Phytochemical study and antiprotozoal activity of compounds isolated from <em>Thalia geniculata</em> (Publications)
Thalia geniculata L. (Marantaceae) is an African medicinal plant traditionally used in Benin to treat malaria and other parasitic diseases. There is little ethnobotanical and almost no chemical inform
Immunization against yellow fever (Publications)
Yellow fever is a potentially epidemic arboviral disease, submitted to the international health regulation. The disease is severe but rare in travellers. Immunization protects the individual and preve
Host cells participate in the in vitro effects of new-generation diamidine-analogues against tachyzoites of the intracellular apicomplexan parasites... (Publications)
The in vitro effects of 19 dicationic diamidine-derivatives against the proliferative tachyzoite stages of the apicomplexan parasites Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii were investigated. Four com
Leishmanicidal and cholinesterase inhibiting activities of phenolic compounds from <em>Allanblackia monticola</em> and <em>Symphonia globulifera</em> (Publications)
In a preliminary antiprotozoal screening of several Clusiaceae species, the methanolic extracts of Allanblackia monticola and Symphonia globulifera showed high in vitro leishmanicidal activity. Furthe
In vitro antiprotozoal activities and cytotoxicity of some selected Cameroonian medicinal plants (Publications)
Eight extracts from seven selected Cameroonian medicinal plants, traditionally used to treat malaria and other protozoal diseases, were tested in vitro for their antiprotozoal activities against Plasm
Variants of N-acetyltransferase NAT1 and a case-control study of colorectal adenomas (Publications)
N-acetyltransferase NAT1, together with enzymes CYP1A2 and NAT2, helps convert heterocyclic amines to mutagens. Epidemiologic studies of the association of variants of these enzymes with colorectal ca