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Assessment of the contents of essential and potentially toxic elements in Pistacia terebinthus L. and Pistacia lentiscus L. by INAA technique

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Pistacia terebinthus L. and Pistacia lentiscus L. leaves are widely used in Algerian folk medicine. For the first time, P. terebinthus and P. lentiscus leaves, were subjected to determine their essential and toxic elements using instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). P. terebinthus and P. lentiscus leaves were collected from two different locations in Algeria and exposed to INAA analysis. The results show that the mass fractions of the sixteen trace elements studied are within the tolerance limits imposed by the World Health Organization. Hence these results could therefore be used to provide scientific basis for an optimum usage and enriches the database of medicinal herbs.

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This work has been carried out and supported by Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the authors thank all the members of the Department of Neutron Activation Analysis (Es-Salam Nuclear Research Centre of Birine, Djelfa) for the technical assistance.

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  1. Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), P.O. Box 92, Vieux-Kouba, 16308, Alger, Algeria

    Nadjia Hamlat & Aicha Hassani

  2. Laboratory of Fundamental Sciences, University Amar Télidji of Laghouat, P.O. Box. 37G, Road of Ghardaïa, 03000, Laghouat, Algeria

    Adel Benarfa

  3. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technics, University of Djelfa, Cité Aîn Chih, P.O. Box 3117, 17000, Djelfa, Algeria

    Brahim Beladel

  4. Nuclear Research Centre of Birine, P.O. Box 180, Ain Oussera, 17200, Djelfa, Algeria

    Samir Begaa & Mohammed Messaoudi

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Hamlat, N., Benarfa, A., Beladel, B. et al. Assessment of the contents of essential and potentially toxic elements in Pistacia terebinthus L. and Pistacia lentiscus L. by INAA technique. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 322, 1127–1131 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-019-06815-z

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