Chemistry and biology of the discodermolides, potent mitotic spindle poisons

Anticancer Agents from Natural Products

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 171-190

  Gunasekera, Sarath P ^a   Wright, Amy E ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; KETONES; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

ABSOLUTE STEREOCHEMISTRY; ANTI-PROLIFERATIVE; BIOASSAY GUIDED FRACTIONATIONS; LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; MITOTIC SPINDLE; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD; SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; TOTAL SYNTHESIS;

SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646035741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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