Antifungal activity of chlorophytum nimonii (GRAH)

Indian Drugs

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 316-318

  Lakshmi, V ^a   Kumar, R ^a   Chaturvedi, A K ^a   Shukla, P K ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity against cryptococcus neoformans and trichophyton mentagrophytes; Chlorophytum nimonii; Diosgenin and tigogenin; Spirostane sapogenins

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251544284     PISSN: 0019462X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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