Studies on antidermatophytic activity of waste leaves of Curcuma longa L.

Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 177-185

  Pandey, Kumar Pankaj ^a   Mishra, Rohit Kumar ^a   Kamran, Ahsan ^a   Mishra, Piyush ^a   Bajaj, A K ^b   Dikshit, Anupam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b MLN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Antidermatophytic; Curcuma longa; essential oil; microsporum gypseum; tenia corporis; trichophyton mentagrophytes

Indexed keywords

ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTHRODERMA GYPSEUM; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CURCUMA LONGA; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; TENIA;

EID: 77956412284     PISSN: 09715894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12298-010-0019-5     Document Type: Article

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