Antibacterial potentiality of Mesua ferrea Linn. flowers

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 824-826

  Mazumder, Rupa ^a   Dastidar, Sujata G ^b   Basu, S P ^c   Mazumder, Avijit ^a   Singh, S K ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c SEEMANTA INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Mesua ferrea; Methanol extract; Whole flower

Indexed keywords

MESUA FERREA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOWER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GUTTIFERAE; LIVER; MALE; MESUA FERREA; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SPLEEN; VIBRIO;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FLOWERS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MALE; MALPIGHIACEAE; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MESUA; MESUA FERREA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 9644265196     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1572     Document Type: Article

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