Chemical diversity analysis on some selected medicinally important pteridophytes of Western Ghats, India

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2012, Pages

  Mithraja, Muraleedharannair Jalajakumari ^a   Antonisamy, Johnson Marimuthu ^b   Mahesh, Mony ^a   Paul, Zachariah Miller ^a   Jeeva, Solomon ^c  

^a NESAMONY MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE   (India)

^b ST XAVIER S COLLEGE AUTONOMOUS   (India)

^c SCOTT CHRISTIAN COLLEGE AUTONOMOUS   (India)

Author keywords

Phytochemistry; Pteridophytes; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ACETONE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BENZENE; BLECHNUM ORIENTALE EXTRACT; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CERATOPTERIS THALICROIDES EXTRACT; CHLOROFORM; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; DICRANOPTERIS LINEARIS EXTRACT; DRYMOGLOSSUM HETEROPHYLUM EXTRACT; DRYNARIA QUERCIFOLIA EXTRACT; FLAVONOID; HEMIONITIS ARIFOLIA EXTRACT; METHANOL; NEPHROLEPIS MULTIFLORA EXTRACT; PETROLEUM ETHER; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PITYROGRAMMA CALOMELANOS EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PTERIS CONFUSA EXTRACT; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; SAPONIN; SOLVENT; STEROID; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WATER; XANTHINE DERIVATIVE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BLECHNUM ORIENTALE; CERATOPTERIS THALICROIDES; DICRANOPTERIS LINEARIS; DRYMOGLOSSUM HETEROPHYLUM; DRYNARIA QUERCIFOLIA; FERN; FREEZING; HEMIONITIS ARIFOLIA; INDIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; NEPHROLEPIS MULTIFLORA; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PITYROGRAMMA CALOMELANOS; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERIS CONFUSA; SOXHLET EXTRACTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84862191433     PISSN: 22211691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2221-1691(12)60126-9     Document Type: Article

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