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Cucurbitacins-type triterpene with potent activity on mouse embryonic fibroblast from Cucumis prophetarum, cucurbitaceae

Seif-EldinN Ayyad, SalimA Basaif, Ahmed Abdel‐Lateff, Thomas W. Shier

Pharmacognosy Research · 2011 · 22 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

The naturally cucurbitacin derivatives (dihydocucurbitacin B and cucurbitacin B) showed potent activities towards NIH3T3 and KA31T, could be considered as a lead of discovering a new anticancer natural drug.

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