Antifungal activity of chemically different essential oils from wild Tunisian Thymus spp
| Autor: | Ben Jabeur Maissa, Hamada Walid |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Antifungal
Antifungal Agents Tunisia medicine.drug_class Plant Science Biochemistry Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Analytical Chemistry law.invention Thymus Plant chemistry.chemical_compound food law medicine Oils Volatile Plant Oils Carvacrol Food science Thymol Essential oil Chemotype Organic Chemistry Plant Components Aerial food.food chemistry Immunology Monoterpenes Thymus capitatus Cymenes Gas chromatography Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry |
| Zdroj: | Natural product research. 29(9) |
| ISSN: | 1478-6427 |
| Popis: | Essential oils isolated by using hydrodistillation from the aerial parts of Thymus algeriensis and Thymus capitatus Hoff. et Link. from different locations of Tunisia (Kef, Takelsa, Zaghouan, Fahs and Toukeber) were characterised. The chemical composition was analysed by using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, the major component of T. capitatus from Kef and T. algeriensis was thymol while carvacrol was the main component of T. capitatus from Zaghouan, Fahs and Toukeber. The antifungal activity of the oils and some pure components was assessed by the in vitro assay against several fungi and oomycetes. T. capitatus (chemotype carvacrol) exhibited the strongest antifungal activity followed by T. capitatus (chemotype thymol) and T. algeriensis, indicating that carvacrol might have a stronger antifungal activity than thymol. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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