Chemical composition and biological activities of the essential oil from Calamintha nepeta plants from the wild in southern Italy

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 139-142

  Mancini, Emilia ^a   De Martino, Laura ^a   Malova, Hanna ^a   De Feo, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Calamintha nepeta; Essential oil; GC MS; Phytotoxic activity; Sesquiterpenic fraction

Indexed keywords

1,10 DIEPICUBENOL; ALLOAROMADENDRENE EPOXIDE; CADALENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; SESQUITERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CALAMINTHA NEPETA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDRODISTILLATION; IN VITRO STUDY; ITALY; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHALARIS; PHALARIS CANARIENSIS; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT SEED; RADISH; SINAPIS; SINAPIS ARVENSIS; TRITICUM DURUM;

EID: 84873867750     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1300800134     Document Type: Article

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