The evaluation of plants from Turkey for in Vitro antimycobacterial activity

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-63

  Tosun, F ^a   Kizilay, Ç Akyüz ^a   Sener B ^a   Vural, M ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antimycobacterial; Antitubercular; Inula helenium subsp. turcoracemosa; Usnea barbata; Veratrum album

Indexed keywords

ALANTOLACTONE; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; JERVINE; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; USNIC ACID;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SYNTHESIS; GROWTH INHIBITION; INULA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; USNEA; VERATRUM;

BARBATA; HELENIUM; INULA HELENIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; USNEA BARBATA; VERATRUM ALBUM;

EID: 15244338718     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13880200590903372     Document Type: Article

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