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| Title |
Antiprotozoal and antimycobacterial activities of Persea americana seeds
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| Published in |
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, May 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6882-13-109 |
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| Authors |
Adelina Jiménez-Arellanes, Julieta Luna-Herrera, Ricardo Ruiz-Nicolás, Jorge Cornejo-Garrido, Amparo Tapia, Lilián Yépez-Mulia |
| Abstract |
BACKGROUND: Persea americana seeds are widely used in traditional Mexican medicine to treat rheumatism, asthma, infectious processes as well as diarrhea and dysentery caused by intestinal parasites. METHODS: The chloroformic and ethanolic extracts of P. americana seeds were prepared by maceration and their amoebicidal, giardicidal and trichomonicidal activity was evaluated. These extracts were also tested against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, four mono-resistant and two multidrug resistant strains of M. tuberculosis as well as five non tuberculosis mycobacterium strains by MABA assay. RESULTS: The chloroformic and ethanolic extracts of P. americana seeds showed significant activity against E. histolytica, G. lamblia and T. vaginalis (IC50 <0.634 mug/ml). The chloroformic extract inhibited the growth of M. tuberculosis H37Rv, M. tuberculosis MDR SIN 4 isolate, three M. tuberculosis H37Rv mono-resistant reference strains and four non tuberculosis mycobacteria (M. fortuitum, M. avium, M. smegmatis and M. absessus) showing MIC values <=50 mug/ml. Contrariwise, the ethanolic extract affected only the growth of two mono-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis H37Rv and M. smegmatis (MIC <=50 mug/ml). CONCLUSIONS: The CHCl3 and EtOH seed extracts from P. americana showed amoebicidal and giardicidal activity. Importantly, the CHCl3 extract inhibited the growth of a MDR M. tuberculosis isolate and three out of four mono-resistant reference strains of M. tuberculosis H37Rv, showing a MIC = 50 mug/ml. This extract was also active against the NTM strains, M. fortuitum, M. avium, M. smegmatis and M. abscessus, with MIC values <50 mug/ml. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Spain | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 175 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 2 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 169 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 32 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 17% |
| Researcher | 16 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 7% |
| Other | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 30 | 17% |
| Unknown | 47 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 27 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 21 | 12% |
| Chemistry | 17 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 15 | 9% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 27 | 15% |
| Unknown | 55 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 August 2023.
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#7,783,721
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Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#1,238
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#64,748
of 198,221 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#30
of 69 outputs
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