Antifungal constituents of Melicope borbonica

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 542-545

  Simonsen, Henrik Toft ^a   Adsersen, Anne ^a   Bremner, Paul ^b   Heinrich, Michael ^b   Smitt, Ulla Wagner ^a   Jaroszewski, Jerzy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetophenones; Coumarins; Euodia borbonica; Lignans; Melicope borbonica; Sesquiterpenes; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

3,6 EPIDIOXY 1,10 BISABOLADIENE; 5,7 DIMETHOXYCOUMARIN; 7 (3 METHYL 2 BUTENYLOXY) 6 METHOXYCOUMARIN; ACETOPHENONE DERIVATIVE; ALPHA CURCUMENE; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CEDRELOPSIN; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; EUGENOL; LIGNAN DERIVATIVE; METHYLEUGENOL; METHYLXANTHOXYLIN; NYSTATIN; PSORALEN; SCOPARONE; SESAMIN; SESQUITERPENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHOXYLIN;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; HIGHER PLANT; MELICOPE BORBONICA; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM; PLANT LEAF;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLIUM; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RUTACEAE; WOUND HEALING;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; MELICOPE; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM;

EID: 4043151402     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1482     Document Type: Article

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