Americanin, a bioactive dibenzylbutyrolactone lignan, from the seeds of Centaurea americana

Phytochemistry

Volumn 67, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2370-2375

  Shoeb, Mohammad ^a   MacManus, Stephen M ^b   Kumarasamy, Yashodharan ^b   Jaspars, Marcel ^c   Nahar, Lutfun ^b   Thoo Lin, Paul Kong ^b   Nazemiyeh, Hossein ^d   Sarker, Satyajit D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Asteraceae; Brine shrimp lethality assay; Centaurea americana; Chemotaxonomy; Compositae; DPPH; Lignan; Makisterone A; Phytoecdysteroid

Indexed keywords

AMERICANIN A; DIOXIN;

ARTICLE; CENTAUREA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED;

CENTAUREA; DIOXINS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SEEDS;

ANOSTRACA; ARTEMIA; ASTERACEAE; CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA AMERICANA;

EID: 33749520448     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2006.08.012     Document Type: Article

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