Influence of the developmental stage on the (proto)-hypericin and (proto)pseudohypericin levels of Hypericum plants from Crete

Planta Medica

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1309-1315

  Xenophontos, M ^a,b   Stavropoulos, E ^a,b   Avramakis, E ^b   Navakoudis, E ^a,b   Dornemann D ^b,c   Kotzabasis, Kiriakos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Natural History Museum of Crete   (Greece)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Developmental stages; Hypericaceae; Hypericin; Hypericum species; Protohypericin; Protopseudohypericin; Pseudohypericin

Indexed keywords

HYPERICIN; HYPERICUM EXTRACT; PROTOHYPERICIN; PROTOPSEUDOHYPERICIN; PSEUDOHYPERICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DRUG ISOLATION; FLOWER; FRUIT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPERICUM; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; FLOWERS; GREECE; HYPERICUM; PERYLENE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CLUSIACEAE; HYPERICUM; HYPERICUM EMPETRIFOLIUM; HYPERICUM PERFOLIATUM; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM;

EID: 35548954750     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-990222     Document Type: Article

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