Tumor promoting activity of Euphorbia striatella (Boiss) and skin irritant activity of some Euphorbia species

Upadhyay, R.R.; Sater, A.M.; Moinzadeh, F.; Bunakdari, A.; Sedehi, F.; Samin, R.

Neoplasma 31(3): 347-350

1984


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2685
PMID: 6738758
Document Number: 221431
Out of seven plants selected due to their use in folk medicine, five possessing ingenol as diterpene parent, exhibited mild skin irritancy where as E. striatella latex was highly skin irritant and produced papilloma, in initiation-promotion experiment on mouse back skin. This tumor promoting activity has been demonstrated due to the presence of ingenol-3-O-decanoate.

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