Antimicrobial and Antiviral Activities of Two Seed Oil Samples of Cucurbita pepo L. and Their Fatty Acid Analysis

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Sener, Bilge ^a   Orhan, Ilkay ^a   Ozcelik, Berrin ^a   Kartal, Murat ^b   Aslan, Sinem ^b   Ozbilen, Gamze ^c  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Turkey)

Author keywords

antimicrobial activity; Cucurbita pepo; Cucurbitaceae; fatty acid; GC MS; pumpkin seed

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249154876     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578X0700200409     Document Type: Article

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