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.