BACKGROUND
Haematoxylum brasiletto is a tree that grows in Central America, commonly known as "Palo de Brasil," which is used in the traditional medicine for the treatment of cancer and gastric ulcers.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to isolate the compounds responsible for antiproliferative
Mutations which disrupt the regulation or expression level of the c-myc gene are among the most common found in human and animal cancers (reviewed in ref. Cole, 1986; Henriksson and Luscher, 1996; Marcu et al., 1992). Ectopic expression studies define numerous biological activities of the c-myc