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Eremophilane Sesquiterpenes from the Genus Ligularia
Ling Wu1, Zhixin Liao2, Chao Liu3
1Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Ligularia speices are widely used in Asian folk medicines for the treatment of various human diseases. Eremophilane-type sesquiterpenes are abundant and typical secondary metabolites found in this genus. Over 500 eremophilanes reported from members of Ligularia are reviewed in this article together with bioactivity data in an effort to highlight the development in this field.
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