Bioactivity of extracts of Centaurea polyclada DC. (Asteraceae)

Archives of Biological Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 447-452

  Granger, Melanie ^a   Samson, Emilie ^a   Sauvage, Severine ^a   Majumdar, Anisha ^a   Nigam, Poonam ^a   Nahar, Lutfun ^b   Celik, Sezgin ^c   Sarker, Satyajit D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Antioxidant; Asteraceae; Brine shrimp lethality assay; Centaurea polyclada; DPPH; Free radical scavenging activity; Resazurin assay

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949495902     PISSN: 03544664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/ABS0903447G     Document Type: Article

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