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Essential oils from three Ethiopian medicinal plants; Hagenia abyssinica (Rosaceae), Leonotis ocymifolia (Lamiaceae), and Moringa stenopetala (Moringaceae) were investigated for their chemical composition, trypanocidal, and cytotoxic activities. Twenty components were identified from the essential
By implementing a common and industrially used method, 30 compounds which are structurally related to geranyl acetone, nerolidol, farnesal, farnesol and farnesyl acetate were obtained. Their antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium,
Accumulation of isoprenoids was studied in two cell lines derived from acute T-cell leukemia: CEM-C7 cells, whose growth is inhibited by the glucocorticoid dexamethasone, and CEM-C1 cells, which are resistant to this steroid. Isoprenoids were measured by growing the cells in serum-free medium in the
Aerial parts of Tanacetum oshanahanii collected at "Jardín Canario Viera y Clavijo", Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum collected at Los Moriscos (Tejeda), and Tanacetum ferulaceum var. latipinnum collected at Anden Verde (Agaete) in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, afforded three sesquiterpenes related to
Essential oils of Artemisia abyssinica and Satureja punctata ssp. punctata from Ethiopia were analyzed by GC and GC/MS, and screened for leishmanicidal activity against promastigote and axenic amastigotes of Leishmania donovani and L. aethiopica, including toxicity studies on human monocytic