Composition of the essential oils of Thymus and Origanum species from Algeria and their antioxidant and antimicrobial activities

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 6314-6321

  Hazzit, Mohamed ^a   Baaliouamer, Aoumeur ^a,c   Faleiro, M Leonor ^b   Miguel, M Graça ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE EN ANALYSES PHYSICO CHIMIQUES CRAPC   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Antioxidant activity; Essential oil; O. floribundum; O. glandulosum; T. guyonli; T. munbyanus; T. numidicus; T. pallecens

Indexed keywords

4 CYMENE; 4-CYMENE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; CARVACROL; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA-TERPINENE; TERPENE; TERPINENE; THYMOL;

ALGERIA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; OREGANO; THYMUS;

ALGERIA; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MONOTERPENES; OILS, VOLATILE; ORIGANUM; THYMOL; THYMUS GLAND;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; ORIGANUM; ORIGANUM VULGARE;

EID: 33748598694     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf0606104     Document Type: Article

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