Phytochemical investigation of Vernonia cinerea(family: Asteraceae)

Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 79-83

  Haque, Ahsanul Md ^a   Hassan, Musfizur Md ^b   Das, Atanu ^a   Begum, Bilkis ^a   Ali, Yousuf Md ^a   Morshed, Helal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

NMR; Phytochemical screening; Plant extracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876041048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22313354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7324/JAPS.2012.2617     Document Type: Article

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