Essential oils as anti-protozoal agents

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Mojica, Elmer-Rico E., Deocaris, Custer C., Endriga, Marla A.
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Animo Repository 2005
• الموضوعات: Aromatherapy; Essences and essential oils—Therapeutic use; Acanthamoeba; Antiprotozoal agents; Biochemistry
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/5455
• المؤسسة: De La Salle University

The anti-protozoal effects of essential oils were examined using microplate-based in-vitro bioassays on axenically cultured trophozoites of Acanthamoeba sp. (a keratitis-causing amoeba) and Tetrahymena pyriformis (a test organism for cytotoxicity). Essential oils were extracted by steam distillation...