Alkaloids from the Hippeastrum genus: Chemistry and biological activity

Revista Latinoamericana de Quimica

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 83-98

  De Andrade, Jean Paulo ^a   Pigni, Natalia Belén ^a   Torras Claveria, Laura ^a   Guo, Ying ^a   Berkov, Strahil ^b   Reyes Chilpa, Ricardo ^c   El Amrani, Abdelaziz ^d   Zuanazzi, José Angelo S ^e   Codina, Carles ^a   Viladomat, Francesc ^a   Bastida, Jaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b AGROBIOINSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES AIN CHOCK   (Morocco)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

"Hippeastroid" clade; 11 hydroxygalanthamine; Amaryllidaceae; Candimine; Hippeastrum; Montanine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871457441     PISSN: 03705943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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