Plant terpenes: defense responses, phylogenetic analysis, regulation and clinical applications

3 Biotech

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 129-151

  Singh, Bharat ^a   Sharma, Ram A ^b  

^a AMITY UNIVERSITY RAJASTHAN   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Phylogenetic analysis; Terpene synthase; Terpenes

Indexed keywords

BETULIC ACID; BOSWELLIC ACID; CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL; CINEOLE; DITERPENE; GINSENOSIDE; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; LIMONENE; MEVALONIC ACID; PHYTOL; SESQUITERPENE; SITOSTEROL; SYNTHETASE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; TERPENE SYNTHASE; UBIQUINONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URSOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYTOSOL; DECARBOXYLATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHYLOGENY; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT GENE; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN IRRITATION; SOLID TUMOR; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; VASCULAR PLANT;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 85015334139     PISSN: 2190572X     EISSN: 21905738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13205-014-0220-2     Document Type: Article

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