Seasonal variation in content, chemical composition and antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities of essential oils from four mentha species

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1827-1836

  Hussain, Abdullah I ^a,b   Anwar, Farooq ^b   Nigam, Poonam S ^c   Ashraf, Muhammad ^b,d   Gilani, Anwarul H ^e  

^a GC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Antioxidant; Carvone; Mentha arvensis; Mentha longifolia; Mentha piperita; Mentha spicata; Menthol

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ESSENTIAL OIL; PLANT EXTRACT; TERPENE;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MENTHA; NEOPLASM; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROSTATE TUMOR; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTHA; MONOTERPENES; NEOPLASMS; OILS, VOLATILE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MENTHA; MENTHA ARVENSIS; MENTHA LONGIFOLIA; MENTHA SPICATA; MENTHA X PIPERITA;

EID: 77954406390     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.4021     Document Type: Article

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