Fourteen Ghanaian plants used in folk medicine to treat fever/malaria were screened for activity against Plasmodium falciparum (strain K1) and were tested for general toxicity to the brine shrimp. Extracts from three of the plants, Pleiocarpa mutica, Cleistopholis patens and Uvaria chamae were found
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with many cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms is biochemically characterized by a significant decrease in the brain neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh). Plant-derived metabolites, including alkaloids have been reported to
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