Variation in Phytochemical Composition Reveals Distinct Divergence of Aloe vera (L.) Burm.f. From Other Aloe Species: Rationale Behind Selective Preference of Aloe vera in Nutritional and Therapeutic Use

Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 624-631

  Dey, Priyankar ^a,b   Dutta, Somit ^a   Chowdhury, Anurag ^a   Das, Abhaya Prasad ^a   Chaudhuri, Tapas Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL   (India)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aloe; gas chromatography mass spectrometry; herbal medicine; multivariate statistics; nutrition; phytochemicals

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028843336     PISSN: 21565872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2156587217698292     Document Type: Article

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