Cytotoxic hydroazulene diterpenes from the brown alga Dictyota dichotoma

Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 58, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 17-22

  Gedara, Sahar R ^a   Abdel Halim, Osama B ^a   El Sharkawy, Saleh H ^a   Salama, Osama M ^a   Shier, Thomas W ^b   Halim, Ahmed F ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytotoxic Hydroazulene Diterpenes; Dictyota dichotoma; Fucosterol

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; DICTYOTA; DICTYOTA DICHOTOMA; EUKARYOTA; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0037281432     PISSN: 09395075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/znc-2003-1-203     Document Type: Article

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