Chemical composition, antibacterial and antioxidant activities of the essential oils from Thymus satureioides and Thymus pallidus

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1507-1510

  Ichrak, Ghalbane ^a   Rim, Belaqziz ^a   Loubna, Ait Said ^a   Khali, Oufdou ^b   Abderrahman, Romane ^a   Said, El Messoussi ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^b CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Antioxidant activity; Chemical composition; Essential oils; Thymus pallidus; Thymus satureioides

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; BORNEOL; CAMPHENE; CAMPHOR; CARVACROL; CARYOPHYLLENE; DIHYDROCARVONE; ESSENTIAL OIL; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; THYMUS PALLIDUS ESSENTIAL OIL; THYMUS SATUREIOIDES ESSENTIAL OIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGAR DIFFUSION; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BROTH DILUTION; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTILLATION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THYME; THYMUS PALLIDUS; THYMUS SATUREIOIDES;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DRYOBALANOPS; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; THYMUS SATUREIOIDES;

EID: 80655125253     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1100601025     Document Type: Article

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