Blechnum Orientale Linn - a fern with potential as antioxidant, anticancer and antibacterial agent

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lai, How Y ^a   Lim, Yau Y ^a   Kim, Kah H ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; BLECHNUM ORIENTALE EXTRACT; BUTANOL; CHLOROFORM; CURCUMIN; FLAVONOID; METHANOL; OXACILLIN; PETROLEUM ETHER; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; WATER; 2,2-DIPHENYL-1-PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; PICRIC ACID; SCAVENGER; TERPENE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BLECHNUM ORIENTALE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; FERN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; ADENOCARCINOMA; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; COLON TUMOR; DRUG EFFECT; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEOPLASM; PLANT LEAF; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FERNS; FLAVONOIDS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEOPLASMS; PHENOLS; PICRATES; PLANT LEAVES; TANNINS; TERPENES;

EID: 77951533540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-10-15     Document Type: Article

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