Pregnane glycosides

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 665-695

  Panda, Nilendu ^a   Banerjee, Sukdeb ^a   Mandal, Nirup B ^a   Sahu, Niranjan P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Biological activity; Mass spectroscopy; NMR techniques; Pregnane glycosides; Pregnanes

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249108153     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0600100813     Document Type: Review

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