Leishmanicidal activity of carvacrol-rich essential oil from Lippia sidoides cham

Biological Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 399-402

  Farias Junior, A Paulo ^a   Rios, Marcos C ^a   Moura, Tauanny A ^a   Almeida, Roque P ^a   Alves, Pericles B ^a   Blank, Arie F ^a   Fernandes, Roberta P M ^a   Scher, Ricardo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carvacrol; Essential oil composition; Leishmania chagasi; Lippia ssp.; P cymene; Thymol; Verbenaceae

Indexed keywords

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; CARVACROL; ESSENTIAL OIL; TERPENE; THYMOL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; IC 50; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA; LIPPIA; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PLANT LEAF;

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; LEISHMANIA; LIPPIA; MONOTERPENES; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT OILS; THYMOL;

EID: 84875337035     PISSN: 07169760     EISSN: 07176287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602012000400012     Document Type: Article

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