Bioactive natural products from two sudanese medicinal plants Diospyros mespiliformis and Croton zambesicus

Records of Natural Products

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 198-203

  Mohamed, Ietidal E ^a   El Nur, El Bushra E ^a   Choudhary, Muhammad I ^b   Khan, Shamsun N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

glucosidase; Antioxidant; Croton zambiescus; Diospyros mespiliformis; Ent Kaurane; Triterpenes; Vitexin

Indexed keywords

1 DEOXYNOJIRIMYCIN; ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; BETULIC ACID; BETULIN; CROTON ZAMBESICUS EXTRACT; DIOSPYROS MESPILIFORMIS EXTRACT; DITERPENE; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; KAURANE DERIVATIVE; LUPENONE; LUPEOL; PLANT EXTRACT; TRITERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITEXIN;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROTON; CROTON ZAMBESICUS; DIOSPYROS MESPILIFORMIS; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HETERONUCLEAR MULTIPLE BOND CORRELATION; HETERONUCLEAR MULTIPLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERSIMMON; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; SUDAN; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

CROTON ZAMBESICUS; DIOSPYROS MESPILIFORMIS;

EID: 70449670766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13076167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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