Chemical constituents and antimicrobial activity of medicinal plants from Ghana: Cassia sieberiana, Haematostaphis barteri, Mitragyna inermis and Pseudocedrela kotschyi

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1013-1016

  Asase, Alex ^a   Kokubun, Tetsuo ^b   Grayer, Renée J ^b   Kite, Geoffrey ^b   Simmonds, Monique S J ^b   Oteng Yeboah, Alfred A ^c   Odamtten, George T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^c Kwadaso Agric College   (Ghana)

Author keywords

3 O methylresveratrol 5 O rutinoside; Alkaloids; Antimicrobial activity; Flavonoids; Medicinal plants; Stilbenes

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ALKALOID; CASSIA SIEBERIANA EXTRACT; FLAVONOID; HAEMATOSTAPHIS BARTERI EXTRACT; HEXANE; METHANOL; MITRAGYNA INERMIS EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PSEUDOCEDRELA KOTSCHYI EXTRACT; STILBENE; STILBENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANACARDIACEAE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BARK; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLADOSPORIUM HERBARUM; FEVER; GHANA; LEGUME; LITERATURE; MALARIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELIACEAE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RUBIACEAE; SPECIES; STOMACH PAIN; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CASSIA; CLADOSPORIUM; GHANA; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MELIACEAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MITRAGYNA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

ANACARDIACEAE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CASSIA SIEBERIANA; DAVIDIELLA TASSIANA; FABACEAE; MELIACEAE; MITRAGYNA INERMIS; PSEUDOCEDRELA KOTSCHYI; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RUBIACEAE;

EID: 50149108349     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2392     Document Type: Article

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