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Effect of the Essential Oil Composition and Biological
Activity of Ziziphora clinopodiodes Lam. on the Against Anopheles Stephensi and
Culex pipiens
Parva from Iran
Mohammadreza Verdian-Rivi
Dept. of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical
Sciences,
Tehran, Iran. E-mail: mverdian@razi.tums.ac.ir : Tel: ++9821 44560215
Abstract
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The chemical composition of the essential oil obtained by
hydrodistillation from the aerial parts of Ziziphora clinopodioides Lam.
growing in Iran was analysed by GC and GC/MS. Twenty-six components
accounting to 97.62% of the total oil were identified. The major
components were pulegone (36.45%), piperitenone (19.12%),
Menth-2-en-1-ol (5.31%), carvacrol (5.10%) neomenthol (4.78) and
menthone (4.46%). The essential oil was tested against Anopheles
stephensi and Culex pipiens larvae. The results obtained show that the
essential oil could be considered as natural larvicidal agents.
Key words: Ziziphora clinopodioides Lam.; essential oil; GC/MS;
biological activity.
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