1. Inhibitory effects of Indonesian medicinal plants on the infection of herpes simplex virus type 1.
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Nawawi A, Nakamura N, Hattori M, Kurokawa M, and Shiraki K
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- Animals, Chlorocebus aethiops, Female, Gallic Acid isolation & purification, Gallic Acid pharmacology, Indonesia, Methanol, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Solvents, Tannins isolation & purification, Tannins pharmacology, Vero Cells, Viral Plaque Assay, Water, Antiviral Agents therapeutic use, Herpes Simplex drug therapy, Herpesvirus 1, Human, Plant Extracts therapeutic use, Plants, Medicinal chemistry
- Abstract
Water and methanol extracts of 30 traditional medicinal plants, collected in Indonesia, were tested for their anti HSV-1 activity. The extracts of eight plant species showed potent activity on the plaque assay at a concentration of 100 micrograms/mL. The therapeutic efficacy of seven selected plants was demonstrated by using a mouse HSV-1 infection assay, both the methanol extracts of the fruit of Melaleuca leucadendron (Myrtaceae) and the pericarp of Nephelium lappaceum (Sapindaceae) significantly prolonged the development of skin lesions and reduced the mortality.
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- 1999
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