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The intraperitoneal Plasmodium berghei-Pasteur infection of Swiss mice is not a system that is able to detect the antiplasmodial activity in the Pothomorphe plant extracts that are used as antimalarials in Brazilian endemic areas.

The antimalarial activity of the hexane and methanol extracts derived from the Brazilian plants Pothomorphe peltata and Pothomorphe umbellata-whose leaves are popularly employed in medicinal folk remedies for the treatment of malaria-was assessed through in vivo tests with the Peters method. The extracts were delivered to Plasmodium berghei-infected mice via the oral or the subcutaneous route. A suppressive effect on the parasitemia seemed to be evident when data regarding the intraperitoneal injection of Pothomorphe umbellata extracts were analyzed. However, a definitive conclusion on an effective antimalarial activity is not possible, as two distinct-"standard" and "slow"-patterns of parasitemia occurring at similar frequencies in both treated and untreated intraperitoneally infected mice were observed. Nevertheless, the existence of two distinct profiles of parasitemia was not clear among the animals that were infected via the intravenous route. These data indicate the need for further studies on the biological features of the host/parasite interaction in the intraperitoneally P. berghei-infected Swiss mice system to standardize the model and to improve its usefulness in the screening of antimalarial compounds.

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Analysis of triazine herbicides residues in butter and pasteurized milk.

A method has been developed for the determination of atrazine, cyanazine, prometryn, simazine, and terbutryn residues in butter. The residues were extracted from the matrix with a mixture of petroleum ether/methanol (3 + 1), and from the separated water-methanol phase extraction was carried out with chloroform. The extract was cleaned up on an alumina column. Capillary glass liquid chromatography using a 15 m x 0.32 mm glass capillary column coated with OV-1 and an alcali flame ionization detector were employed for the analysis of the residues. The analyses were evaluated by the internal standard method, using metribuzin as the internal standard. The recovery of the method was 68.7%-79.8% for the individual herbicides under study at the fortification level of 0.1 mg.kg-1 and 79.2%-91.9% at the fortification level of 0.02 mg.kg-1. The determination limit of the method was 0.005 mg.kg-1. When centrifuging full milk, residues of triazines were partitioned between the water and fat phases, whereby 17%-82% of the residues were transferred to the milk fat. Samples of commercial butter were analysed and found to contain 0.005-0.023 mg.kg-1 atrazine.

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