Phytopharmaceuticals. Part 1. Antifungal activity of selected Iranian and Canadian plants

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 180-188

  Sardari, Soroush ^a   Amin, Gholamreza ^a,b   Micetich, Ronald G ^a   Daneshtalab, Mohsen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antifungal; Bioactivity; Canadian plants; Cytotoxicity; Iranian plants

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CANADA; CANDIDA; CELL STRAIN KB; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CYTOTOXICITY; IRAN; NONHUMAN; PLANT;

ASPERGILLUS; BUNIUM; BUNIUM PERSICUM; CANDIDA; DIPLOTAENIA; DIPLOTAENIA DAMAVANDICA; HERACLEUM; HERACLEUM PERSICUM; IRANIA; SANGUISORBA MINOR; ZATARIA; ZATARIA MULTIFLORA;

EID: 0032445285     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/phbi.36.3.180.6348     Document Type: Article

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