TY - JOUR ID - 142162 TI - Evaluation of antimicrobial activity of essential oil of Pistacia khinjuk in Iran JO - Central Asian Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Innovation JA - CAJMPSI LA - en SN - AU - Kahrarian, Zahra AU - Vaziri, Sivash AU - Mojarrab, Mehdi AD - Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Razi, Kermanshah, Iran AD - Department of Infectious Disease, School of Medical Sciences, University of Medical Sciences of Kermanshah, Kermanshah, Iran AD - Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, University of Medical Sciences of Kermanshah, Kermanshah, Iran Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 1 IS - 6 SP - 258 EP - 263 KW - Antioxidant KW - Pistacia khinjuk KW - Plant medicine KW - Essential oil KW - Antimicrobial DO - 10.22034/CAJMPSI.2021.06.03 N2 - Today, with increasing prevalence antibiotic resistance monitoring the health and quality of food has become complicated and difficult. Therefore, essential oils of medicinal plants is significant and the  investigation on the composition of essential oil  of Pistacia khinjuk is important. Due to antimicrobial effects and food preservative of various species of this plant. In this study aim was to Survey the antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of Pistacia khinjuk in Iran. This study data collection by articles in internal databases such as, Irandoc, SID and external databases including Science Direct, Scopus, PubMed, Elsevier, Google Scholar. The comparison of the analysis of the essential oil of this plant related to the geographical diversity in Iran. The major compounds of essential oil from the  P. khinjuk are α-pinene, β-pinene, Myrcene, beta-caryophyllene, Germacrene B and Spathulenol. The extracts showed antimicrobial activity against bacteria and fungi. The essential oil of the different leaves extracts of P. khinjuk (chloroform, ethyl acetate, ethyl alcohol, diethyl ether) like other species of Pistacia khinjuk show antibacterial and antifungal activities. UR - http://www.cajmpsi.com/article_142162.html L1 - http://www.cajmpsi.com/article_142162_64e9b1152987af035ed8961c72e403cf.pdf ER -