Antioxidant, antiproliferative and antimicrobial activities of the volatile oil from the wild pepper piper capense used in Cameroon as a culinary spice

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1791-1796

  Woguem, Verlaine ^a   Maggi, Filippo ^b   Fogang, Hervet P D ^a   Tapondjou, Léon A ^a   Womeni, Hilaire M ^a   Quassinti, Luana ^b   Bramucci, Massimo ^b   Vitali, Luca A ^b   Petrelli, Dezemona ^b   Lupidi, Giulio ^b   Papa, Fabrizio ^b   Vittori, Sauro ^b   Barboni, Luciano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Antioxidant; Cytotoxic activity; Essential oil; Piper capense

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; 2,2' AZINOBIS(3 ETHYLBENZOTHIAZOLINE 6 SULFONIC ACID); 3 (4,5 DIMETHYL 2 THIAZOLYL) 2,5 DIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM BROMIDE; 3 CARENE; ALPHA PHELLANDRENE; ALPHA THUJENE; BETA ELEMENE; BETA PINENE; BORNEOL; BOURBONENE; CAMPHENE; CAMPHOR; CARYOPHYLLENE; CINEOLE; COPAENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MYRCENE; OCIMENE; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; SABINENE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; TERPINEN 4 OL; TERPINENE; TERPINEOL; TERPINOLENE; TROLOX C; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CAMEROON; CANCER INHIBITION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLON CARCINOMA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DISK DIFFUSION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG SCREENING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FRUIT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDRODISTILLATION; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PEPPER; PIPER CAPENSE; SPICE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUMOR CELL; WILD SPECIES;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; PIPER CAPENSE; PIPERACEAE; POSIBACTERIA;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTIOXIDANTS; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; HCT116 CELLS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OILS, VOLATILE; PIPER; SPICES;

EID: 84890866515     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1300801234     Document Type: Article

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