Phytochemical and antimicrobial characterization of Macleaya cordata herb

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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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