Antimalarial agents from plant sources

Current Science

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1314-1329

  Saxena, Sudhanshu ^a   Pant, Neerja ^a   Jain, D C ^a   Bhakuni, R S ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

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