Comparative composition of four essential oils of oregano used in Algerian and Jordanian folk medicine

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 957-960

  Berrehal, Djemaa ^a   Boudiar, Tarek ^a   Hichem, Lakhal ^a   Khalfallah, Assia ^a   Kabouche, Ahmed ^a   Al Freihat, Ahmad ^b   Ghannadi, Alireza ^c   Sajjadi, Ebrahim ^c   Mehrabani, Mitra ^c   Safaei Ghomi, Jawad ^d   Kabouche, Zahia ^a  

^a Universite Mentouri Constantine   (Algeria)

^b AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Essential oil composition; Lamiaceae; O. syriacum var. syriacum; Origanum glandulosum Desf.; p cymene; Thymol. carvacrol

Indexed keywords

1 OCTEN 3 OL; 3 OCTANOL; 3 OCTANONE; 4 CYMEN 8 OL; ALPHA PHELLANDRENE; ALPHA THUJENE; BETA PHELLANDRENE; BETA PINENE; CAMPHENE; CARVACROL; CARVACROL METHYL ETHER; CINEOLE; DIHYDROCARVONE; ESSENTIAL OIL; ISOPULEGONE; LIMONENE; LIMONENE OXIDE; MYRCENE; ORIGANUM GLANDULOSUM EXTRACT; ORIGANUM SYRIACUM EXTRACT; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; SABINENE; TERPINENE; TERPINEOL; TERPININEN 4 OL; THYMOL; THYMOL METHYL ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ALGERIA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DRUG ISOLATION; JORDAN; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OREGANO; ORIGANUM GLANDULOSUM; ORIGANUM SYRIACUM; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

LAMIACEAE; ORIGANUM; ORIGANUM SYRIACUM;

EID: 77954115552     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1000500631     Document Type: Article

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