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Insights into the In Vitro Antitumor Mechanism of Action of a New Pyranoxanthone
5 May 2010
Abstract excerpt
Naturally occurring xanthones have been documented as having antitumor properties, with some of them presently undergoing clinical trials. In an attempt to improve the biological activities of dihydroxyxanthones, prenylation and other molecular modifications were performed. All the compounds reduced viable cell number in a leukemia cell line K-562, with the fused xanthone...
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