Antiepileptic potential and composition of the fruit essential oil of ferula gummosa boiss

Iranian Biomedical Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages

  Sayyah, Mohammad ^a   Kamalinejad, Mohammad ^b   Hidage, Rajab Bahrami ^b   Rustaiyan, Abdolhossein ^b  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Constituents; Essential oil; Ferula gummosa; Seizure protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 52549099215     PISSN: 1028852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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