Chemical composition and antibacterial activity of selected essential oils and some of their main compounds

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1359-1364

  Wanner, Juergen ^a   Schmidt, Erich ^b   Bail, Stefanie ^c   Jirovetz, Leopold ^c   Buchbauer, Gerhard ^c   Gochev, Velizar ^d   Girova, Tanya ^d   Atanasova, Teodora ^e   Stoyanova, Albena ^e  

^a Kurt Kitzing Co   (Germany)

^b University of Vienna ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FOOD TECHNOLOGIES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Cabreuva oil; Cedarwood oil; Chemical composition; Commiphora myrrha; Juniper berries oil; Juniperus asheii; Juniperus communis; Myrocarpus fastigiatus; Myrrh oil

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACORADIENE; ALPHA ACORENOL; ALPHA CADINOL; ALPHA CALACORENE; ALPHA CEDRENE; ALPHA CHAMIGRENE; ALPHA HIMACHALENE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA ACORADIENE; BETA BISABOLENE; BETA CHAMIGRENE; BETA HIMACHALENE; BETA SANTALENE; BISABOLOL; BULNESOL; CAMPHOR; CEDRENE; CUPARENE; DELTA CADINENE; DELTA CADINOL; ESSENTIAL OIL; FARNESOL; GAMMA BISABOLENE; GAMMA HIMACHALENE; GERANYL ACETONE; LIMONENE; NEROLIDOL; PINENE; THUJOPSENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; MYRRH OIL; TERPENE;

AGAR DIFFUSION; AGAR DILUTION; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMMIPHORA; COMMIPHORA MYRRHA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG POTENCY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS ASHEI; LEGUME; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MYROCARPUS FASTIGIATUS; NONHUMAN; CHEMISTRY; FABACEAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST;

ANIMALIA; BURSERACEAE; CITHAREXYLUM CAUDATUM; COMMIPHORA; COMMIPHORA HABESSINICA; CUPRESSACEAE; FABACEAE; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS ASHEI; JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS; MYROCARPUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FABACEAE; JUNIPERUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OILS, VOLATILE; TERPENES;

EID: 77956656199     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1000500905     Document Type: Article

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