Chemical composition, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of the essential oil of Nepeta deflersiana growing in Yemen

Records of Natural Products

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 189-193

  Mothana, Ramzi Ahmed ^a,b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Antioxidant; Essential oil; GC; GC MS; Nepeta deflersiana

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; 2 HEXENAL; 2 METHOXY PARA CRESOL; AMOXICILLIN; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA PINENE; BOURBONENE; CAMPHOR; CARVEOL; CARVONE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; DECANOIC ACID; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUDESMOL; EUGENOL; GENTAMICIN; GERANIOL; HUMULENE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MYRISTIC ACID; NONANOIC ACID; NYSTATIN; PALMITIC ACID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHYTOL; SESQUITERPENE; TERPENE; THYMOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANGIOSPERM; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEPETA; NEPETA DEFLERSIANA; NONHUMAN; YEMEN;

DRYOBALANOPS; LAMIACEAE; NEPETA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 80155199793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13076167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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