Artigo Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

Biological Activities of Essential Oil Obtained from Cymbopogon citratus on Crithidia deanei

2006; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego; Volume: 45; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1689-0027

Autores

Raíssa Bocchi Pedroso, Tânia Ueda‐Nakamura, Benedito de Pina Almeida Prado, Benedito Prado Dias Filho, Aparício Garcia Cortez, Lúcia Elaine, Ranieri Cortez, José Andrés Morgado‐Díaz, Celso Vataru Nakamura,

Tópico(s)

Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences

Resumo

Divisao de Biologia Celular, Instituto Nacionaldo Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BrazilSummary. We report the effect of the essential oil extracted from Cymbopogon citratus on endosymbiont-harbouring and endosymbiont-free strains of the insect trypanosomatid Crithidia deanei grown at 28°C in a chemically defined medium. A dose-dependent antiprotozoaneffect of the essential oil of C. citratus could be observed on both strains of C. deanei. The IC

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