• 2-Substituted quinoline alkaloids as potential antileishmanial drugs 

      Fournet, Alain; Angelo Barrios, Alcira; Muñoz, Victoria; Hocquemiller, Reynald; Cavé, André; Bruneton, Jean (Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1993-04)
      Abstract. Ten 2-substituted quinoline alkaloids isolated from a plant used for treatment of New World cutaneous leishmaniasis have antileishmanial in vitro activities against the extracellular forms of Leishmania spp. ...
    • Effect of some bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloids on American Leishmania sp. in BALB/c mice 

      Fournet, Alain; Angelo Barrios, Alcira; Muñoz, Victoria; Hocquemiller, Reynald; Cavé, André (PHYTOTHERAPY RESEARCH, 1993)
      Abstract. Four bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloids, antioquine, berbamine, gyrocarpine and isotetrandrine were tested in BALB/c mice infected with Leishmania amazonensis (IFLA/BR/67/PH8 or MHOM/GF/84/CAY-H-142) or L. venezuelensis ...
    • Leishmanicidal and trypanocidal activities of Bolivian medicinal plants 

      Fournet, Alain; Angelo Barrios, Alcira; Muñoz, Victoria (Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1994)
      Abstract. Cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis are endemic diseases in South America, especially in the subandean areas of the humid lowlands of Bolivia. Fourteen plants used topically in folk medicine to treat ...