Characteristics and chemical compositions of propolis from Ethiopia

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Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Rushdi, Ahmed I ^a,b,c   Adgaba, Nuru ^a   Bayaqoob, Noofal I M ^a   Al Khazim, Ahmed ^a   Simoneit, Bernd I T ^a,b   El Mubarak, Aarif H ^a   Al Mutlaq, Khalid F ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; GC MS; Propolis; Triterpenoids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904007972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-3-253     Document Type: Article

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