Composition and antimicrobial activity of the leaf essential oil of Litsea kostermansii from Taiwan

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1123-1126

  Ho, Chen Lung ^a,b   Wang, Eugene I Chen ^b   Hsu, Kuang Ping ^b   Lee, Pei Yeh ^b   Su, Yu Chang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIWAN FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Essential oil composition; Lauraceae; Litsea kostermansii; eudesmol; eudesmol

Indexed keywords

ALPHA EUDESMOL; BETA EUDESMOL; DELTA SELINENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA EUDESMOL; GAMMA MUUROLENE; GENTAMICIN; NYSTATIN; SESQUITERPENE; TERPENOID; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLUS CEREUS; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LITSEA; LITSEA KOSTERMANSII; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TAIWAN; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; ANGIOSPERM; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PLANT MORPHOLOGY;

LAURACEAE; LITSEA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACTERIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; LAURACEAE; LITSEA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT STRUCTURES; TAIWAN;

EID: 73949096003     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400822     Document Type: Article

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