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Bioactive Compounds from the Root of Myrsine Africana

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Journal J Nat Prod
Date 1989 May 1
PMID 2778455
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Abstract

Bioactivity-directed fractionation of the EtOH extract of the roots of Myrsine africana, using lethality to brine shrimp, led to the isolation and identification of emodin and 2-hydroxychrysophanol as cytotoxic components, the latter being a new natural product. Nepodin and 5-methoxy-7-hydroxyphthalide were also isolated but were not significantly cytotoxic.

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