Plant extracts and their components as potential control agents against human head lice

Phytochemistry Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-63

  Rossini, Carmen ^a   Castillo, Lucía ^a   González, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Anti lice products; Insect repellents; Monoterpenoids; Pediculicides; Pediculus humanus capitis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLEUGENOL; BENZALDEHYDE; BETA PINENE; BORNEOL; BORNYL ACETATE; CAMPHOR; CARYOPHYLLENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; CINAMALDEHYDE; CINEOLE; CINNAMIC ACID BENZYL ESTER; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENOL; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMULENE; INSECTICIDE; IVERMECTIN; LACTONE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; METHYLEUGENOL; ORIGANUM MAJORANA EXTRACT; PINENE; PINOCARVEOL; QUASSINOID; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; SALICYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; SALVIA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; SHAMPOO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ALLOPATHY; ANGIOSPERM; ANIBA ROSAEODORA; ANISE; ANNONA SQUAMOSA; ANNONACEAE; APIALES; ASTERACEAE; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BIOASSAY; CANANGA ODORATA; CARDAMOM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CINNAMOMUN ZEYLANICUM; CLOVE; CUPRESSACEAE; CYMBOPOGON NARDUS; CYMBOPOGON WINTERATUS; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG RESISTANCE; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; EUCALYPTUS SALIGNA; EXTRACTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; JUNIPERUS OXYCEDRUS; LIPOPHILICITY; LIPPIA MULTIFLORA; LOUSE; MENTHA PULEGIUM; MYRTACEAE; MYRTLE; PEDICULOSIS; PEDICULUS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POACEAE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; QUASSIA AMARA; REPELLENT; REVIEW; ROSEMARY; SALVIA OFFICINALIS; SIMAROUBACEAE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TAGETES MINUTA; VERBENACEAE;

HEXAPODA; PEDICULIDAE; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS CAPITIS; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 36849066269     PISSN: 15687767     EISSN: 1572980X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11101-006-9026-0     Document Type: Review

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