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Medicinal Plants of Chile: Evaluation of Their Anti-Trypanosoma Cruzi Activity

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Zeitschrift Fur Naturforschung Section C-a Journal of Biosciences, 68 (5-6): 198-202 (2013)

Abstract

The extracts of several plants of Central Chile exhibited anti-Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes activity. Most active extracts were those obtained from Podanthus ovatifolius, Berberis microphylla, Kageneckia oblonga, and Drimys winteri. The active extract of Drimys winteri (IC50 51.2 mu g/mL) was purified and three drimane sesquiterpenes were obtained: polygodial, drimenol, and isodrimenin. Isodrimenin and drimenol were found to be active against the trypomastigote form of T cruzi with IC50 values of 27.9 and 25.1 mu M, respectively.

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