Pharmacognostical Evaluation of an Antioxidant Plant - Acorus calamus Linn

Natural Product Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 264-269

  Govindarajan, Raghavan ^a   Agnihotri, Adarsh Kumar ^a   Khatoon, Sayyada ^a   Rawat, Ajay Kumar Singh ^a   Mehrotra, Shanta ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Acorus calamus; Antioxidant; Asarone; Pharmacognosy

Indexed keywords

ACORUS CALAMUS EXTRACT; ANTIOXIDANT;

ACORUS CALAMUS; ARTICLE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG ISOLATION; ENDODERM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; INDIA; NONHUMAN; RHIZOME;

EID: 0347635505     PISSN: 12263907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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