Antimicrobial activity and cellular toxicity of flavonoid extracts from Pongamia pinnata and vitex negundo

Romanian Biotechnological Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 6396-6400

  Sharma, Amit ^a   Tyagi, Sapna ^a   Nag, Ruchi ^a   Chaturvedi, Arjit ^a   Nag, T N ^a  

^a MGS University   (India)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Cellular toxicity; Flavonoids; P. pinnata; V.negundo

Indexed keywords

EID: 83155185512     PISSN: 12245984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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