"Quassins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of degraded TRITERPENES which have lost ten carbons (8 from the side chain, C17, and one from C4) so have C20 skeletons which could be misinterpreted as DITERPENES. They especially occur in plants of the SIMAROUBACEAE family.
| Descriptor ID |
D036702
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.849.919.570
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quassins" by people in Profiles.
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Oncogenic KRAS confers chemoresistance by upregulating NRF2. Cancer Res. 2014 Dec 15; 74(24):7430-41.
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Antitumor Agents. 282. 2'-(R)-O-acetylglaucarubinone, a quassinoid from Odyendyea gabonensis as a potential anti-breast and anti-ovarian cancer agent. J Nat Prod. 2010 Sep 24; 73(9):1553-8.
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Antifertility activity of Quassia amara: quassin inhibits the steroidogenesis in rat Leydig cells in vitro. Planta Med. 1995 Apr; 61(2):180-2.
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Phase II trial of bruceantin in metastatic breast carcinoma. Am J Clin Oncol. 1982 Aug; 5(4):389-91.