Volatile constituents and antibacterial screening of the essential oil of Chenopodium ambrosioides L. growing in Nigeria

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 989-992

  Owolabi, Moses S ^a   Lajide, Labunmi ^b   Oladimeji, Matthew O ^c   Setzer, William N ^d   Palazzo, Maria C ^d   Olowu, Rasaq A ^a   Ogundajo, Akintayo ^a  

^a LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

^c BOWEN UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^d University of Alabama in Huntsville   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Chenopodiaeace; Chenopodium ambrosioides L.; Essential oil; p cymene; terpinene

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID VERBENYL ESTER; ALPHA TERPINYL ACETATE; ASCARIDOLE; CARVACROL; CHENOPODIUM AMBROSIOIDES EXTRACT; CINEOLE; ESSENTIAL OIL; ISOASCARIDOLE; LIMONENE; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; TERPINENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHENOPODIUM AMBROSIOIDES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISTILLATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOWER; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; GOOSEFOOT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION;

BACILLUS CEREUS; CHENOPODIUM AMBROSIOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CHENOPODIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOWERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NIGERIA; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS;

EID: 70349560842     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400724     Document Type: Article

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