Chemical composition of the essential oils of three thymus Taxa from Turkey with antimicrobial and antioxidant activities

Records of Natural Products

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 110-120

  Zehra Kucukbay F ^a   Kuyumcu, Ebru ^a   Çelen, Selma ^b   Azaz, Ayşe Dilek ^b   Arabaci, Turan ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BALIKESIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Antioxidant activity; Thymus fallax; Thymus migricus; Thymus pubescens

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; 2 HEXENAL; 3 CARENE; ACETOPHENONE; ALPHA THUJENE; BETA PHELLANDRENE; BETA PINENE; BUTYLATED HYDROXYANISOLE; CAMPHENE; CARVACROL; CARVEOL; CARYOPHYLLENE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CINEOLE; CITRAL; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA CADINENE; KETOCONAZOLE; LIMONENE; MYRCENE; NONANOL; OCIMENE; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; SABINENE; TERPINENE; TERPINEOL; TERPINOLENE; THYMOL; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOSTASIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SAFETY; IN VITRO STUDY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THYMUS (PLANT); THYMUS FALLAX; THYMUS MIGRICUS; THYMUS PUBESCENS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 84896481712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13076167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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