Antimalarial Activity of Cryptolepine an
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Phillippe Grellier; Lobo Ramiaramanana; ValΓ©rie Millerioux; Eric Deharo; Joseph
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Cryptolepis sanguinolenta extracts are currently used by African herbalists to cure malaria but the compounds involved in its antimalarial activity have not been identified. Two alkaloids, cryptolepine and isocryptolepine, have been isolated from the roots of C. sunguinolenta and their antimalarial