Table 2.
Suppression of parasitemia (%) in Plasmodium berghei infected BALB/c mice in the Peters' 4-day suppressive test after treatment with C. macrostachyus stem bark extracts.
| Animal group/treatment dose (mg/kg)∗ | Suppression of parasitemia (%) Extract |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| EtOAc | H2O | MeOH | isoBuOH | |
| 500 | 82 | 68 | 72 | 80 |
| 250 | 58 | 34 | 44 | 61 |
| 100 | 62 | 27 | 24 | 73 |
| PC | 88 | 97 | 99 | 100 |
∗In each experiment a group of six mice were examined; PC = positive artemether control; EtOAc = ethyl acetate extract; MeOH = methanol extract; H2O = aqueous extract; isoBuOH = isobutanol extract.