The development of new and cost-effective alternative therapeutic strategies to treat leishmaniasis has become a high priority. In the present study, the antileishmanial activity of Strychnos pseudoquina St. Hil. was investigated and pure compounds that presented this biological effect were isolated. An ethyl acetate extract was prepared, and it proved to be effective against Leishmania amazonensis. A bioactivi...
Newtherapeutics are urgently needed to treat visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Due to the fact that drug discovery is a long and expensive process, the development of delivery systems to carry old and toxic drugs could be considered, as well as the evaluation of new molecules that have already shown to present biological activity. In this context, the present study evaluated the in vitro and in vivo antileishmanial ...