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Saeidnia S, Gohari A, Hadjiakhoondi A. Trypanocidal Activity of Oil of the Young Leaves of Nepeta cataria L. Obtained by Solvent Extraction. J. Med. Plants 2008; 7 (S4) :54-57
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Trypanocidal Activity of Oil of the Young Leaves of Nepeta cataria L. Obtained by Solvent Extraction
S Saeidnia1 , AR Gohari * 2, A Hadjiakhoondi3
1- Medicinal Plants Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical Sciences/ University of Tehran
2- Medicinal Plants Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical Sciences/ University of Tehran , goharii@yahoo.com
3- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical Sciences/ University of Tehran, Tehran
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Trypanocidal activity was found in the volatile oil of the Young leaves of Nepeta cataria L. which has been extracted by diethyl ether and analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Four compounds in the oil of N. cataria, representing 97.53% of the oil were identified. The oil was enriched of monoterpenes with α- citral (51.95%) as the major compound. Other main compounds were β- citronellol (9.03%), geraniol (4.31%) and nerol (32.24%). Nepetalactone was not detected in that oil.
Keywords: Nepeta cataria, Lamiaceae, trypanocidal, essential oil composition, α- citral, nerol
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Pharmacognosy & Pharmaceutics
Received: 2007/12/23 | Accepted: 2008/02/8 | Published: 2008/03/19
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