Barking Up the Right Tree Large Scale Extraction and Isolation of Novel Anti-Cancer Agents from Aglaia species — ASN Events
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Barking Up the Right Tree Large Scale Extraction and Isolation of Novel Anti-Cancer Agents from Aglaia species (#267)

Stuart W Littler 1 , Michael J Falkiner 1
  1. CSIRO, Clayton, VIC, Australia

Natural products have long been the inspiration and source of medicinal compounds. Two novel, potent anti-cancer therapeutics, silvestrol and episilvestrol, have been isolated preparatively from 40kg of bark of the Aglaia species.