nate 100% of L. brasiliensis in conc ...