Antimalarial Activity of Croton macrostachyus Stem Bark Extracts against Plasmodium berghei In Vivo

Table 4

Chemoprotective assay. Suppression of parasitemia (%) in Plasmodium berghei infected BALB/c mice after treatment with C. macrostachyus stem bark extracts.

Animal group/treatment dose	Suppression of Parasitemia (%); Extract
	EtOAc	MeOH	isoBuOH
500	100	83	92
250	93	65	84
100	74	57	86
PC	99	99	99

each experiment a group of six mice were examined; PC = positive artemether control; EtOAc = ethyl acetate extract; MeOH = methanol extract; isoBuOH = isobutanol extract.