Chemical composition of the essential oil from basil (Ocimum basilicum Linn.) and its in vitro cytotoxicity against HeLa and HEp-2 human cancer cell lines and NIH 3T3 mouse embryonic fibroblasts

Natural Product Research

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1112-1118

  Kathirvel, Poonkodi ^a   Ravi, Subban ^b  

^a KARPAGAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b KARPAGAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Linalool; Methyl cinnamate; Ocimum basilicum Linn

Indexed keywords

1,4,11,11 TRIMETHYL 8 METHLENEBICYCLO[7.2.0]UNDEC 4 ENE; ALPHA BULNESENE; ANISOLE; BETA ELEMENE; CAMPHOR; CUBENOL; ESSENTIAL OIL; LINALOOL; METHYLCINNAMATE; MONO (2 ETHYLHEXYL)ESTER; OCIMUM BASILICUM EXTRACT; TAU CADINOL; TAU MUUROLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CYTOTOXICITY; FIBROBLAST; HELA CELL; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FIBROBLASTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; OCIMUM BASILICUM; OILS, VOLATILE;

EID: 84862205878     PISSN: 14786419     EISSN: 14786427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2010.545357     Document Type: Article

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