Beneficial effect of neem on human health

Phytochemicals and Human Health: Pharmacological and Molecular Aspects - A Tribute to Late Professor Bimal Kumar Bachhawat

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 187-218

  Bandyopadhyay, Uday ^a   Bindu, Samik ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

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