Chemical composition, antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxic activity of essential oils of Plectranthus cylindraceus and Meriandra benghalensis from Yemen

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1099-1102

  Awadh Ali, Nasser A ^a   Wurster, Martina ^b   Denkert, Annika ^c   Arnold, Norbert ^c   Fadail, Iman ^a   Al Didamony, Gamal ^a   Lindequist, Ulrike ^b   Wessjohann, Ludger ^c   Setzer, William N ^d  

^a SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d University of Alabama in Huntsville   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Antioxidant; Cytotoxic; Essential oils; GC MS; Meriandra; Plectranthus

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ALPHA EUDESMOL; AMPICILLIN; ARCURCUMENE; BORNEOL; CAMPHENE; CAMPHOR; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; CINEOLE; DELTA CADINOL; DIGITONIN; ESSENTIAL OIL; GENTAMICIN; MERIANDRA BENGHALENSIS EXTRACT; NYSTATIN; PLANT EXTRACT; PLECTRANTHUS CYLINDRACEUS EXTRACT; SELINENE; TERPINOLENE; THYMOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BROTH DILUTION; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LAMIACEAE; MERIANDRA BENGHALENSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLECTRANTHUS CYLINDRACEUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; YEMEN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTIOXIDANTS; BACTERIA; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; HT29 CELLS; HUMANS; LAMIACEAE; OILS, VOLATILE; PICRATES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT OILS; YEMEN;

EID: 84865295934     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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