Antioxidant properties of the essential oil of Eugenia caryophyllata and its antifungal activity against a large number of clinical Candida species

Mycoses

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 403-406

  Chaieb, Kamel ^a   Zmantar, Tarek ^a   Ksouri, Riadh ^b   Hajlaoui, Hafedh ^a   Mahdouani, Kacem ^c   Abdelly, Chedly ^b   Bakhrouf, Amina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE BORJ CÉDRIA   (Tunisia)

^c Hopital Regional de Kairouan   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; Candida; DPPH. scavenging ability; Essential oil; Eugenia caryophyllata

Indexed keywords

2 HEPTANONE; 2,2 DIPHENYL L 1 PICRYLHYDRAZIL; AMPHOTERICIN B; BUTYLCRESOL; CALACORENE; CALAMENENE; CARYOPHYLLENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; ETHYLHEXANOATE; EUGENOL; EUGENYL ACETATE; HUMULENE; HUMULENOL; RADICAL; SCAVENGER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA SAKE; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDA UTILIS; CANDIDA VALIDA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLOVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IC 50; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CANDIDA; CLOVE OIL; EUGENIA; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; OILS, VOLATILE; PICRATES;

CANDIDA; SYZYGIUM AROMATICUM;

EID: 34547857798     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01391.x     Document Type: Article

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