Bioactivity of two Turkish endemic Centaurea species, and their major constituents

Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-159

  Shoeb, Mohammad ^a   MacManus, Stephen M ^b   Jaspars, Marcel ^c   Kong Thoo Lin, Paul ^b   Nahar, Lutfun ^b   Celik, Sezgin ^d   Sarker, Satyajit D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctiin; Asteraceae; Brine shrimp lethality assay; Centaurea mucronifera; Centaurea urvillei subs. armata; Compositae; DPPH; Lignan; Matairesinoside; MTT

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347222213     PISSN: 0102695X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-695X2007000200003     Document Type: Article

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