Pharmacological properties of medicinal herbs by focus on secondary metabolites

Life Science Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 509-520

  Kashani, Hamed Haddad ^a   Hoseini, Elahe Seyed ^b   Nikzad, Hosein ^a   Aarabi, Mohammadm Hossein ^a  

^a KASHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Research Center for Sciences and Biotechnology   (Iran)

Author keywords

Herb; Medicie; Metabolite; Pharmacology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874823445     PISSN: 10978135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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