Table 6.

Artemisia annua and Artemisia dracunculus essential oils in vitro inhibition of acetylcholinesterase extracted from adults of Calliphora vomitoria. Data are expressed as the percentage of residual activity and represent the mean of three replicates ± SE

mg l-1	A. annua	A. dracunculus
2	96.9 ± 1.4 a	98.9 ± 1.8 a
5	95.7 ± 5.0 a	96.9 ± 5.0 a
25	98.2 ± 9.3 a	96.9 ± 4.2 a
50	84.7 ± 2.5 ab	72.4 ± 1.2 b
100	82.2 ± 2.1 ab	72.5 ± 4.3 b
125	67.9 ± 1.8 bc	59.3 ± 2.9 bc
250	54.8 ± 2.9 c	44.2 ± 1.9 c

Note: Different letters indicate significant differences (GLM, Tukey HSD post-hoc test, P < 0.05) within columns