Review of ethnobotanical, phytochemical, and pharmacological study of thymus serpyllum L.

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jarić, Snežana ^a   Mitrović, Miroslava ^a   Pavlović, Pavle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MARJORAM; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THYME; THYMUS; THYMUS SERPYLLUM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84938614403     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/101978     Document Type: Review

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