In an effort to develop a sustainable source of podophyllotoxin for the production of anticancer drugs such as etoposide, teniposide and etopophos, Podophyllum peltatum accessions with podophyllotoxin-rich leaf biomass were identified and transplanted to different growing conditions by vegetative
The antiviral activity of an aqueous extract of Podophyllum peltatum was investigated. The extract was fractionated by reversed-phase chromatography, and podophyllotoxin was found to be the most active component in inhibiting the replication of measles and herpes simplex type I viruses.
A new rapid UPLC-UV-MS method has been developed that permits the analysis of four lignans (4'-O-demethylpodophyllotoxin, podophyllotoxin, α-peltatin and β-peltatin) in P. peltatum L. Podophyllotoxin is a natural lignan that is being used as a precursor for the semi-synthetic anti-cancer drugs
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