@article{3062709,
    title = "Evaluation of the antimalarial and antileishmanial activity of plants from the Greek island of Crete",
    author = "Fokialakis, N. and Kalpoutzakis, E. and Tekwani, B.L. and Khan, S.I. and Kobaisy, M. and Skaltsounis, A.L. and Duke, S.O.",
    journal = "Journal of Natural Medicines",
    year = "2007",
    volume = "61",
    number = "1",
    pages = "38-45",
    issn = "1861-0293",
    doi = "10.1007/s11418-006-0013-y",
    keywords = "dichloromethane;  methanol;  plant extract, animal cell;  antimalarial activity;  antiprotozoal activity;  article;  Berberis;  cytotoxicity;  drug activity;  drug mechanism;  IC 50;  in vitro study;  medicinal plant;  nonhuman",
    abstract = "Different parts of 65 plant species from the Greek island of Crete have been extracted and the 249 extracts obtained have been investigated for in-vitro antiprotozoal activity. Their activity against chloroquine-sensitive (D6) and resistant (W2) strains of Plasmodium falciparum and Leishmania donovani promastigotes was determined. Their cytotoxicity on a mammalian kidney fibroblast (Vero) cell line was also tested. Dichloromethane and methanol extracts of Berberis cretica and methanol extracts of Cytinus hypocistis subsp. hypocistis, C. hypocistis subsp. orientalis, and C. ruber had significant activity against both strains of P. falciparum (IC50<10 μg mL-1). Dichloromethane extracts of Eryngium ternatum, Origanum dictamnus, and Origanum microphyllum, and the methanolic extract of Eryngium amorginum had significant activity against Leishmania donovani (IC 50<10 μg mL-1). None of the extracts was cytotoxic. © The Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy and Springer-Verlag 2006."
}