Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) solms from water parasite to potential medicinal remedy

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 834-836

  Aboul Enein, Ahmed M ^a   Al Abd, Ahmed M ^b   Shalaby, Emad A ^a   Abul Ela, Faten ^a   Nasr Allah, Amr A ^a   Mahmoud, Ali M ^a   El Shemy, Hany A ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Active compounds; Anticancer; Antimicrobial; Water hyacinth

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG SCREENING; EICHHORNIA; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; RIVER; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; EICHHORNIA; HUMANS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RIVERS;

EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES;

EID: 79958260803     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.6.6.15166     Document Type: Article

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