Assessing product adulteration in natural health products for laxative yielding plants, Cassia, Senna, and Chamaecrista, in Southern India using DNA barcoding

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 693-700

  Seethapathy, Gopalakrishnan Saroja ^a,b   Ganesh, Doss ^b   Santhosh Kumar, Jayanthinagar Urumarudappa ^c   Senthilkumar, Umapathy ^a   Newmaster, Steven G ^d   Ragupathy, Subramanyam ^d   Uma Shaanker, Ramanan ^a,c   Ravikanth, Gudasalamani ^a  

^a ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^b MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA traceability; Herbal drugs; Human health; Quality control; Species admixtures

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE; PLANT DNA;

CASSIA; CHAMAECRISTA; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG CONTAMINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; PHYTOTHERAPY; QUALITY CONTROL; SENNA;

CASSIA; CHAMAECRISTA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, PLANT; DRUG CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INDIA; LAXATIVES; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SENNA PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84931576496     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-014-1120-z     Document Type: Article

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