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      Screening of some savannah plants for antiretroviral (ANTI-HIV) activity

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      Retrovirology
      BioMed Central
      Frontiers of Retrovirology: Complex retroviruses, retroelements and their hosts
      21–23 September 2009

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          Available data showed that there is at present a need for an increasing research momentum towards the discovery of an anti-retroviral drug, which could be used in the treatment and control of the most deadly disease, such as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Currently, Zidovudine (AZT), tamivudine (3Tc) and dideoxyinosine (ddI) are the most commonly employed drugs but with a minimal level of success. None of these available orthodox drugs for the treatment of this epidemic around the globe has so far provided the needed property of a good drug. These drugs are very expensive and beyond the reach of the average HIV patient in addition to their being very toxic in nature. There is a strong belief in the scientific community, that the active agent, which could successfully combat the HIV/AIDS virus, might be contained in medicinal plants. It is view that such isolate(s) will be safe and cheap to the average AIDS patient. This research is aimed at investigating whether the extracts from some suspected ethnomedicinal savannah plants possess any antiretroviral activity. Such plants would include Ceratotheca sesamoides, Amaranthus viridis, Senna occidentalis, Cassia singuena, Solanum americanum, Momordica balsaminia, Jatropha curcas, Vernonia amygdalina, Leptademia hastate, and Cassia tora. The plants extracts would be administered to HIV infected laboratory cultured human lymphocytes with a view to elucidating their potency and efficacy as candidates worthy of repute for further toxicological research towards the treatment of the disease.

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          Conference
          Retrovirology
          Retrovirology
          BioMed Central
          1742-4690
          2009
          24 September 2009
          : 6
          : Suppl 2
          : P25
          Affiliations
          [1 ]Department of Biological Sciences, Bayero University, P.M.B. 3011, Kano, Nigeria
          [2 ]Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, Bayero University, P.M.B. 3011, Kano, Nigeria
          [3 ]Department of Human Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Bayero University, P.M.B. 3011, Kano, Nigeria
          Article
          1742-4690-6-S2-P25
          10.1186/1742-4690-6-S2-P25
          2767007
          28a6344e-3a79-436b-8e05-f98da364feb8
          Copyright © 2009 Mukhtar et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
          Frontiers of Retrovirology: Complex retroviruses, retroelements and their hosts
          Montpellier, France
          21–23 September 2009
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          Microbiology & Virology
          Microbiology & Virology

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