Antimitotic and antibacterial effects of the Nigella sativa L. Seed
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Antibacterial Activity of Nigella sativa L. Seed Extracts
Most of the bacterial pathogens are resistant to existing synthetic antibacterial agents demanding an increasing effort to seek effective phytochemicals as antibacterial agents against such pathogens. Nigella sativa L. (black cumin) seeds play an important role in folk medicine and some of its major constituents are reported to be pharmacologically active. In this present work, black cumin seed...
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عنوان ژورنال: Caryologia
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0008-7114,2165-5391
DOI: 10.1080/00087114.2007.10797947