Antimicrobial activity of isoprenoid-substituted xanthones from Cudrania cochinchinensis against vancomycin-resistant enterococci

Phytomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6-7, 2005, Pages 510-513

  Fukai, T ^a   Oku, Y ^b   Hou, A J ^a,c   Yonekawa, M ^a   Terada, S ^b  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ZENYAKU KOGYO CO LTD   (Japan)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anti VRE; Cudrania cochinchinensis; Geronthoxanthone H; Xanthone

Indexed keywords

1,3,7 TRIHYDROXY 2 PRENYLXANTHONE; ALVAXANTHONE; BENZOPHENONE DERIVATIVE; CUDRANONE; CUDRAXANTHONE S; GERONTOXANTHONE A; GERONTOXANTHONE B; GERONTOXANTHONE G; GERONTOXANTHONE H; GERONTOXANTHONE I; ISOALVAXANTHONE; ISOPRENOID; TOXYLOXANTHONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; XANTHONE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUDRANIA COCHINCHINENSIS; DRUG ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MORACEAE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT ROOTS; TERPENES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; XANTHONES;

CUDRANIA COCHINCHINENSIS; MACLURA; MORACEAE;

EID: 19944363845     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2004.03.010     Document Type: Article

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