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Cyclopamine: from cyclops lambs to cancer treatment.
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry - 30 Jul 2014
Lee Stephen T, Welch Kevin D, Panter Kip E, Gardner Dale R, Garrossian Massoud, Chang Cheng-Wei Tom
Abstract excerpt
In the late 1960s, the steroidal alkaloid cyclopamine was isolated from the plant Veratrum californicum and identified as the teratogen responsible for craniofacial birth defects including cyclops in the offspring of sheep grazing on mountain ranges in the western United States. Cyclopamine was found to inhibit the hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway, which plays a critical role in embryonic development. More...
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