Constituents of Trigonostemon heterophyllus

Shi-Hui Dong1, Hong-Bing Liu, Cheng-Hui Xu

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 555 Zu Chong Zhi Road, Shanghai 201203, People's Republic of China.

Journal of Natural Products
|November 30, 2011
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