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calotropin

Known as: Pecilocerin A, Pekilocerin A 
 

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Cardenolides

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2016
2016
Calotropin from Asclepias curasavica induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in cisplatin-resistant lung cancer cells.
Calotropin (M11), an active compound isolated from Asclepias curasavica L., was found to exert strong inhibitory and pro… (More)
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2014
2014
Calotropin: a cardenolide from calotropis gigantea that inhibits Wnt signaling by increasing casein kinase 1α in colon cancer cells.
Wnt signaling plays key roles in embryonic development and various human diseases. Activity-guided testing to isolate Wnt… (More)
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2009
2009
Cytotoxicity of calotropin is through caspase activation and downregulation of anti-apoptotic proteins in K562 cells.
Calotropin is one of cardenolides isolated from milkweed used for medicinal purposes in many Asian countries. Whereas calotropin… (More)
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2005
2005
Pharmacodynamics of some individual milkweed cardenolides fed to larvae of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus L.)
Adult monarch butterflies,Danaus plexippus L. (Lepidoptera: Danaidae), store only some of the cardenolides present in the larval… (More)
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1998
1998
Cytotoxic principles of a Bangladeshi crude drug, akond mul (roots of Calotropis gigantea L.).
Three cardenolide glycosides, calotropin (1), frugoside (2), and 4'-O-beta-D-glucopyranosylfrugoside (3), were obtained as the… (More)
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1991
Highly Cited
1991
The refined 2.15 A X-ray crystal structure of human liver cathepsin B: the structural basis for its specificity.
From the lysosomal cysteine proteinase cathepsin B, isolated from human liver in its two-chain form, monoclinic crystals were… (More)
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1984
1984
Comparative studies on calotropins DI and DII from the latex of Calotropis gigantea.
Autodigestion of two cysteine proteinases, calotropins DI and DII isolated from the latex of Calotropis gigantea, has been… (More)
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1984
1984
Plant-determined variation in cardenolide content and thin-layer chromatography profiles of monarch butterflies,Danaus plexippus reared on milkweed plants in California
Variation in gross cardenolide concentration of the mature leaves of 85Asclepias californica plants collected in four different… (More)
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1982
1982
Crystal and molecular structure of the sulfhydryl protease calotropin DI at 3.2 A resolution.
The three-dimensional structure of the sulfhydryl protease calotropin DI from the madar plant, Calotropis gigantea, has been… (More)
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1964
1964
Calotropin, a Cytotoxic Principle Isolated from Asclepias Curassavica L.
An alcoholic extract of Asclepias curassavica L., a plant widely used in folk medicine for treating cancer and warts, shows… (More)
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