Neem cake as a promising larvicide and adulticide against the rural malaria vector Anopheles culicifacies (Diptera: Culicidae): a HPTLC fingerprinting approach

Natural Product Research

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1185-1190

  Benelli, Giovanni ^a   Chandramohan, Balamurugan ^b   Murugan, Kadarkarai ^b,c   Madhiyazhagan, Pari ^b   Kovendan, Kalimuthu ^b   Panneerselvam, Chellasamy ^d   Dinesh, Devakumar ^b   Govindarajan, Marimuthu ^e   Higuchi, Akon ^f   Toniolo, Chiara ^g   Canale, Angelo ^a   Nicoletti, Marcello ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c THIRUVALLUVAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TABUK   (Saudi Arabia)

^e ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anopheline; arbovirus; eco friendly insecticides; mosquito vectors; ovicidal activity

Indexed keywords

AZADIRACHTA INDICA EXTRACT; LARVICIDAL AGENT; NEEM CAKE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INSECTICIDE; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES; ARTICLE; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DRUG ACTIVITY; HATCHING; HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; LARVICIDAL ACTIVITY; LC50; NONHUMAN; OVICIDAL ACTIVITY; PARASITE VECTOR; RURAL AREA; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; INSECT VECTOR; LARVA; MALARIA; PROCEDURES; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; AZADIRACHTA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MALARIA; PLANT EXTRACTS;

EID: 84983358987     PISSN: 14786419     EISSN: 14786427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2016.1222390     Document Type: Article

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