The chemical composition and antibacterial activities of the essential oils from three Aframomum species from Cameroon, and their potential as sources of (E)-(R)-nerolidol

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 829-834

  Nguikwie, Sylvie Kwanga ^a,d   Nyegue, Maximilienne A ^a   Belinga, Florentine Ndoye Foe ^a   Ngono Ngane, Rosalie A ^a   Romestand, Bernard ^b   Kouzayha, Achraf ^b   Casabianca, Hervé ^c   Amvam Zollo, Paul H ^a   Menut, Chantal ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c Institut des Sciences Analytiques   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

(E) (R) nerolidol; Aframomum dalzielii; Aframomum letestuianum; Aframomum pruinosum; Antibacterial activity; Essential oils; Natural preservative; Zingiberaceae

Indexed keywords

BETA PINENE; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; CINEOLE; ESSENTIAL OIL; HUMULENE; HYDROCARBON; LINALOOL; NEROLIDOL; SABINENE; SESQUITERPENE;

ACCURACY; AFRAMOMUM DALZIELII; AFRAMOMUM LETESTUIANUM; AFRAMOMUM PRUINOSUM; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHIRAL CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDRODISTILLATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MINIMUM BACTERICIDAL CONCENTRATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; RACEMIC MIXTURE; RHIZOME; ZINGIBERACEAE;

AFRAMOMUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; ZINGIBERACEAE;

EID: 84886388869     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1300800638     Document Type: Article

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