Composition, cytotoxicity and antioxidant activity of the essential oil of Dracocephalum surmandinum from Iran

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 341-344

  Sonboli, Ali ^a   Esmaeili, Mohammad Ali ^a   Gholipour, Abbas ^b   Kanani, Mohammad Reza ^a,c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b PAYAME NOOR UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Cytotoxicity activity; D. Surmandinum; Essential oil; Lamiaceae; Perilla aldehyde

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; BETA CAROTENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; HYDROCARBON; LIMONENE; LINOLEIC ACID; PERILLALDEHYDE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; 2,2-DIPHENYL-1-PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; PICRIC ACID; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTILLATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRACOCEPHALUM SURMANDINUM; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; IRAN; LEUKEMIA; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA CELL; RAT; ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

DRACOCEPHALUM; LAMIACEAE; PERILLA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; IRAN; LAMIACEAE; OILS, VOLATILE; PICRATES; PLANT OILS; RATS;

EID: 77951888415     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1000500234     Document Type: Article

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