Hedgehog antagonists cyclopamine and dihydroveratramine can be mistaken for each other in Veratrum album

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 497-502

  Wilson, Steven Ray ^a   Strand, Martin Frank ^b   Krapp, Andreas ^a   Rise, Frode ^a   Herstad, Gunnar ^a   Malterud, Karl Egil ^a   Krauss, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cyclopamine; Dihydroveratramine; Hedgehog; LC MS; NMR; Veratrum album

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPAMINE; DIHYDROVERATRAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERATRUM ALBUM EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANT ROOT; POISONOUS PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERATRUM ALBUM;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VERATRUM; VERATRUM ALKALOIDS;

EID: 77954862489     PISSN: 07317085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2010.05.024     Document Type: Article

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