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OBJECTIVE:To examine the acanthamoebicidal effects of ethyl acetate, aqueous and butanol fractions of dried flower buds of Lonicera japonica (L. japonica) Thunb. (Flos Lonicerae) in vitro. METHODS:Acanthamoeba triangularis isolates were obtained from environmental water samples and identified by PCR. They were exposed to ethyl acetate, water and butanol fractions of L. japonica Thunb. at concentrations ranging from 0.5 mg/mL to 1.5 mg/mL. The extracts were evaluated for growth inhibition at 24, 48 and 72 h, respectively. Chlorogenic acid at a concentration of 1 mg/mL was examined for inhibition of encystment. RESULTS:Ethyl acetate fraction at a concentration of 1.5 mg/mL evoked a significant reduction of trophozoite viability by 48.9% after 24 h, 49.2% after 48 h and 33.7% after 72 h chlorogenic acid, the major active constituent of L. japonica Thunb. at the concentration of 1 mg/mL reduced the cysts/trophozoite ratio by 100% after 24 h, 84.0% after 48 h and 72.3% after 72 h. This phenolic compound at concentration of 1 mg/mL concurrent with 0.6% hydrogen peroxide inhibited hydrogen peroxide-induced encystment by 92.8% at 72 h. CONCLUSIONS:Results obtained from this study show that ethyl acetate fraction at 1.5 mg/mL is the most potent fraction of L. japonica Thunb. and its major constituent chlorogenic acid showed the remarkable inhibition of encystment at a concentration of 1 mg/mL.
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Asian Pac J Trop Medjournal_title
Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicineauthors
Mahboob T,Azlan AM,Tan TC,Samudi C,Sekaran SD,Nissapatorn V,Wiart Cdoi
10.1016/j.apjtm.2016.07.008subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-09-01 00:00:00pages
866-871issue
9eissn
1995-7645issn
2352-4146pii
S1995-7645(16)30145-6journal_volume
9pub_type
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
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abstract:OBJECTIVE:To evaluate parasite distribution and tissue tropism of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites in experimentally infected mice using real time QPCR. METHODS:In this survey 16 Balb/c mice were inoculated with 1 × 10(4) alive tachyzoites of Toxoplasma gondii RH strain. After 1, 2, 3 days post infection and the last day...
journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
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doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(14)60087-0
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abstract:OBJECTIVE:To investigate the therapeutic effect of the intervention treatment with different doses of Captopril on TNF-αcontents in serum of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) rats, and to provide the theoretical proofs for clinical application of Captopril in treatments of rheumatoid diseases. METHODS:Fifty Wistar rats were r...
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doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(14)60175-9
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.apjtm.2017.07.004
更新日期:2017-07-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2015-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(14)60165-6
更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To examine the multiplication efficiency Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) genotype I (GI) and genotype III (GIII) of different cell lines which originated from human, porcine, mosquitoes in order to prove mechanism of JEV GI replacement JEV GIII since it emerging in nature recent decades. METHODS:The mixtur...
journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.apjtm.2016.03.007
更新日期:2016-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(13)60087-5
更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
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doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(11)60201-0
更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.apjtm.2017.03.028
更新日期:2017-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.apjtm.2016.06.012
更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To validate traditional claims of usefulness of the Indian plants in management of poisonous snakebite and evaluate the antivenom properties displayed by the alcoholic extracts of Andrographis paniculata (A. paniculata), Crateva magna (C. magna), Gloriosa superba (G. superba) and Hydrocotyle javanica (H. java...
journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(11)60185-5
更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.apjtm.2015.06.008
更新日期:2015-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(14)60306-0
更新日期:2015-02-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(12)60194-1
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To detect nematode eggs in sandpits in urban area in Vladivostok. METHODS:Totally 60 samples were collected from five districts. Sand samples were analysed using combined flotation-sedimentation method. In result, 18 sand samples were positive for at one or two parasites species. RESULTS:Overall, only 3 gen...
journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
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doi:10.1016/j.apjtm.2016.11.002
更新日期:2016-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(11)60241-1
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(13)60142-X
更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,撤回出版物
doi:10.1016/j.apjtm.2015.11.006
更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(14)60042-0
更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(14)60136-X
更新日期:2014-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.apjtm.2017.08.005
更新日期:2017-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(12)60030-3
更新日期:2012-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
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doi:10.1016/j.apjtm.2016.03.004
更新日期:2016-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To describe the epidemiology of snake bite in the region and attempt to compare proven Russell's viper with hump-nosed viper bites. METHODS:All snake bite admissions to the Toxicology Unit of Teaching Hospital Peradeniya over three year from 2006 were included. RESULTS:Of the 776 snakebites, 665(86%) were u...
journal_title:Asian Pacific journal of tropical medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(11)60147-8
更新日期:2011-07-01 00:00:00