Cameroonian medicinal plants: A bioactivity versus ethnobotanical survey and chemotaxonomic classification

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ntie Kang, Fidele ^a,b   Lifongo, Lydia Likowo ^a   Mbaze, Luc Meva'a ^b   Ekwelle, Nnange ^c   Owono Owono, Luc C ^d   Megnassan, Eugene ^e   Judson, Philip N ^f   Sippl, Wolfgang ^g   Efange, Simon M N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

^c Klinikum Sudstadt Rostock   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^e UNIVERSITÉ NANGUI ABROGOUA   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^f Chemical and Bioactivity Information Centre   (United Kingdom)

^g MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological activities; Chemotaxonomy; Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants; Natural products

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; FLAVONOID; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; TERPENOID; XANTHONE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CAMEROON; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; ETHNOBOTANY; LIBRARY; MEDICINAL PLANT; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

CAMEROON; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; ETHNOBOTANY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84879454872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-13-147     Document Type: Article

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