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Antitumoral and Antimicrobial Activities of Bitter
Sesquiterpene Lactones of Vernonia amygdalina, a
Possible Medicinal Plant Used by Wild Chimpanzees
Mitsuo Jisakaa, Hajime Ohigashia, Kazunori Takegawaa, Michael A. Huffmanab & Koichi
Koshimizua
a Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University,
Kyoto 606, Japan
b Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606, Japan
Published online: 12 Jun 2014.
To cite this article: Mitsuo Jisaka, Hajime Ohigashi, Kazunori Takegawa, Michael A. Huffman & Koichi Koshimizu (1993)
Antitumoral and Antimicrobial Activities of Bitter Sesquiterpene Lactones of Vernonia amygdalina, a Possible Medicinal
Plant Used by Wild Chimpanzees, Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, 57:5, 833-834, DOI: 10.1271/bbb.57.833
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