Screening of certain medicinal plants from India for their anti-quorum sensing activity

Indian Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1219-1224

  Zahin, Maryam ^a   Hasan, Sameena ^a   Aqil, Farrukh ^a,b   Khan, Mohd Sajjad Ahmad ^a   Husain, Fohad Mabood ^a   Ahmad, Iqbal ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti QS activity; Chromobacterium violaceum; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Quorum sensing; Swarming motility

Indexed keywords

INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; VIOLACEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOBACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECT; INDIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING;

ANIMALS; CHROMOBACTERIUM; INDIA; INDOLES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; CULLEN CORYLIFOLIA; HEMIDESMUS INDICUS; HOLARRHENA ANTIDYSENTERICA; MANGIFERA INDICA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUNICA GRANATUM;

EID: 78649406626     PISSN: 00195189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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