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Table 6 Artemisia annua and Artemisia dracunculus essential oils in vitro inhibition of acetylcholinesterase extracted from adults of Calliphora vomitoria. Data are expressed as the percentage of residual activity and represent the mean of three replicates ± SE

From: Artemisia spp. essential oils against the disease-carrying blowfly Calliphora vomitoria

mg l-1

A. annua

A. dracunculus

2

96.9 ± 1.4 a

98.9 ± 1.8 a

5

95.7 ± 5.0 a

96.9 ± 5.0 a

25

98.2 ± 9.3 a

96.9 ± 4.2 a

50

84.7 ± 2.5 ab

72.4 ± 1.2 b

100

82.2 ± 2.1 ab

72.5 ± 4.3 b

125

67.9 ± 1.8 bc

59.3 ± 2.9 bc

250

54.8 ± 2.9 c

44.2 ± 1.9 c

  1. Note: Different letters indicate significant differences (GLM, Tukey HSD post-hoc test, P < 0.05) within columns