Compositional variations and anthelmentic activity of essential oils from rhizomes of different wild populations of Acorus calamus L. and its major component, β-asarone

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 275-278

  Kumar, Ravendra ^a   Prakash, Om ^a   Pant, Anil K ^a   Hore, Subrata K ^a   Chanotiya, Chandan S ^b   Mathela, Chandra S ^b  

^a G B PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Acorus calamus L.; Anthelmentic; Ascaridia galli; Essential oil; asarone

Indexed keywords

4 MYRCENE; 6 CAMPHENOL; ALPHA ASARONE; ALPHA CALACORENE; BETA ASARONE; BETA PHELLANDRENE; BETA PINENE; BORNEOL; BORNYL ACETATE; CAMPHENE; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; CINEOLE; COPAENE; DEHYDROAROMADENDRANE; DEXTRO 4 OL; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA MURROLENE; GERANIOL; GERANYL ACETATE; GERMACRENE; LINALOOL; METHYL EUGENOL; METHYL ISOEUGENOL; MYRCENE; MYRTENOL; PINENE; SPATHULENOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANISOLE DERIVATIVE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ASARONE; VEGETABLE OIL;

ACORUS CALAMUS; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCARIDIA; ASCARIDIA GALLI; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SCREENING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IC 50; INDIA; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHIZOME; ACORUS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION;

ACORUS CALAMUS; ASCARIDIA GALLI;

ACORUS; ANIMALS; ANISOLES; ANTHELMINTICS; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT OILS; RHIZOME;

EID: 66849131630     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400222     Document Type: Article

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