Chemical Composition and Cytotoxic Activities of Petroleum Ether Fruit Extract of Fruits of Brucea javanica (Simarubaceae)

Zhiwei Su^1,2, Huijuan Huang³, Jinlian Li^1,4, Yuehui Zhu¹, Riming Huang¹ and Samuel X Qiu^1*

¹Program for Natural Product Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, ²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, ³Guangdong provincial Key Lab of Biotechnology for Plant Development, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, ⁴Chinese Academy of Science – Foshan Biotech and Pharmaceutical Center, Foshan 528231, People’s Republic of China.

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