Phytochemical and antimicrobial characterization of Macleaya cordata herb

• Authors: KOSINA Pavel; ROOS Werner; GREGOROVÁ Jana; NAUMANN Kathrin; GRUZ Jiří; ŠIMÁNEK Vilím; VACEK Jan; ULRICHOVÁ Jitka; KOLAR Milan; VOGEL Mathias
• Year of publication: 2010
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Fitoterapia
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Medicine
• Citation: KOSINA, Pavel, Jana GREGOROVÁ, Jiří GRUZ, Jan VACEK, Milan KOLAR and Mathias VOGEL. Phytochemical and antimicrobial characterization of Macleaya cordata herb. Fitoterapia. Elsevier Science Amsterdam, 2010, vol. 81, No 8, p. 1006-1012. ISSN 0367-326X.
• Field: Analytic chemistry
• Keywords: Macleaya cordata; isoquinoline alkaloids; antimicrobial activity
• Description: Alkaloids sanguinarine, chelerythrine, their dihydro derivatives, protopine and allocryptopine and phenolics, gallic, p-hydroxybenzoic, m-hydroxybenzoic, gentisic, p-coumaric, caffeic, ferulic and sinapic acids were determined in extracts prepared from M. cordata aerial part, seeds, and seed capsules. Extracts were tested for antimicrobial activity using the microdilution method on standard reference bacterial strains.

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