Bioassay guided isolation of antibacterial homoisoflavan from Dragon's blood resin (Dammul-akhwain)

Natural Product Radiance

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 494-497

  Gupta, Deepika ^a   Bleakley, Bruce ^b   Gupta, Rajinder K ^a  

^a GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Antifungal; Dammul akhwain; Dracaena cinnabari; Dragon's blood resin; Tlc

Indexed keywords

DRACAENA CINNABARI;

EID: 73349138585     PISSN: 0972592X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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