Chemical composition and antioxidant activity of essential oils and solvent extracts of Ptychotis verticillata from Morocco

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 533-536

  El Ouariachi, El Mokhtar ^a   Tomi, Pierre ^b   Bouyanzer, Abdelhamid ^a   Hammouti, Belkheir ^a   Desjobert, Jean Marie ^b   Costa, Jean ^b   Paolini, Julien ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Chemical composition; Essential oil; Ptychotis verticillata; Solvent extract

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ASCORBIC ACID; CARVACROL; ESSENTIAL OIL; ETHER; FLAVONOID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; PTYCHOTIS VERTICILLATA EXTRACT; PTYCHOTIS VERTICILLATA OIL; THYMOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APIALES; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; PTYCHOTIS VERTICILLATA;

ANIMALS; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; MOROCCO; OILS, VOLATILE; PICRATES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT OILS; PLANTS;

PTYCHOTIS; VERTICILLATA;

EID: 78951480666     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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