Essential oil analysis and anticancer activity of leaf essential oil of Croton flavens L. from Guadeloupe

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 99-102

  Sylvestre, Muriel ^a   Pichette, André ^a   Longtin, Angélique ^a   Nagau, Francine ^b   Legault, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

(E) bisabolene; Anticancer activity; Croton flavens L.; Germacrone; Leaf essential oil; Viridiflorene

Indexed keywords

14 HYDROXY ALPHA HUMULENE; 3 CARENE; ALLO AROMADENDRENE; ALPHA AROMADENDRENE EPOXIDE; ALPHA CADINOL; ALPHA GUAIENE; ALPHA MUUROLOL; ALPHA SABINENE; ALPHA THUJENE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BETA BISABOLENE; BETA COPAENE; BETA ELEMENE; BETA OPLOPENONE; BOURBONENE; CARYOPHYLLENE; COPAENE; CROTON EXTRACT; CROTON FLAVENS EXTRACT; DEHYDROAROMADENDRANE; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA BISABOLENE; GERMACRENE B; GERMACRENE D; GERMACROME; GOSSONOROL; HUMULENE; TERPINENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VIRIDIFLORENE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA CELL; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CROTON; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ACTIVITY; EXTRACTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GUADELOUPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG CARCINOMA; MASS SPECTROMETER;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CROTON; HUMANS; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT LEAVES;

CROTON FLAVENS;

EID: 27944454357     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2005.07.011     Document Type: Article

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