Ethiopian medicinal plants used for the treatment of a variety of ailments including infectious diseases were screened for activity against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and type 2 (HIV-2). Seventy-one polar and nonpolar extracts derived from 21 plants belonging to 14 families were tes
Screening of Korean plants against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease
β Scribed by Byung Sun Min; Ki Hwan Bae; Young Ho Kim; Hirotsugu Miyashiro; Masao Hattori; Kunitada Shimotohno
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 45 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0951-418X
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β¦ Synopsis
With the aim of finding novel anti-human immunodeficiency virus agents from natural products, 93
MeOH extracts of Korean plants were screened for their inhibitory activities against HIV-1 protease. The most potent inhibition was shown by the root of Rodiola rosea with 70.4% inhibition at a concentration of 100 mg/mL.
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