Mexican arnica anti-inflammatory action: Plant age is correlated with the concentration of anti-inflammatory sesquiterpenes in the medicinal plant Heterotheca inuloides Cass. (Asteraceae)

Economic Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-170

  Maldonado–López, Yurixhi ^a   Linares–Mazari, Edelmira ^b   Bye, Robert ^b   Delgado, Guillermo ^b   Espinosa–García, Francisco J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cadalenes and isocadalenes; Carbon nutrient balance hypothesis; Cultivation of medicinal plants; Mexican rnica; Terpenoids; caryophyllene

Indexed keywords

ARNICA; ARNICA MONTANA; ASTERACEAE; HETEROTHECA INULOIDES;

EID: 46749122572     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-008-9015-x     Document Type: Article

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