ANTIINFLAMMATORY AND ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY OF THEVETIA AHOUAI
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.acbi.331520Keywords:
carragenine, indometacine, b-amirine, Fusarium oxysporum, Thevetia ahouaiAbstract
Extracts of Thevetia ahouai showed antiinflammatory activity of 78% in mice using subplantar edema assay;similarly these extractswere actives againts Fusarium oxysporum fungi at200 mg/ml. Several fatty acids,sterols and amyrin were detectd and identified in the erhereal extracts
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