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Carotid Artery Infusions for Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Analysis of Taxanes in Mice
Published on: October 27, 2014
New taxanes from the needles of Taxus canadensis
1Human Health Research Center, INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Universite du Quebec, 531 Boulevard des Prairies, Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Journal of Natural Products
|August 5, 2000
Abstract:
Nine minor taxanes were identified for the first time in the Canadian yew needles. Four of these metabolites are new: 5-epi-cinnamoylcanadensene (1), 2,9,10, 13-tetraacetoxy-20-cinnamoyloxy-taxa-4(5),11(12)-diene (2), 2'-acetyl-epi-taxol (3), and 9-deacetyltaxinine E (4).
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