Plants: A source for new antimycobacterial drugs

Planta Medica

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-21

  Santhosh, Ramachandran Sarojini ^a   Suriyanarayanan, Balasubramanian ^a  

^a SASTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

alkaloids; alkane; alkene; chalcones; chromones; coumarins; flavonoids; lignans; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; phenols; plants; terpenes

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ALKANE; ALKENE; ALKYNE; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; AROMATIC COMPOUND; CHALCONE DERIVATIVE; CHROMONE DERIVATIVE; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; FATTY ACID; FLAVONOID; LIGNAN; MISCELLANEOUS DRUGS AND AGENTS; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; TERPENOID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; IN VITRO STUDY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BACILLI (CLASS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ALKALOIDS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHALCONES; COUMARINS; FATTY ACIDS; FLAVONOIDS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM; PHENOLS; PLANTS; QUINONES; TERPENES;

EID: 84892445965     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: 14390221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1350978     Document Type: Review

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