Effect of leaf essential oil from Piper solmsianum C.DC. in mice behaviour
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Effect of leaf essential oil from Piper solmsianum C.DC. in mice behaviour.
The essential oil from Piper solmsianum leaves and its major compound (sarisan) were tested to verify their influences upon mice behaviour. The essential oil was obtained by hydrodistillation in a modified Clevenger extractor and analysed by GC/ MS. This analysis revealed in the oil the presence of monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes and of arylpropanoids. The compound sarisan, a myristicin analogue, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0001-3765
DOI: 10.1590/s0001-37652001000100004