Sofowora A
Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
J Ethnopharmacol. 1993 Mar;38(2-3):209-14. doi: 10.1016/0378-8741(93)90017-y.
Recent trends in research into African medicinal plants show that while ethnobotanical surveys continue, there is an appreciable increase in research activity in the area of bioactivity of natural products. The biological areas most researched include antimicrobial, molluscicidal, toxicity tests and antitumour in decreasing order. The isolation and characterisation of natural products from African plants without biological testing has yielded several compounds of novel structure and constitutes the majority of all the recent publications on African medicinal plants.
非洲药用植物的研究近期趋势表明，虽然民族植物学调查仍在继续，但天然产物生物活性领域的研究活动有显著增加。研究最多的生物学领域依次为抗菌、杀螺、毒性测试和抗肿瘤。在未进行生物测试的情况下，从非洲植物中分离和鉴定天然产物已获得了几种具有新颖结构的化合物，这构成了近期所有关于非洲药用植物出版物的大部分。
