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Article: Study findings on biochemistry are outlined in reports from Aomori University.
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- Chemicals & Chemistry
- Article date:
- May 15, 2009
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"Magnolia species are widely cultivated in Japan as garden plants, and have been found to contain various compounds, including alkaloids, terpenoids, lignans, and neollignans," scientists in Aomori, Japan report.
"The constituents of the mature fruits of M. denudata were investigated, and two new phenolic derivatives, named denudalide and denudaquinol, were isolated and characterized, together with a known neolignan compound (denudatin A)," wrote T. Noshita and colleagues, Aomori University.
The researchers concluded: "Denudalide and denudaquinol showed cytotoxicity against the SFME and r/mHM-SFME-1 cell lines."
Noshita and colleagues published ...
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