Composition and cytotoxic activity of essential oils from Croton matourensis and Croton micans from Venezuela

Records of Natural Products

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 101-108

  Compagnone, Reinaldo S ^a   Chavez, Katiuska ^b   Mateu, Elsa ^b   Orsini, Giovannina ^b   Arvelo, Francisco ^c   Suárez, Alírica I ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Croton matourensis; Croton micans; Cytotoxicity; Essential oil; Fenchyl acetate; Methyleugenol

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CUBEBENE; ALPHA SELINENE; BETA BOURBENE; BETA CUBEBENE; BETA ELEMENE; CARYOPHYLLENE; CROTON MATOURENSIS OIL; CROTON MICANS OIL; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; ELEMICINE; ESSENTIAL OIL; FENCHYL ACETATE; HUMULENE; ISOELEMICINE; METHYLEUGENOL; SPATHULENOL; TERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALENCENE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROTON; CROTON MATOURENSIS; CROTON MICANS; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG SCREENING; FLOWER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PLANT LEAF; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN FIBROBLAST; VENEZUELA;

CROTON MATOURENSIS; CROTON MICANS;

EID: 77955445617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13076167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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