Essential oil composition, antibacterial activity and toxicity of the leaves of Tetrapleura tetraptera (Schum. & Thonn.) Taubert from Nigeria

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 287-290

  Aboaba, Sherifat A ^a   Ogunwande, Isiaka A ^b   Walker, Tameka M ^c   Setzer, William N ^c   Oladosu, Ibrahim A ^a   Ekundayo, Olusegun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

1,8 cineole; Antibacterial activity; Essential oil; Tetrapleura tetraptera; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

5 METHOXY 6,7 DIMETHYLBENZOFURAN; 6,10,14 TRIMETHYL 2 PENTADECANONE; 6,9 HEPTADECADIENE; ALPHA IONONE; ALPHA MUUROLENE; ALPHA PHELLANDRENE; ALPHA YLANGENE; BETA BISABOLENE; BETA DAMASCENONE; BETA IONONE; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; CINEOLE; DELTA CADINENE; DIHYDRO BETA IONONE; DIHYDROACTINIDIOLIDE; ELEMOL; ESSENTIAL OIL; GERANYL ACETONE; HEXADECANE; KONGOL; NEROLIDOL; PARA CYMENE; PHYTOL; PINENE; SPATHULENOL; TAU CADINOL; TEPRENONE; TERPINEOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CYTOTOXICITY; LETHALITY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TETRAPLEURA TETRAPTERA; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; TETRAPLEURA;

ARTEMIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; TETRAPLEURA TETRAPTERA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; NIGERIA; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT OILS; TETRAPLEURA;

EID: 66849126257     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400225     Document Type: Article

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